The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-21
proving the highways Of our Common.
wealth under the psrylsion ot skiltql and
competent men. HENRiCos-
fspecfatdfspaich to the Baltimore snnI
CONSERVATIVES Views OF leading Demo.
Gratis ON the sifaations
IN

SENATOR BAFAED. 49,
WAsu1xsros, February Ex-senator Bay
ard. In conversation with the correspond
emit OF the glt7, this afternoon, said that ne
had received a number OF letters and dis
patches, comhed IN the most earnest terms,
number OK which, however, were anony-
nous, beseesfing him to withdraw from
the Electoral Commission. Dir. Bayard mas
no such inten siDn,. ard does not think such
course would be proper. He says the
electoral bill itself 'wus and is all sight that
the only trouble. about it has been shat its
provisions hays not been faithfully and
conscientiously carried out, as the DEM
ocrats who supported it had The best
reason to believe they would be. But
notwithstanding this. the Senator HeIterates
his decided con Tiction that in honor the
Democratic party should be bound by the
results. and acquiesoe in them without any
resistance of naRure to which exception
can be taken. E
AS to the idea OF withholding supplies
from the army he looks upon as entirely
unwise and inexpedent. He points out
that the appropriations already made for the
army cover the present fiscal year, which
does not expire until June 80, 1877, which
will be four months after the date Of Hayes's
inauguration, and by which time he will be
firmly cntrenched in power. Then, II the
House should withhold the appropriations
for next year, the Republican Legislatures
OF New York, Pennsylvania, and other
States would advance all the money that
would be needed. This view Of Mr. Bayard
| is undoubtedly correct; and it may be said,
further, that there are Democratic senator's
who remarked to-day that in their be-
lief, in case Of trouble, Hayes recruit
ing offices, opened in New York and other
large cities Of the North, would draw
thousands of unemployed Democrats, just
as was the case during the late civil war. In
continuation, Senator Bayard said that he
most earnestly deprecated any resort to
violent measures by the Democrats that
they had nothing to gain by such course,
and that it would be unwiSe and ineXpe-
dent to add TO the distress which now
aftjicts the business and commerce OF the
country. He did not believe the statements
which have been made that southern Demo
Gratis of prominence would take positions
under the Administration Of Hayes; he did
not think they could afford to do so.
VIEWS OF SENATOR wHYTE.
Senator Whyte said this afternoon that be
considered that there was no proper alter
native but for the Democrats to accept the
dllu lulS was tHS POSI.tIH 'F'SG IN
took in the Democratic ca,leus on Saturday
He said that y, mad never been satisfied II
his ow.tI. mind that it was the purpose OF th'
Republicans to admit testimony, and To-
this reason he had offered his amendmen
when the electoral bill was before the Senat
for action. The speech made by GoYerno
Whyte on this occasion will soon be printed
in pamphlet form.
WHAT A SOUTHERN SENATOR THINKS.
A southern Democratic senator, in con
vcrsation with your correspondent, sait
,, that he was very much afraid that Haye
would capture the South. Under his AID
ministration, he said, the Republicans will
build the Mississippi levees and pass tn
Texas Pacific subsidy bill. They will re
cognize the Democratic State government
in South Carolina and Louisiana. in
quired, GLOW can Hayes recognize thu
Nichols government in Louisiana withou
thereby confessing that his own title i
fraudulent" The senator replied: "Oh
that will not bother them Bit"