The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-12-27
BAYARD ON THE STUMP.
An Excellent Speech by the Della
ware Senator.

Senator Baysrd to the Brooklyn C0. ~
Dcmocrsts-The Contrast Between
Blaine and Cleve-
land.
In the course of a recent address to
The Democrats of Brooklyn, N. Y,
Senator Bayard made these telling
points:
The condition OF our country presents for
our consideration economic and political
Bic solution at our hands. Some of them are
new, and appeal to forces not hitherto known
In our National politics l refer to the fact
dates for the Presidency. and The parties that
support them. to the prejucices and supposed
Interests of classes of our countrymen whose
variance With those Of other c,asses To state
the question simply, IT is the attempt to create
and force an issue between the laboring
classes, so-called. and the owners of capital
This is In my judgment O false, un-Amcri-
can and wholly unadmissable issue to be
raised. This country undoubtedly was in
tended to be governed In the interests, not of
any class, but of all classes of our population.
1t was intended that noae should have privi-
leges denied to others. which simply meant
and it will be vain 10 search through any
public paper, in which the welfare of the
whole people, and nothing less than the whole
people, WAS declared to be the object of the
American Government.
1t is clear to me that IL this line of argument
is to be followed, and issues are TO be created
the country, or between different CLASSES and
employments of our citizens, that in such a
struggle victory must ultimately be declared
AMER long and disastrous conflict in favor of
one or the other: that there is to be at the
end of such struggle victor and van
quishe1 party. There Is nothing in such q
spectacle that / think justiiable to the idea of
tie American Constitution, and the man who
contemplates 1t may be justly regarded as the
Zoe to liberty and the American form of Gov
eYnment
A MASTER OF PRErENsIoN.
Now, Mr.. Blaine in his famous letter has
laid down his pretensions. and Mr.. Blaine.
you know. 10 master Of pretension. He has
taken care TO claim cverything-ali the bless
tages Of human invention and industry. the
very bounty OF the soil. the unlimited terri
tory, the steamboat and railway. the tele-
phone, the very sun that warns. the breeze
that co Dis. the rains that fructify and even the
natural increase of popu alton, not to speak
of the assisted immigration of labor all that
the United States has been seized by this cam
didate for public honor and re spect and
held up by him as due to u high protective
tariff.
On the contrary, make bold in direct OBJ
position to the statements and claims OF Mr..
Blaine, to aver and cali the record of history
as my witness. that sense of Injustice ere.
taxes has Produced more local jealousy, more
sectional feeling, more estrangements be-
tween our countrymen than any other single
cause: that Ii has caused labor to organize
in discomfort for lack of steady employment
and compensatory wages, has filed the iand
with violence and threats of violence, has
In the military arm of force as a customary
resort TO obtain order. This it which
has cmbodened and induced the dem
ssgosIeS to sppsar in our . midst St.. But
as Mr.. Blaine advocates and his
party approves, in respect to the use of the
thought and feeling gradually generated by
such mercenary spirit and abuse of a great
public trust do not believe such a spectacle
could be witnessed in the United States as is
now, that a candidate who has fattened upon
every abuse that our laws contain. and yet
mas strangely gone unwhlpped of public
justice should now be Zsnning up and down
the land Offering himself as the special friend
of the laboring man. whose seaut earnings
have gone largely TO swell his vast fortune
and the foe of monopolles which have only
added to his wealth-in cynical disregard of
sll that right minded men value and respect:
affecting specially to repre- the interests
of labor. and yet seeking to array classes of
society against each other, hoping thereby
out of the general ruin to feed fat his grudges
against decency and good order at the cost of
the public peace and welfare.
II Is this system of taxation which, while
producing revenue of more than $e00. 0O0,-
600. incidentally entails an enhanced cost of
living upon the American laborer and upon
the American consumer TO the extent at
least, of five times that amount. In addition
to thIs IL has gradually sealed up the products
OF manufacturers within thor home market
rendering IL impossible for them profitaby TO
increase their product, or even. as IL would
seem, to MAINTAIN its present volume. much
less to expand their sales into foreign mar.
kets when overprodhction has glutted the
home market.
THE SOUTHERN QUESTION.
Think for one moment OF the class and
character of men who have been authorized
20 represent the government of the Union
10 the Southern people. Did they represent
its benignity, its honesty or its Justice? On
the contrary. the rising generation of the
Southern States IL they measured their Gov
eminent by its agents would be Obliged to
essary taxes, TO harrass the taxpayer, to
wound the feelings of the people, to bring dis
grace upon republican institutions.
memoer of the Senate-the confirming body
of all executive appointments profess that
have known but few cases. some rare ex-
ceptious, where the men appointed to public
ONCE under the Federal Government In the
Southern States would have possibly been
chosen for the same office in Northern
State. When have protested against this,
the answer is: "What can we doI Such men
--bad as they are are the best we can get in
the Southern States in the ranks of the Re-
publican party" Look also at the kind OF
men with whom political alliances are
promptly made by the Republican party in the
South.
Look at the Cash family in South Carolina
red-handed murderers and desperadoes the
class who have been painted as typical
Southern men-rufhans in broadcloth-yei
young Cash died the other day defying the
legal process of the State and its officers with
n United States Deputy Marshal's commission
in his pocket.
Look at Chalmers in Mississippi gazetted
for years by the Republican press as the muir
dorer OF ,olored troops at Fort Pillow. Yet he
is taken to the bosom of the Republican party
and paid fees as an sttorney to prosecute hlt
political opponents In the courts of the United
States
Look mt Virginia. o shade of Washington
o eacred tomb At Mount Vernon, Witness
there the sacrifice of State honor-the repu
diation Of State obligations. the degradation
of every function of state government. the
overthrow of every institution of good gov
crnment, to place a corrupt jobber and ca