The Morning herald., 1876-05-11
p.x.ra OF Dolaware.

.:.s anDroach, the queSVio" !"
ties - apr iyno will be the nominees. and siren
ashsu agorts Tu are being made by the friends
uCus Clsoh J to give prominence to favorl'es:
,,sssdv eau eulogistic biographical skelches OF
Alreau}h ~ w. been published far and wide,
lhuenu ns Hendricks. Thurman and others have
sn0 M nromineptly noticed. We are OF those
%en ,ppnnld make Senator Bayard, OF Della
wno "p President, and are unable to see why
war; .h'ould not make quite as good race as
pe 'nt other Democratic aspirant. Surely in
suy .Ia TeI clements requisite for an executive
a' afwbom the party and the country might
W Ss nroud, he is primus inter pares. His
.sraiorial record contains the best guaran-
eu", w. ss to his future course. The honor,
I;s0i,y 've a and authority of every department
WI VI ths Government of the United States
y, "ould he tearlessly maintained at home and
'hso,d while the rights Of States and citi-
1 1sns would be respected and secured. Cor.
lsn,;on Mn, extrayagance and every phase of
di.honesty would meet with prompt and
u'rt in pHnishment whenever detected, and
,bo GOOD name of the Republic be rescued
from the present degradation. Acts rather
Than Than professions are the tests by which to
indve ;n public men, Senator Bayard's course
j Gurjng seven years in a hopeless minority
stamns him as the executive leader Of his
n,rtv The more it is scrutinized, and the
more thoroughly it is investigated the more
certainly will that fact appear.
No treat reform movement was ever sug-
opsed that he did not advocate; no great
rrong was ever attempted that he did not
drnolnce and expose. His labors on the
Ku.kluy and Custom House Investigations
we're simply Hercnlean, and almost de-
stroycd his health for a time, but he never
failed to be at his post. Other men labored
spssmodicalIy. His labors were unceasing,
and always with an eye single to the good
fhis country, and his whole country. His
hatred and contempt Of mean or corrupt
men is so profound and pronounced. and his
Judgment and knowledge of them SO pc
feet, that few of either class would he abe
to approach and deceive him. We have
said this much not to eulogize, but to invite
Investigation. His public and private rec
ord will bear it. Slander, detraction or cal
umny never reached him, he was always
above uspicon. Mr. Tilden may be a re-
former We think he is as much so as
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 determines the Presiden-
tal election, the Senator from Delaware will
be the next President.
The seductive influences Of power, and
they are as varied as they are potent, have
no allurements for him. His associates
are Democrats, however plain and unpre-
tending they may be, and while he is cour-
teous to all, he has never been silenced by
the social ntimacies and obligations which
have sealed the mouths of too many prom
ineut Democrats, when the corruption, ex-
travagance and usurpation of the admins
tration demanded exposure. All public
men vii! testify that they relied upon
Bayard more than on ali other Senators,
to lay before the country, from his high
place, the maladministratiOn of the Radi-
cal party.
1t is whispered among the friends OF
asprants, who dare not deny the superior
executive ability of the Senator from Del
aware, that he has sympathized too deeply
With the Southern people to obtain North
'rn support. 1t is true that he has done
Ill possible to proteco the rights of the
southern states and people from oppres-
lion and plunder /; he would not be fit
for President before Demo
ratio convention if he had not; he would
lave defended and maintained the rights
II Massachusetts and New Hampshire un-
leF Ike circumstances as zealOusly as he
las those of Georgia and Alabama. If the
rlends OF others can show wherein he has
cted III any manner unbecOming a Demo
ratlc statesman, let it be done; If their
ivoriies would have acted otherwise, let
mem show in what regard, the attempt
you'd be fatal to their aspirations. Mr..
ayard said lately in the Senatel that he had
ever done an act or uttered sentiment
nlmical to the Federal Government, or the
integrity OF the Union under the constitu-
on.
Every Democrat North and South, unless
De some parasite who clings to others,
pplng for unmerited reward at public ex-
ehse VIII support him, and it is extremely
ouDtlul whether any other Democrat so
Illy commands the respect and confidence
such liberal Republicans as continue to
pmand change of administration in the
interest Of honesty, economy and respect
'r constitutional rights and obligations.
rue, he was the only Democrat who, at
altlmore few years ago, had the courage
protest against the action then taken,
Ut he stood by his party when it acted land
lose who differed with, doubtless respect
i'm more 70, his manly course than they
ould if he had pretended to believe what
did not.
The truth is, that the objection urged SO
'rSstently that no man shall be nomina-
Tor any high national position who has
own sympathy or kind feeling for the
'uthern people, or who lives in any for
er slave State, does not come from Re-
lblicans who would, in any state of the
se, vote with US for ANYBODY; it comes,
I'd for some years past has Deen encour-
'ed and kept alive, by the lower order of
demagogues in the North, who,
'nscious of their own want of merit, In
ir contest on principle, seek to limit the
ga from which the candidates must be
lected, and the number even within that
nit by excluding absolutely fifteen States,
III all tho truaut hear oDd most manly