The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-05
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His Senatorial Friends.
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WASHINGTON, October 26,-A friend
CT Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
sald to-day: vt is true, as the World
mas stated, that Senator Butler has
stopped gong to the Stale Department
ana 1t is also true that his colleague
aoeS notintend to 90 there any more.
Inc exact reasons have not been stated
but Senator Butler was not offended
with tho Secretary of State because he
did not promote his SON to the Consu-
late of Marscilles. 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 cause for oriey-
anco Oh the part of Mr.. Butler. The
reason why Mr.. Butler has stoppcd
gong TO the State Department is be-
cause Mr.. Bayard treated him with
great rudcness.
"Onc day hc called on him TO pre-
sent the claims of gentleman for the
Venezuelan mission. AS he entered
Mr.. 8ayard's room he said:
| "Arc you going to give my man the
| mission that wrote you aboutr
No, no, no. said Mr.. Bayard, al
most without turning his head. He
then began all attack upon Senator
Butler on account of the Morgan ap-
pointmcnt. Mr.. Butler rcpudiated all
responsibility for that appointment.
lie said that he had carried this respon-
slDility 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.
lie drew himself up very stifIly and
started to go. Mr.. Bayard, to concili-
ate him, then began to ask him about
the case of the man he had presented
for the Venezuelan mission, but Mr..
Butler brusquely declined to saw
another word on the subject, and left.
| 1.-Two days after this interview SEN
ator Buffers candidate was appointed.
Butler has not gone to the State De-
| 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
dlsclaim 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. He
made request Of the Secretary to
transfer consular friend of his TO
another point. If this request had
Dccn refused Mr.. Hampton would not
have complained, but the Secretary
treated him with great rudeness, and
maze 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
pass belief. The gratuitous rude
ness shown by Mr.. Bayard to his old
colleagues is hard to understand. Scn-
ator MACPHERSON, of New Jersey, called
upon i,im the other day, and the first
thing MIR. Bayard said to him, before
the Senator had opened his mouth,
was: "Be brief, Sir; my time is val
uablc," as if the Senator were dcs.
perate o1iice-seeker, who was making
an unWarrantable trespass upon his
attention. Gov. Manning, one of the
leading men of South Carolina, a 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 90
| abroad. The President wrote him a
very polite note, saving that the mat
ter had been referred to the State
Department. Mr.. Bayard never an
sWercd the Governors letter, although
he had been guest in his house in
South Carolina, and was under num-
berless obligations CT courtesy to him.
There is not Democratic Senator
here who has not had an experience of
a disagrceablc character with the Secre-
tary of State. Mr.. Bayard is supposed
to be planning brilliant forei On pol
icy, and has advanced views upon 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 on 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 hanG. He
will be practically reduced to the posi-
tion of mere f9urchead without
influence among his political associates,
and without any future in politics.