Daily Republican., 1880-01-08
Mr. hay ard and his Disfranehised
NefGhbOFD.

lature which is generally denounced a
unjust and Ubiquitous by every maj
woman and child in the State. tina
loves honesty and fair dealing. W.
should have liked to have heard hi
expressed opinion upon that question
but Is he has never yet heard Of dis
honest election in Delaware, perhaps
he has never heard that there wer,
10000 DISTINGUISHED citizens in his own
county who have no voice whatever in
making the laws Of the State. Some
twenty-five years ago it is said he and
his father both took the stump against
the adoption of the new constitution be-
cause it did not provide for repre-
senta,ion according Ito population,
and then both sire and son sub
sided into an attitude Of indiffer-
ences and aoquissoence from which
they have never since reoov cred. Mr..
Bayari by this time has learned that
his sent in the Senate is more secure
than if the proposition which he ad-
yocated had been adopted and he had
secured tor all the counties of the State
representation according to population.
At the time that he was inIfavor of that
principle New Castle County generally
gave Democratic majorities and the two
lower counties as generally gave ma
jorities the other way and were
mostly able to elect whig
United States Senator. This pre-
pondsrance of Wing sentiment in
the lower Delaware is what the two
Bayards tried to break up by securing
for New Castle representation according
TO population, and the latter being
generally Democratic the election of
Democratic Senator would of course be-
. Bayard, the royal line descending on
down from father to son. The break
ing out of the war however made a
revolution in politics in the State of
Delaware, the lower counties becoming
suddenly Democratic and New Castle
becoming as general thing Republican.
Mr.. Bayard at this point must have
suddenly awoke to the fact that had
the principle Of representation accord.
ing to population been triumphant the
seat held by the Baysrds in the United
States Senate would have been leopard
lied, and a Republican might some
times have been elected. Since then
Mr.. Bayard has never been known to
lift his voice in public in favor of rep
resentation according to population.
Some little partisan sheets published in
the city have undertaken to contradict
the fact that there were 40, 900 disfran-
onlsod CltlIoA5 III NoW Odstlo Couuty,
but their arguments haye been futile in
the face of facts. In the census of
1870 the population of Delaware was,
say in round numbers about $4,000,
and of this nearly one-half was in New
Castle county for the sake Of conve- {
nienoe, though not entirely correct, we
will say one half. From this basis then
Kent and Sussex counties had g.. Y
900 population, and representation q
IF twenty in the Legislature. a
New Castle County with a population c
II "a, 900 had representation of ten in '
he Legislature. 1t will be seen from t.
he foregoing that in the lower counties a
here was representative for every c
J, 200 population, while in New Castle t
was one for every 6,400, just leaving t
me half the population Of New Castle I
representation. If there were 49, a
100 persons that had 40 representation Fl
n the Legislature in 1870, when Will
aington's population was only 10000
low in 1880 when the population of
has run up to AZ, 900 the D
lumber of DISTINGUISHED people in New u
,astle County would reach about a., X
100, but for the sake Of convenience and "
. be within the bounds of uncontradic- Il
cd truth we have always placed the o.
lumber at 10000. When the two Il
'ayards took the stump in favor of 81
representation according to population Of
he difference then against New Castle 81
ounty was but slight compared with the e.
'alance against her now, and yet Mr.. a.
,ayard never raises his voice against n
his monstrous iniquity. Why does he IL
OF We cannot divine his thoughts Il
nd in the absence of expression upon ir
1e subject, we might b. liable to do Vi
i'm Injustice in coming to hasty con- G.
asions, but enc thing is certain, if p'
,ere was need representation accord
,g to population in 1853 when the
xcess was small and in favor Of New in
astle, there is certainly more need of th
now whom the excess is three or four W
mes larger and still in favor of New he
astle. Why then was Mr.. Baysrd's FRI
oquent tongue used in 1853 in favor W
the just principle Of representation, as
nd in 1880 when the injustice has tn
.own in four fold proportion, his a