The daily gazette., 1881-11-17
SECOND EDITION
From the Baltimore Gazette.
Senator Hay ard and the South.

1t has suddenly flashed across tbt
brilliant intellect which inspires the edi
torlal Iage of the Philadelphia Time,
that Senator Bayard is In danger Of be.
ing badly treated by the Democratic
party, and that the party is in danger oi
being dreadfully Injured by its own in
decent conduct toward one of its best
and purest leaders. The Times discovers
that sssome Southern journals have con-
cluded that the Delaware senator has
lost popularity in HE party" and pro-
ceeds to defend him from the contemp-
tible charge that he exacted his recent
election to the temporary presi lency OF
the Senate. Upon the conclusion reached
after careful examination OF its Atlanta
exchanges, that "some Southern jour-
nails" have declared Mr.. Bayard out of
the race for the Democratic nominatio. i
for the presidency in 1884, the Times
proceeds to arraIgn the Democratic party
tor "Its consistent record of the rejec-
tion of its wisest and purest statesmen -
Having thus, 10 its own satisfaction,
established the fact that tbe Atlanta
Constitution is both the Democratic
party and the Democratic press of the
South, our spasmodically brilliant con-
temporary proceeds to dispose of Mr..
Bayard and the Democratic party as
important factors ia the next pTesiden-
tial problem. The solicitude of our
erratic but enteIprising friends of the
Times for Senator Bayard has been often
exhibited 10 manner more characterize
tic than consistent. The lamentations
OF the Times at the spectacle of the
Democratic party rejecting the Della
ware senator-the discovery of which
is one of the most enterprising journa-
listic feats of the day-would appear TO
ipdicate that that newspaper has been
smitteH with change OF heart since it
declared two years ago that it would be
"midsummer Madness for the party to
think of nom minatlng him for the presi
Lency.
AS, however, it is the peculiar privi-
lege of alleged independent newspapers
TO be capricons, we might call this be-
ing consistently inconsistent. Lest, how
ever, we should be doing that pure
patriot who edits the Times an injustice,
and for fear that after all be may be
really alarmed for the popularity of
Senator Bayard in the South, we can
assure him that the alleged Democratic
paper published at Atlanta, which has
been making persistent and personal at
tacks upon him, does not focus the
Democratic press opinion of the South
by great deal, and that the Democratic
party of the South Is not confined to the
narrow compass of the editorial sanctum
of that journal. Further than this we
dare to speak for the respectability OF
the South when we declare that no pub
lie man in this country Is to-day as
personally popular throughout that sec
tion as Senator Bayard, and that his
nomination and election to the presi-
dency would be hailed by the best peo-
pie of the South irrespective OF party,
but especially by the Democrats, as the
Inauguration of new and higher era
in the history of the politics of the ma
ton, and as the harbinger of new re-
gime at the capital, which would add to
the dignity of the executive chair and
to the credit of the whole people, and
that no cry of faction can cool the
warmth of the affection and confidence
of the Southern Democrats for him as a
citizen beyond reproach and statesman
beyond suspicion. To say that such a
public man has "no standing among the
pre-eminent personages in the party
likely to be chosen three years hence as
the leader of the campaign" is to be
guilty of recklessness of statement and
foolishness of conclusion which is not
excusable even. in an.alleged independ
ent newspaper.