Smyrna times., 1889-08-14
BAYARD-sAULsBU THEIR PoLITT.
CAL RELATIONS.

Morning News
1t may not be amiss for the Demo.
Gratis of other States to study the DO
litical relations between Mr.. Bavard
and the Saulsburys a little closer. if
they want to speak Understandings of
the Democratic situation here. 1t is
well known that for many years Mr..
Bayard and the Saulsburvs divided
the State between them. We have ex-
pressed this fact as it is usually stated.
and as it is generally understood out
side of Delaware. But the real fact
was precisely the reverse. 1t was not
Mr.. Bayard but the Saulsburys who
had Delaware for SO many years as
pocket borough, and all of Mr..
Bayard's long and generally respect
able career in the United States Sen
ate was due to the good will and favor
and consent of the Sausburvs. OF
course this arrangement was not with.
out It's conditiOns-it not being the
salisbury habit to confer political
favors out of simple good nature The
conditions by which Mr.. Bayard was
made secure in his seat in the United
states Senate were that he should rec
ognize and remain loyal to the Sauls-
burys as the absolute regulators of all
Democratic policy in this State. and
that in all State matters, within the
Democratic party, he should hold
New Castle county subservient to Kent
and Sussex counties. Mr.. Bavard
while he was in the United States
Senate, was practically political
trustee for the Saulsburys, SO far as all
state matters were concerned. He
submitted without protest to every
plan or method proposed by them, and
aoquiesced with habitual fidelity in
their determination to preserve our old
constitution. This old constitution
was the basis of their political control
Its organization of the Legislature
being such as to give to the two lower
counties, with less than half of the
population, two thirds of the legisla-
tive representation. Mr.. Bayard's ia
ther was firm opponent of this tray
esty of republican form of govern
ment, the Wings in his day holding
the control, but we believe that Nr
Bayard himself has never upon anv
public occasion expressed himself as
opposed to the existing unjust Oroa-
nlZation of the state. He could not. in
TACT, oppose the system of law by which
the Saulsburys governed without op-
posing the SaulsbuTys themselves, and
so long as the Saulsburys kept him in
his seat in the United States Senate he
appears to have cared nothing at all
for what happened to his friends and
neighbOFs of New Castle county,
But when Mr.. Bayard went into Mr.
Cleveland's Cabinet, he appears to
have regarded his bargain with the
Saulsburys as at an end. AT anv rate
for the first time in his political life he
had difference with them. They de-
sired to send Mr.. Lore to the United
States Senate, and Mr.. Bayard wanted
Mr.. George Gray, who had filled ont
Mr.. Bayard's unexpired term, to re-
tain the seat for new term. Mr.
Lore's canvass was not well MANAGED
ana Mr.: Gray was elected by methods
which the Saulsburys denounced. It
IS easy to see how as a matter of poli.
tics, that Mr.. Bayard's revolt against
the salisbury domination was the be-
ginning of Democratic pisiptegration
In this state-tO quote from memory
The little rift within the lovers lutte
"n'cn, working inward made its music mute"
Unless we are greatly at fault the
opinion Of the Salisbury Democrats
VIII continue to be of interest in tbis
matter. They haye not governed the
Democratic party Of Delaware for 90
many years without learning several
things. a