Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-25
A TRIBUTE 10 MR.. BAYARD
From a Leading Republican
Newspaper.
ASTERLING QUALITY IN THE MAN
Who Keeps Such a Warm
Affection of the People.
Man,iness is It's Main characteristic
Tho Pleasant Nature of His Utterances
"A handsome tribute from Repub-
lican Paper OF Chicago.
chicago lntcr.o.oau, i,op., Oct. 81.

Chicago lntcroaoau, Rop., Oct 81,
Ambassador Buyard's neighbors-and
in Delaware everybody is everybndy's
neiglibor--gaye him warm reception
ON his return from the Court of st.
james. The little city Of Wilmington
was crowded as never before. Every
train brought . contingent Of friends of
the fayoTi;c son, There were brass
bands and marching clubs and fireworks
and every incident Of a gala day.
There must DO sterling quality in the
character VI man VINO wins and keeps
such enthusiastic affection as the people
of Delaware delight to manifest toward
Mr.. Bayard. We think we discern the
secret Of his hold upon his friends in the
speech he made to them. Manliness is
its main characteristic. He declined to
talk concerning the differences of parties;
he spoke to his neighbors MS men and
brethren. There is something very
pleasant In such talk MS this:
81 came back To America only loving
my country tho mure. l came back to
America endeavoring to transplant, as
far as l can in good language, that
which / saw in foreign countries that
may be u help tn my countrymen.
What | say tonight has no reference
whatever to the parties that divide
American people. speak justas much
TO my Republican brother as do to my
Democratic brother | am asking that
this dear land of ours shall have high
and noble career among the nations Of
the earth; that we shall begin itat home
and we shall continue it abroad"
After this patriotic generality Mr..
Bayard made just boast that for65 years
Delaware had been his natural home,
and that there lie stood among his
friends. There is a proper pride in and
II proper affection for the State of ones
birth or ancestry; when birth and an
cestry join the sentiments are likely to
be strong.
There Is bit of philosophy that Mr..
Bayard sandwiched between the charm.
ing sentences of his speech that is of
application beyond the confines of Della.
ware, and which, indeed, is peculiarly
opposite to Chicago, Quoting Oliver
Wendell Holmes wise and witty answer
TO the woman who asked at what time
the education of child should com.
mence--"Why, madam, | should say
about 100 years before its brth'-he
said that the sentiment of the Delaware
of to-day is the result of education that
was begun hundred years ago, and
that still is in progress.
So of Chicago. The civic vices that
VIC are striving TO eradicate are the out
come of u hundred, perhaps hundreds,
of years Of ill.breeding, Of immoral as
ISOLATION, of evil example of and to the
unfit persons, and the ancestors of the
unfit persons to whom we have left
the management of ward and precinct
politics, and ny whom the larger affairs
of the city have come to be controlled.
On the other hand, the struggle for
reformation Of conditions is revival of
moral and religious principles that dates
from the time of the German Luther
ana Of the English Hampden, and that
etlloresccd our American shores in the
times of Washington aud Lincoln. So,
too, the work of reform that we are do.
ing is educatlye to our children; it will
be carried to yet nObler achievements
by them, and will he transmitted by
them to another generation, until civic
corruption shall be held as disgustingly
dangerous as material filth. The re-,
form movement Of to-day is educational
TO reformers whose birth is yet Il hun
drel years off