Daily Republican., 1881-10-24
wnere IL Ihe Mlsrepresentatio.

Where IL the misrepresentation
Senator Bayar1's kite tail speaks ant
attemps to refute statement made II
an editorial which appeared in the RE
PUBLICAN about three weeks ago,
which some correspondent of the New
York Times picked up and sent to that
paper with his approval. The article
in question shows that Mr.. Bayard is
only elected to the Senate by the dis
franchisement of 5000 citizens in Mr.
Bayard's own county and city-citi-
zens who have no voice nor representa-
ton whatever in the State Legislature
that elects United States Senators, and
it has been republshed in several of the
leading papers of the North, much to
the annoyance of Mr.. Bayard and his
kite tail. In that article, which will
be found in full in the issue of the RE.
PUBLICAN Of October 5th, we showed
that New Castle County with 10000
population had but 10 members of the
Legislature, while Kent and Sussex
counties with combined population
of only $1,000 had 20 representatives,
whereas on just basis of representa-
ton Kent would have 10 members, Sus-
sex II and New Castle %. The infer.
ence is plain then that New Castle
being Republican and the other counties
Democratic, a Republican would have
been elected to the United States Senate
in place of Mr.. Bayard-or Mr.. Sauls-
bury either for that matter.
The organ publishes the following ex-
tract from what it calls the letter of a
correspondent to the Times, but which
is an extract of the REPUBLICAN S edi.
torial of Oct 9th. and makes no attempt
to deny the truthfulness of the ex-
tract
'It will be seen by the foregoing that
at the last Legislature, when Mr.. Bay
ard was elected, he got the votes of 20
representatives of $1,000 population,
while a population of 10000 which
could ouly elect eight members at the
last election, voted against him. In
plain terms, 10000 people were opposed
to the reelection Of Senator Bayard,
while $1,000 were in favor of him, and
yet he was elected to Senatorship be.
cause, by an unequal and unjust sys-
tenn of representation, $1,000 people
were enabled to elect 20 members of the
Legislature, and 10000 were enabled to
elect only 8. Owing to the holding over
of two Democratic Senators, the Repub-
licans could only elect s. This is just
how the matter stands, and Thomas r.
Bayard holds his seat in the Senate
only by the disfranchisement of $4,000
citizens, and against the expressed will
of majority of the people of Della
ware, of the expressed will of major
ity of the people Of New Castle county,
and against the expressed will of a ma
jority fpeople of his own native city of
Wilmington.
The Organ, however, outdoes itself
in misrepresentation when it tries to
make the people outside of Mr.. Bay
ards little bailiwick believe that the
correspondent of the Times is a dirty
bird, "a deliberate falsfer, whose
malice against Senator Bayard leads
him to attempt to deceive outside peo.
pie by statements he would not dare
make to a public familiar with the facts,
and which are so absurdly false on
their face that we wonder that the
Times admitted the communication to
its columns. 1t will be noticed that
the kite.tail organ made no attempt to
refute the article when it made its an
pearance on October 9th, not outside the
State but in a Wilmington paper in the
home Of Bayard. Its truth was never
questioned until it was published in
the Times. In fact the trnth of the
article cannot be questioned. There
are the facts and the figures. They
speak for themselves, and he who at.
tempts to contradict it becomes himself
the bold and wilful falsifier who would
misrepresent Delaware abroad for the
sake OF covering up and excusing the
rank injustice that DISTINGUISHES 45, 900
of her citizens frsm voice in the Leg.
islature, and misrepresents her in the
Senate of the United States. The ex-
tract which we publish will bear read
ing and re-reading, and after it has
been read and re-read we would calmly