The daily gazette., 1880-06-14

lioAnuhy VI tno " nlJeu States, ana MIN
lister to the Court of ST. James. Under
the tutelage Of this eminent statesman
Mr.. Bayard:acquired The legal knowl-
edge that afterwards made him so fa-
nous In his profession, and doubtless al
so imbibed the political inspirations
that led him upward and onward until
ne came to be recognized as one of the
leading statesmen OF his day. He was
admitted to the bar in 1922, and practis-
gu MS professioD i'll an uHpretentious
manner for u few years, until the events
occurred that fairly launched him upon
the sea OF politics, and started him upon
the pontical race in which, though often
oppressed by reverses, he never once
lost the confidence or regard of his ad-
miring friends and constituents.
HIS POLITICAL LIFE.
The great quadraDgular Presidential
contest OF 1924, was one of the most ex-
citing political events of the century,
The candidates we're Andrew Jackson,
John Quincy Adams, henry Clay and
WIN. II. Crawford. of Georgia. Andrew
Jackson led the popular vote, but neith-
or candidate had a maj ority of the cleo
toral vote, and the election was thrown
into the House of Representatives,
whore, bv com binati0n with the
friends Of Clay, John Quincy Adams
was elected. In Delaware, the prevail
ing sen iment was in favor of Mr.. Craw-
ford, who was supported by Louis Nc.
Lane, then one of the leaders in Con-
gress, aud also by Mr. Bayard, who un-
I'll this time had been a consistent,
though not ardent, adherent of the Fed
eralist party. The election of Adams to
the Presidency caused complete revo-
luton In political sentiment, thousands
of Adams men becoming Jackson Dem
ocrats, while many Democrats transfer
red their allegiance to the wavering for
tunes of the "old man eloquent" Mr..
Bayard was among those who enlisted
under the jackson banner, and in 1927
he was nominated as the Democratic
candidate for Congress, at special cleo
ton to fill the Congressional vacancy
caused by the election of Louis McLane,
then Representative from Delaware, to
the q. s. Senate. The contest was ex-
citing, but as Democracy was not so
predominant IN Delaware then az it is
now, Mr.. Bayard was defeated, his sue
cessful opponent being the afterwards
distinguished statesman and jurist, Ken
zey Johns.
This was the commencement of his
political career, and with scarcely any
cessation he continued to take an active
and prominent part n political affairs of
the country, until his last retirement
from the U. s. Senate IN 1869.
In 1928 MI. Bayard was again chosen
Congressional candidate of the Demo-
cratic Republican, or Jackson party, but
though the hero of New Orleans won a
glorious victory throughout the country
Delaware adhered to the fortunes of the
other side, and Mr. Bayard was again
defeated by KeGzey Johns. A third
time he was the Democratic candidate
feated, this time by Hon. John j. Milli-
gan, afterwards one of the Associate
j Justices of the Delaware Courts.
In 1885, Richard II. Bayard, brother
of James A, who, with many others,
espoused the Wing cause on account
of the action of President Jackson in
| removing the public deposits from the
United States Bank, was chosen u. s..
| Senator to fill out the unexpired term
of Hon. John NJ. Clayton, who resigned
| to go upon the bench, which ended on
| March 4th, 1889. At the election Of
| 1888, the Democrats, through a split in
| the Whig ranks in Sussex county, elect
ed Thomas Robinson to Congress, and
secured o majority of one in the State
Senate. In the House there was a
Whig majority of one, but this majority
comprised mem ber from Sussex county
| who had been elected as a boiling Whig,
and OF whom grave doubts were enter
| tanned as to whether ne would unite
with the other Wings in their measures
affecting the election of a o. S. Senator.
This mem ber's name came we'll up ahead
IN the alphabetical list ot mem bers, and
| In order to induce him to vote right a
distinguished Whig member from Kent
couHty actually persuaded him to be-
liege that he ad been spelling his name
wrongly all his life, ard gave him ne
system of spelling IT, which placed II
far enough down the roll to give the
Kent Wing chance to vote fist. In
l....s
member who thus permitted the orthog-
| raphy of his name TO he altered, i'm
picitly followed the votes cast by his
Kent friend, and by solid Whig vote
thus secured, the House refused during
the entire session TO go into Joint meet
ing with the Senate for the election of a
United States Senator. This postponed
Tho election of Senator until the session
of lS4l, but had it not been for the
shrewd plan above described Mr.. Bay
ard would have been elected. AS it was
firmly believed that the boiling Whie
from Sussex, whose family Nomenclature
was so conveniently changed, if left to
follow his own inclinations, would moi
only have voted to go into joint session
but would have voted for Mr.. Bayard fol
Senator when the session was held. The
Kent Wing member who contrved and
executed this shrewd man9uvre, though
political opponent, was ALWAYS warm
personal friend of Mr.. Bayard's. Dur
ing this session VIM. Horsey Rogers, OF
New Castle, and Col. VIM. Hemphil
Jones, (recently deeeased,j o. this city
were Democratic members of the House
and were tho recognized leaders of theiI
party in that body.
At the election of 1910 the Wings com.
pleIely regained their political supremacy
in the State and at the Legislative ses
sion OF 1871 Richard III. Bayard was elected
| senator for the full term.
In 1913 Mr.. James A. Bayard removed tc
New York, with the intention of perman
emily residing and practicing bis profes-
! sion in that city. But he remained there
all this period suffered from the affection
known az ship fever" which then affiict
ed that city. He returned to Wilmington
| in 1916, and continued In the prosecution
of his legal business, with constantly IN
creasing success and prominence, until
1851, when he was elected to the Unite'
: states Senate. At the election of the pre-
yious year the Democrats carried tn
State, and at the election of u. s. Senate
by the Legislature. Mr.. Bayard was chose
| on the fifteenth ballot, his principal com
= petitor being Hon. Martin w. Bates, G
Dover.
) A political incident of this epoch l.
| Delaware affairs, was the appointment
| in 1919, of Hon. John M. Clayton (who ha
, | been elected Senator in 1877 to succee
> | Richard III. Bayard) as Secretary of Stat
by President Taylor, which appointment
he accepted. John Wales, father of th
Il Legislature to I'LL out Mr.. Clayton's Senf
i torial term, On the accession of Viz
r President Fillmore to the Presidenc.
owing to the death of President TaylO