The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-08-21
MIR. BAYARD'S NEMESIS.

MIR. BAYARD'S NEMESIS.
We recently took occasion to express
the opinion, that one of the most eyre
gious errors of Mr.. Bayard's life, was the
use of his influence to defeat the will
of the people, who asked an opportu-
nifty to say by their ballots whether or
not Rum and its multiplied evils should
longer aflict Delaware. 1t is in evil
dence, that but for the potential per-
sonal influence that Mr.. Bayard eX-
erted..at Dover, the bill authorizing the
submission of the liquor question to
popular vote in that state, would have
become law, and the most strictly
Democratic method of temporarily set
ting that question would have been
adopted by tie legislature of Delaware.
But such peaceable and legal methods
looking to the publication and morali-
cation of society were not in accord
with Mr.. Bayard's Political plans. He
had already aided his party in practic-
ally DISTINGUISHING large proportion of
the voters of that state who were op-
posed to him politically, and his
chief concern was the perpetulty of
his own personal power in the politics
of Delaware, by the overthrow of rival
faction in his own party, and which was
seriously encroachlng upon the Bayard
prerogative of autocratic dictation in
the local politics of that state. MIR.
Bayard knew the value of Rum as
political agency in the politics of Della
ware, and when his own ambitions were
involved, he did not hesitate to lend it
his aid and assistance. But as an
agency it has failed HIM, and although
we do not assert that his attitude on
the liquor question in Delaware was the
sole cause of his recent Notifying de-
feat, we do maintain that the offence
Mr.. Bayard and his local agents had
given the moral classes of the people
of Delaware, by their open espousal of
the rum cause and their defeat of the
local option bill, lost him the sympathy
and support Of large element of the
best people of Delaware. Because
Mr.. Bayard has Intentionally catered to
the worst elements of society in his
struggle to maintain his political SUI
premacy in Delaware, we are glad he
has been defeated.
1t is high time in the politics of this
country, as well as in Delaware, that
men who are invested with the respon-
sibility of political leadership, should
cease STOPPING to conquer" by truck
ling to the lowest classes of society,
simply because bad men are more
numerous than good men. There will
come a day in this country, and that
very soon, when the "black jug" which
holds the balance of political power
must be broken. What a spectacle
every sharp political struggle either in
Delaware or Maryland discloses Men
of the finest cloth and Highest social
prominence, who would resent the
slightest affront put upon their personal
honor, contribute their means literally
to the whiskey compaign fund, and
while themselves sober, walk over the
PROSTATE bodies of drunken voters to
places of honor and trust.
All, what a reformation is needed in
the practical politics of oar times when
men who sit every Sunday in high |
places in Gods sanctuary, do not hest
tate for the sordid gains of partizan poll
tics, to debauch their fellow men during
the week by the too popular agent
Rum
As Mr.. Bayard has in Delaware
made his bed so let him lie in it. If his
agencies had been better and his meth
DDS higher, we might have overlooked |
his personal incompetence and his Off
cial failures. Heaven has for some
reason punished him severely during
the past year. Personally all must
svmpathise with the subjects of death
and bereavement. But weakness is I'M
pardonable, and men will not overlook |
it. The State Department of this gov
eminent has been IN Mr.. Bayard's
hands lamentable failure. The meas
ure of ability needed to shape the des-
times of the Democratic party in
state with three counties, does not meet
the demands and emergencies of the
Prime Minister'S portfolio.
If Mr.. Bayard's official career closes
in black darkness he has no one but
himself to blame. AS Lord Byron said
of Henry Kirk White he himself "has
helped to plant the wound that laid
HIM low"
MIR. CLEVELAND AND HIS FRIEND |
MATTHEW'S