The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-14

known as soon as he entered congress-
which was a good many years ago-as
"Bubby" Hale, and, although he is now
man well along in years, the name sticks
to him yet. In the olden days he was
Blaine's lieutenant, and then, as now, he
was not afraid to speak his mind, even
If he happened to take the unpopular side.
IL was Becky Sharp | believe, who fixed
the figure at which one could afford to be
virtuous. Apply this rule to Senator Hale,
he can afford TO be both virtuous and in
dependent. He married a fortune, lives
in the finest house, perhaps, in all Wash
ington; dresses like a sprig of royalty
drives in the handsomeSt of traps and
revels in the good things of life. His sud-
den love for the Spanish minister is sim
ply due to the fact that nearly every night
they stretch their legs together under
meath somebody's good mahogany and sip
wine and eat terrapn together Both De
LONE and Hale are good liVers. This Is
their tie that binds. At the same time, it
seems strange to see yankee senator
waited on every day at the capitol by the
fiunkeys OF. foreign minister and sup
piled huge envelopes containing wordy
ammunition against a struggling people.
Yet this is the very position in which SEN
ator Hale of Maine has allowed himself
to be seen.
Senator Hoar is different character
altogether He is really an able man.
while Hale is not He looks like one
of Cruikshank's drawings Of Pickwick
has a round, cherubic face, which is
always as red as a boiled lobster. He is
eloquent, sarcastic, satiTical testy and
petulant by turns. The other day he had
the funniest spluttering time with the
venerable Sherman and the two old men
snapped at each other and quarreled so
impatiently that the senators laughed and
the crowds in the galleries roared. 1t was
lust like that famous quarrel over the
game of checkers between Josh Whit
comb and Old Cy in 1.-The Old Home
stead, a scene which every theater-goer
will remember
A few weeks ago Senator Hoar was
rampant to get at the sultan for the
outrages which were occurring in Arme-
MIA. Nothing could hold him in. Congress
could not go far enough to suit him. All
Of q sudden he has drawn in his horns
and now that Cuba Is mentioned, he be-
comes a man of peace. What has wrought
this Wondrous change? This Is the ques-
tion which everybody is asking in Wash
ington just now. The answers are va
rous but nobody seems to doubt that
the State street lnhuence-which is to
Boston what the Wall street influence is
to New York--is magnetizing old Mr..
Hoar. New England interests are largely
concerned In Hawaiian sugar plantations.
Hawaiian sugar now comes in free I'M
der reciprocity treaty. If Cuba should
gain her independence through the United
States, Cuban sugar would also come in
free and place Hawaiian sugar at dis
advantage. Senator Hoar is against Cuba
because friendliness for Cuba hurts the
pocketbooks Of his constituents.
But all of the New England Sena tors are
not engaged in throwing bouquets at the
Spanish minister and eulogizing the mon
archy of Spain. Lodge of Massachusetts,
and Chandler of New Hampshire, are ex-
ceptions Lodge is a lover of liberty and
Chandler, too, was never yet charged with
lacking the courage Of his convictions, no
matter what other crimes may be laid at
his feet When the Spanish minister came
out in a public interview and charged
Lodge with malicious and fraudulent rep
resentation, the Massachusetts, senator
rose in his wrath and proved the Spanish
minister to be the guilty party. Lodge is
not to be swung from his mornings even
by the gales which are now blowing upon
him from Back Bay.
AS for Chandler, he is like David y. Hill,
a DrlVateer. He sails through the Senate,
not caring whom he fires upon or whom
he runs down H aims at friend and foe
alike. The other night he had his private
secretary at work for two or three hours
hunting up dispatch which Senator Hoar
had sent to the President about the Ar
menian troubles for no other reason than
to have the pleasure Of discomfiting the
Massachusetts senator with II the next
day Chandler loves a row. He is never so
happy as when he has stirred the Senate
into tempest Every once In a while he
lifts the lid Of the kettle. 50 TO speak. and
IL the water is not suffering and bubbling
enough to please him. he sticks a few more
chunks of wood into the fire and in a few
minutes there is n glorious sizzling time.
So this Cuban business has been nuts