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Show E-SLCRETARY chandler. There is a disposition in the Eastern Republican press tor stand by President Ro6sevelt at the expense ex-pense of ex-Secretary. Chandler. It . is perfectly proper to hold that all the time the President was struggling to have accomplished what was best for the country, but it is unfair and unjust to intimate that ex-Secretary Chandler's motives were not just as pure, his purposes just as high as the President's. When Secretary of the Navy, Chandler was accused ac-cused of many things, intended to degrade him personally per-sonally and to cast reproach upon his party. v A Democratic Administration followed and .though the utmost exertions were made to substantiate what had been charged against him, the all fell flat, and it was made clear that his ideas of what-the navy should be, were as far advanced when he assumed the office as his successor's were when he retired from it. He was the real founder of the new navy, the ships he provided for with the petty appropriations appropria-tions made for him,' save one that was lost on. the rocks off Luzon and one beaten to death in the Samoa Sa-moa n hurricane, are still all in commission and doing do-ing eood work. And the books showed as economical manage-; ment as has ever been displayed since. The criticisms criti-cisms of him were like Jefferson's criticisms of Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton, every one came home to plague their inventors. He is aggressive, outspoken, brave, his fashion is to ask no odds, to fight his own battles, and when he thinks he is justified to go out and hunt the fight, but he is on the dead square, and he never did a sneaking thing in all his life. . " He has rendered his country eminent services, and is entitled to great honors andsincere gratitude.. |