Middletown transcript., 1880-03-20

no right to make any money out Of
anything which may come before him
in his legislative capacity. Tom Bay.
ard would do the same thing and
never expect it to be counted as vir-
tue. In the councils of his party his
voice is always heard with respect,
and if his advice is not followed the
party is generally the worse for it. |
need only instance his opposition to
the placing of political riders on the
appropriation bill at the extra session
Of last year. Puck pictured the Dem
ocratic party at that time as donkey
ON the edge of a precipice, with moth
ing but Bayard's grip on its tail to
prevent the animals suicide. The po-
Sition he then took has since become
the breastwork of the party. In brief,
the salient features of Mr. Bayard's
policy during his ten years in the
Senate have been his advocacy of
nationality without Capitalization, civil
service reform and honest money and
his opposition to machine methods in
politics. The keynote of his conduct
in all things is found in his remark
the other day to one of the many
friends who advised him not to speak
on the Fitz John Porter case, as it
had become political question, and
his advocacy of Porter's reinstatement
would be used against him as a candi-
date for the Presidency. "What do
you take me for ?" was the indignant
reply. 1T is the right thing to do and
| am going TO do it.
BAYARD AT HOME AND AT WORK.
Physically Senator Bayard is man
Of heroic build, but rather bony and
angular He is above the average
height, and even with his habituaI
stoop looks tall. His clean-shaven
face, with its broadly-marked lines
and wonderful capacity for the ex-
preston of emotion, is pleasant to
look upon and wins favor at sight.
His eyes are steel-blue and move rest
lessly under pair of overhanging,
shaggy eyebrows. He is a man of
action and gestures, is given to pacing,
and in sitting assumes the most con-
venient attitudes with frequent and
uneasy changes. He is a tireless
worker and is in constant danger of |
working too much. After service as
a Committeeman in the investigation
of some custom house frauds in New
York (the Jayne business, / believe),
in which he became intensely interest
ed, he became hollow-eyed and hag-
gard and greatly declined in flesh.
Hard work and anxiety during the
extra session of 1879 came very near
breaking him down. He needs to put
the brakes down on that sanguine
temperament. /.
Mr.. Bayard is seen at his best at
home-either in Wilmington or in
Washington, surrounded by his family
or in the midst of his dearly
loved books. He married early. His
wife was Miss louisa Lee, of Balti-
more, daughter of the Junior men,
Der of the banking firm Of Johnson &
Lee. They have had twelve children
and ten of them are living. James
A. Bayard, fourth, his eldest son, has
been engaged FOR the last two years
with Clarence Kings Geological Ex-
pedition. Mr.. Bayard is an exceed
ingly domestic person, and is renowned
in Wilmington as model father and
husband. His summer home is fine
old-fashioned mansion, situated in the
outskirts of Wilmington Con Clayton
street,, which was once the property
Of S. B. Davis, the guardian of Myra
Clark, now known to fame as Myra
Clark Gaines. 1t is a roomy house,
furnished with a view solely to COM !
Portable living. Mr.. Bayard's "den,"
Dr. library, has all the marks of the
of a man of literary
tastes. The walls are lined with book /
shelves and the table is always cover
I'd with books and papers, which are /
confusion itself to anybody but him :
5elff. Tie foor, tee, is sttFe#ea With With
books and newspapers. The visitor
always finds the host at work, but
never too busy to talk For Tom Z
8ayard is not only the soul of hospi- !
ality, but one of the most fluent talk I
RS you ever saw. When he gets very
much interested he is apt to walk up s
md down the room with his hands in Y
lis pockets and indulge in a mono y
ogue. His words flow like water 0
rom the mouth of a pitcher, and if .
AIKEN down in shorthand they will be I,
ound to make perfect sentences and G
otable for the display of rich vo- P
abularly. 1t is much more satisfac- u
DRY to hear him talk than to read his o.
manuscript, for his chirography is very o
ard to decipher, and the abbrevia- g
ions and lack of pune tuation (for he o.
'rites as he talks, at race-horse-speed) te
lake it an enigma to those not very p
ell acquainted with it. -
In the winter the Senator lives in "
Washington, occupying his own house, %
n unpretending brick structure of Di
lree stories and a mansard roof, on er
avenue Within it is st
III of the cherry light of home and
ch in the indescribable little things liz
hich give an air of comfort which is co
tile short of luxury A vine-covered ar
azza adds 10 the attractions of the Tn
ace. Although the house is unpre- "a "a
nding in itself, it is in a notable Tn
eighborhood. 1t stands in the circle Ir'
the middle of which rises the newly an
ected Thomas statue. On either 1a y:
De of Mr.. Bayard live Senator Ed olI y
unds and Justice Miller, while al
nong his near neighbors are Ex- N
mister Schenck, Senators Morrill,, sal
i'll, Colonel Mcpherson, Blaine, Al pr
;on, Randolph and Windom-almost W
little village of some of the best no
lown men in the country. The life lal
the family is of the simplest. A
rd reception or two and about the a.
me number of formal dinners make Dy
the elaborate entertainments of the Uni