Daily Republican., 1880-12-14
senator nay ards Dss sisi.

in speech made at Dover few even
ings before the Presidential election
He says that November 18th he settled
the fact that he made no such state.
ments by saying they were false and
malicious, and that he then resented
the imputatiOn that he had at any time
made sucE charges. OF our own knowl-
edge we know nothing OF the matter,
but We are informed that the precau
tion was taken to have competent and
experienced stenographer present who,
/. is said, was very particular to report
the speech correctly. The stenogrsphie
report, It is said, has bean preserved to
use against Mr.. Bsyard II he denied
using the language attributed to him.
We will not be so hasty as to say that
Senator Bayard wiliully prevaricated
in order to get out Of an unpleasant
dilemma, but We ere fully justified in
saying that his denial raises the ques
ticn OF veracity between himself and
the s,enogra phic reporter. Inall prob
ability the Senator will be called upon
70 explain when the new Congress
meets, provided Mr.. Bsyard is re-elsc-
ted, an event of which there Is no
doubt, as Mr.. Bsyard aud Mr.. Conh-
liag are both Senators, and the latter is
one of the parties that feels that he has
been wilfully slandsred by Mr.. Bayard,
fthe lattsr's spseoh has been correctly
reported.
Mr.. COnkling, Mr.. Arthur, Mr.. Bout
we'll and Juige Davis form formida.
bic quartette for the Delaware Senator
to face, and It is now q Well-settled fact
that he must face them and prove that
he is innocent of the charge against
him before he can pose himself upon
the high pinnacle Of respectAbility he
has chosen for himself. 1t will be no.
sieed that Mr.. Bayard's denial is equiv.
Ccal. Mr.. Conkling does not fly to the
press to crafty himself or to humiliate
Bayard until he first opened up cor
respondencs with the latter. and It was
only when Mr.. Bayard would neither
admit or deny that he used the Ian.
guage attributed to him that the Sena
tor conformity with Mr.. Arthur, Mr..
Boutwell, and Mr.. Davis wrote 20 the
Press denounciDg the speech Of Mr..
Bayard as reported to be a talSehood
and q wilful slAndsr. Even sincs the
published letter in the Press, Mr.. Bay |
ard pursues the same equivocal course,
blaming the reporter for distorting his
remarks.
All Mr.. Conkling wanted ofs Xr.
Bayard was plain Eyes" or "no" but
driven to the wall he gives neither, and
like Wade Hampton, who was placed in
. similar position during the late cam
paign he is compelled to fall back on
the reporters and blame them for not
only incorrect out malicious reporting
Of his speech. What a blessed thing
it was that reporter was present to BE-
made the scape-gOat for Mr.. Bsyard's
offence. However 1t happens that the
reporter has strong backing. There
were some forty or fifty other person5
present who heard the speech just ex-
actly as the stsnographer heard 1t and
reported 1t. 1t all then comes down to
question Of verscity between Mr.. Bay
ard and the reporter and the large
number Of intelligent citizans of Dover
who heard the speech and agree with
the reporter.
The correspondence between Mr..
yard and Mr.. Conkling amounts to
thing. Mr.. Bayard's letters only 4
Ghibit cunning and indetensible. line
Of hedging and begging the question.
He did not say that imputed to him !
exactly but he was talking on that sub 8
jeet. Such are his excuses, which in.
stead of sstisfying.oniy aggravates Mr..
ConkliDg and his friends. /
They want no more hedging, no moEs
excuses, no more half dcdging behind
reporters. They want a plain "yes'' Z
or "no," and this they intend to have. t
The reporter and half a hundred OF a
the Isading eitizsns of Dover say Mr.. .
Bayard did use the language attributed
TO him. Mr.. Bayard says he was refer.
ing to the subject but did not exactly
say what he was charged with. There b
is where the matter now rests, and the I
reporter and tbs people of Dover will >
have to straightsn it out. Blackeoing
the character Of the gentlemen who
brought the cha &c, and the chsrs ctsrs
Of those citizens of Dover who will
probably be witnesses in the case, az
has teen done by Mr.. Bayari's organ
In this city, will not help the djstin-
Rnished Delaware Senator and they are
not his true friends who will defend
him right or wrong.
THERE IS NO question that SenStor