The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1885-11-04
MR. BAYARD's RUpENEss.
How the Secretary Of State has Displeased
His Senatorial Friends.

MR. BAYARD's RUpENEss.
BOW the Secretary Of State has Displeased
His Senatorial Friends.
Especial to the Neo York World.)
WASHINGTON, October 26.-A friend
cf Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
said to-day: "It is true, as the World
has stated, that Senator Butler has
stopped going to the State Department
and it is also true that his colleague
does not intend to 60 there any more.
The exact reasons have not been stated
but Senator Butler was not offended
with the Secretary of State because he
did not promote his son to the Consul
late of MarselllcS. 1t would have been
natural for Mr.. Bavard to have paid
Mr.. Butler the courtesy of promoting
his son, but the fact that he did not,
would not have been a cause for griev-
ance on the part Of Mr.. Butler. The
reason why Mr.. Butler has stopped
going 10 the State Department is be-
cause Mr.. Bayard treated him with
great rudeness.
Zone day he called on him to pre-
sent the claims of gentleman for the
Venezuelan mission. AS he entered
Mr.. Bayard's room he said:
"'Are you going to give my man the
mission that | wrote you aboutN
"'No, no, no. said Mr.. Bayard, al
most without turning his head. He
then began an attack upon Senator
Butler on account of the Morgan ap-
pointment. Mr.. Butler repudiated all
responsibility for that appointment.
He said that he had carried this respon-
sibility 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.
He drew himself up very stiffly 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 brusquelv declined to say
another word on the subject, and left.
"Two days after this interview Sem
ator Buffers candidate was appointed.
Butler has not gone to the State De-
partment since then, and will not so
long as MIR. Bayard is there. The
South Carolina Senator, if he were
asked about this matter to-day, would
disclaim having oHy 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 a request Of the Secretary to
transfer q consular friend Of his to
another point. If this request had
been refused Mr., Hampton would not
have complained, but the Secretary
treated him with great rudeness, and
made 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. Sen
ator MCPHERSON, of New Jersey, called
upon him the other day, and the first
thing Mr.. Bayard said to him, before
the Senator had opened his mouth,
was: 'sBe brief, sir: my time is val
uable," as if the Senator were des-
perate offce-seeker, who was making
| an unwarrantable trespass upon his
attention. Gov. Manning, one of the
leading men of South Carolina, o man
Of high social position, early in the
history of the Administration wrote
tietters to the President and the Secre-
tary of State, indicating desire to go
| 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
| swered the Governors letter, although
he had been a 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
disagreeable character with the Secre-
tary of State. Mr.. Bayard is supposed
to be planning a brilliant foreign 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 hand. He
will be practically reduced to the posi-
ton Of a mere figurehead without
influence among his political associates,
and without any future in politics.