The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-07-22

WE TOOK OCCASION some few days ago
to reprimand the young gentleman OF tho
Baltimore Gazette, who imbibes his Wash
ington news at the safe distance Of forty
miles from the seat of the Government. He
contends that we are violent paper and
have done so much injustice to Senator
Bayard that people who really love this
great and good man have allowed them
selves to feel deeply incensed. All we said
was that Senator BIS objection at the time
to the proposition to elect Senator Harris
completed the defeat of that sensible idea
In reply to this wise and truthful state
ment we are now informed that the Vice.
President and Mr. Conkling had originated
the scheme of locating Mr.. Harris in that
position As the Democrats did not, how
ever, submit TO the interference of Mr.. Ar
thur, there must have been some reason for
it. Certainly that reason did not exist in
the want of ability or acceptability in SEN
ator Harris, and we venture to assert that
no member of the Senate was more decided
in rejecting the proposition than Senator
Harris himself
This sage young man of the Gdsette then
remarks, his bosom meantime swelling with
emotion:
at was for the Democrats to make
that choice, and it was an insult to Senator
Harris and to the other Democratic Senators
to attempt to make the Republicans the
authority to select their officers. To have
submitted to such dogma would have
been to surrender every vcstige OF inde-
pendence and self-rcspect. If there was any
reason why the Democrats desired to honor
another Senator than Mr.. Harris with a
nomination to the position, either as a mat
ter of policy or q matter of courtesy II
there was another Senator, who, by
reason of his long service, pre-emi-
nent abilities and great reputation. having
claims to the nomination, which the Demo
cratic Senators were ready to acknowledge,
then the suggestion that they should turn
such a Senator down, because, forso0th, the
Republicans wanted his claims ignored, was
sented. AS this was exactly the case it may
be said that the claims of Senator Bayard
prevented an election, but those claims were
neither advanced nor suggested by the Della.
| ware Senator"
There is nothing to take exception to IL
the above outburst beyond the mere ques
tion of its truth in historical sense. Mr.
Bayard may have planted an organ in thu
port of Baltimore, but it can scarcely b'
called as reliable as the one already in full
operation in the village of Wilmington
Delaware, because the latter is directly con
nected by telephone and messenger boy will
the Senator's residence and never goes t.
press without a private consultation. w,
have already proposed very simple wa.
out of this neck of woods. If the Gazette i
personal organ, we want to know it bu
so many Of its official utterances have beel
floated in the market at par and then rap
idly declined in value, that experience
people will demand more proof in this crit
ical emergency. We have requested til
Gazette to obtain card from Mr.. Bayard o.
this subject, and undertaken to furnis
something of value whenever it appears.
The young man of the Gazette assures u
in conclusion, when on this topic, that eve
had Mr.. Bayard desired to do so he had IL
right to acquiesce in such demand.
was matter affecting the privileges an
dignity of the Democratic Senators.
This bears out our statement as LITERAL
as could be expected from an organ. Nj
Bayard always did have an unfortunat
tendency to confound his own name wit
the privileges and dignity of the Democrat
side of the chamber and with the best il
| terests of the Democratic party of til
United States The two should be keI
; separate to some extent. The results {
three Presidential conventions held in th
past twelve years warrant the suspicio
that the Democratic party at large does nc
share Mr.. Bayard's hallucination on thi
subject