Daily Republican., 1884-09-17
Mr.. Bay.rd and tho south.

Mr.. Bayard and tho south.
Outside of his attempt to show the
fallaey of the protective policy of the
Republican party in his late Brooklyn
speech, Mr.. Bayard takes time to de-
vote a clever sized paragraph to the
policy Of the Republican party in the
South. He objected to their treatment
of the colored men as vassals and serfs,
whose moral and legal duties were to
vote the Republican ticket under all
circumstances. Oath-bound negro
societies were very Objectionable to the
Delaware Senator, but we could not
discover where he uttered n word of
objection to the numerous societies Of
oath bound rifle clubs, Ku-Klux Khan,
night-riders and Camelia order, whose
duty was to intimidats the negro voters
even TO Strengthening them by the score
TO impress upon them the idea that this
was a white mans government, and
negro had no rights white man was
bound TO respect. Mr. Bayard found
fault with any measure that could keep
a black man from voting any other
than the party ticket, He seems
strangely TO have forgotten that his
own party was the white mans party
of Delaware, openly proclaimed as
such with eternal hostility TO the black
man, and that he was elected TO the
Senate by this same white mans party
that did not want and would not have
negro voters within its ranks.
Growing indignant, Mr.. Bayard
says
Look at the Cash family in South
Carolina-red- handed murderers and
desperadoes, the class who have been
painted as typical southern men-ruf-
fans in broad cIoth-yet Young Cash
died the other day defying the legal
process OF the State and is officers, with
a United States deputy marshal's CON-
mission in his pocket -
But Mr.. Bayard seems strangely to
have forgotten the negro blood that was
shed by the white adherents of his
party in South Carolina, in order that
that State might be made and kept a
Democratic State in spite of the 40, 900
Republican majority that would be
cast in "A fair election with the votes
honestly counted, and if shotgun in
tlmidation was suppressed. 1t is strange
that the only thing wrong he can see
in South Carolina, worthy of his notice,
is United States Marshal's commits.
sion in The pocket of young Cash
| Bu' Mr.. Bavard growing still more
Indignant go 8 farther South and Their
tslys:
Look AT Chalmers in Mississippi,
gazelted for wears by the Republican
press as the murderer of colored troops
It Fort p low. Yet he il taken to the
bosom Of The Republican party and
nald fees as an attorney to prosecute his
poll ical opponents in the courts of the
i United States "
We are no admirer Of Chalmers, and
we freely say that all the good he may
ever do "a a Republican will never
atone for half tue injustice and blood.
shed he has caused in Mississippi
While he was carrying sword and fag-
got through the defenceless hosts OF
colored voters of Mississippi and carry
ing district with a majority Of IL, 900
| Republican voters in il, in favor of
himself as "A Bourbon Democrat, we
never heard Of Mr.. Bayard lifting his
voice against Chalmers.
! 1t is only since the latter has turned
Republican because he saw he could
the more easily be elected TO Congress
as "A Republican than a Democrat that
Mr.. Bayarj has ventured to say word
against him. We only refer 10 this
TO more fully illustrate Mr.. Biyard' :
intense conscientious consistency.
/ / But Mr.. Bayard grows not only in.
dignant, but pathetic rain strikes
him and under its gentle influence IA,
! says
e Look at Virginia. Oh, shade o
= Washington ON sacred tomb az Nouut
Vernon Witness there the racriiiCe .
ate b nor, the rcpuil Ition xof Stau
oo igat. Jns, the degradation OF ever,
junction CT State government the over
Il | hrpw Of every Institution of good gov
nment to place corrunt jobber an,
Il cal Ter of negro votes in the Senate q
II The [ nited States, aud in control Of tn
= -n'lre patrOnag. of the government il
q that Old DoIuiEion, the mother o
| statesmen.
=, Mr.. Bayard might have fingered
II moment between his subdued sobs I
Ii say word about the Danville riot, bu
he did not. He might have shown ha
& he wanted how the party that he say
Ne sacrificed the honor of the state, aacer
j. tanned how much the State honestl
owed, and having found that out wa
% paying both principal and interes
IN while the party he eulogizes neve
IN made any attempt to pay anything, an
c. while that party was in power th
r State was practically bankrupt.
-r He might have told his audienoe I'm