The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-29
q. z. Hoar.

There would have peen no tIoupie Az &c {
gard to the report OF Mr.. Foster, Mr.
Phelps and Mr.. Potter. but for the med,
ding and partisan spirit OF MIR. ". =.
Hoar, who happens to be Chairman OF the
committee. As soon as he knew the re-
mort was unanimous as to the facts and the
conclusions, his efforts were directed to
persuade Mr.. Foster to retreat from that
nositiop, to deny his own convictions, ana
to falsify by eyasive silence what he had
seen with his owl eyes and learned from
the best testimony
Failing in persuasion, he tried to intiml- |
date him by threats Of party prescription.
By trickery and his power as Chairman,
Mr.. Hoar succeeded in keeping back the
report for more than a week, in order to
get the Presidents disingenuous message
first before the country, with its notorious
MISREPRESENTATION. Finally, by the com,
pulsion of a majority vote, he was Obliged
to yield, and the truth got out notwlth-
standing his attempts to suppress IL:
Mr. Hoar belongs to class OF agltators
I'D strife makers, who would not be con-
tent even if their own demands were graf
fled to the last letter, and whom Wendell
Phillips at the North and Robert Toombs
NJ the South properly represent. He does
not want peace and reconciliation, but re-
joices in discord and excitement. With u
narrow and bigoted mind running in an old
groove, and etfecting sentimental phian-
irony, he Is not content that the negro
should enjoy equal rights with the white
citizen, but insists that he shall belong t.
a preferred class, and be put to rule over
the South because slavery once existed
there and he would like to visit the sins Of
the father Oh the children.
lie is an advocate of the policy of hate
81 So mot
eminent by which the states may be helt
in colonial vassaage and the Presiden
may exercise the power of a despOt will
unchecked control of the army and navy II
the execution of his arbitrary will. ln
capable OF broad grasp in public affairs, al
his thoughts run in one direction, and n
testimony however clear or convincing CA
overcome his small and vindictive pre-
judices.
For these reasons he assumed to set hi
personal feeling against the report, and
arrogantly disE ute conclusions whic
were compelled by evidence that he ha
not even read. When all his device
came to grief, and exposed the bad INT
tive Of this malicious opposition, then b
determined to go to New Orleans persC
nally and to make a report to suit hin
self and the Administration whose SCI
want he glories in being.
What the character of that report vii
be is already foreshadowed lie might a
well have written it in Washington, 70
according TO the declarations of the Pres
dent and his followers, they are better il
formed about Louisiana at the capit'
than the people in the State where tn
outrages of Kellogg, Casey, Packard, an
their confederates are perptrated,
Mr.. Hoar was elected to Congress
1872 by majority of 1854. Last ia
he was chosen again by the skin.of his teeti
with only 462 majority to save him frol
defeat. When he is charging intimidatio
as a cause for the detection of white an
colored Republicans in the South, an
attempting TO demonstrate it by a con
parson of votes, perhaps he will explai
how 1922 Republicans came to be intin
dated in his district, and how Massachu
etts, which gave Grant majority q
74,2l2 in 1872, turned oyer and gave Ga
ton the present Democratic governor
1882 in lST4.-M J. SIM.