National Republican., 1880-09-16
AN uNscnUpuLous pEMAaoGuE.


Some republicans, among them President
HAYES, were led 10 say very kind things of
Senator BAYARD during the preliminary
canvass for democratic candidate for the
presidency. Such assistant democratic
sheets as the Springfield Republican and the
Nation fastened to express great sorrow
that so fine specimen of the democratic
party should not have been chosen.
We do not deny that Senator BAYARD is
a man of personal integrity, and that on
some questions in the past he has risen
above tho low mark of his political asso-
ciates, but the speeches he has been making
in the south prove him TO be not a whit be-
hind the very worst of them in bigotry and
venom.
He has been recently engaged in helping
HAMPTON to roll up $4,000 majority in q
state which has legitimate republican
majority of 25,OO0
On one day last week he spoke at Ander-
son to q crowd Of several thousand, includ-
ing 2,153 mounted "red shirts" and two
companies of artillery. The Charleston
Nc,cs and Courier gives the following report
of his remarks:
He spoke of the republican party as the
party of deceit, of hypocrisy, Of dishonest
money, of sectional animosities, OF corruption
in high places aud of centralized despotism.
On the other hand, he alluded to the demo-
cratic party as the great party of the constitu-
tion, the party OF fellowship and love between
all sections, the party of honest money, of
honest principles, of freedom and equality to
all, headed by one of the grandest figures OF
American history, WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK.
This is the veriest demagogism. Senator
BAYARD knows that the republican party
has given the country the safest and best
paper currency it has ever had and has
made that currency as good as gold in spite
of the democratic party
| He knows that when the money was
created rs q war necessity II was opposed
by all that part of the democratic party
that was not engaged iu active rebellion
| He knows, too, that when the war ended
and the republican party sought to reduc,
the amount Of this paper debt, it was op
posed by the great majority of the demo
cratic party, which insisted on increased
| loSuSs buu ueSiCu W ploHeub resumption
Mr.. BAYARD knows that all through tha
period whenever he wanted to vote fo
honest money he had to vote with his re-
publican friends and against his democratic
brethren. And yet he speaks of the repub
lican party as the party ofdshonest money
and of the democratic party rs the party O.
honest money.
He speaks of the party which strove t.
destroy the union as "the great party o
the constitution, the party of fellow
ship and love between all sections" HI
speaks of the pa rty which has repudiatet
its honest debts in half the southern state
as " the party of honest principles; )" and h,
speaks of the party which tried to fount
the confederacy with slavery Us its corner
stone, and which is now striving, by mean
of o south made solid by violence and fraud
to grasp the national governme mt as tn
"party of freedom and equality for ALL"
And the great Senator BAYARD talk
this sort of stuff to a brigade of ret
shirts" by whose brutality and dishonest.
the legitimate republican majority of 25,
600 in South Carolina has been rushed on
of existence