The daily gazette., 1876-05-08
From the Lexington (Ky.) Daily Press.
Bayard Of Delaware.

As the conventions of the two great
parties approach, the question is con.
stantly asked who will be the nomi-
nees, ard strenuous efforts are being
made by the friends of each to give
prominence to favorites. Already
eulogistic biographical sketches of
Tilden have been published far and
wide. while Hendricks, Thurman and
others have been prominently noticed.
We are of those who would make SEN
ator Bayard, of Delaware, President,
and are unable to see why he should
not make quite as good race as any
other Democratic aspirant. Surely in
all the elements requisite for an exc
cutive of whom the party and the
country might be proud, he is prinsus
inter Da'ts. His senatorial record con-
tains the best guarantee as to his fu-
ture course. The honor, dignity and
authority of every department of the
Government of the United States
would be fcarlcssly maintained at
home aed abroad, while the RIGHTS of
States and citizens would be respected
and secured. Corruption. extrava-
gance and every phase of dishonesty
would meet with prompt and certain
punishment whenever detected, and
the good name of the Republic be res
cued from its present degradation.
Acts rather than professions are the
tests by which to judge public men,
Senator Bayard's course during seven
years in a hopeless minority stamps
him as the executive leader of his par.
ty. The more it is scrutinized, and
the more thoroughly it is investigated
the morc.ccrtainly will that fact ap.
pear.
No great reform movement was ever
suggested that he did not advocate; no
great wrong was ever attempted that
he did not denounce and expose. His
labors on the Ku-klux and Custom
House investigations were simply Her
culean, and almost destroyed his health
for time, but he never failed to be at
his post. Other men labored spasmod-
ically. His labors were unceasing,
and always with an eye single to the
good of his country, and his
who,e country. His hatred and
contempt of mean or corrupt men is SO
profound and pronounced, and his
judgment and knowledge of them so
perfect, that few of either class would
be able to approach and deceive him.
We have said this much, not to eulo-
gize. but to invite investigation. His
public and private record will bear it.
SANDER, detraction or calumny never
reached him, he was always above sus-
picion. Mr.. Tilden may be a reform
era We think he is as much so as a
New York politician can well be, but
if his record, or that of any other man
named ON either side is compared with
that of Bayard, and the decision de-
termines the Presidential election, the
Senator from Delaware will be the
next President.
The seductive influences of power,
and they are as varied as they are po-
tent, have no alurements for him. His
associates are Democrats however
plain and unpretending they may be,
and while he is courteous to all, he
has never been silenced by the social
iatimacies and obligations which have
sealed the mouths of too many promi-
nent Democrats, when the corruption
extravaganza and usurpation of the
administration demanded exposure
All public men will testify that they
relied upon Bayard more than on all
other Senators, to lay before the coun-
try, from his high place, the malad-
ministration of the Radical party.
1t is whispered among the friends of
other aspirants, who dare not deny the
superior executive ability of the Sena-
tor from Delaware, that he has SYM
pythized too deeply with the Southern
people to obtain Northern support. 1t
is true that he has done all possible to
protect the rights of Southern States
and people from oppression and plum
der; he would not be a fit candidate
for President before aDemocratic con-
vention if he had not; he would have
defended aud maintained the rights
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
under like circumstances as zealously
as he has those of Georgia and Ala.
hama. If the friends of others can