St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-13
RESCUE FOR THE PERIsHING.

JIMMY BAYARD, ArizonaS new secre-
tary, and who is also the heir apparent to
the Delaware blue-blood senatorial success
sion, has touch of granger disposition in
his nature, at least to the extent of develop
ing fondness for oat sowing. JIMA1Y's
oat crop is wild one. but generally turns
out we'll, and it is said that he continues to
SOW with lavish hand. When his appoint
ment was made it was suggested by friends
of the secretary of state, who desired to
shield that official from a charge Of nepo-
tism, that JIMMY had been sent to Arizona
with the hope that the rough experience of
frontier life would mellow the boy and tame
him down to condition of dignity comport-
ing with the position of a young gentleman
who stands in the direct line of senatorial
succession and who is to be the fourth of
his name to mount the throne of Delaware
But, if the Chicago Herald is correctly in
formed, the friends of Secretary BAYARD
have been premature in their efforts to vim
dictate him from the charge of nepotism.
The Herald is informed that the appoint
ment was made contrary to the wishes of
Mr.. BAYARD. In fact there is GOODNESS
between father and son with every indica-
ton of a widening of the breach The
elder is deeply mortified by the conduct of
his hayward boy, and his heart is well
nigh broken because the lad cannot appre-
ciate the aristocratic dignity which attaches
to the illustrious name he bears. The elder
BAYARD is devout believer in blue blood
and now there is still greater modification
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man. The Herald is responsible for the
statement that the Junior BAYARD. who has
trifle more romance than aristocracy in
his nature, is about to consummate pie
beian marriage. With heart that is sus-
ceptible to beauty in whatever form it pre-
sents itself, this democratic son of an
aristocratic father contemplates marriage
with a good-looking chambermaid i'll
Virginia hotel. When the news of this
contemplated mesalliance reached the ears
of ex-senator DAVIS of West Virginia,
who is a close personal friend and business
partner of the secretary of state, that gen
tleman went to the president and made a
personal appeal that something be done
with the young man to save the family
from disgrace. And this is now given as
the explanation of the young mans APP
polntment.
This love affair of the young man.
and the GOODNESS which has sprung up be-
tween father and son, are matters with
which the public are not concerned. But
viewing it in the light of its subsequent eff
fects on American affairs the public does
not look upon the young mans contemplated
marriage with the same alarm that is felt by
the administration. If for the next hundred
years the BAYARDs are to continue the
same potential factors in shaping and di-
recting American affairs that they have
been for the last hundred years the Amer
lean people will experience feeling of re-
lief from the knowledge of the fact that
there is to be some democratic blood in
jected into the family. We are disposed to
agree with our Chicago cOntempo-
rary in its opinion that if the
young man marries the pretty chambermaid
and takes her with him to Arizona, she
will probably fill her place with as much
success as he will his own, and frontier So
ciety will regard her as highly as if she had
been the landlords daughter. Almost any
sort of a woman is an aristocrat in Arizona.
And if the young man will quit sowing wild
oats. take himself up and settle down with
his plebeian wife on an Arizona ranch, he
may yet become the ancestor of race of
BAYARDs of more distinction, honor and
usefulness to American institutions than
the generations which have preceded him.
II THERE is any one who is sceptieal as to
the capacity of the st. Paul people to appreci-
ate fine entertainment he ought to have