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Poor Arguments For Chandler

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the Dexter Leader. Miles J. O'Reilly, our Detroit correspondent of last week, is doubtless correct in assumiug that there is little use of proposing such an able and pure man bb Judge Campbell tor Unitod States Senator. Already for doing so the Leader ha beon classed as a Democratie paper, notwithstanding that Judge Campbell is a Kepublican and the Leader not the chainpion of any party. We have no doubt that Chandler will succeed himself. He has several strong points in his favor. First, it ia urged that he has held the office for three terms, and therefore that he is perfectly at home in the position - know8 just what to do, and can ronder better service to the State than a new man who will havo to learn the ways of the Senate and the departmenti. But that argument is just as good for a lifeterm for the President, and we have no doubt President MacMahon will uiake use of it, when his seven years shall have expired, to persuade the Prench people that he should be President for life or Emperor. Then Mr. Chandler, it is said, has been most terribly abused by the opposition press, and therefore should be re-elected as a vindication of his personal purity. But we remember gentlemen in political history who were the objects of fierce personal attacks also. Tnere was Aaron Burr and Boss Tweed, and now down in South Carolina is one Moses. Not that we desire to class Mr. Chaudler with these men- not at all. We are only considering the argument that he should be re-elected because he has been the object of personal criticism. Such a claim does Mr. Chandler injustice- it is beneath tho dignity of any trua man to seek such a vindication. In these days election to offiiio does not signify. Suppose Governor Moses, of South Carolina, shall be renominated by the Republican Convention of that State, as he is likely to be, and then re-elected by his African followers, will his character stand any higher in the public cstimation? Mr. Chandler may well pray to be delivered from his friends, who certainly balitlle his claims when they offer the arguments we named for his re-election. His faithfulness to the interests of the State, which no one can deny, is a much better card.

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