Daily Republican., 1880-02-16
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
A Charaeteristic Letter from the
Sage Of AppOquinimsnk He
Lets ont Party Secrets,


From the Delaware Gazette Of Friday.
Mr.. JoHNsoN:-Soms time about
the first Of January, a committee of
Tammany Hall, New York, sent me a
copy Of an address they had issued to
the Democracy of the United States,
with regard to the trouble in the DEM
ocratic party of New York State last
Fall. read 1t carefully, and some
days afterwards | wrote to the commit
tee acknowledging had received it,
and my views on 1t, and Democratic
matters generally. did not suppose
said letter would be published by the
committee, but it appears from what
see in the gutter scraper Whining
ton ''Egery Evening"" the Tammany
committee published said letter. which
is all right If 1t suited their pleasure,
as l always try to speak and write the
truth. am Democratic white man,
who has voted for every Democratic
Presidential candidate down, commenc-
ing in 1886, except that abortion Hor-
ace Greeley, and that year | did not
vote for any Presidential Electors, and
| claim, that as a Democrat, have be-
fore nomination Is made the right to
talk and write in favor OF what candi-
date l please. | stated in the Tamwa
ny letter that if the Democrats commit
cd the blunder of nominating Bayard,
in my opinion he would be beaten.
Have l not a right to my opinion
But aside of all this, what paper am
l taken to task in, for giving this
opinion In any Democratic paper of
Delaware +? No But by Bill Croas.
dale, of the "Every Evening"" black
hearted Republican, whose morning and
,vening curses are directed against
the Democratic party, and the Demo.
Gratis, (all except Thomas F. Baysrd }
Now, Democrats Of Delaware, why is
this Was not Bayard breckenridge
Democrat Was not Bayard one of e
company in Wilmington at the break.
ing ont OF the Rebellion Did not
Capt. Joseph Barr, to save the feel
ings of the officers OF this company
call on them in the night time, and
tell them he had orders to dishand
the company, and that he tOok this
method to call on them at night to save
a scene next day. And when "Bill"
Yancey came to Delaware to try 10 per-
suade her people to seceds and meet
ing was called in Wilmington, did
not Mr.. Bayard introduce Ysncey to
the meeting' Who passed Gwin down
through Delaware What did Mr.. Bay
ard tell the committee from Newark,
Del, when they waited on him in re-
gard to submitting to the draft ? Did
not Thomas +. Bayard use as strong
language against the Republican viii
lainy at Washington as any other DEM
ocrat of Delaware? Tnen why Is it
that Bayard is so white and pure ia
"Bill" Croasdals's eyes, and every
other Democrat so cursedS There are
no mysteries l am an unbsliever in
such trash and the only solution is
there is power behind the curtain,
that for their own selfish interests make
this poor, miserable mortal Of the
"Every Evening" do their dirty work.
Now, if by accident Bayard should bs
nominated, this barking, swapping cur
Croasdale, would in my opinion, polit-
ically stab Bayard in the dark, for
Croasdale's whole course aud action
seems modelled after the mosquitoes
song cousin" round Bayard, whilst
he sucks his blood when he can. As to
s. Y. very few men have an unbroken
political record like me from 1886 down
to 1860, or A years, with the single ex-
ception of 1858. And that year, al
though Democrat, l found it uecessa
ry to practice the Mosaic doctrine on
my prosecutors, who were Democrats
only in name, tut tyIants III practice.
And if this debassd cainminatOr, "Bill'
Croasdale, does not know had just
cause for securing the services Of James
Montgomery and his paper to help form
a party out Of liberal Democrats, dis
banded Wings and to beat and punish
Democratic tyrant' who had treated me
and my brother John so badly in the
campaign previous 1856, he can ask old
Democrats and old Republicans, and
turn over the files of the Wilmington
of that day. My politica!
record will, Think, favorably compare
with any Democrats in the State. One
never was called for con-
sidered . traitor to the flag of my coun-
try. SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, Feb. II, 1880.