Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-21
Two Republicans.


Senator Hoar in his great speech. in
the Senate, against the imperialistic
policy of the administration said these
things:
Il believe, Mr. President, not only
that perseverance in this policy will be
the abandonment of the principles up
on which our government is founded,
that it will change our republic into an
empire, that our methods of legislation,
of diplomacy, of administration must
hereafter be those which belong to en-
pires, and not those which belong to
this attempt will result in the defeat
and overthrow of the republican party
OF McKinley's assertion that because
the American flag had been raised in
the Philippine islands it should not be
pulled down, Mr.. Hoar said
"Mr. President, this is the doctrine of
purest ruffiianism and tyranny There
is nothing of the Declaration of indie
pendence in it. There is nothing of the
Constitution of the United States In it.
There is nothing of the fathers in it..
There is nothing of George Washington
in it, or of Thomas Jefferson. There is
nothing in it of old Virginia, or of the
old South Carolina, or of the old Massa-
chusetts. 1T every territory over which
the flag of country has once fioated
must be held and never shall be yielded
again to the nation to which it be-
longed, every war between great and
powerful nations must be a war of ex-
termination or war of dishonor alike
to the victor and to the vanquished. =
/ appeal from the spirit of trade TO
the spirit of lib,rty. | appeal from the
Empire to the Republic. | appeal
from the millionaire, and the boss, and
the wire-puller, and the manager to the
statesman of the elder time, in whose
eyes a guinea never glIstened, who
lived and died poor, and who left to his
children and to his countrymen a good
name far better than riches | appeal
from the present, bloated with mater
ial prosperity, drunk with the lust of
empire, to another and a better age.
These remarks of Senator Hoar prove
beyond doubt his convictions on the
subject.
If any one who has read that great
speech failed thereby to be convinced
of the terrible danger that turks in the
administration imperial policy, at
least no one, be he ever so dyed in the
wool as partisan, can doubt the sin
cerity of Senator Hoar in his belief that
his party, republican party, lis
leading the republic to certain and
inevitable destruction.
And there is the wonder of it all !
For Senator Has decided, at last, that
he loves his party better than his coun-
try and that he will help his party to
remain in power notwithstanding the
malevolence of that power toward the
fundamental principles of our govern
ment
Still, anyone who has read Senator
Hoar's "reminiscences, recently pub
lished in New York magazine, can
not be very greatly surprised; for these
"reminiscences" prove beyond doubt
that his love for his party amounts to
an ungovernable passion.
Senator Hoar stands convicted, upon
his own confession, of treason to his
country. While admitting that the
policy of his party, if kept in power,
will necessarily result in the destruc-
ton of republican institutions here, he
deliberately chooses to aid in that sub
vertlon OF republican government
which he decries in the future and pro-
claims as sure to come.
The guilt upon such mans soul is
vastly greater than the guilt of the
ignorant, and it is greater too than the
guilt of such a republican as Hanna,
who has not conscience, to care for
republican institutions, and who would
doubtless prefer an empire. Hoar sins
| deliberately, knowing what he is doing,
and fully conscious of the Nervousness
of his crime. Hanna sins wantonly be-
cause his moral stature is so small that
he does not care
But Hanna is not the other republi-
can we would compare with Hoar
We have in mind different sort of
man,-one who, like Hoar, is republi-
| can senator, who, like Hoar, discerns
that his party'S policy involves sure
death to republican institutions in this
country, but who, unlike Hoar, loves
his country better than his party, and
is therefore going to support the Kansas
City platform, because it condemns the
imperial policy and because he knows,
as everybody knows now, that Mr..
Bryan is man of deep convictions,
who says what he means, and will do
what he promises. This man is Sena-
tor Wellington, of Maryland
We wish every young man in the
country would ask himself seriously
this one question (Which would |
prefer to be, Senator Hoar, or Senator
Wellington man who loves his
party better than his country, or the
man who loves his country better than
his party ?" 1t will do young men
good to ask themselves this question,
and to analyze their reasons for such