The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-14
George Frisbie Hoar's vicious Tirade.

George Frisbie Hoar's Vicious TRADE.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar OF
Massachusetts,, whoN has a famous
record as a malignant and a hide
bound foe of progress, was the chief
orator at the Lincoln dinner in this
city on Monday night. As might be
expected, he made a speech which
would have made Honest Old Abe"
could he have heard it, d%enounce him
as an enemy of the Union and a
wanton assailant of the interests of
the entire country.
There were two or three things,
which the Martyred President especi-
ally abhorred, extensively conspicuous
in every line of Mr.. Hoar's speech,
partisan malice, sectional bitterness,
reckless mendacity, calamity bowling,
and selfish lust of power for a privi-
legged class. Mr.. Hoar expressed the
belief that Andrew jackson, brought
to life, would stand aghast at some of
the Democratic doctrines of today.
We simply reply that Abraham Lin
coin would turn with horror from the
practices OF degenerate republicanism,
especially as represented by Senator
Hoar and extremists of his type.
Abraham Lincoln was the great
founder of that school of statesman
ship which sought to hasten the true
end of the War by putting aside dead
issues, and joining all sections and
parties in the commo cause of culti-
waiting peace, civilization and pros
peritv for all the country and all its
people. George Frisbie Hoar, while
he pretended to do homage to Lin
coins memory, villainously-yes, we
say the word coolly and deliberately
George Frisbie Hoar. viIlainously and
traitorously sought to complicate the
great economic question of the hour,
by an appeal to angry passions, long
since dead in breasts less depraved
than his. Let us quote his W very
words, that they meet with the exc
Grafton, not of democrats but of
every patriotic citizen of New Jersey
as well as of every other State. Here
they are:-
While we are speaking three ex-Coufeierate
soldiers, who. long after they had arrived at the
time when men do not ordinarily change their
opinions, thought the true relation between tue
employer and the worKingman was that the
employer should own the workingman. and VINO
had given the best WORK of their lives TO over
throw the Constitution OF their country, are
shut up in a committee room at tbs Capitol to
decide whether it is for the interest OF New
Jersey that this policy shall longer continue.
With the champagne bubbling in
their glasses and the band playing
marching Through Georgia." repub-
licans will cheer any kind of rot that
a gentleman with a loud voice and a
perverse spirit will howl at them.
But we very much doubt whether
Mr.. Asa Dickinson, for instance. who
presided at the feast, would in the
thoughtful sobrlety of the morrow
contend that it wasa matter of any
Importance whether the members of
the Senate Finance Committee con-
tanned ex-Confederates or not. We
think he would be apt to admit that
it was all a question of brains. And,
if you got him in a corner, you might
even force him to confess that it was
abad, bad cause, which had to aban-
don logic and temper, and seek for
success in such ribald appeals to pas
sion, prejudice and pride.