Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-11-20
JUDGE GRAY OF DELAWARE.
interesting Gossip of Men and the Time
in His State.


in His State.
sayoyard.
George Gray, who has been chosen to
preside over the Board of Arbitration
selected by President Roosevelt to in
vestigate and report upon the diff
ferences between the operators OF the
Pennsylvania anthracite fields and
their employees, was IA years in the
national Senate, and the peer of the
greatest of his colleagues. For some
years Delaware has been setting
splendid example --she prefers no repre-
sentation that is distasteful to her and
below the ancient and traditional
standard erected by the Delaware of
the past.
Three Claytons, two Rodneys, two
Saulsburys and four Bayards have sat
in the Federal Senate from Delaware,
and in the Twenty ninth Congress both
of her Senators were of the name and
family of Clayton. Caesar Rodney had
a splendid Revolutionary record. From
1853 to 1889 Salisbury spoke for
Delaware in the Senate. The first
Baysrd appeared in 1905, in the person
of James A. Bayard, Sr Two of his
sons subsequently wore the toga, and
from 1863 to 1885 Thomas Francis
Bayard, a grandson of the first Bayard,
was Senator from Delaware.
John NJ. Clayton was every inch a
Senator, and had three leases of Sena-
toriai life. After eight years. service
he resigned the Senatorship in 1887 to
become Chief Justice OF Delaware. In
lS45 he was again chosen Senator, and
again resigned to enter the cabinet OF
President Taylor as Secretary OF State
He is the Clayton who negotiated the
treaty with Great Britain known as
the Clayton Bulwer treaty, and which
was a pregnant theme of debate for
half a century. In those days the
Democratic party was the lingo party.
1t was never SO happy as when twist
| ing the British lions tail. Stephen A:
| Douglas was even more pertinaclous az
that patriotic business than John
James Ingalls, became in the next
generation, but not SO ornate.
Thomas Francis Bayard entered the
Senate simultaneously with Allen Y.
\ Thurman in 1889. Only little while
before the Senate had acquitted An
drew johnson of guilt on the trial OF
| the charges brought by the House OF
Representatives, and from that day
| the Senate has dominated the House
| in the work of Federal legislation.
| There we're but a, handful of Demo-
Gratis in the Senate in 1S69-only 10
against 62 Republicans. Sectional hate
| had the PROSTATE South by the throat,
and carpet baggery had her by the
pocket; but 10 years later the Demo
Gratis had a majority in the Senate,
and the stainless life and commanding
abilities Of Thomas F. Bayard con-
tributed very greatly to the reinstate-
ment of his party ia the confidence of
the American people.
Judge Gray succeeded Bayard in the
Senate in 1885. He was conspicuous
in that body from the beginning. In
debate he was a lion to assault and a
wild boar in defence. 1t is doubtful If
any vote he ever cast as Senator would
have met the disapproval Of his lrede-
oessor. He debated the tariff from the
standpoint of Cleveland and Carlisle.
and he got his ideas of currency from
Newton and Locke. He opposed the
Mckinley bill of 1890 and the Sher-
man Silver law of that year. In 1898
Judge Gray was one of the pillars OF
the Cleveland administration, and
there is none to deny that had his party
in both houses OF Congress acted upon
his advice the sun would have con-
tined to shine on the Democratic side
Of the hedge, including the years 1896
and 1900. He saw the distribution of
the bread and butter in 1893. When it
was exhausted and there were no frag-
ments left-not even a crumb--he saw
Democratic Statesmen get TO be better
than the administration. They became
too Democratic even to visit the White
House, and thanked Senator Morgan fol-
his cuckoo sarcasm. They we're like
that political part called .tpstriots'
in England that suggested to stout
old Sam johnson his definition OF
patriotism-''t the last resort of a
scoundreln %
Delaware is doing good work. She
is showing how much better it is to be
without representation in the Senate
of the United States than to have dis
tasteful representation.
Obi that there might in England be
duty on hyprocisyl
A tax on humbug an excise
On solemn possibilities
A stamp on every man that canted!