Daily Republican., 1883-10-27
Mr.. Bayard at EastOn.

barbecue to bolster up the waning for
tunes of the Democratic party of Mary
land. The speech is said to have been
. long one, the kind the Senator is gen
orally in the habit of making, but it is
briefly reported in the Baltimore Sun OF
yesterday. As usual his address con-
tains some very good sentiments, that If
acted upon and carried out in the Sena-
tors own State would have stripped
him Of his title of Office and have
placed him before the public in more
consistent light than he appeared at
Easton. His eulogy Of the high private
character of Democratic candidates Is
we'll understood, and while it was no
doubt applicable to Mr.. McLane the
Democratic candidate for Governor OF
Maryland, and who by the way is a
Delaware carpet bagger to Maryland,
he is speaking one word for Mr.. Me-
McLane for Governor, and two words
for Thomas F. Bayar6 for President.
The assertion of the Senator that the
executive of State ought to represent
the free, unfettered voice of the people,
will receive hearty response from all
parties, but from none more hearty than
from the Republican party. But while
the Republicans of Delaware applaud
this sentiment, they know that Mr. Bay
ard would not dare to permit that SEN
timent to be carried out in practice in
his own native State, unless he was
ready to lay off his toga of office and
had desire to retire to the shades OF
private citizenship. Theory is one thing
and practice is another, and none know
this better than Mr.. Bayarl. If the peo-
ple of Delaware were permitted to exer-
else ga free, unfettered voice. Mr..
Bayard would not be a United States
Senator. Mr.. Stockley would not be
the chief executive of Delaware and
Wilmington would not be ruled by
Kent and Sussex cOnnties. We can
only say of this brilliant sentiment Of
our Senator that it was fine, very fine
indeed, something like meteor flash
that leaves the world darker than be-
fore. In all probability Mr.. Bayard' $
audience was composed partly of coIored
voters, hence the expression that the
Republican party freed the colored man
only as a peans to keep the party in Of.
fee" This is equivalent to saying that
j he had his way of it there would have
been no freed colofed men that there
would have been 10 war to save the
Union, but that the Union would have
beel preserved upon the basis of slavery
as the chief G0ruer stone. He stigma
tizes the treatment Of the cOlored people
by the Republicans as base hypocrisy,
and he deties the party to show a single
Office of honor and profit held by citl-
zen of the colored race in Republican
State. The Senator is bidding high for
the colored vote, but We doubt very
much whether the colored voters Will
all flock over in body to the tender
mercies ofthe Democratic party with an
expectation that they will fare any better
there than they have Jared in the Re-
publican party. Had Mr., Bayard been
80 minded be might have pointed OIL
humer0u, instances of ColOred men
holding high Offices Of trust and honor
in Southern Republican States befor,
those 5 ates were overruled and torn "
by Mr.. Bayards political triends-th'
kukIux clans, rifle clubs and nigh
riders, who had their own peculiar way
of securing n free, untettered voice o
the people" Mr.. Bayard himself ha
sat in the Senate with ColOrcd Eepub
lican as his peer whose title TO bis OttiC
was not disputed as Mr.. Bayard's was
1t never occurred to the distinguished
Senator, however, that colored men i
Northern Republican States have bee
honored, even where there were but fey
of them comparatively. George W
Williams was elected to the Ohio Leg
isature from Cincinnati, before the ad
vent of Democracy in that city, an
William q. Forten was Il E"pub.ica
eector Of Pennsylvania that voted to
General Grant the second term. Nj
Bayard, with equal propriety, mig
have referred to his own State All
have asked to po'nt out single il
stance where irishmen, who compri,
three-tfrhs Of the Democratic party
his own city, have ever been apponte
or elected to an Office Of trust and hOnt
above that Of City Councilman.
Mr.. Bayard was particularly seye
on the President for striking ham
with the party in Virginia that be sa
has brought her to shame. or cour
of Virginia led by Malone Mr.. Ba
ard, with that strange fOrgettuneS
however, that has 50 often distinguish
him, forgot to say that this legisIati
which had brought Virginia "
shame" had been declared legal by t
Supreme Court aud that the party wi
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citic resolution in the State Convent
endorsed the very thing he processes
abhOr. But there IS trouble brewi
for the manufacturer, capita ist IL
W rking man, says Mr.. Eayard, VII
The markets, not Of the whole world |
Of the United States only, are open
the manufacturers of this count
This means Of course that he is dissa
fed with protection to American
dustries, He would have all barri
broken down and unrestricted free ira
That is exactly what is meant, or e
what does he mean when he says /" Il
when British India is ribbed with RI
ways, as it can be by capital VIII
from India can be lail down in Iond
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