Evening journal., 1888-11-01
RAYARD AT BALTIMORE.
He Goes For the sEurchison-w West Bust
ness-0pinion Of "a Lawyer on His
{ scheme to Punish Murchison.

He Goes For the Murchison-West Bust
ness-Opinion Of "a Lawyer ON His
scheme TO Punish Murchison.
BLTIMoRR, Nov. 1.-Secretary Bayard
received an ovation seldom given a public
man in this city when he went on the
stage at 0ratorio Hall to address 5000
Democrats last evening.
In the course of his speech he said
sGentlemen. there are are political birds
of prey that fatten and rejoice over the
carcass Of the dead and exposed ISLANDERS
and falsehoods. This country has been
the witness. in the last week of the in
corruption for the time being only of its
relations with foreign and friendly
Power 1t was made necessary.
"The act was not the act of the people
of the United States, or of any one in
sympathy with them or with their inter
ests. 1t was the wretched plot of a de-
spairing politician-[great applause and
cheers Tor a conspiracy of despairing
politicians, to bring discredit upon class
of our adopted citizens for the purpose Of
creating an unjust prejudice in the minds
of another class Of our adopted citizens.
A Islander upon the one and foul at
tempt to mislead the other.
1T cannot be defended; my friends,
you cannot divorce political morality
from personal morality. There arc
weapons Of civilized warfare and there
are weapons denied by civilized warfare,
and the man that would coin lie to be
feat his political opponent would poison
the well Of his enemy in time Of war and
slaughter his wife and his children. Up
roarous and continued applause.
eNow, against this / call upon the hon
est sentiment Of every American citizen
to resent the insult thus offered to our
country by these persons. If, as the say
ing goes. the receiver is as bad as the
thief what have you to say Of the men
who in public speeches will gloat and
cheer and clap their hands over proof OF
infamy committed for the sake Of politi-
cal supremacy The whole civilized world
shudders with the excuses Of the French
revolution, for France grew drunk with
blood TO vomit crime, and in those days
when mems minds were frenzied, prosti-
tuition was worshipped in the name Of
the Goddess Of Reason.
Il ask YOU Is there not the prostitu-
tion of the name of an honest people, and
shall men be found in this country so
base and SO poor as to welcome that
which brings shams upon the name Of
American politicsg Are these the men, is
this the party to whom the welfare of
this dear land of ours is to be handed
over7 No, my friends Whatever may
be our differences as to our personal ad-
miration. whatever may be the question
of our divergence upon the non-essen-
tials, let us Mt least resolve that ours
shall be a government of honest self
respecting men. Let us establish, and
let it be our first duty to establish, such
a tone. when goes abroad into other
countries or stays at home he may say,
with just pride and gratitude, Thank
God am an American citizen. APP.
plause and enthusiasm.
A prominent member Of the Washing
ton bar said TO the regular New York
Herald correspondent last night: ''Fhe
spectacle Of a Cabinet officers in these
modern times recommending a President
to proceed against a political opponent
under one Of the odious sedition laws is
one Of the surprises Of Secretary Bayard.
The section of the Revised Statues under
which he advises the President to have
the Attorney General arrest and try
Murchison, the author of the letter to
Lord Sackville, is one Of the acts which
defeated John Adams in 1899, and under
the lead of jefferson, Madison and their
associates drove the Federal party from
power
The section which is now 8, 1886 Of tn,
Revised Statutes was the act Of January
1899. 1t was one Of that notorious series
of laws the alien and sedition acts. II
followed and completed the sedition act
proper. The celebrated Virginia resolu-
lions of 1898, and the Kentucky resolu-
tions of 1893, those noted state papers
drawn respectively by Madison and JEFF
ferson, opened the warfare upon this
series Of acts which, at the following
Presidential election. overwhelmed the
Federal party and elected jefferson over
Adams The particular act which MIR
Bayard asks President Cleveland to reviv,
and use as partisan political move t
make capital for himself in the coming
election was denounced in the last serie.
of resolutions above referred to, those o.
1893. It is certainly an amazing specta
Gle to see a Secretary Of State with assur
ances enough to advise a President O
this day, upon the threshold of nationa
election to avail himself Of the obsolut,
machineryof the sedition laws to punisl
apolitical opponent.