Daily Republican., 1880-01-29
senator hay ards elnocracy.

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MEssRs. EDToRs:--The party calling
itself Democratic, has few questions
to answer. 1t is simply a party o
negatives, sets nothing forth, builds NJ
new thing, and Is OF itself no organizer
Of government.
Thos. jefferson while Vice President
with Washington took offence to the
Presidents views on the construction Of
the Constitution OF the United States.
He appealed to the people Of the Nation
and the history OF the times record
in unmistakabls language how tho
federalists Of that day opposed and
fought him. James A. Bayard, grand
father Of the present Senator, voting
against him thirty fvo times, and in
favor Of Aaron Burr for the Office of
President. The present Senator would
have US to understand that his family
down through ancestry have been
Democratic.
We refer the above to search in his-
tory. Then again to the files of the
delaware Gazstte," in 1924, for James
A. Bayard father to the present Ssna-
tor as q candidate, for the Delaware leg
islature on the federal ticket. And
now to the present Senator going back
on the principles of Jackson democracy,
who opposed internal improvement"
by the general government, said party
now voting millions of dollars to sup
port and sustain the plans Of Henry
Clay as laid down in his american
System" Senator Salisbury has Just
presented petitions for the improve
lnents of rivers in Delaware which the
democracy of forty years ago or less
would have called whiggory.
The old Wing party sought to estab-
lish and perpetuate national bauk,
while the Democratic party opposed it;
the Democracy sought to build up the
thereby the Government
should and did issue notes OF fifty dol.
lars and lis multiple drawing six per
cent. interest now our Senator is ia
vorable to a thousand national banks
and makes war upon Senator Thurman
for his opposition TO them. Now Sena-
tor Bayard is opposed to the treasury
notes and wants to invalidate them, and
because the same Senator Thurman de-
sires to retain them as the work Of the
old-time, old-fashioned principle OF
Jackson and Benton, he ia snubbed and
II possible driven out of the ranks.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, repre-
,ents the VanBuren school of finance,
and is in opposition to national banks
Of the capital of $50, 600, 900 of dollars
drawing six per cent. off Of the people;
while the whols Democratic force thirty
years ago was bitterly in opposition to
'ne bank with only S35, 200, 900 capital.
Gen. Ben. Butler, of Mass, who was
always a democrat of the old school,
till holds his same old principles on
nance, viz: opposition to national
banks, and favorable to treasury notes,
With this difference in favor of the pre-
lent notes, the former notes of the
reasury drew interest at six per cent,
while the present notes draw none, all |
he better Ior the people. Senator Bay
Ird says "the democratic party admin
stored the affairs Of the Union with
lonor, prosperity and peace"
"Peace," -four years inter- necine
var
"Honor"-liberty to be sacrificed on
he altar of slavery
"Prosperity"-to give the govern.
nent over again into the hands ofthat
arty to bring about the same condi-
ion Of things.
1t is hard Messrs. Editors, to find q
ian to-day who can tell where to find
democrat, or the democratic party as
o or 1t was before the war.
Democracy is confined to hunters and
eekerS after Office in local places. This
J the definition that would be given If
live, by Moan WEBSTER.