The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15
SUNDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1899.
SENATOR HOAR.

Senator Hears remarks at the ratifi-
cation meeting have been variously in
terpreted by newspapers, though they
appear plain enough for the one who
runs toread. The Chicago. Times Herald
thinks they signify that Senator Hoar
has ceased opposition to the presidents
Philippine policy and has jumped on
board the administration band wagon
There seems reason to believe" says
the Times Herald, that Senator Hoar
has returned from Europe prepared to
accept the inevitable He found the
republicans of Massachusetts in no
temper 10 tenporize with his Atkinson
ian tdeas about The insurrection in the
Philippines, and, perceiving that he
could not wag the party, he has per-
mitted himself to be wagged by it,"
1t then quotes from his utterances at
the ratification meeting, in which he
says he will stand by the candidates
and by the platform. and continues:
1.-THE. Massachusetts platform by
which Senator Hoar stands first com
mends the tact. the patience, the skill
and the sbatesmanlike spirit with
which the president has approached
the war. Among these it recognizes
our responsibility for the peace and
security Of life and property, the we'll
being and the future government of
the Philippine islands, And then
continues:
Accepting this responsibility, it is
our profound trust that the present
hostilities can be brought to an early
termination, and that congress, guided
by wise and patriotic administration,
will establish and maintain in those
islands, heretofore the home of tyrants,
a government as free, as liberal and as
progressive as our own
THE man who stands by that plat
form has left anti-expansion a thou
, sand miles behind and abandons Agui-
naldo to the fate of a rebel against a
/ patient. wise patriotic and states
manlfke' American administration.
THE Times Herald does not detect
any chance for an honest man to con-
strue the platform of the Massachu-
setts republicans as straddle on the
Philippine question. The only way to
maintain a government Is to maintain
1t. Neither Senator Hoar nor the
Springfield Republican can interpret
the words establish and maintain to
the anti-expansionist idea"
1t is not strange thing for a good
party man to accept the platform of
his party though he does not agree full
ly with some of it's provisions. 1t would
be difficult indeed to draft a platform
to which every republican or every
democrat would subscribe personally in
every particular. Some might object
to the civil service plank, some to the
tariff plank and some to one thing and
some to another. But the platform as
whole is something to which the
party as a whole can subscribe.
The sentiment in favor of the Philip
pine plank was so strong in the con-
ventton that it would be political sui
eide Cor any republican to run counter
to it during this campaign. Senator
Hoar displayed good judgment in
treating the platform as he did, and if
the Times-Herald will follow his speech
to the end it will find that he intimates
that his opinions have not undergone
q change, but that he reserved the right
to discuss the Philippine question at
another time and place, meaning of
course In the United States Senate.
The difference in opinion relative TO
the meaning of the Philippine plank is
just as sTeat as it is over Senator
Hoar's utterance. Some go so far as
to say that the plank does not disagree
with the opinions which Senator Hoar
has voiced in discussing expansion, and
that it might well have been written
by him. If that is so, then why critioise
him for declaring that he will stand by
the platform?