Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-22
INTERCHANGEABLE MEN.
PERSONAL TRAITS OF BAYARD,
GARLAND, AND LAMAR.

state GarIAnd's Love OF n Joke
hanar's Dreamlsnd.
If differences Of temperament are aids
70 VOngenial associations, says a Wash
irgton letter to the New York Sun, there
ought TO be developed the most delightful
friendships between the members of
President Cleveland's Cabinet. There is
coed basis in the long-continued and
aSst cordial relations between the three
members taken from Congress. Bayard,
Lamar, and Garland are as unlike in
their tempeFaneHts as though they had
come from three Of the four corners of
the earth, yet their peculiarities of mind
aHd habit have tended rather to attract
t0sz together thar the contrary. Each
understands the others perfectly, and
when the three we're together in the in
Formal but most attractive club room
known as the Senate cloak room, they
were pretty sure to call around them all
senators who could leave their places on
tae aOor. Each supplemented the 9th ers.
aaS, all three being men Of remarkable
ihtellecLual gifts, they made those
impremptu sympOsia in that Withdraw
ing place most agreeable. Mr.. Bayard,
ksd be lived il England, would have been
landed proprietor, with a seat in
aHgllsh Squire would have filed the
Measure OF ms desire for pleasure He
would have been found on the best horse
lAat could be bought, whenever there
was meet, and the bigger the fence or
the deeper the ditch the better he would
hRTe liked it. II he was not in at the
faish it would not be because he had
Rst got all the go there was in his horse
sut OF him. In Washington there is moth
iHg he likes better than TO get on a risky
s.yse, go cut upon the country roads, or
sst into she fields and let the animal out.
Sometimes, il you happen to be away out
~ tbe late Montgomery Biair's country
place, six miles north of Washington, you
will see BaYard giving his horse iull
rain, sitting like dragon, though the
azimal may be galiOping well within
Aree minutes. Mr.. Arthur, who is rather
Pzoad Of his skill on horse back, once came
asross Mr.. Bayard, who shot by him on a
pa8gh road like a flash, yet saluted the
President with as graceful q gesture as
taeEgh riding at ease in his carriage,
Mr.. Arthur was nightly impressed by
Nc Senator's horsemanship. The only
rtings that would ever tempt MIR. Bay
ara 20 absent himself from the Senate
we're the Ivy Park and Pimlico races,
aEd when two or three years ago he acted
- one Of the judges in great race, and
REs pace was hot and the race close, and
tAs thousands there were shouting and
following the horses like mad, the Sem
AkaP's Intellectual face turned = shade
BAleT, buE otherwise showed no emotion,
tAsNgh he afterward said that be felt as
taOugh oils heart beat thousand times a
HiRUts.
Nr. Bayard 10 a great pedestrian. He
walks with long firm strides, and walks
because he loves to. A little jaunt over
- Arlington or four or fiVe miles back OF
Georgetown Is delight TO him. Never,
d. hO
the capitol. Ii is good mile and a half
frsn his house to the Senate chamber,
and he almost always walked both ways,
en- his return generally arm IN arm with
senator Pehdleton. Between himself
and Mr.. Pendleton there has grown up
friendship that Is one Of the rare in-
stances born of political acquaintance,
AHd Mr.. Bsyard's friends believe he felt
Ar more regret when Ohio failed to re-
t8RR Mr.. Pendleton to the Senate
raan when the National Convention
failed to nominate himself for the Presi-
Scney.
ar. Baysrd hasn't a particle of ap-
prRoiaHOn OF humor, and political life
would therefore be very trying 10 him,
constituted as his Temperament is, were
it not for his passionate fOndness Tor out
door sports. de likes a good game of
base bail as well as he ever did, aud will
sAaths StIEe a bad play as vigorously.
UiGrly fond At angling. That sport il
net active enough for him. MIR. EVarts'
social gifts and capacities were reputed
while he lived in Washington To be
phenomenal, and Mr.. Baysrd, while y
most temperate man, knows head and
SSdy fully as well as his attenuated
predecessor from New York. 1t may be
Ssabged whether Mr.. Bayard would stand
by the punch bowl and join each of his
guests on the occasion of a reception in
drinking their common healths; but IL be
did SO, there is no doubt that the grace,
self-Poise, and self-mastery or Mir.
BsATts' historic feat would be fully
exgalled.
One Of the finest tributes ever paid to
Mr.. Bayard was on the occasion Of trip
en- the notorious Tallapoosa To the York
tbwn celebration. This curious and i'll.
fabed ark was assigned TO carry large
HHmber 81 Senators, In the evening,
when hallway down the Potomac, Capt.
Kellogg invited the company to = supper
SET In the upper saloon. ImprOmptu
tSasts we're called for, and when Capt.
Kellogg proposed the next Democratic
President every eye turned to Mr.. Bay
ard. The tribute was so sudden ard so
unanimous that the Senator was at first
embarrassed. One OF the Republican
senators called Bsyard, and the entire
esnpany at once arose and drank Mr..
Bayard's health. The Senator was
Teatly Impressed, the sentiment seemed
T. De so spontaneous and sincere, and he
Raade what was reported to be an
exquisite little speech on the nature and
functions OF the executive office.
Thoroughly in sympathy intellectually,
aAa In the main in their political views,
ktsaFney General Garland and the Sec
rB&ry OF State are as unlike in tempera-
Hsat and in habit as maple aud an elm.
fAoHgk he doesn't look 1t, Garland has
mere fun in him 70 the square inch than
zSg Eaan in Congress, perhaps than any
nssn Whe ever sat there. 1t is right good,
eOascieus, approaching and appreciatiVe
fun. too. There isn't = wrinkle, q con-
eAiL and out-ef-place Wart, struggling
.nsouuter between badness and hair,
teddle o. . trot, an agonIzing pair Of
tight boots, or an overwhelming display
Of shirt cuds-in short there Is not .
single thing QUA Of the common peculiar
70 any member of Congress which Mr..
Garland has not observed. Singularly
eeRsiderate Of the feelings Of others, he
keeps the fact that he has discovered any
zreiesque originality or personality to
ainself, but when now and then Vest or
Vance, Butler OF voorhees,, the other fun
lsTing Senators, call his attention to
anything funny il lie always discovered
that Garland has already seen it.
Senator Sawyer carries all his great
wealth on q pair Of legs that curve out
wardly systematically, and Garland will
sfs and watch the Wisconsin CrRsus as
he promenades back and forth In the rear
Of the Senate with all the qualification Of
thekeenest appreciation Of the comical.
As Sawyer Decent care a rap about his
bOW legs, Garland told him one day that
hoy gave q wrong idea OF his value.
aThey are a constant o, Senator, when
10 al know that really you can put
hg numeTal at the head OF long string
Sea"
Aside from this keenest and constant
erpreCiatiOn OF the ridiculous, cOmical,
aid hn-oreus, Nr. Garland is az full OF