Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-16
SENATOR BAYARD,s SPEECH.

SENATOR BAYARD'S SPEECH.
The speech of Hon. Thomas +. Bayard in
Brooklyn last night was a mastery effort
worthy of the man and the occasion. His
defense and .9indication of the doctrines and
principles Of the democratic party are based
upon constitutional grounds, while his bold
arraignment OF. the republican party shows
wherein they have transgressed the true in
tent and meaning of the constitution, have
fostered and encouraged class legislation,
and by the adoption of Il tariff which en-
riches the few at the expense Of the many,
have increased and intensified the antago-
nism between capital and labor. He showed
to the lsboiing man that the cry OF protec-
ton TO American labor is q sham; that the
tariff works at all times to their detriment
by limiting their field of operations, and by
forcing them, under the stress of competi-
ton, either to accept the terms offered them
by their employers or to exact better by re-
sorting to strikes. He ridicued the asser-
| ton of Mr. Blaine that every blessing we
enjoy is due to high protective tariff, and
calls upon history as his witness that "a
sense of injustice created by our system OF
laying tariff taxes has produced more loca!
jealousy, more sectional feeling, more es-
arrangement between our countrylnen than
any other feeling. 1t has caused labor to
organize in discomfort for lack of steady en-
ployment and compensatory wages, has
filled the land with violence, and threats Of
violence, has strained the law, and promises
to bring in the military arm of force as q
customary resort to maintain order" II ia
such doctrines as are preached by Mr.. Blaine
box, hold aI ha n
Ter, to appear in our midst of whom he says
that "but for the tone of public thought
gradually generated by such mercenary
spirit as has grown up under republi-
can rule, do not believe that such spec
tacIe could be witnessed in the United
Sales as is now; that a candidate who has
fattened upon every abuse inst our laws
contain, aud yet has strangely gone un
whipped Of public justice, should now he
running up and down the land offering
himself as the special friend of the working
| man whose sCant earnings have gone 10
swell bis vast fortune" and who "hopes TO
feed fat his grudges against dtcency and
good orler At the cost OF tho public peace
and welfare" Mr.. Bayard's arrai gunent
of Mr.. Blaine was equally scathiDg. He
pointed out the extent to which the growth
and steady progress in the United States of
''the rcenary id a." and lhs corruption,
the malfeasance in Office and abuse Of pub
lie and private trusts have spread their de-
moralizing influence everywhere and
brought ruin and suicide in their train. He
called the attention OF the laboring man to
the fact that Mr.. Sabin, the chairman of
The republican executive committee for the
present campaign, "laid the foundation of
his great fortune by the employment of
convict labor" and he quoted an advertise
ment printed last mouth by the warden 81!
the Massachusetts, States prison, asking for
bids for the labor Of two hundred and fifty
convcts well adapted by their present
employment for any mechanical business
Mr.. Baya'd holds that the tendency of our
people 10 turn their eyes TO Congress for in
dustrial relief is one of the means of cen
Trailing power in the hands of the govern
ment and Of abatng the manly spirit of
self reliance. He REQUIRED to his previous
declaration that political morality is akin
to sound political economy" and repudiated
the idea that breach of trust is in its
essence less crime than the preparation
of a felony He next referred to the repub
lican p ''icy and system of antagonislic and
dstrustful legislation against the white
people of the Southern States, and tie
nounced it as policy of injustice and alien
alton. He pointed out the class Of men
that the the republicans put in office at the
South as 'the price of party adhesion,'
and he added when we see Alderman
and Key in the cabinet, I.ongstreet and
Mosby in foreign missions, and Malone
and Cash and Chalmers all in The close en-
brace Of the republican leaders, we may
know that the republican party does trust
the South when it thus bestows Office and
power upon the least trustworthy"