The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-16
OUR SENATORS.
Interesting Letter About
Mr.. Hoar and Mr.. Lodge.

Massachusetts, senators, He says:
Massachusetts in the Senate is a sub.
Ject prominently suggested by this
weeks occurrences. In Washington
the senior senator, Mr.. Hoar, has made
What is acknowledged on all sides as
one OF the greatest speeches heard il
many years; in Boston, the junior SEN
ator Mr.. Lodge, has received a fatter-
ing denomination, which is equivalent
10 an election for a second term of six
years. Partisan feeling in Massachu-
sets does not run so high now as wher
John Quincy Adams was harried out OF
the Senate by the state legislature be-
cause of his adherence to his own con.
victions.
massachusetts, is represented in the
Senate on both sides of the question
Just as Maine is represented by Mr.
Frye, perpetually an advocate of a Wig
orous foreign policy, and by Mr.. Hale
VINO is one of the most conservative
men IN the chamber. Mr.. Hale has
recently been renominated as hand
soInely as has Mr. Lodge, and 1t is fair
TO presume that, had instead the terms
OF MI, Hoar and Mr. Frye been those
TO expire, they would in their respect
| I'VE states nave received the same fat
| 1erlng Endorsement. Maine and Mas
sachusetts do not care to send messen-
gers TO Washington with the ballot in
mana; they prefer to pick out strong
| ana courageous, men, who are a plat-
form IN themselves, and then let the
men when they get to Washington vote
as they please. Some of the extreme
| expansion organs have suggested that
| VT, Lodges reelection showed that
massachusetts was with him rather
than with Mr.. Hoar on the supreme
question of the day; this is as devoid
OF foundation as to say that the sue
| cess OF Senator Hale was a rebuke IN
surd 40 az
Perhaps the best estimate of Mr..
1oar great speech was that made bv
VT. foraker, who in speaking two DAYS
1aeer declared that Mr. Hoar's speech
"aS oile mat rev men in the country
Could nave made. The mastery ability
oIsplayed In it Mr. Foraker acknowl-
edged, and declared that he never lost
an opportunity in the Senate or ont 70
near what Mr.. Hoar had to saw upon
any subject. This estimate is general
IN the Senate today. No other member
OF that body begins to approach Mr..
aoaf IN intellectual vigor and oratori-
cal power. He is happiest in discussing
subjects with which the history and
traditions of the republic are closely as
soclated. Probably no man living is in
more intense sympathy with the great
masters who built our structure of
government. He loves the ideals of
human freedom to which they gave
Is expression in the constitution of the
Gnlteo states and to the Declaration of
All the young men of the country
ought to read Mr. Hoar's speech. In
congressional oratory of recent Years
tnere has been too little emphasis
paced upon the sentimental side of
a1falrs The great speeches of the
generation before the civil war were
Kun OF references to the fathers of the
period OF the revolution; today there is
tendency for congressional arguments
70 De very practical, to deal with pres
enl questions in somewhat business
IKE way. Senator Hoar, more than any
other man in public life, and PERTAINS
ne is, almost the only man. touches the
mystic chords of memory. His speeches
are a cultivation of the imagination.
POLITICALLY speaking, of which there is
now too little
NO more beautiful example of this
CULTIVATION of the imagination could he
found than Mr. Hoar's account of the
VISIT OIL Samuel RogRrs to the Do,ntni-
can convent at Padua, and Mr.. Hoar's
applcatlon of the incident to the naint
ing OF the Declaration of Independence
IN the rotunda of the capitol. IT seems
snat an aged friar showed Rogers the
FAMOUS picture of The Last Supper in
the refectory of the convent. The friar
=; Saiu' nave sat at my meals before
II Tor seven and forty years and such
are the changes that have taken nlace
among us-so many have come and
sohe IN that time, that when 1 look
upon the company there upon those
VINO are sitting at that table. silent as
ouey are, l am sometimes inclined 10
ullIhk mat we, not they, are the slnad-
oWs' And MIR. Hoar added: LAS admin
Islratlons, terms of presidential office.
oesIh ana end, as senators and repre-
SentatlVes come and go before the silent
ngures In that immortal picture (that
OF the Declaration of Independence, it
seems 10 me that we are but the shad
oWs' while Hancock and Jefferson and
ADAMS and Franklin and Ellsworth
ana Livingstone are still delioerating
sun acting, still alive"
was there ever a more beautiful or
Impressive comparison than this? 1t re-
o1siis une monastic system, and the
aplolng faith OF the old friar who had
seen so many changes in his long life
ulat ne had come to think the figures
Oh the wan were realities and that he
anu MS mortal companions were sha.5-
oWs. 30 MIR. Hoar, who has been promj-
nent IN the public life Of the republic
lot thlrty years, has seen 80 many adj
mlnlstratlons, and parties, and senators.
ana representatives and Judges COINS
and go that he has come to believe tbat
the principles for which the figures in
;dfumpulfs great painting stand are the
living realities i'm this republic, and that
the meeting currents Of popular feeling
represented by transient majorities are
but the shadows
NO one should look at the Trumbull
painting in the rotunda without having
TINS passage from Senator Hoar's
speech recalled. 1t sometimes seems
as If the age of oratory had passed and
that the great days of the senate be-
long TO some other period Such a
speech as that of Mr.. Hoar is a wig
ofous reminder that eloquence and in
tellectual power are still with us. and
that in every epoch an occasion of i'm
poftance is sufficient to bring forth the
man.
senator Lodges reelection doubtless
means MS entry upon a long senator
lal career. If a man from a steady-
gong state is once reelected, it is rare
~ that ms claim to 4 seat in the senate
is challenged so long as he wants to
keep 1t. There is much momentum
about the senatorial office: it's powers
are so great; the opportunities to serve
constituents and help local interests are
SO many that a man who starts well in
senatorial career can usually select
ms own time for retiring. Mr.. Lodge
WOULD probably never prefer any other
oIiice' except the presidency, to that
which he now holds.
He would not take a cabinet nosition
and he Mnllld NOT Ealrn LIZ LIZ ....1..i