Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-09-16
Mr. Bayard'S Failure.

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Bayard and manifesting its concurrence
Foreign Relations he is the most dismal
failure that ever has appeared in an
American Administration.
What is the trouble with Mr.. Bayard?
He is "a gentleman of the highest type
and of the most distinguished and Gull
tured associations. He is well-born,
well-bred, accomplished His record
is honorable, his character spotless. his
encourage singularly gracious and
charming" This description of him
must be correct, for it is given by bis
own organ-blower, probably by author
ity. How has it happened that this
well-born. well-bred, and accomplished
gentleman of the highest type, whose
encourage is singularly gracious and
charming, has made his administration
Of the foreign Office an almost continu-
Gus series OF grotesque and humiiating
blunders? BY what fatal mischance
has the statesman of tho most distin-
guished and cultured associations sell
ected for the diplomatic and consular
service of this country an assortment
of ignorant blockheadS, vicious politi-
castrOs, vulgar Doors, rampant blather-
sixties, ill-regulated rowdies. etc, etc.
such as never before has been collected
together in any national menageric for
exhibition to other political powers?
What fatality was it that made him take
4 Tennessee survival of antiquity for an
assistant; that directed his accomplished
Judgment to such extraordinary, not to
say supernatural, dipiomates as Antony
NJ. Kelley. "Dickn Hubbard, Bayess
w Hanna, Fred Winston, Henry X.
Jackson, Buck, Lawton, Sedgwick,
Manning, and many more, or to such
consular dip!omates" rs the cold clon
man Greenebaum at Samoa. Brigham
at Paso del Norte, Porch at Mexico,
Morgan at Melbourne, Green at Kan
agawa, Childs at Bangkok, etc. etc
That the country is indebted for such
extraordinary representatives abroad to
Mr. Bayard's singularly gracious and
charming encourage is not credible.
No, it is not owing to any defect of his
encourage. Nor is it attributablcet0
any fault for which Mr. Bayard is ac-
ccuntable. 1t is a natural consequence
Of the plan of the Creator, who made
Mr.. Bayard to answer herequirement
Of little Delaware, but not to answer
the requirements of the great Ameri-
can nation.
Whether Mr.. Bayard pursued the al
legged plan Of making ali selections for
the foreign service from his visiting list
or not is matter of no consequences
Whatever his plan may have been, the
bulk of his selections furnish evidence
conclusive either that he is one Of the
worst Judges OF men in oil the world
or that he has proceeded WITH rec&-
lesSness contempt for the dignity, de-
eorum, and welfare OF his country.
Either way, it is proof Of his uDfitness
for the station THAI he unfortunately oc-
cupies.
In very truth, Mr.. Bayard is among
the weakest aud narFowcst Of all orr
public men One u the manifestations
Of his weakness IS seen IT. his nursing .
species Of family pride in bpiag classed
among the woll-born "Soulheln chiv-
airy of tho slavery era. Though the
tuppenny manor Of Delaware is north
81 the Potomac, it was within the slave
boundary. and was included in the
thought OF The plantation aristocrats.
whose patent Of nobility was title deed
10 ''niggers,' when thcy spoke 0f ''the
South ~ 4 distinctive paiiii3aI entity
of the femal gender Its history that
those Nell-horn aul wr!-hyed chevl-
liers held the notion that ''the South
contained all the statesmaGship, d.
plomatic faculty. and political brains OF
The Republic. There are indications a
the survival IF that antique notion ia
the gentleman from Delaware What
eiso could have filled his diplomatic
soul with such q passionate and indy
ing affection for the Yirginiau blather.
4 sklto Kelley? What else could have
enabled him 70 discover in the Confed.
/ crate Brigadier Lawtou the diplomatic
faculty that the Republic required at ST.
/ Petersburg? In the venerable Jackson
4 the man for tie Mexican mission? Ii
q conviviai Louisiana politician the
/ proper successor of jackson? In thG
vulgar frontiersman Hubbard the di-
4 plomate for Japan? In the ridiculous
4 Kentucky Buck the envoy for Peru? IN
the long list of Southern diplomates o.
his selection, in which there is hardly
one that would do credit to the sagacit,
OF country lawyer who could claim t
be o fair Judge of men, persons quail
fed to represent this nation respect
ably abroad? And, with exception,
that can be counted ON the fingers Of
one hand Mr. Bayard's selections ii
The northern part OF the country art
hardly better than the decaYed polite
ians that were found Ia the southern
part of bis singular visiting list-thougl
Sedgwick hardly can be cited as m ex
ample Of the average
! When we pass to thu diplomatic ex
PLOTS of Mr.. Bayard himself. we fine
them rs little cred1able 10 the nation
and the administration rs are his seiec
tons for the foreign service rsrck
ling TO powerful Albion on the one hsnt
and bullying feeble Mexico on the othei
-evading upon a point Of law the jus
complaint Of China 90 account OF ~
atroeity to unoffendiug Cinnamon with
out q parallel IN barh4rity, aud ignor
ing the same point OF law ia an AFRO
giant demand upon Mexico without any
valid basis of complaint Whatever
these are facts in the administration o
Mr.. Bayard that damn it beyond an,
fair ground Of defense OF apology.
is wreiched failure. And this trutt
may Just rs well be recognized ant
affirmed Scr nothing can conceal i
from the country Chicago Tine
+ (Depovat)
/ The American yac0t. Mayilower, hav
Ing beaten the British yacht, Galatea
in the race q Saturday. the Yanke,
craft fe.sins HE Americas cup.
4 The great Carnegie library building 4
Braddock Pa, was commenced las