Show SECRETARY BAYARDS ANSWER He IE en lies to thc Criticism on His Speech to the Students WASHINGTON Jane 15In an address which Secretary Bayard recently delivered before the students of the Missouri University Uni-versity he is reported as having said that when in consequence of the tie between Jefferson and Burr in the electoral college the election devolved upon the House of Representativs his grandfather a Federalist Federal-ist instructed by Hamilton the great chief of the Federalists cast his vote for Thomas Jefferson This statement in the report of what Secretary Bayard said having been denied and sharp criticised a Post reporter re-porter called at the residence of Secretary Bayard and asked him if he had seen these attacks Oh yes replied the Secretary I have read them they were intended as an attack upon me personally THEY ABE UNGENEROUS AND UNJUST But I do not care for that but that the effect of it should be to call attention to the history his-tory of that period greatly gratifies me If it shall but be the means of leading my countrymen to learn the lesson of that epoch I shall count myself fortunate in having hav-ing by any means been the cause of that result re-sult Now the facts are that having listened on this occasion to a beautiful and glowing eulogy on Thomas Jefferson by Senator Vest in which an antithesis between him and Alexander Hamilton was sharply drawn somewhat to the disadvantage of the latter I rose to speak without the least premeditation premedita-tion and consequently without a note I was glad to hear Jefferson praised but I thought it ought never to be forgotten and that ought never to go unacknowledged Hamilton when the occasion arose was superior su-perior to party He knew the character of the nominee of his party of the man who seven years after was tried for treasonand as the country did not know it he did not hesitate to proclaim it This is the point I was making that there vns a time when it became the duty of patriotic men TO SACRIFICE PARTY FOB COUNTRY And I was illustrating it by the great example exam-ple of Hamilton Naturally I referred to James A Bayard for he stood nearer the counsels of Bayard than any other Federalist Federal-ist My crime is that he was my grandfather grand-father and now I do not think I said that ho cast his vote for Jefferson But whatever I have said in the unstudied address I delivered may I say now that my grandfather contributed more than any other man except Hamilton to tho defeat of Burr and the voted in election of Jefferson and that ho such a as to secure that result I could way not well say that his vote was positively cast for Jefferson for that would be an historical error In tho sixth volume of Jeffersons correspondenco aro letters in which he urges Mr Bayard to break with tho Federalists extant and vote for Jefferson and there are grandfathers bearing date of letters my in letters of Jefferson to these previousto of doing that j which ho declares his intention very That thing grandfather was actuated by tho motives my is shown by three points purest Federalists of Mr Jefferson by the askod First which action secured his election the state of tho public credit second tho third and of a nayal system maintenance that subordinate officers employed only in law execution of details established by the the not be removed from office on should without character nor of political ground complaint against their conduct This last is THE PRESENT CIVIL SERVICE PEETTY MUCH RULES Mr Jefferson said that these In reply corresponded with his own views and points ho intentions and during his administration but sixteen removals A malicious made construction of tho third point was that it for office When however bargain was a i joff rs ii nominated my Grandfather to Mr French Jefferson mission and he was confirmed tho these the Senate he declined it upon by The first was that he would betaking grounds be-taking money from the Treasury which he based upon earned this view being had not the Minister the fact that under the old system in addition to a Franco was paid ister to of 9000 an outfit of about 4000 salary if ho occupied he received and these sums I but month The second ground I a tho post declination was that to accept office his of would impugn the under Mr Jefferson motive which had actuated him in securing his election I ENDEAVORED WHOLLY TO BANISH POLITICS reference to his west Secretary Said the It was simply a visit to the educational ern edu-cational trip centres of the West At Kansas to the people in a introduced City I was Senator Plumb and cordial way by hearty Robinson in after tho banquet remarks Governor said it was the his tho course of irrespective of first time that the people welcome to receive and wel had joined hands party official position occupying my come a man |