The Wilmingtonian., 1885-10-31

he entered Mr.. Bayard's room he said: Are
you going to give my man the mission that
l wrote you about?"
60 No, no, no. said Mr.. Bayard, almost
without turning his head. He then began
an attack upon Senator Butler on account
of the Morgan appointment. Mr.. BayaId's
manner was so offensive and his charge SO
unjust that the South Carolina Senator be-
came very angry. He drew himself up We
ry stiffly and started to go. Mr. Bayard to
eonciliate him, then began to ask him ques-
tions about the case of man he had pre-
sented for the Venezuela mission, but Mr..
Butler brusquely declined to say another
word on the subject and left.
''Senator Wade Hampton dropped Mr.
Bayard's acquaintance for another reason.
He made a request of the Secretary to trans.
fer consular friend of his to another point.
If this request had been simply refused Mr.
Hampton would not have complained, but
the Secretary treated him with great rude
ness and made no answer to his request.
''The stories that some Of the Senators
tell of their treatment at the hands Of the
Secretary almost surpass belief. The gra-
tuitous rudeness shown by Mr. Bayard to
his old colleagues is hard to understand.
ssasar s.ix1nk,gsan u. NJ Ig4sa,x. .aallsl
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 valuable as il the Senator were
desperate office seeker, who was making
an unwarantable tresspass upon his atten-
tiou. Governor Manning, one Of the lead
ing men Of South Carolina, a man Of high
social position, early in the history Of this
Administration wrote letters to the Presi-
dent and Secretary of State, indicating a
desire TO 60 abroad The President wrote
him very polite note, saying that the mat
ter had been referred to the State Depart
ment. Mr.. Bayard never answered the
Governors letter. although he had been a
guest in his house in South Carolina and
was under numberless obligations of cour-
tesy to him." .-...
The above cases are not only authentca-
ted by the parties interested, but they are
also cnrroborated by similar experiences ol
Secretary Bayard's former friends in Della.
ware The VIII MINaToNIAN in its issue Of
May 3D., related the scornful treatment
which had been inflicted upon one of oul
citizens by Secretary Bayard in these
words:-
A gentleman well known in local politics
in this city having received generous en-.
couragement from his fellow citizens to be a
candidate for a Federal appointment, was
advised to go to Washington to consult Sec.
retary Bayard in reference to said appoint,
menu.
The candidate did go to Washington: the
cduu'uduo ulu sec peVlS1dry bdyhIui ouJ WI
will let him tell his own story. He sale
that Secretary Bayard was not the Mr.. Bay
ard Of Wilmington. He was received Will
that calculating GOODNESS that made liu
feel that an icicle had been applied to hi
spinal column. The interview lasted foul
and half minutes-j just four minutes to,
long fr the comfort of the candidate.
The gentleman above referred to is no
ward hummer, but very respectable
busine IS man aud one who has repeatedly
yelled himself hoarse for Bayard and De
mocracy; aud furthermore, he has been rec
ognised as man of pronounced poltica
sagacity by the Democ attic party, and no
unfrequenty has this gentleman been pat
ted upon the back by MIR. Bayard when il
was deemed necessary by the ex-senator t.
have little ward wire-pulling done.
Secretary Blyard should remember, not
withstanding his admiration for the Gus
toms of t. e English aristocracy, that once {
Secretary of State does not mean always
Secretary of State and unless the signs of
the times are at fault, the present Secreta
ry of State will be out ofa job before thu
next twelve months shall have passed; ant
however obsequious may be his bow fo
Senatorial recognition two years hence, i
W i'll not be able to counteract the deep-seat
ed feeling that his frigidity is storing nj
against him,