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Show Fighting Chandler. There is one beautiful thing about ex-Senator Chandler. There is never any mistake about where he stands. He is one of the kindliest little gentlemen in tl orld, but he Is as full of aggross- iveness as any game chicken that ever entered the pit. It is pleasant to imagine how he feels these jH days. It seems he went as an intermediate be-tween be-tween President Roosevelt and Senator Tillman. He must have hated the office immensely, bo- cause since he left public office, he has not much jH use for those in control, and ho never has had iH much use for tho Democratic party since he was secretary of the navy and was baffled in all his efforts to create a new navy. He did succeed finally in getting a little appropriation to build 'H the Trenton, the! Chicago, tho Atlanta, if wo jH mistake not, the Baltimore and 'the dispatch boat Dolphin. It was before the days of battleships 'H and all those little cruisers are but small affairs jH compared with the ships they are building these days. 'H But ho was baffled at every turn. In those days the Democratic party were still smarting under the humiliation of Appomatox. They still 'H stood straight in the path of anything like a de- fense for the country, and when they could not .H answer the arguments which made a new navy imperative, then they gave as an excuse that they fll did not trust tho secretary of the navy. He went 'fl out of office angered through and through, and 'H his anger was fanned to a white heat when Seq-retary Seq-retary Whitney deliberately mado' that old man Roach bankrupt, broke his heart, and took from him the completion of the three cruisers then jH on the ways. At the same time he tried his best 'H 'to have the Dolphin condemned. Ho compelled jH tests to be made on the trial trips of that vessel jH which no ship was evefr subjected to before, jH and still while the Dolphin stood tho tests, ho refused to pay what was due upon it and theroby bankrupted Roach. It is tho one mean thing set down against ex-Secretary Whitney's life1, and v his friends always excused it solely or ' ground that it was a political necessity which he could not avoid. He had the backing in it all of Grovor Cleveland. By the way, It is well enough to men- tion that the Dolphin is still a perfect ship and fl the one which is always selected when visits of state are made between tho officers of the Govern-merit Govern-merit and navy and' distinguished njaval com-manders com-manders from abroad. Of course Chandler went out of office omblt- fl torod against tho Democracy, hurling his hate and 'B defiance at the leaders, and clothing his ana- -m themas in English which was both picturesque and 'M beautiful, and now we can imagine that, in his old age, when he sits down to write In a cool and quiet manner, his statement of what has trans- jk plred In tho last three or four weeks in Wash- fl Ington, how hd was brought into tho business "jH and how it terminated, we cannot resist a sonse of regret that wo cannot hoar the side remarks ho made when making that constrained statement. .H It reminds us again of that littlei incident in his- S tory of when Santa Anna before Buena Vista, 1H sent an aide to General Taylor, explaining to him jH that he was surrounded by 22,000 fighting men, H and demanding his surrender. When the message jM K . was translated to General Taylor, lie turned to H Major Bliss, his chief of staff, and said: "Write IB ij.j to the blankoty-blank-greaser and tell him to go HB i;! to h -1." The message that Bliss prepared in ' rGturn road that, the general commanding had re- Hj !'.' , coived the note of General Santa Anna and beg- i; ged respectfully to decline his request. Our 'v thought is that ex-Senator and ex-Secretary Hj Chandler in the bosom of his own family is softly HB . J remarking that whatever other mean things he K9 has ever done, he never before did anything as Hj monumentally stupid as to try to negotiate a treaty between two warring powers, both of which ho despised. |