Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1893 — OUR FIRST AMBASSADOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR FIRST AMBASSADOR

Ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bayard Goes to the Court of St. James. Tho President, Thursday, sent the name of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware, to the Senate-, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Great Britain. This action of the President shows the untruthfuiness of the report that Minister Lincoln was to be retained at London. Mr. Bayard comes of a distinguished ancestry. He has served several terms as Senator from his State and was Secretary of State under Cleveland’s

first administration. Mr. Bayard is the first diplomatic representative of the United States with the title and rank of ambassador. Other nominations. Thursday, were: To he envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the United States: James D. Porter, of Tennessee, to Chili: James A. McKenzie, of Kentucky, to Peru; Lewis Baker, of Minnesota, to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador; Pierce M. B. Young, of Georgia, to Guateemala and Honduras; Edwin Dun, of Ohio, (now Secretary of Legation at Japan), to Japan. A long list of nominations for consuls at various foreign ports were also sent In. Other minor officers too numerous to mention and forty-fivs fourth-class Indiana postmasters completed the list of lucky Democrats for th< day.

THOMAS F. BAYARD.