Senator Bayard's Views
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, whose horough-going Doinocracy no one will question, who was a raember of the committee wLich roported the Electoral Commission bill, and who is also a nieni)or of tho Electoral Comiuission, is thus eported in a .New York Timen Washngton dispatch : " Senator Bayard said to-day that if he Electoral bill was to como up now, vitli all that had thus far beon done jefore hiiu, he would vote tor it. Ho ogarded, he said, ' The peaco and prosjerity of the country as above tho resideney,' and he condemned the atacks that had, been mado upon the Jommission or soino of its memben for he action they had taken in tho ii'iorida case. Ho said he had fnll taith in ho justice of all the mernber of the iribuual, and that these severe comneuts upon their action, while there were yet the most vital questions ot the whole case to be atijudicrtted, hs iought were out of place and uujust. ie expiüased himself as hitvmg no tear s to the naai resnlt, and thought that, whatover it should be, the people of the and would accept it in good taith. He ook no glooiuy viuw of the future of the country, even if Mr. Hayos shoulr be declfcred elocted, and said that if tb decisión vas in his favor he wouU cheerfully acquiesce. He thought tha the next tour years would, under eiHie Hayes or Tilden, sottle tho Southen question to great oxtont mul detei iniue the status of parties there.'
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