He was disliked by the Democratic
press for his unyielding Republicanism. He was disliked by
the Republican press that supported Charles Sumner, for his
opposition to him. He was represented as a coarse, ignorant
and unscrupulous man. In the campaign of 1880 I sent him
a telegram, asking him to visit me in Massachusetts and make
a few speeches in our campaign. I added: "You will be received
with unbounded respect and honor." The telegram was an astonishment
and revelation to the old man. He had no idea that the people
of New England had that opinion of him. Governor Baldwin
told me that he happened to be passing Chandler's house just
as he received my message. Chandler knocked on the window
for the Governor to come in. He had the telegram in his hand
when the Governor entered, and exclaimed: "Look at that; read
that; and I did not graduate at Harvard College either." His
colleague, Senator Ferry, alludes to his gratification at the
receipt of this message, in his obituary delivered in the Senate.
He spoke in Worcester and Boston and Lowell, and in one or
two other places.
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