Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-13
DELAWAnE's noyomED SOW.
Brooklyn Tribute To the Work and
Worth OF MIR. Sayart.

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Mr.. Bayard, says the Brooklyn Cii-
zen, Ind, is gentleman to whom 1t is
always pleasure for thoughtful citi.
zcns to listen. He is the very type of
high purpose joined to lofty intellectual
endowments in the public affairs of our
country. From the hour in which he
entered the arena Of politics as a young
man down to the period at which we
now find him with his head adorned
with the silver of honorable achieve
ments, no incident has ever occurred to
do aught but augment his claim to the
respect and profound confidence of his
ow.countrymen. Always a Demo-
crat and never demogogue, patriot
who never sacrificed the right to the ex-
tpedient, he is as fine an example as can
be found within the boundaries of the
republic of the compatibility of earnest
partisanship with complete devotion to
the general welfare. of him it is small
praise to say, what was with so much
emphasis uttered OF Wellington :"What-
ever records leap to light he never shall
be ashamed"
AS head Of the state department under
President Cleveland, he did work which
of itself would have entitled the admin
istratlon to continuance of power He
found our foreign affairs in disorder at
many points, in disgrace at not q few
and characterized by weakness and ill.,
consistency everywhere; and he left
them, from one end of the world to the
other, bearing the impress of a mind
that was a stranger alike to fear and to
| arrogance, and as notable for knowledge
of the true interests of the United States
as for unresting assiauity in the arduous
task of sustaining them. He rescued
our diplomacy from the disgrace in
which, by the remssness of his
| predecessor, it had become involved in
| South America; he made an end Of the
wrongs to which our citizens of Irish
| birth had been subjected by the British
authorities on visiting their native land
he brought the long standing fisheries
dispute with Canada to a basis of
equitable settlement, which, but for the
| determination of the Republican Senate
not to suffer the credit for SO marked a
| service to become registered to the credit
| ola Democratic statesman on the eve of q
/ Presidential election would have rem
dered all the subsequent contentious OF
Mr.. Blaine with Lord Salisbury as
meaningless as a schoolboy's debate
over the merits of the Oregon boundary
dispute; as against both England and
Germany he successfully asserted the
rights of our government to an equal
voice in the destiny of the chief islands
of the Pacific, and in China, which has
once more been rendered source OF
serious trouble, he showed how easily
the emigration problem could be solved
without either indignity to that vast and
ancient empire or the exposure of our
Pacific coast to any of the dangers Incl
dent to the precipitation upon it Of a
large and unassimilable body of new
corners. Without buster and withou,
subseryiency, but acting in the spirit OF
a great people who mean no wrong To
the weakest and will brook no inten-
tional violation of their rights by the
most powerful, he restored to our de-
partmcnt of state prestige unequalcd
since the time of Seward, without hav-
ing to raise even the hand of menace
which Seward had deemed it not unbc-
coming to exhibit on at least one mem
orable occasion.
In the heat of the controversy to
which the now historic tariff letter OF
the President gave rise, these things
were for the time lost sight of by the
general public, but they We're not suf-
fercd to pass unmarked BY men who
have learned to distinguish between the
incidents of an hour and the proceed
ings that are essentially characteristic of
an administration, and nothing is more
certain than that they are to be reckoned
as far from the least of the influences
that have operated to convince the
American people that their honor and
their material interests alike were
never committed to safer hands than
when they were guarded by the cabinet
Of Grover Cleveland. IL is not toe
much to say that Mr.. Cleveland doe,
not at the present hour more perfectly
represent what the people desire in The
way of tariff reform and the application
Of unbendlng honesty to the who'll
round of Federal activities than Mr.
liayard represents what they desire t.
be characteristic of our dealings with
foreign nations.