Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-02
BLAINE ON. BAYARD.
The Maine Statesman Criticises the Sec
rotary and Thinks Him Illogical.

MIR. Blaine spoke to an assemblage of 25,OO0
people at Norwich, Conn, last evening. ~
have here" he said, ga speech by DR. Bayard,
Secretary Of State. Mr.. Bayard is a peculiar
gentleman. tLaughter.l He is a gentleman
of very high sentiment. In fact, there is no
body who speaks the English language, so far
as know, since Joseph Surface, who has SO
fine sentiments as Mr.. Bayard. Laughter. ]
He clothes everything with sentiment. Why,
in his speech he wanted to remark that we
were a nation Of sc, OOO, 900 people. Well, that
is very plain fact, and there are great many
people who know n besides Mr.. Bayard, but
MIR. Bayard did not say it in this ordinary way
MIR. Bayard says: And now let us raise our
minds and let us elevate our moral vision, and
think OF what we are, nation Of Is, 900 600 peO-
ple.' [Laughter.l Well he might have got
that fact off without such lofty contemplation
But, aside from joking, Mr.. Bayard's speech
Is devoted to the wicked conspiracy Of republic
cans-they have all taken that word-Mr. Thur
man has taken that word-the wicked conspi-
racy of republicans that entrapped Lord Sack
vile into writing the letter [applausel, and he
calls down the wrath of the country upon the
most wicked conspirators that got up the letter
that Lord Sackville answered.
Now must say that Mr.. Bayard puts him.
self in a very peculiar position, because if there
were a wicked conspiracy of leading republi-
cans to entrap Lord Sackville into writing an
imprudent letter, these conspirators ought to
have been punished; but instead of that he
Furnishes Lord Sackville. He saws: Here is a
most unprincipled, monstrous conspiracy
against this man, and in consequence of this
conspiracy, of which cannot get the authors,
will send Lord Sackville back home and make
him bear the sins Of these conspirators.' That
is very remarkable statement. They &C
knowledge that they were not quick to do it,
but after ten days, and they had received adj
vices and kilograms from all parts of the coun-
try that if they did not start Lord Sackville the
Irish vote would start. Laughter Then
Lord Sackville had to go. 1t will be an agree
able thing in England to Lord Salisbury prime
minister, to know that President Cleveland's
administration deliberately weighed Lork Sack
vile against the Irish vote and started him"
lApplause.l
Mr. Blaine said: ''We owe to the democratic
party and to its bad diplomacy the loss of Brit
ish Columbia, of that vast province on the
Pacific coast which would give us the entire
coast from Behring Strait down to the Gulf of
California. To the bad diplomacy and the sur
render of the democratic party we owe the
reciprocity treaty of 1854, in which we got
about one article to forty as compared with the
Canadians, the reciprocity treaty which was
thirty mine degrees on one side, which was our
opponents, and one degree on our side-we
owe that to them In fact, it is not in the power
OF the democratic party to give a single treaty
or diplomatic procedure they have made with
Great Britain which rebounds to the honor of
the country"