The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-03-14

Secretary OF the William Z.
Whitney, of New York.
Secretary of the Interior-L Q. c. La
mar, of Mississippi.
Postmaster William F.Niias,
of Wisconsin.
Attorney General--A. II. Garland, of
Arkansas
Sketches of the Nominees.
THOMAS +. BAYARD.
Thomas Francis Bayard, of Delaware,
was born in Wilmington, Del, October
30, 1928. His father and grandfather,
both named James \. Bayard, and his
uncle, Richard II. Bayard, all served as
United States senators from Delaware.
Thomas F. Bayard was chiefly educated
at the Flushing school. established by
the Rev. Dir. F. L. Hawks, and was orig
inally designed for mercantile career.
Tie studied and adopted the profession of
the law, however, being admitted to the
bar in 1851. Excepting the years of 1855
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he practiced in his native city, and in
1853 he received the appointment of
United States attorney for Delaware. He
resigned this Office in the following year.
Being elected to the United States Sem
ate as Democrat. to succeed his father,
he took his seat on March 4, 1869, and
was re elected in 1875 and 1881. In 1876
he was member of the Electoral Com
mission. In his senatorial service he has
been an influential member of the judi
ciary, the finance, and other important
committees. He possesses a fine ply
sique, and, while indefatigable in his at
tention 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 1880 there were 1881 votes
cast for Bayard on the first ballot, being
the largest number received by any CALI
didate except Hancock, who had III, and
whose nomination was effected on the
second ballot. In the Democratic Ma
tional Convention of 1884 Bayard receiv-
ed the largest number of votes next to
Cleveland on both the ballots taken, hav-
ing 10 on the first and 1913 on the sec
ond.
DANIEL MANNING.
Daniel Manning was once an errand
boy in the office of the Albany Atlas, now
the Argus. He became compositor
worked at the case with energy, and was
promoted to foreman. His ambition was
not satisfied with this. He went into
journalism, and was made reporter on
the paper with which he had been con
| nected from his childhood. Smart and
pushing, he elbowed his way upward
among the shrewd politicians of Albany.
His chief, Mr.. VIM. Cassidy, looked upon
him with favor, and he rose rapidly in
the estimation of Albany after he had
shown capacity for manipulating the
vote of his county. In due time, when
Mr. Cassidy had been gathered to his
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president of the Argas company. Under
his management the company prospered.
They secured many fat contracts for
printing. and the purse of the president
| grew bulky. But it was as a political
manager that Mr.. Manning grew more
famous. Mr.. Tilden recognized his abil.
tiles, and in 1876 he was made member
of the Democratic State Committee.
Their intimate relations have continued
to the present time. 1t will be remem
bered that Mr.. Tilden addressed TO Mr..
Manning his famous letter in which he
declined to be a candidate in 1850. IL
1882 Mr.. Manning was chosen chairman
of the state committee. How energet
ically he worked for Mr.. Cleveland at the
conventions has been duly chronicled
His zeal aud his skill are matters of pub
lie knowledge. He celebrated the cleo
ton of Mr., Cleveland by contracting {
second marriage. He has been a success
ful man, but his advancement was owing
entirely to his own ability. From moth
ing he has worked his way up to cabi
net position, and he is proud of the his
tory of his struggle. He is about fifty
five years of age.
L. Q. C. LAMAR.
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Of Mississippi
was born in Putnam county, Ga, Sep
TENDER II. 1926. He was graduated
from Emory College, Georgia, whel
twenty years Of age, and then studie'
law at Macon, Ga, with A. II. Chap
pell. He was admitted to the bar il
1S47, and two years later removed to Ok
ford, Miss. There he was elected ad
junct professor of mathematics in tn
university of the state, but he Resigned
that position the next year and returned
) to Georgia, resuming the practice of la,
at Covington. In 1858 he was elected t
the Georgia legislature. The following
year he again removed to Mississippi
where he settled on a plantation in La1
ayette county, and was elected to tn
Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses
Mr. Lamar resigned from Congress i
, 1860, in order to take seat in the Sc
cession Convention of his state, and i
1861 entered the Confederate army a
lieutenant colonel of the Nineteent
Regiment, of which he ultimately be
came colonel In 1868 he was sent b
jefferson Davis upon an important d
, plomatic mission to Russia on behalf c
the Confederacy. Being elected to tn
Forty third Congress as a Democrat, h
did great deal of hard work in connee
ton with contested election cases, bu