Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-05-15
DELAWARE'S STATESMAN
WHOSE is THE NEED TO STAIN
LESS PATRIOTS DUE.
THOMAS FRANCIS BAYARD
HIS RECORD AS a OITIzEN AND a
SENATOR.

HIS RECORD AS A OITIZEN AND A
SENATOR.
PEN Photograph OF Our Dtsttn-
ruished Senator by Henry L..
nelson, From the s'BOston POst''
OF Last Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Almost any
week day morning, during the session of
Congress, between 10 O'Clock and noon,
Senator Baysrd may be seen walking to
the capitol. He has good body, firm
step and he walks quickly, for he keeps
himself In good condition. His Sc years
slt lightly on him. His hair ia gray, but
there is good color in his cheeks, his
eve Is bright and there is every evidence
that Mr.. Bayard enjoys excellent health.
His house Is about two miles from the
capitol, so that he has four miles a day
to do when he walks, and he generally
does. Sometimes, indeed, especially in
warm weather, he rides down
with Senator Pendleton In two.
seated phseton 'ut as rule he
walks, for Senator Bayard is a frm be-
liever In heAlthful exercise. He wants
good blood for the nourishment OF his
active brain, and therefore when he can
obtain the time tor recreation, he takes
bis pleasure in the open air. He drives
In Washington, he rides horseback in the
country, he is famous swimmer, while
1t would take an active man to keep up
with him through the woods on shoot.
ing excursion. He loves out of door
sports, and enjoys a close struggle be.
tween oouble Of well-matohed running
horses. Mr.. BAyard has
A STRONG FACE,
which ia growing every year more like
his fathsr's. II ia = face, moreover, OF
great dignity. do not know precisely
how Mr.. Bayard acquired the reputation
Of q diletante in politics bnt yet some
persons look upon him ss utterly out of
sympathy with the people, and IS a
member Of part Of society that is
deemed aristocratio. presume by this
1t is intended to oritioize Mr.. Bayard for
taking daily bath, wearing clean linen,
shaving every morning, and hay
ing his cloths well made. l really
know no other reason, unless 1t may be
that instructive dislike entertained
by certain of the human family against
those of their fellow beings who prefer
like the re6nements of life. Mr.. BAysrd
is far from being unapproaohable. The
one element Of his character that stands
ont most plainly is his enthusiasm and
sarnestness. he came TO Washington as a
senator l5 years ago, and he came here to
do what he could to preserve the institu-
tions Of the government, which had been
disturbed and warped by the war. No
bo In,
to 3 greater degree, singleness of purpose.
He is always at leisure for the
consideration OF the public business
He is alway glad to see any one Who has
information for him, or any one whom he
can assist to properly present public
questions to the country. For news
paper writer he is one of the most valu.
able acqusintanoes in Washington, for,
although he Ia very scrupulous about re-
vealing any Of the secrets of the Senate
or OF the committee room, he is always
willing to throw needed light on public
questions. Mr.. Bayard came to the Sem
ate in 1859 when he was Al years old.
This makes him
THE OLDEST DEMOCRATIC SENATOR IN CON-
TIEUoUs SERVICE,
and gives him the Craftsmanship OF a COM
mittee when the Republicans are in con-
troll OF the Senate. Three senators on
the Republican side of the chamber have
had longer nnbroken terms they are
Mr. An.hony, who entered the Senate in
1853, Mr., Eimunds, who came IN 1866,
aud Mr.. Morrill,, who dates from 1867
Senator Sherman rst entered the Senate
iu 1861, but his service has been broken
by his four years in the cabinet. Mr..
Eimunds and Mr., Bavard are almost OF
the same age The Vermont senator was
born in February, 1928, and the Delaware
senator in October. 1928 They are next
door neishers in Highland Terrace Mr..
Bayard who has larger family than Mr..
Eimunda, living in an unpretentious three
story brick house, while Mr.. Edmunds'
house has two stories and mansard roof
Although living so near one another,
fancy that the two see no more Of each
other than they can belp. There is nc
likeness between them, and there Ia 9
very important fundamental difference
Mr.. Edmunds is an intenee partisan, and
he Ia always perfectly will to helI
along any project or any person that may
be OF service to the political organization
OF which he Ia member. l don't mean
to say that Mr. E1munds voluntarily an6
knowingly, with malice aforethougnt,'
ID guilty of unpatriotio conduct; but he II
constructed on rather marrow model
aud is convinced that the wisest and bes
thing for the country ia to keep tn,
Republican party In power. | do no
believe that Mr.. Edmunds would have
voted to unseat Kellogg, although h'
might have b-en convinced that the on,
Republican majority of the Senate wa
secured by the worst kind Of knavery
Mr.. Edmunds' faith in tn,
fundamental law of the country Ia some
times weak and sometimes strong. H.
was willing to trample on 1t during thu
reconstruction period, but he Is firm
upholder Of 1t whenever "state rights
subserve the interests of Vermont ant
New England. In other words. and Il
put the proposition very briefly, Mr.
Bdmunds is not great enough to know
what patriotism is. The story so oftel
told that Senator Frye once said that Mr.
Eimunds could see fly ou barn doc
when he could not see the barn itself, i
very good illustration of his notion q
the relative Importance Of partisanshi
and patriotism. MIR. Bayard, on tn
other hand,
HAS ALWAYS IN VIEW THE BEST INTEREST
OF THE COUNTRY
and the preservation of its institutions
No cIamor Of partisanship, and no apes
10 local interests could induce him to vot
or speak against his convictions. HI
Career in the s mate furnishes q numbt
OF excellent illustrations OF his indeper
den's of though aud action. He com
aseously opposed all the financial mac
Mesa of men who were his party associate
IN the Senate, Offering to renounos th
ohsirmauship of the committee on fnant
rather than yield on the silver bill an
stlll more recently he has uttere
many protests against the encroacl
ments of the Federal governmeI
and the extension of the socialist
doctrines of the political theory to whic
many southern Democrats have unto
tunately surrendered. 1t is startlir
commentary on the dangers that threste
'he constitutional government tn
southern Democrats fall before IL
seductive temptations in the shape
federal cattle laws and educational Al
held out by their old enemies like Geori
+: Hosr, and refuse to follow the advi
Oh Mr.. B,yard, who fights now again
the insidiOus advances of GENERALIZATION
as, for years, he fought against its opt
warfare on tho Southern States. Fro
his hrst entrance into the Senate,
struggled tn praaarva tho {pafitutinua