The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-11

The Bayard resolution has certainly
made good deal of trouble among the
politicians 1t bothers the Republicans
so badly that they are hard at work to
prevent Mr.. Bayard getting permission
from the Finance Committee to report it
to the Senate. A Republican Senator
to-day asserted that all four of the Re
publicans on the committee-Messrs.
Morrill,, Ferry, Allison and Jones-would
certainly vote down the resolution, and
that they counted confdentially on Mr..
Beck, one of the five Democratic mem
bers, voting with them, which would
give them the majority. 1t is under
stood to be the plan not merely to vote
against the resolution but to prevent Mr..
Bayard from making any report at all to
the Senate about ito shelve the mat
ter, that is to say.
Of course this is desperate resolve,
and those who entertain it know that
they may fail, and that in some way Mr.
Bayard or some one else may force the
matter into the Senate. 1t is not thought
reputable or respectful proceeding
towards Senator to pigeon-hole mat
ter in which he takes special interest,
but there is such thing as delay, and if
nothing else offers the Republicans have
determined to put off the evil day as
long as possible. They do not fancy a
debate on the Bayard resolution in the
Senate, in which the Eastern Republi-
cars will feel compelled to support it.,
while the Western ones will oppose it.
They believe that thorough debate
in the Senate of the question would not
only secure the passage of the resolution
there, but in the House also, and that it
would set the Eastern and Western
wings of the Republican party against
each other in a way disagreeable and
painful to think of just before Presi-
dental election. The Republicans are
such excellent tacticians, and the Demo
Gratis are SO wretchedly poor in all mat
ters of political strategy, that nobody
needs to be surprised if the Democrats
allow themselves to be not only beaten,
but left in the wrong before the country,
before the Bayard resolution is disposed
of. Comparatively few of the Demo
Gratis see even now that, leaving the ques-
ton of right and public security out Of
the question, Mr.. Bayard's resokl-
ton is an admirable piece of polit-
ical strategy; that it has embarrassed and
divided the Republicans, and for that
reason, if for no other, deserves the
united Democratic support. Having
kept the country in turmoil for a mum.
ber of years with all sorts Of wild Green.
hacker imitation notions, the good Dem.
ocrats now suddenly turn rapidly con-
servative, and declare, though there is nc
constitutional power to make paper a
legal tender, as has been done, on the
whole it is better to leave it alone fol
fear the repeal should make Bayard
President. This is the long and short Of
the whole business, and it shows pretty
conclusively that the gentlemen who as
sumo to rule the Democratic party here
h We not an idea beyond that Of cutting
the throat of every man who, by at
tempting to serve the public, threatens
to become unduly prominent. OF course
a party which submits to be led by par
eel of mules who know only how to kicl
has no chance to elect President, anc
it ought not to.