Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-06-25

tempts which ara about tosnes. .sahade In
Delaware TO revive the political fortunes
OF Thomas Francis Bayard. The fact
that this great man is living in the Dia-
mond State with no office more important
than that of commissioner for adjusting
boundary line between Delaware aud
pennsylvania is a source cf much concern
to many fine old Bourbons In that lit e
Commonwealth. With that delicious
old fossil, Eli salisbury, out of the
Senate, with lively Republican hustler
OF the ninethenth century like Anthony
Higgins in his seat, and with the once
mighty and magnificent Baysrd forced to
pass his time in adjusting the corners OF
the State to Mason's and Dixon's line, 1t
begius to look as If the days of the ancient
dynasties of bats and owls were coming
to an end.
In view of thi, possibility an attempt
is to be male to resuscitate the fortunes
Of the House OF Bayard, OF which a mum
ber of choice old Bourbons In Delaware
still delight to be known as props and
pillars. All his pitable failures In play
Ing the part OF statesman have not
weakened their allegiance to him and his
name. They still have an idea, as they
had In the good old days when their
more than an ornamental Democrat, that
the wisest thing a Democratic National
Convention could possibly do would be
to nominate him President. According
ly 1t is their intention to bring him for
ward again as candidate Tor the United
States Senate where, In some mysterious
fashion Of his own, he once succeeded in
gaining more reputation OIL less capital
THAI any OF the patrician fathers whom
we can now call to mind. At the same
time and possibly as an incidental, II Lot
an essential, to this scheme Of rejuvena-
tion, the announcement has been made
that the old gentleman Is about to take
unto himself II youi x and handsome wife
who, his admirers doubtless hope, will
be TO him something in the nature of a
Mascotte. Certain II is that If anybody
is more In need OF one of those lucky
creatures It is the eK Secretary of State
1t is always hard to keep an old Bour-
bon in his grave, for he will never admi
that he is dead SO long as there are any
other old bourbons lett above ground to
kee p him company. AS there are still q
good many of the an lent tribe to be
found between Wilmington and Cape
Henlopen, Mr.. Bayard can see no reason
why he should be Inferred and his epitaph
written. II is true that he has seen a
litt.e more OF the world and has been
more geuteel In his manners than most OF
tie decayed followers OF the Rayard
dynasty, but like them he stopped grow
ing about the beginning of the war. He
may have been more polite, more learned
tsSpd more gracious than old Ell Sauls-
bury, but IN all Other things be the came
'e!ic of an antedilavian age in American
tssaiiics. Yet even Delaware is be-
coming too small iOr this antiquated
statesman.
with the recent growth of the Repub-
, lican parry, ard with so wide-awake q
man as ALthuny Higgins stirring up the
State and shaking out the creeping and
crawling things that have thriveu under
the saulsburys and Bsyards, II is not the
easy thing that 1t ouce was to manipulate
little Delaware as If 1t were rotten
boz ugh like Old Sarum. Theex -Secre
tary ot State is t1o Old to learn at this
late day and the BourL ons would forsake
him II be were to learn. He cannot even
SC tie Gown as sage and philosopher,
!or msn with olng wife cannot play
that role. But he may continue to lead
an agreeable existence In mapping out
old boundary liue "A public work 10
viii h he " ~ sIcc ed bet er than in any
thing he has ever before done, as it in
volv' no labor more serious than looking
wis and eating good dinners.