The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-01-30


one Of opposition to the belief and in.
terests Of the masses in an hour When
the party to which Mr.. Bayard pro
iesses 10 belong needs the cordial good
will Of the masses. There is an OPP
portunity to contrast the fuolishness
of Bayard with the cunning. and, we
may say, sagacity, Of the Republicans.
When John Sherman sent his annual
report to the House Of Representa-
tives he mildly made suggestions
against the further coinage of silver,
and asked Congress to reduce the vol
ume Of greenbacks to sSO0,OOO,OOO
This was exploiting. Immediately at
terward the President sent his annual
message to Congress, taking more pos
tive ground against the greenbacks
than the Secretary of the Treasury
had done. This was TO learn public
sentiment. John Sherman, n candi.
date for the Presidency, did not dare
take an attitude Of more pronounced
hostility to the popular wish upon
these financial questions than he did.
The President was selected to feel the
way for him. II was believed that
the President had less TO risk than
John Sherman by announcing these
opinions. How were the Presidents
suggestions received by his party u
The foremost Republicans in Congress
are straightway on their feet protest.
ing against the Presidential recon-
mendations by formal resolution. III
should be borne in mind that the Re
publican party Is the party of the
Money Power, the party of National
Banks, the party Of monoPolist, but
the shrewd leaders even Of this party
dared not go before the people as in
dorsing the financial recommendations
Of the President Of the United States.
The conductors Of the party Of bond
holders and National Bankers and
gold mongers did not venture to 90 so
tar rs this in the direction Of their UNI
popular belief. The Republicans, find
ing, that the people would not tolerate
the financial policy suggested in the
message of the President, instantly
dropped the subject. The Republicans
saw that il would he fatal, even for
them, to debate this question, or to
urge the Sherman-llayes policy. They
determined not to force a debate upon
question ON which il was apparent
they were not agreed, AMI touching
which the Presidential-Sherman policy
was known to be obnoxious TO the peo-
pie. Republican Senators promptly
antidoted the report OF Sherman and
the message of the President, and then
ordered a Republican silence. Who
then appeared as the apostle of the
rep1diated recommendations of Pres
ident Hayes, written at the instiga-
tion of John Sherman No Repub-
lican Senator was so impolitic as to do
it. II was Senator elected as Dem
ocrat, Bayard. of Delaware, who APP
peared in the Senate as a vehement
advocate of the policy OF John Sher-
man, a policy which John Sherman
dared not himself announce, because
he is a candidate for a Presidential
nomination, and a policy which was
spit upon by the sagaeious leaders Of
the Republican party, so soon as it
was announced by the Republic
can President. Bayard became the
apostle of a spewed-out Republican
recommendation. The recommends
ton was too VIGOROUSLY in the inter.
est Of the Money Power for the party
of the Money Power to indorse it, and
Bayard took it up. The Republicans
had declined to quarrel among them
selves on this question, and Bayard
gets up a quarrel among the Demo
crats concerning il. Bayard is Chair
man of the Senate Finance Commit
tee. He used his position as such, q
few months ago, to forbid the United
States Senate TO vote upon question
relating to silver--hard money. Ther
he commanded silence in the Senate
when the peoples branch of the Con
gress had passed bill, and when th,
Senate asked permission 10 vote nor il
; Bayard strangled the bill in Commit
tee, and issued the awful, appalling
, threat that he would resign his Chair
manship II he was not permitted 4
have his own way. Bayard is an har
? monizer. Now, Bayard, the harmo
7 nizer, upon another financial question
: forces a fight ia his own Committee
E and will not permit the question to re
= main inside the Committeeman. ii
! is beaten in his own Committee, an'
is absolutely certain to be beaten il
open Senate, but being in favor 0
] harmony, he forces Democratic quar-
+ rel in open Senate, after having bee
!. beaten in Committee. lie appears a
0 the pestiierous preacher of doetrin
which the Republicans in Congre'
had dropped as they would drop
. piece of iron not quite red'hot' an
0 a doctrine to which far greater fra'
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