The Wilmingtonian., 1885-03-21
MR.. GRAY u. S. S.
BAYARD'S SENATORIAL HEIR
CHOSEN BY ONE MAJORITY.
The Caucus Vote a Sure index OF
the Decadence of the Bay
ard Influence.

The Hon. Charles B. Lore emerged from
the Senatorial contest with clean hands
Mr.. Lore had the laudable ambition to rep
resent his native state in the highest Council
of the nation. yet no one can point to sin
gle unholy alliance that lie ever essayed
for the advancement of that ambi
tion. His followers stood by him for the
faith they had in him and for tho love they
had for him.
1t is true that Mr.. Lore can not boast OF
family titular distinction but measured BY
the biblical measurement of "by their fruits
We shall know them he, to-day, stands pri-
mus inter pares, and the admiration felt for
him throughout the entire state is indexed
both by the unprecedented vote given
last fall, and also by the recent Legislature
vote.
In 1868 Mr. Bayard received the unani-
nous Democratic vote of his state for Uni
ted States Senator; in 1874 and in 1880 he
was returned to the Senate with the same
unanimity, but The result of last Monday
nights Senatorial caucus is the finger board
which unerringly points to the commence
ment of the ending of the Bayard regime in
Delaware.
The time is not remote when every Dem
o,rat in this state would have hastened to
do Bayard's bidding, but as he contemplates
the heroulean efforts that had to be made
to compass the defeat of Mr. Lore for his
vacant Senatorial chair, we'll may he ex-
claim 0 temporal 0 mores
The Secretaryship of State with au that
its patronage implies-the state administra-
tion, with its sundry appointments the At
torney Generalship of State and the Penn
sylvaDia Railroad Company. all united to
the common end of sacrificing Lore to graf
ify the wishes of Bayard,
That frail majority-tha majority of one
single Uote by which the Bayard faction
won, with all of the mighty influences at its
back, is the hand writing on the wall which
tells of the slight hold which Mr., Bayard
has upon the confidence of his fellow citi-
zens.
Never before has there been witnessed
such an unequal contest, and if Mr. Bay
ards candidate had not have been backed by
federal and state patronage ad iRtaituna, @. |
B. Lore would to-day be wearing the Sena-
toral toga.
Members of the Delaware State Legisla- |
ture who had voluntarily declared in favor of |
MIR. Lore for Senator in one hour voted in |
direct opposition to their declared purposes
the inference is left to our readers.
We will not anathematize those whose
greed was their god, but we will leave them
to their consciences-and to their constitu-
ents.
Members of the Legislature had perfect
right to vote for whomsovever they pleased
but to publicly advocate one candidate,
then to vote for another, suggests famili-
arity with the methods of Judas Iscariot,
which is difficult to harmonize with an hon.
esty of purpose.
Mr.. Lore went into this contest as a rep
resentative of the people against aristocra-
cy; against hereditary transmission of office;
against the influence of state and national
official patronage, and against monopolies,
and he would have defied the combined in
fluences of all of these agencies had it not
have been for traitor in the camp
The blood of the martyred calls for ven
geance and this question of Senatorial sue
cession will be remanded to the people one
year hence, and they will then demand full
atonement for the treachery visited upon
their fayorite-CHARLEs B. LORE.