The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1885-11-04
MIR. BAYARD,s RUDESEss.
How the Secretary or State has Displeased
His Senatorial Fiiends.

His Senatorial iiends.
Especial to the NeW York World.)
WASHINGTON, October 26.-A friend
CT Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
said to-day: sit is true, as the World
has stated, that Senator Butler has
stopped going to the State Department
and it is also true that his colleague
docs not intend to go there any more.
Tho exact reasons have not been stated
but Senator Butler was not offended
with the Secretary Of State because he
did not promote his son to the Consul
late of Marseilles. 1t would have been
natural for Mr.. Bayard to have paid
Mr.. Butler the courtesy of promoting
his son, but the fact that he did not,
would not have been n for gricv-
ance on the part of Mr.. Butler. The
reason why Mr.. Butler has stopped
going to the State Department is be-
cause Mr.. Bayard treated him with
| great rudcncss.
'Onc day he called on him TO pre-
sent the claims of a gentleman for the
Venezuelan mission. AS he entered
Mr.. Bayard's room he said:
"sArc you going to give my me- Il the
mission that l wrote you aboutr
"'No, no, no. said Mr.. Bayard, al
most without turning his head. He
then began an attack upon Senator
Butler on account of the Morgan ap-
pointmcnt. Mr.. Butler rcpudiated all
responsibility for hat appointment.
He said that he had carried this respon-
sibility before the public, and had said
nothing, but that no one knew better
than Mr.. Bayard that he was in no way
responsible for Morgan. He had not
even asked TO have him appointed,
Mr.. Bayard's manner was so offensive
and his charge so unjust that the South
Carolina Senator became very angry.
He drew himself up very stif1y and
started to go. Mr.. Bayard, to concili-
ate him, then began to ask him about
the case of the man he had presented
fort the Venezuelan mission, but Mr..
Butler brusquely declined to say
another word OH the subject, and left.
1.-Two days after this interview Sen
ator buffers candidate was appointed.
Butler has not gone to the State Dc
partment since then, and will not so
long as Mr.. Bayard is there. The
South Carolina Senator, if he were
asked about this matter to-day, would
disclaim having ony grievance against
the Secretary. He simply came to the
conclusion that he would not have
anything to do with him. Senator
Wade Hampton dropped Mr.. Bayard's
acquaintance for another reason. lie
made a request of the Secretary to
transfer q consular friend Of his to
another point. If this request had
been refused Mr.. Hampton would not
have complained, but tho Secretary
treated him with great rudeness, and
made no answer to his request"
The stories that some of the Sena-
tors tell of their treatment at the
hands of the Secretary almost sur
ness shown by Mr.. Bayard to his old
colleagues is hard to understand. Son
ator MCPHERSON, of New jersey, called
upon him the other day, and the first
thing Mr.. Bayard said to him, before
the Senator had opened his mouth,
was: "Be brief, sir: my time is val
table," as if the Senator were a dcs.
pcrate oficc-seeker, who was making
an unwarrantable trespass upon his
attention. Gov. Manning, one of the
leading men of South Carolina, n man
of high social position, early in the
history Of the Administration wrote
letters to the President and the Secre-
tary of State, indicating a desire to go
abroad. The President wrote him a
very polite note, saying that the mat
ter had been referred to the State
Department. Mr.. Bayard never an
swcrcd the Governors letter, although
he had been a guest in his house in
South Carolina, and was under num-
bcrlcss obligations CT courtesy to him.
There is not " Democratic Senator
here who has not had an experience of
a disagrceablc character with the Secrc-
tary of State. Mr.. Bayard is supposed
to be planning a brilliant foreign pol
icy, and has advanced views o the
subject OF the Nicaraguan Canal.
Whatever he may propose, he may be
certain that it will be Killed in the
Senate, as he has lost his hold OH all
his friends there. He has, by his
course this summer, utterly destroyed
all possibility OF his having any sup
port from Congress on any foreign
policy that he may have on hand. He
will be practically reduced to the posi-
ton of a mere fisurchead without
influence among his political associates,
and without any future in politics.