Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-13
BAYARD.
The Future Leader of the Democratic Party
Sn the Senate.

BAYARD.
The Future Leader of the Democratic Purity
In the Senate.
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer
1t is supposed that Tom Bayard will now be
| the Democratic leader of the Senate. There is
no man from the North to do the work, un-
less it be Dan Voorhees, or Judge DaYis. Grow
er, OF Oregon, is sick. Davis has that timidity
attending all fat men, who, being afraid to fall
down with their physical weight, after awhile
become afraid to stand up morally for fear
they may fall down, too. Asingular psrspeo-
tive of what we might have made a President
of is now afforded from the rear of the train az
we look up the track of the past and see poor
old Davis trying to walk on both rails.
Bayard has hitherto been measured in his
scale of estimation. With subtantial Demo-
cratic backing in the Senate of Thurman, Ran
dolph, Eaton, Keenan, Mcdonald, Wallace and
several others, now about to CO. he stood some-
what like one of the Prince-Generals of Europe
his imperfections lost against the galaxy
of his field officers. But now it is
Tom Bayard-not the descendent of
the Chevater-and he will have to take rough
knocks. While an honorable man, there is
touch of the Pharisee in him that has on sever
al occasions been very offensive to his Demo-
cratic colleagues. Thurman once administer
ed birching to him in open Senate saying
that If he set himself up to be more honorable,
more conscientious or more any thing than his
fellow Senators, he was guilty of very ridicul-
| GUS conceit. All that ia strong and interesting
| in Tom Bayard is Northern; but he prefers to
| think that his Southern qualities are his
noblest.
The Bayards were plain Dutch mechanics,
brewers, hatters, etc., who landed in New
York, and one of them. strolling off with a sort
of bunker sect to Maryland, settled there near
| the head of Chesapeake Bay, and his posterity
lived in plain country responsibility, nothing
more, until just bsfore the revOlu-
tionary war. The boys of the family
had to get out to Pennsylvania to make liv-
ing. Tom Baysrd's grandfather was an orphan,
brought up on the bounty of his brother. This
brother, Col. John Bayard. created the family,
| and so far from being Southerner he was q
| stiff old Jerseyman, and lies buried by the
Presbyterian church in New Brunswick, only
| thirty miles from New York city. His sons,
nephews and granduephews all went to Prince
ton college. His nephew, James A. Bayard,
| who was fine trimmer in the politics of JEFF
ferson's administration, married some land be-
longing to an old Methodist in Delaware, and
left two sons, who easily drifted into politics
| in such q little State Delaware; and one Of
these sons, Tom Bayard, succeeded by sort of
family preparation.
Bayard's best ability is just what we see on
| the floor of the Senate and in politics. Though
| not very great politician. he is a pretty ex-
| pert one, and can make point in q political
speech more or less honest, which for time
| leaves an impression. telegrarhed you the
! whole of his speech delivered in Union square
| early in this campaign, from real admiration
| of it; but l was good deal disguised in the
| next forty-eight bours to find that, instead of
giving US his record he had been giving us his
| reformation, or, rather, l may call it his re-
csntation. While he was putting it unmerci-
| fully to John Sherman and others for their
/ financial course in congress, his votes, as they
| were brought out IN a day or two, show that he
| was the weakest brother on that side. He IA
vored taxing the government bonds, aud pooh
| poohed resumption as possibility.
| It is not impossible that Bayard's mettle
may develop under his new advantages, and
| that, standing out along at the head of the
| Senate, leading the Democratic party, he may
become considerable of a hero. Yet. to be
frank about it, he might as we'll admit that he
has learned almost all that has now distin-
| gnished him from his political adversaries.
He had NO conception of the strength of the
| North in war or in brains in concord or in
| governing force. He thought the whole coustru-
| tive power of this country in the South.
| and had gone out of the Senate with JEFF
| Davis and Bsyard's father. But he was con-
demned to live in little city through which
| the enormous levies of the North poured from
| New England, New York and Pennsylvania,
such marks on Bayard's soft posteriors that
| rhurman's preaching was hardly felt for ten
years afterwards.
Bayard has since striven to engraft what he
has learned from the Norih on the Democratic
| party, and then go TO the head of the whole
| thing, ideas and organization. But the West.
naturally writing under the pressure of
contraction and hard times, not going
| to be driven by o young man from the little
State of Delaware. He had individual fol-
lowing of a high class in many Northern
1 States, even in Ohio and Indiana; and MasSa.
/ chusetts, with her intellectual sym pathies,
once took him up heartily. But he never felt
/ at home in the North, unless with August Bel
mont and one or two other rich sporting men;
| but when he wanted a real good time he went
off to South Carolina, where Wade Hampton
1 thought him Just perfect. At the Cincinnati
| convention Hampton and South Carolina were
| solid for Bayard, repellIng old MIR. Thurman,
/ who, as they probably did not know, was the
! more Southern of the two, hsviug been born
| about Lynchburg, while Tom Bayard is what
| might be called 'snide" Southerner, though
| he married in Baltimore.
The last campaign, in which Bayard has
proved himself a good and not altogether
| scrupulous stump speaker, will result in there
being less delicate handling of Baysrd by his
Republican colleagues. Many sincerely hated
him before the campaign, particularly the
| carpet baggers, for he is unsparing in the
of contemptuous epithets; but some of his
speeches making direct accusations against
Garfield and Arthur, have laid him open to
some of that analysis of which Conkling is the
master, but of which there is good deal on
the Republican side of the Senate. A little of
the impression that he is "a Bayard has
hitherto protected him; but if he goes to the
| front of the party, or is very conspicuous any
way, he will have occasion to splinter his
granddaddy's lance in many ioust.