The daily gazette., 1875-10-21
WILMINGTON. DEL. OCT. 81. i>aa.
Mr.. Bayard and the Presidency.

Wendell Phillips, and question them as
to Senator BAYARD and mention the fact
that there is nm even chance for his be-
ing nominated by the Democratic Party
for President, and the response will be,
in emphatic language, 81 should be glad
to see it he is an honest mamie would
make good Presidents" and very often
it is whispered in the ear, 'egad I'd vote
for BAYARD." We say this feeling pre-
dominates among large body Of Della
ware Republicans, and yet we have an
other class so given to politics and we'd
ded to fanaticism that they would rath-
er any one living beyond our limits
should be nominated and elected than
that so great an honor should come to
Delaware through the elevation of De-
mocrat. And of this latter class it would |
seem the Commercial is envious to be in |
the lead.
In its issue of yesterday it prints al
most a column of prosy repetitions,
wherein it combats the rising tide in
favor Of Senator BAYARD and advance
u
Delaware are or should be devoid of ma
tive instincts. In its own language il
says, I'VE have already referred to the
theory that Delaware Republicans do or
ought to have a deep interest in the
election Of Senator Bayard as President
of the United States, either because of
the personal interest they may take in
the advancement of the Senator for.
tunes, or because Of the supposed honor
TO be thereby cast upon the State" 1T
does not stop here. but proceeds to cast
its censure upon the many hundreds of
Republicans of high respectability and
standing who are outsroken in their ad-
miration of Senator BAYARD, underrat-
ing them by casting low and impotent
sneers at their intelligence. Such con-
siderations," says the Commercial, may
influence people Of the namby-pamby,
goody -goody sort, with TO clearly defined
opin ons on political questions of du-
ty." 1t does not stop with hurting this
SANDER at the heads of the thousands of
Republicans in Delaware who would de-
light to witness the election of Senator
BAYARD President, but grows earnest
over the the great probability of his be-
ing nominated by his party, and endea-
vors to do what it can to defeat this by
trying to disparage him and make it ap-
pear that he is not popular at home
knowing as it does that his nomina.
tion would result in his carrying such n
vote in Delaware that the Radical party
would be reduced to the very verge Of
disbanding, and could only be kept from
utter disruption through the number o.
its colored membership.
In the face Of the fact that the fines
writers for the great journals Of III,
country are every day referring to Sena
tor BAYARD as being eminently fitted fo
the Presidency, and that he holds o-da,
more Of the confidence of the natiol
than any other man named for the Pres
idency, the COmnercidl has the audacit,
to go so far as to stultify itself in a veal
effort to underrate and prejudice itRea
ders against Delawares most distin
BulSAcN SltAZcH' IL En-
''To be sure, Mr. Bayard is personals
honest and free from the taint of cor
ruption, but SO is Senator Sauhbury an,
SO is Congressman Williams and We hav
yet to hear of their being on that aC
count nominated for President. Homes
ty IL in Delaware not so novel a charac
teristic; and while it is a necessary,
has not yet become in itself sutficien
qualification for high station"
The Commercial would here insinuat
that the claims laid upon Senator BAY
ARD for national advancement origina,
ed in his own State, where the gentl,
men it has just named have bee
highly honored and stand so high. Br
such it knows is not the case.
The Delaware Senator, unaided by an
other influence than his unflinching co,
rage and untiring energy in denouncin
the wrongs Of political plunderers, Il
gether with the purity of his cbaract,
and unsullied name, has drawn to N
party and upon himself the adnliratio
and attention of the whole country. an
well will it he for the Repubii. and {,
Delaware and Delawareans too if Sen,
tor BAYARD should be called to the Pre-
idential chair. How many thousan,
who now fatten upon the spoils of IL
people might thereat excl.ini, "Otheuo
occupations gone." it is impossible T.
US to say. But that the ship of Sta
would soon be cleared of the rats tn
are gnawing at her hull, with eyide
dangers that they will sink her, we W
assert with all the positiveness that it
possible for us to command. No m
living would more thoroughly clean
the Augean stables at Washington th
THOMAS F. BAYARD, whose voice is n,
reverberating through the hills and VI
Legs of North Carolina and Georgia
favor of Union, Peace and Prosperi
His election to the Presidency would
ment the whole mass OF our people, d
would be fitting assurance 10 the Sou
from the North fhot i. NO, A.