Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-18
NEW YORK LETTER.
The Personal Equation Of the Me-
iropoIitan Papers-The Close Init
macy Between President Cleveland
aud Secretary Rayard.

1mu secretary Bayards
Special Correspondents of Gazette and Journal
NEW YoRK, June i5.-The World of
this morning points out Washington
letter declaring that Mr.. Bayard is much
delighted with his western trip, and feels
that the reception accorded him shows
that he has, despite recent attacks, lost
none of his old time popularity. The
correspondent attempts to show that this
is mistake and declares that the ovation
received by Mr.. Bayard is such as would
be rendered to any high official of the
government. He says that ''this was Mr.. |
Bayard's first trip TO the west" and that |
the Secretary does not understand the |
ways of the western people. This is |
rather an amusing effort to demons |
trate that the Worlds persistent abuse |
of the Secretary of State has not |
been without effect. Mr.. Bayard
has quite frequently been west, and has
simply as a senator, received warm
demonstrations Of admiration from west
ern people. Notably at Chicago, though
it is doubtful if even there he received
any more enthusiastic welcome than was
accorded to him at st. Louis some years
before by one Joseph Pulitzer, who, as q
delegate to the Cincinnati convention,
had voted to nominate him for President,
and who at the time mention was using
the st. Louis Post Dispatch to advocate
Mr.. Bayard's nomination in 1884. 1t is a
fact well-known to many that Pulitzer's
hostility to Bayard is of purely personal
origin, and that it has been aggravated
since the beginning of this administration
by refusal to make a most unfit diplo-
matte appointment urged, again on purely
personal grounds. by this same Pulitzer.
As a matter of fact, il is obvious TO
| everybody that the chorus of abusive
criticism against Mr.. Bayard's administra-
ton of the state department has pretty
well died out, and that ii has not ma
terially affected his position before the
country. The clamor was, of course,
largely Fictitious, several elements join
ing to produce and promulgate it. In the
first place it must be remembered that
though Mr.. Bayard was the first man
selected for cabinet position by Mr..
Cleveland, that there had grown up
amongst many of those who secured Mr..
| Cleyeland's nomination habit of hostility
10 Bayard as the most formidable eandi-
date for the Democratic nomination in
opposition to their own plans Again it is a
notorious fact that the Tilden element in
the Democratic party is not friendly to
Mr.. Bayard and this feeling is deep
seated and of long standing. Mr.
Bayards selection as Secretary of State
could not at once overcome these influ-
ences adverse to him, and his failure in
so important an executive station would
have given his opponents the dearly
priced privilege of exclaiming II told
you So" Again the natural disposition
of the original Cleveland men was to
deny that the President could make
any mistakes, and if mistakes were
made nothing could be more
satisfactory to these gentlemen than &c
saddle them on that particular member Of
the administration whose nomination fol
higher place these gentlemen had per
sistently and successfully opposed. dc
not mention this by way OF censure, fol
the disposition is entirely in accord witt
/ unregenerate human nature and. as ont
! OF the unregenerate, l can readily under
stand it. II would be easy for Mr.
Bayard's friends to demonstrate his ute
lack of personal responsibility for severa
{ of the most criticised foreign appoint
i ments, but il is perhaps ms well, all thing
' considered that il should not be- done.
About one much criticised appoint
. Il
e Knowledge of Morgan us consul
/ general to Australia | was, while il
e Washington some time ago, assured by
e well-informed man, not particularly wei
. disposed toward Mr.. Bayard, that Mr.
{ Cleveland had made that appointment
1 directly at the intercession of MI
Dawson, editor of the Charleston Men
{ and Courier who is the South Carolin
4 1 mn If
e mittee. In presenting Mr.. Morgan to til
r President as good Democrat, Dawso
1 was guilty Of deliberate bad faith. On til
i evening after the first meeting Of the ne,
r Democratic national committee, nppointe
# at Chicago, which meeting took place her
IL in New York, late in August or early i
G September, think, at amy rate not Yer
G long after Clcveland's nomination
|. Ignatius G. Grub, Esq, of your cit,
the Delaware member of the nation
d committee, Mr.. Dawson, his brother.i il
e law, Morgan, and myself spent goo
II part of the evening together. Durin
u the grenter part Of the time Morgan wa
u deriding Cleveland, teasing Dawson fo
g having urged such nomination an
y denouncing the Democratic party for I'll
l. stupidity i'll making il. Morgan boaste
20 that he had written n pamphlet I
r. help Blaine, and he declared he intende
IL voting for him if he could get his dis
d hilities removed, laughingly remarkinl
III las | am with SemInes they call me
d pirate" He promised to send Grubb an
9 myself copies of his pamphlet. He nevt
III sent me one, but he took Grubh's addrei
and may have fulfilled his promise
him. Remember, that Dawson WI
present during the whole Of this col
versation and most of the abuse of Cley
i- land was addressed directly to hin
laughingly perhaps but manifestly
IL earnest. Equally in earnest was Mo
g, gan's declaration that he was tired of 70
?, lowing party too stupid to ever win m
y intended casting his lot with the Repul
~, llcans, who were sure to win. Yet til
nd | is the man recommended to the Presidel
I'd as good Democrat by the South Car
ne lima member of the national committe
30 The President was of course deceived M
Us cannot be blamed for making the appoin
" ment, though it was manifestly mistak
h. Morgan, by the way, is n Jolly harun
scarum fellow of no marked ability, and
vs., friend of mine here who served in Egyl
with him ms his superior officer laughs
ly his pretense of having written pamphl
about anything. The Blaine pamphl
" was doubtless written by Morgan
If brother, the last Republican minister
nm Mexico, and fathered by the young
so man TO give it the appearance of comiI
from Democrat converted to Republ
canism BY Blaine's brilliant f0reit
D. policy"
ran across John Hunter, n gentlemi
III well known TO all of Mr.. Bayard's Del
M ware friends, n day or so ago | had N
eS seen him before since the Chicago co
US vention. We naturally fell into conve
'St sation about the administration, and M
Hunter laughed ut the stories of disse
~ sion manufactured for the Republici
" papers and echoed by some Democrat
~ papers with personal spites TO serve. !
W Thought that very few serious mistak
W had been made by anybody, and declnr,
D. that 50 far ms the stories about trout
~ between Baynrd and the President we
Ms concerned he believed them to be prepc
ere ferrous He had not seen or heard fro
Mr.. Bayard for "A long time, he said, b
from all llc could learn he was convinc,
that the closest intimacy existed betwe,
the President and the Secretary of Stat
"- and that the two had quite fallen in 10
with each other.
AL But, foolish as has been the Word
re- spiteful ami childish course toward NJ
he Bayard the paper deserves great cret
NY for its action in the Bartholdi stat
Ter matter. There is no reason for belieyil
iss that pedestal would ever have be-
ms built to receive the statue had it not be,
rO- for the WOrhtS efforts and il is to tho
oh efforts alone that we owe the collection
in nearly enough funds to assure the col
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