Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-16

making such a request, and the Governor
is the sole judge of the propriety of grant
ing it when it has once been made. 1t is /
to pretend that there is any !
power other than these TO be consulted.
Let ConRiIng be Investigated.
1t will be seen from correspondence
published elsewhere that the sc-called
report OF Senator Bay ards speech last fall
at Dover was prepared by Philadelphia
employed as an amauuanais and clerk dur
ing the campaign by Richard Harrington,
and that tine dispatch was revised by
Henry W. Cannon, chairman of the Re
publican State Committee aud editor
of the Dover Sentinel Here, at the
the very beginning, @e have the evidence
OF an attempt to deceive by those in
teresied, since there was su attempt to
create presumption of the accuracy of
the dispatch by showing tine substantial
concurrence Of two independent reports,
whereas the people starting the matter
ports were written by the same hand and
under the same dictatlon. Then again the |
evidence of the familiarity of parties
with what was going on in
New York and their silly notions that !
somehow it was to precipitate an inyesti.
CATION that would ruin Mr.. Bayard, all go
to show plot to damage the Senator by
men fully capable of garbling and coloring
report with view to helping their pur.
/ pose. We told the Philadelphia Press il
4 was leaning on meu it dared not take
I before the country as vouchers for any
controverled statement, and it will find
out We are right before We are through
with this matter. Mr., Bayard will suffer
no damage but the conspirators against
him can and will The Delaware end of the
concern can safely depend Oh EVERY EyES.
lS6 for administering justice to it.
But how about the others? They have
Joined in falsehood and made it public
They first declared that Mr.. Bayard never
disclaimed what be did disclsim and when
conclusive proof that he did disclaim twas
brought right home to Senator Conkling,
they change their tactics and attempt to
tspesch tne accuracy Of a disclaimer they
first said was never made. This
they cannot do, but they have sue
&c ded in showing the whole country that
Mr.. E.yArd did refer with ist severity to
the Gts:racsfu connection, in one capacity
or another, Of all the sgnera of the card
with The t2tostion Of money from Phelps,
Dodge y 90, and Mir Conkling, with 2
lack of caution which seems to charac.
tetzs is ventures into small states, has
Ouen betrayed into noticing matter he
ha Tor year. persisteutiy ignored. Public
st!eltiea Illus recalled to the matter will
t not ra7t satisfied til il mas seen the whole
j Of it, and already the fact ia revived that
+ the connection Of Iessrs. Arthur and Cor
: nel with this disgtaeetul TRANSACTION wa.
q used ~ President Hayes ani Secretary
/ Sherman in enabling them 10 get thu
II precious pair out OF the New York custom
d bose, While e resp0n-ib!e witness who
Il r.para1 he statement of the factt
n oa which Messrs Hayes and Sher
d uea Ia part relied to beat MIR
) Cooking in that fight, comes forward snc
4 iae!4f.. ,apt U,aR'iag rsssived tel
II thpgs4ul dollars Tor the ai9iae which
l. Jlise Noah Davis reluctantly admitted h
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