Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-15
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Mr. Bayard's Health ImprOving-Gen.
Terry a Candidate for the Presidency
A New Ticket

A New Ticket.
From The Neso York World.
WASHINGTON, March s.-Mr. Bayard
has Improved in health during the last
week. He was in very bad way directly
after the death OF his wife and daughter.
He was moody and despOndent. He de-
voted altogether too much time to his
work. He spentthe greater part of his
days and nights going over matters in his
| department, Now he Is ia more cheer
ful frame OF mind and appears TO enjoy
seeing HTS frieHds. He has not been
at all active IN advising the President
during the last month. He has taken no
particular part in the controversy be-
tween the President and the Senate. Mr..
| Bayard has been credited with certain
chapters in the recent message Of the
! President to the Senate upon the subject
of private papers. He had nothing to do
| with the message. 1t Is said that MIR.
| Garland was the only member of the Cab
| met who was actively concerned in the
| preparation Of the message. The express
sion 'innOcuous desuetude' was credited
/ first to Mr.. Bayard and then to Mr.. La
mar. A friend OF the President says that
il is Mr.. CleYeland's own phrase and that
| no one is entitled to the credit of 1t eX-
cept himself. This phrase has become
one of the slang terms of the day and
ranks next to some of the expressions in
the famous WintersmIth Letter.
Gen. Terry. who has been promoted TO
the vacancy made by the death OF Gen.
| Hancock. rs, l am informed, Republi-
! can candidate tor the Presidency. Gen.
| Terry is very able man. He thinks the
Republican party will want 10 have a sol
der candidate the next time and he hopes
! TO be the one To BIO selected. The last
time he was In Washington WAS during
the. Swain cOurt-martial. He is a very
plain unaseuming looking man, with
| broad forehead, straight nose, underneath
| winch hangs q flowing moustache and
long, brown chin whiskers. He is good
speaker, a man Of original ideas, and has
| a good military record. Since he has sue
| ceeded to the position OF Gen. Ham
| cook he more chan ever believes he
will be nominated by the convention.
Some of the heading public men In
| washington are devoted to society. You
will see, for instance. Reed, of Maine, at
ali the receptions and parties during the
| winter. He appears to realize that q
man who wiahes to rise in public life
must employ the favorable influences OF
society as well as politics. ingalls,. OF
| Kansas, 10 as much az a reeluse from
| society as Reed is tine opposite. Mr..
ingalls, can always be iOund In his room
! at night hard at work He went ont
good deal when be flrst-came here, but be
became convinced that It was a waste
of his time. Reed, OF Maine, is one of the
most entertaining of CORY atiOnalists.
He shines as much In society as he does
! on the fiO0F Of the House. his keen, In
seisiEe remarks and ais drawing satire
| are as effectively employed upon the tight
and tTifltng thingsof society as upon the
weightieT affairs Of politics. Mr.. Reed is
! a great gtudent. He will Railways be found
! of 10 Ia In 81,
sociaLseason in Washington Is COMPARE
lively a short one, he loses bat little time
in going out. He is good French scholar
and one OF the few members Of Congress
who keeps abreast OF modern French lit
erature.
l heard yesterday OF a new Presidential
combination on the part OF certain Re-
publicans. This is the ticket of Logan, Of
| Illinois, and Long, Of Massachusetts.
Long is conservative man VINO is very
popular in the East with the MugwumDs.
He is sound on the currency question. and
would make "A good candidate for the sec
Ond place. LOgan's friends declare that
the latter will never go on the ticket in
the second place again. He would prefer
to remain in the Senate TO any such ar
| rangement as that. So Il is
certain that the whole of the old ticket
cannot be renomInated. Mr.. Blaine's
friends are perfectly confident that he
will be the nominee in 1888. And they
profess TO believe that Logan will yield
in the end and take his Old place upon
the ticket. Gen. Logan was very much
! dissatisfied with the way he was treated
during the last campaign. Ii there were
no other reason than that he would not
90 on the ticket again in the second
1 place. He feels now that his fighting
days are practically over. He has got
such hold in Illinois that he can prob
ably come back TO the Senate as long as
he lives. His position there he prefers to
1 l. IL L..