St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-01
BRILLIANT BAYARD.
The Secretary Of State Makes
the Speech Of His
Life.
Honored With the Presidents
Confidence, He Praises the
Nations Head.
Duty His Watehword, Truth
His Password and Integ-
rity His Countersign.
Seathing Denuneiation Of the
Wretched Plotting Of De-
spairing Politicians.

DAi11MORI. ihu', OCt. oi.--OCClGtaiy
of State Bayard delivered a speech this
evening before meeting that packed
Oratorio hall from stage to street-a
speech, the best, his friends say, that
Mr.. Bayard ever made. The meeting
was held under the auspices of the JEFF
ferSoniah Democratic association and
was presided over by General Stewart
Brown. Secretary Bayard was the first
speaker. Mr.. Bayard spoke as follows:
My fellow countrymen, citizens of
Maryland. | am sure that you will find
an explanation for my acceptance OF an
invitation to come to Baltimore, where
such welcome as / have had tonight
was we'll known to Inc for many by
gone years. l am sure that you will
pardon that want of prepar alton that
the cares of an important office have
prevented me from bestowing upon
the speech [ wish to make to
you tonight. I know that you
will pardon me for not speaking
so when you know the excuse was that
l was attending your interests. Amuse
you l can't; cajole you would not; but
to serve and aid you as friend [ am
ready now as for many years past.
Now, my friends, let us for moment
by way of preparation east our minds
over the ground that they ought to
travel upon between now and our reach
ing the polls on Tuesday next. Let us
raise our minds; let us elevate our NEIL
tai and moral vision ana
THINK OF WHAT WE ARE
We are part of nation of 65,00O.G00
of free people, who by the bounty of
Providence, occupy the best part of a.
great continent. Great oceans are our
boundaries on either side, and the sun
that shines above us strikes our terri
tory and jurisdiction with bis benefcent
rays over thousands of miles, and every
fruit and every treasure brought by
light and heat into being are part of
our heritage. And have we not also a
moral heritage? We are the inheriters of
a government purified in affection, ele
waited by sorrow, strengthened by sue
Thinking over it how poor. how small
seem the petty plans of personal ambi-
ton, how detestable the war of sections.
1t is to determine by our votes next
Tuesday what shall be the rule of such
land as this. Each of us have the
franchise of suffrage. 1t is our own
and we cannot diveSt ourselves
of the duty of exercising that
privilege as worthy men. What senti-
ments should actuate our minds? This
is a national election: it comes nearly
being continental election. What are
the dividing lines, and what are the
variant propositions of those who seek
to control this question, into whose
hands shall the national rule, the exec
utive power, pass? Who shall hold it?
First we say upon what principles, and
next. what men shall we trust to carry
out those principles? Principles, not
men, may be well, but
PRINCIPLES AND MEN
are better. There are mighty powers to
be exercised. Which shall it be? Peace
full policies, OF unsafe, warlike policies?
Policies that are to bring peace with
honor, OF strife without it? Now, first
| will speak of the principles and the
party | know best. and that is the ma
tlonal Democratic party and its candi-
dates. | wish to speak of the
| have known for four years,
and Allen G. Thurman, whom 1 have
known twenty. years. Great cheering.
Of Mr.. Thurman can only say that he
entered the senate of the United States
on the day L did. For twelve years we
sat almost side by side and certainly
stood shoulder to shoulder. In the city
of Baltimare. aye, in any quarter of the
United States, do not think the name
of Thurman can ever be mentioned
without inspiring respect and
affection. But he is not now
in office and the question
is whether the American people will
not place him in office. For the past
four years | have seen Mr.. Cleveland
almost daily and some times nightly
and | never saw him when / believed
his mind and heart were free from care
for the best interests of the American
people. [Applause.] | am witness;
| have knowledge. and the means of
knowledge of that man that have been
given to few. He has honcred me with
his confidence, and [ have learned TO
honor him as l knew the
SECRETS OF HIS HEART.
Believe me, therefore, when 1 tell
you that this man who by favor of AL
mighty God was sent to be the chief
rHler of the American people has duty
as his watchwOrd; truth for his pass
word, and integrity as his countersign.
Such has been his walk in this high
Office that public interest has been the
predOminating sentiment of his mind,
its perfection the duty of his heart,
to which he has lent every
power naturally acquired within bis
control. And here l will say that when
that man shall lay down the duty to
which the people called him, no matter
when. on the 4th of next March, or
March 4, 1898. he will leave the Office
and its powers as pure, as free from
corruption as the snow on the mountain
top. He will leave that great Office UNI
shorn of any feature of its dignity.
or prerogative, and hand it back
safe, sound and pure; its digni-
ties and its honors have been
unimpaired and will be unimpaired
when the day comes when the Ameri-
can people lose his presence as their
you some of the difficulties with which
this stout-hearted and faithful public
servant has to contend. Do. you re-
member the prophesies that attended,
or rather preceded the election of 1884?
Do you remember that was then
threatened the disaster that was to
come with an incoming Democratic
President? Here Mr.. Bayard read a
letter which was published on Novem-.
Der 3, 1854, from an ex-governor of
Iowa, inswhich every business man was
urged to vote for Blaine because 'sno
one can comprehend the disaster
that must follow the turning
over of the government to
untried and uncertain hands."l
l have chosen the moderate language OF
respectable man, who, no doubt, be-
lleyed what he said. [ appeal to the