Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-11-05
HE DEAR woRkINeMAN
What a Correspondent is Induced TO sa,
This Afternoon.


An esteemed friend and patron of the
EVENING JOURNAL is led to write out
some OF his recollections by the unmanly
and untruthful attack which Demo
cratic Glasses Of Sunday Star has made
on Mr.. Charles H. Treat, the Republican
candidate for Congress. But space pre-
vents the publication of the entire com
munication. 1t says in part.
The writer is well aware of his own
personal knowledge of Mr.. Bayard's SYM
pathy for honest labor. He we'll remem-
bers a few years ago Of widowed
mother with nine children, five sons and
four daughters, who occupied his tene-
ment near the Bayard mansion. Two Of
the sons received employment from Mr.
Bayard, one as coachman, with other in
Vulnerable duties to perform, the other
to attend the spacious lawn, cultivate
vegetables for the mansion, attend the
markets with the surplus, the most ex-
acting care required for a number Of
horses, vehicles of various STYLES and
harness. After faithful performance Of
these duties for nearly five years Mr..
Bayard, overcome with that sympathetic
feeling for the wage Garner, informed them
that it was absolutely necessary that
he should reduce his expenses, making at
the same time the generous offer to retain
the one in his employ that would salts
factorily attend the duties heretofore per
formed by both 1t is needless to add
that this magnificent offer from our
present Secretary of State was speedily
rejected. The Bayard tenament was
ordered to be vacated and the widowed
mother compelled to seek quarters else
where. This, Mr. Editor, is no fancy
sketch. The family still reside in this
city, two of the sons, promising young
men, having since died And yet this
apostle Of modern Democracy must per-
sonally pose before the public once in
four years as the champion defender
of the laboring man. Hear his utter
ances in his Opera House speech
October 8, 1888: The working man must
have work or he cannot live. Is it a
proper way to treat labor as mere com
modity2 Is not the reasoning shallow
that places mans labor as dead ma
terlal, as If it were a stone2 Is not a man
something more than bone and gristle?
Is he not also creature OF hopes and
fears, with heart to feel, and a mind to
comprehend, and was he not created after
the being of the Almighty Ruler? 1t is a
grave error to forget that you are dealing
with men; eliminate ambition and hope
from mans heart, and what do Won
leave himY 1t had been his life's study.
continued Mr. Bayard, to give the largest
freedom to every man, and it had been
his recent effort especially, to remove
this restrictions which tend to make
classes.
Indeed Mr.. Editor, that bid for votes
IS certainly amusing. 1t shows his utter
dependence upon the wage-earner. Mr..
Bayard might have pleaded our cause
still further, and with equal proprietv
have said: Show me the man. that
would have attempted to rob his fellow
man of his inestimable right Of franchise,
that sacred boon bequeathed as an inner
itance, aud sealed with the precious blood
of patiots, and | viii show you a robber
OF human liberty, man devoid of princi-
pie and unworthy of confidence Mr.
Bayard was very careful not to touch
upon this important subject With
your kind permission, Mr.. Editor,
the writer in this connection will
refer to two appropriate passages
recorded in Scripture, and leave their APP
plication to Mr.. Bayard, and your intel
hgent readers. In Judges, IS chapter. II
verses, we find these words; Art thou
the manY In Ist Kings, 22nd chapter,
Goth verse; Put this fellsw in prison. In
conclusion, Mr.. Editor, please let me
state that the object of the writer is not
an attempt to ALLEVIATE Democratic
Glasses from Mr. Bayard, nor is it an ef-
fort to appease his wrath toward Mr.
Treat, as either would be utterly impos-
sible, but simply to assert that
Mr.. Treats dealings with
his employees has gained their
confidence, and he is confident of their
support almost ifnot altogether to man,
Notwithstanding tho vindictiveness OF
Democratic Glasses. As for Mr..
Bayard's former two employees, they have
long ago become disguised with his pre-
tensions of anxiety for the well beng OF
the working classes and will vote in op.
position to his lordship. Yours respect.
fully, WAGE GARNER,
jackson and Sharp Company
November 5, 1888