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Emory congratulates Bayard on his role in the election of Grover Cleveland: “It is a triumph so complete...that patriotic men...need have no fear for the future.”

Revels in the victory [Cleveland's election] with Emory: “What a poor figure the ‘Bosses’ cut in the contest...[that] place[d] an honest and true man in the Presidency.... I hope and pray the current of reform may not be checked…”

He is fearful for the country:  “The issues which are forming and compelling decision will disarrange party lines as heretofore known…”

Re: Bering Sea arbitration. Bayard has long favored preservation of the seals by the cooperative legislation of the maritime nations. On the envelope Emory notes his reply and what sent?

More on the Bering Sea bill and ramifications; also discusses the sliver standard (“…should he [Cleveland] prove able to guide the ship of state clear of that reef of financial death (a silver standard) his will have been a service beyond recompense”) and tariff reform. Suggests Emory meet and get to know his friend, Worthington Chauncy Ford. Glad Emory likes his new job at the State Department.

Congratulates him on his new appointment [to the Bureau of Statistics?] after the termination of the Bureau of American Republics.

Great concern over the Venezuelan dispute. Attacks House Republicans. Recalls visit to Wye House and mentions Col. Edward Lloyd (1825-1907), whom he tried to get appointed Collector of the Port of Baltimore in 1893. On Maryland politics and government: “Maryland will have to go through an era of suffering before the good and true can organize for honest government....”

Re: the free coinage of silver. Attacks those who favor free silver, McKinley, etc.  Very depressed about the state of political affairs in the U.S.  Requests a copy of Teackle Wallis's works edited by William Hand Browne.

This collection contains thirteen letters, nine of which are from Bayard to Emory. The correspondence is mainly of a political and diplomatic nature. Bayard Emory to be Director of the Pan American Union. In the letters Bayard discusses events of the day, personal views on Presidents Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, treaties (especially arbitration concerning the preservation of seals in the Bering Sea), the silver standard and free coinage of silver, and tariff reform.

Bayard regrets that he cannot write an article for the Sun as Emory has suggested; discusses ratification of the treaty of extradition with Britain; and compares the Phelps Treaty of 1886 with the Blaine-Paunceforte Treay