Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-23
RAyARD ON THE ELECTION.

Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was recently
interviewed on the political situation. lie S
naturally pleased at the extraordinary Demo-
cratic majority in his State, and says that
there will be no opposition made by the party
to the reelection of Senator Salisbury. The
Senator commented upon the result in New
Castle county us somewhat surprising to him,
in that the figures show that the full RepuDll-
can vote was cast for Dick Harrington'S TICK
ct, whereas it had been hoped that the large
element of high responsibility Of the Republi-
can party in New Castle county would repu-
diate the shameless attempts to make Har-
ringtOn the political boss of the State. On
election day in Delaware Senator Bayard stood
at the polls in his ward all day long, and work.
ed as hard as the most enthusiastic ward poll
tician. In regard to the national aspect of
Tuesdays election, the Delaware Senator said
that lie did not doubt that the effect will be to
break up the Republican party in the United
States in fact, that the election clearly shows
that the Republican party is in the same posi-
tion now as the Whig party was in 1854, when
it went to pieces, with the difference that
there is now no such great question involved
in American politics as that which gave lifeto
the party which took the place of the routed
Wings.
~ am, however, particularly pleased, con-
tinued the Senator, Ito see how signal has
been the failure of the Stalwart plan to over
throw the ascendenry of the decent govern
ment in the South by assisting to power a set
of political adventures, whose success could
not have been less dreaded than the return to
power of the carpet-bag government of the
Reconstruction days. The prostitution of
high official power to place the people of the
South under, if possible, more cruel political
taskmakers than they were cursed with in the
high tide of the rule Of the Mosesses and Bull
locks has failed of its purpose. What Malone
has made of Virginia, it was planned that 9TH
ers should make of other Southern States. All
good men must rejoice that such plan of Re-
publicaniZng the South could not succeed"
One thing which the Senator expressed him
self as quite sure of was that the election
everywhere is a tremendous rebuke of the
Administration and its open reputation of
Civil-service reform and that it brings to
the front more prominently than anything
else the reSistlesS demand for a complete re-
form of the Civil Service. He did not expect
to see this in the National Administration
while Arthur's term lasts, but in the different
States at once there would be radical and
salutary change in the administration of the
public service, and the next National Admin
stration, in view of Tuesdays result, must
inevitably be an Administration the first
purpose of which will be to establish system
of Civil Service Reform, based upon the high
est demands of efficiency and character. The
current of popular demand to which the
Democratic party has already wisely yielded
for the best and purest men are at the head Of
atfairs-the Senator thinks, will not be op-
posed by the party hereafter. No men can
and no men should be allowed to press them
selves to the front who in character are not
above suspicion, and whose records not be-
yOnd reprOach.