Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-18
THE LTTTLENEsS OF TWO GREAT

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 It is astonishing what real or imagined political necessity will cause respectable and generally respected man to say and do. Here is ex-Goyernor Seymour, for instance, who made speech at Utica New York, the other evening in criticism of the campaign speech of Carl Schurz in Indiana. He took for his text the words of Carl Schurz in which he alluded to the passage of the Uni ted States from the bucolic age to the pres ent period, with its greater population and more diversified interests, and then. added that ''the requirements of statesmanship de- manded in this age are far different from those which suficed century ago." Mir. flying to the American people and as matter of rejoicing to the ''blasted" foreigners He then used this remarkable language: ''When we are told that statesman is essential in the condition of our affairs, it disturbs our minds as when we are told that physician of unusual skill is needed in our families. It means disease and danger. They are usually the words we hear but little while before the craps upon our doors informs our neigh bOAo O4 GiAO 5el0 IOSu1I 1AlS 15 6LEdIlS0 4dA- guage from man who has himself posed for many years as statesman. It can only be explained by the fact that MT. Seymour is sadly conscious that Hancock is not states man and that Garfield is And it is wretched demagogism.
 Senator Bayard is a Democrat to whom his own party and some Republicans have looked for better things than usually come out of the Democratic party. But the speech es he has been making in the South seem to prove him both bigoted and. venomous. One day last week he spoke at Anderson, South Carolina, to a crowd of sev- eral thousand, including 2,153 mounted ''red shirts" and two companies of artillery. The Charleston News and Courier gives the fol- lowing 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 and of centralized despotism. On the other hand he alluded to the Democratic party as the great party of the Constitution, the party of fellowship and love between all sections, the party of honest money, of honest princi- ples, of freedom and equality to all, headed by one of the grandest figures of American history, Winfield Scott Hancock"
 This is still more extraordinary lan- guage than that of ex-Governor Sey- mour. Senator Bayard knows that the Republican party has given the country the safest and best currency it ever had, and that it has done this not with the help of the Democratic party, but in spite of it's deter mined and senseless opposition. He knows that whenever he wanted to vote for honest money he had to vote with the Republicans and against his Democratic brethren. He speaks of the party which strove to destroy the union as ''the great party of the Constitution, the party of fellowship and love between all sec tions." He speaks of the party which has pudiated it's honest debts in half the Southern States as ''the party of honest principles ; and he speaks of the party which tried to found the confederacy with slavery as it's cornerstone, and which is now striving, by means of South made solid by violence and fraud, to grasp the National Government, as the party of freedom and equality for all The great Senator Bayard figuring as a dema- gogue before brigade of red shirts" is not pleasant spectacle.