The daily gazette., 1882-11-10
D AYARD ON THE RESULT,
Tho Delaware Senator Thinlka ,ha ne.
ruDii can Party Is Broken Up-what is
Demanded of the Democrats.

publ can Party Is Broken Up--what is
Demanded of the Democrats.
tPhilAtclpbla Record
Senator Bayard was at Guy's Hotel, In
Philadelphia, yesterday for dinner. and len
for New York in the afternoon. He is
naturally pleased at the extraordinary
Democtatic majority in his State, aud SAYS
tnat There viii be no opposition made by the
party tp the reelection Of Senator Sauls-
bury. The Senator commented upon the
result IN New Castle county as somewhat
surprising TO him, in that the figures show
that the full Republican vote was cast for
Dick Iiarrington's ticket, whereas It had
been hoped that the large element of high
respectablllty in the Republican party in
New Castle county wodld repudiate the
shameless attempt to make Harrington the
political boss of the State.
On election day In Delaware Senator
Bayard stood at the polls in his ward all day
long, aud worked as hard as the most en-
thusiaatic ward politician. In regard 10 the
national aspect Of Tuesdays election the
Delaware Senator said that he did not doubt
that iile effect will be TO break up the Re-
publican party in the United States in fact,
that tile election clearly shows that the Re-
publican party Is in the same position now
as the Whig party was in 1854, when 1t went
TO PIECES, with the difference that there
Is nov no such great question in
volved in American politics as that
which gave life to the party
which took the place of the routed Wings.
~ dm, however, particularly pleased"
continued the Senator, "to see how signal
has been the failure Of the Stalwart plan to
overthrow the asccndency Of decent govern
ment ih the South by assisting to power a
set OF political adveuturers, whose success
could not have been less dreaded than the
return to power of the carpet-bag govern
mcnt df the Reconstruction days. The proc
ttutioh of high official power to place the
pcopleo the South under, If possible, more
cruel political taskmastcrs than they were
cursed with. in the high tide of the rule OF
the Mdscses and BuIiocks has failed OF its
purpose. What Malone has made of Vir-
ginia, 1t was planned that Others should
make bf other Southern States All good
men must rejoice that such plan of Re
publicanizin2 the South could not succeed"
One thing Of which the Senator expressed
himself as quite sure of was that the cleo
tion everywhere is tremendous rebuke OF
the Administration and its open reputation
of Civil Service Reform, and that II brings
TO the front more prominently than anything
else the rcslstless demand for complete re-
form df the Civil Service. lie did not ex-
pect ~ sco Luis III tnc uatOndl uunlulbbTa-
tion while Arthur's term lasts, but in the
different States at once there would be a
radical and salutary change in the admins
tratior of the public service, and the next
national administration In view OF Tuesdays
result must inevitably be an administra-
tion tile first purpose of which will be to
establish system of Civil Service reform,
based upon the highest 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 at the head of affairs-the
Senator thinks, will not be opposed by the
party hereafter. No men can and no men
should be allowed to press themselves to the
front who in character are not above sus-
picion, and whose records are not beyond
reproach.