The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-03-12
Cabinet Sketches.
THE MEN SELECTED BY THE PRESIDENT
AS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL ADVISORS.


THE MEN SELECTED By THE PREsID ENT
AS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL ADVISORS.
Thomas Francis Bayard, of Delaware,
was born in Wilmington, Del, October 20,
1928. His father and grandfather, both
named James A. Bayard, and his uncle,
Richard FL. Bayard, all served as United
States senators from Delaware. Thomas
E. Bayard was chiefly educated at the
Flushing school. established by the Rev.
DR.. f. E. Hawks, and was originally de-
signed for a mercantile career. He
stndied and adopted the profession OF the
law. however, being admitted to the bar
in 1851. Excepting the years 1865 and
1856. when he lived in Philadelphia, he
practiced in his native city, and in 1858 he
received the appointment of United
States attorney for Delaware. He re-
signed this Office in the following year
Being elected to the United States Senate
as a Democrat, to succeed his father, lie
took his seat on March 4, 1868, and was re.
elected in 1875 and 1881. In 1876 he was q
member of the Electoral Commission. In
his senatorial service he has been an infiu-
entail member of the judiciary, the finance
and other important committees He
possesses fine physique, and, while indie
fatigable in his attention to his public
duties, is fond of outdoor sports and
athletic exercise, Mr.. Bayard is married
and has number of children. In the
Democratic National Convention of 1885,
there were 1854 votes cast for Bayard or
the first ballot, being the largest number
received by any candidate except Hancock
who had III, and whose nomination was
effected on the second ballot. In
the Democratic National Convention OF
| 1881 Bayard received the largest number
of votes next to Cleveland on both the
| ballots taken, having 10 on the first anC
1911 on the second.
\ DANIEL MANNING SECRETA RY OF THE
TREASURY.
Daniel Manning was once an errand DO.
in the office of the Albany Atlas, now the
4 Argus. He became compositor, worked
\ at the case with energy, and was promoted
z to foreman. His ambition was not salts
y fled with this. He went into journalism
4 and was made reporter on the paper will
which he had been connected from hi
\ childhood. Smart and pushing, he elboWet
4 his way upward among the shrewd poll
] ticians of Albany. His chief, MI. VIM
4 Cassidy, looked upon him with favor, ant
A he rose rapidly in the estimation OF Alban
\ after he he'd shown a capacity for manlp
\ ulating the vote of his county. In du
4 time, when MI. Cassidy had been gathere
\ to his fathers, Mr.. Manning succeeded hin
\ as president Of the Argus Company. Tn
\ der his management the company pros
4 pered. They secured many fat contract
for printing, and the purse OF the presl
dent grew bulky. But it was as politi
cal manager that Mr.. Manning grew NOR
famous. MI. Tilden recognized his abill
ties, and in 1876 he was made membe
OF the Democratic State Committee
| Their intimate relations have continue
to the present time. 1t will be remem
bered that Mr.. Tilden addressed to Nj
Manning his famous letter in which h
declined to be candidate in 1880. L
1882 Mr.. Manning was chosen chairma
of the State Committee. How energet
cally he worked for MI. Cleveland at TIL
convention has been duly chroniclet
His zeal and his skill are matters of publ
knowledge. He celebrated the election Q
| Mr.. Cleveland by contracting a secon
marriage He has been successfr
man, but his advancement was owing Ell
tirely to his own ability. From nothin
he has worked his way up to cabinet pc
sition, and he is proud of the history OF h
struggle He is about fifty-five years {
I age.
4 L. @. G. LAMAR, SECRETARY Of The II
TERROR.
Lucius @. G. Lamar, of Mississippi, W.
born in Putnam county, Ca, Septembt
II, 1926. He was graduated from Emor
/ College, Georgia, when twenty years {
age, and then studied law at Macon, Ga
with A. Fl. Chappell. He was admitte
| to the bar in 1S47, and two years later r
4 moved to Oxford, Miss. There he W;
/ elected adjunct professor Of mathematit
"A in the university of the state, but he r
}, signed that position the next year and T.
| turned to Georgia, resuming the practit
1 of law at Covington. In 1858 he WI
1 elected to the Georgia legislature. III
: following year he again removed to MI
: sissippi, where he settled on plantatic
} in Lafayette county, and was elected
a 4 the Thirty-tifth and Thirty-siXth Co
,, crosses Mr.. Lamar resigned from Co
gress in 1860, in order to take a seat in Il
+ 4 Secession Convention of his state. and
: 1861 entered the Confederate army as lie
: i tenant colonel of the Nineteenth Reg
ment, Of which he ultimately BEGAN
\ colonel. In 1868 he was sent
| Jefferson Davis upon an importal
diplomatic mission to Russia on beha
l. A of the Confederacy. Being elected
the Forty-third Congress as Dem
crat, he did a great deal of hard work
, \ connection with contested election case
> but attracted little public attention uni
/, he suddenly made himself a conspicuo
national figure by the delivery of an e.
quent eulogy of Charles Sumner, in tt
= House Of Representatives on the 14th
T March. 1874. Coming from an eX-Confe
crate and a representative OF an extren
Southern State. this speech excited mu,
| comment both North and South, and
= I In thot hiC ujpyvC
much broader than those of his cOnstit
,ents. He eventually brought about t.
;, latter to his own way of thinking, al
When his term expired he was reelected
Congress without any modification OF /
: expressions Mr.. Lamar was elected
the United States Senate from MISS
| sippi for the term beginning March
, 1877, and again displayed his indepen
ence and moral courage by taxing q fiji
: stand against all movements to initiate
debase the currency, while a large prop(
, ton of the people of Mississippi were pc
seSsed by the greenback mania. He h
Y remained steadfast in up holding his iina
: cial views. and has strongly opposed
4 forms of the silver mania.
!, 1 WILLIAM +. Villas. POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL.
Mr.. William F. Villas, as chairman
the Democratic Convention OF 1884,
: came widely known. He comes from W
mont, where he was born in lS40. lie L
. Vermont at the age of eleven, and, settll
in Wisconsin, graduated at the State u
3 verSity in 1858. He went to the Alba
I IN. w Law School, and became a me-
o Der OF the New York bar. Going back
= \ Wisconsin he gathered round him II
u clients. and built up in time q good pra
tice Tn 1861 he recruited COMPANY A