The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-23
TRIBUTES PAID THOMAS BAYARD Statue is Unveiled at
 Wilmington. SERVICES WERE IMPRESSIVE Grover Cleveland's Speech Was
 Read During Exercises. President Roosevelt Sent Letter Re- sretting His Inability To Be
 Present--was Represented
 by Hon. Oscar $. Strauss.
SERVICES WERE IMPRESSIVE

Wilmington. Del. June 22.--In the
 presence of fully 5000 persons the me-
 morial statue of Thomas F. Bayard.
 former United States Senator. former
 secretary of state, and first Ambassa-
 dor of the United States to the Court of
 St. James. was unveiled this afternoon
 in Rockford Park.
 Addresses were made by J. Harvey
 Whiteman. president of the Bayard
 memorial association and Judge George
 Gray of the United States Court. | Former President Grover Cleveland
 who was to have spoke. was not able | to be present because of illness. but
 his address was read by Prof. John
 Bassett Moore. of Columbia Univer-
 sity, who was an assistant secretary of
 state under MT. Bayard. Prof. Moore | also read a poem. There was an in-
 vocation by Bishop Collins of the
 Methodist Episcopal diocese of Dela-
 ware and benediction by the Rev.
 William F. Dickson Lewis, of Rodney l Street Presbyterian Church, this city. l President Roosevelt sent letter re- l gretting his inability to be present
 and was represented at the exercises I by Hon. Oscar s. Strauss, Secretary of | Commerce and Labor.
 l Address by Judge Gray.
 l After an invocation by Bishop Cole man and the singing of This is the
 day of the Lord," by the Delaware
 Saenger- r-bund, Chairman Gray deliver
 ed his address, which follows:
 1 Judge Gray referred briefly to the | professional career of MT. Bayard and
 then dwelt upon his personal charms, l his intensity of nature, and brtlliancy of intellect, saying that he made those I sentiments and governing forces Of his
 life whether in public office or In pri- vate station.
 Continuing, Judge Gray said: "The night standards of conduct set 1 forth byt him in his public utterances were never lowered in the intimacies et | private life.
 '-rlme does not permit me to dwell ! upon his senatorial career, so useful I to the country and so honorable to l himself and to the state which he rep l resented. For sixteen years he was | conspicuous in all the important de-
 bates of that great body, and his name was a synonym of knightly courage and honorable devotion to duty. throughout the length and breadth or | the land.
 An interesting incident occurred in my presence. during MT. Bayards ser | vice in the senate. which impressed me
 
 boise of his mind when once convinced | which way the path of duty led | An important crisis in financial af- 1 fairs had brought about situation in
 which he could not accept certain opinions that seemed dominant in his | own party and he had, with character | istic splendor and honesty declared that position which his conscience compeH- | ed him to take on the question lnVoV- l ed. A deputation of his party friends from this state visited him In Wash | ington and with entire respect anu I kindness urged him to at least SUD- press the announcement Of these views | and stated that there were many or ms | political friends who feared that, 1T he l continued to proclaim them, he mignt | be left at home as result or tne en- | suing election which he was to decide | whether he should succeed himself or | not Mir Bayard quietly listened 10 all that was said, and then smilinSly re- piled. go back and thank those sooo l friends of mine for their interest lh my personal fortunes and tell them tnA' home has no terrors f"r me-
 "In March, 1885, Mir. Bayard resigned | his seat in the Senate, in response to l the call of President Cleveland to serve | his country as premier of ms caplhet | To the high and responsible duties or | Secretary of State, he brought the same high qualities that had distlhgulsheu his service in the Senate.
 "kt the close of MT. Cieveland's first administration with the consciousness l of duty faithfully performed, MT Bay l ard returned to the home 'Whlch haa no terrors for him. and In when ne | gladly settled down to the quiet reign of domestic life. After four years or | this quiet life in his old home he was | called by MT Cleveland in his second tn PanFnSant fry as our Ambassador to the Court or l St James. I personally know how re- | uctant MT Bayard was to give up the ouiet pleasures of his home Tor four years sojourn in England, but he rec | ognized the call as one of duty wnlch | If was for him to obey ana so ne ielt us and we felt that America could not have sent a better representative of | that true and self-respecting Amerl- | canism. Upon his return to his home | in 1897. there was only an interval or | one year and half before he was to | lay down lifes burdens and render tho last and final accounting of his states manship. But he has left us the leg acy of his good name and the memory of his upright life. We are all better That he lived among us Let us point our children to the example of his life and teach them to love and revere his memory. He died as he had lived, without fear and without reproach Mir. CIeVeland's Speech.
 On account of illness. MT, Cleveland
 was not present, but his address, which
 follows, which was read immediately
 after Judge Grays address.
 We are here to commit to the keep ing of years to come and to future
 generations. a lasting and constant re- hinder of a noble life We dedicate this imposing monument, not to the heroism which was and strife create, but to the heroism of civic courage and the achievements of peaceful patriot ism: and we seek to beautify it's mas siye strength by votive offerings from loving hearts. What we do here Is not for the dead, nor Is 1t for ourselves alone. We reveal to sight witness
 which. as long as our nation lives, shall testify. to American citizenship every
 where, of lofty patriotism. of civic righteousness, of unselfish endeavor and
 of knightly courage. It shall testify too, of q time when the saving vigil lance of unperverted Americanism kept