Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-28
HOAR Is FOR M'KiNLEY
COMES OUT IN SUPPORT OF THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Believes Mr.. Mckinley's Reelection
Necessary to the Prosperity
of the Country.

A Boston dispatch to the New York Sun
says: Senator George F. Hoar has been
interviewed in regard to the coming cam
pai&n. He declares his allegiance to the
republican party and IT'S candidates and
says he is willing to trust the cause of lib
erty in the Philippine Islands, the only
point on which he disagrees with the adj
ministration, to President Mckinley and the
republican party rather than to Mr.. Bryan.
Tammany and the south. Mr.. Hoar said
President Mckinley and Gov. Roosevelt
will have no more earnest supporter in the
country than 1 shall be, whether We con-
slider the character Of the candidates, the
character of the counsellors they will bring
with them into power, the effect on the
prosperity and happiness of the American
people, or the ultimate triumph of liberty
and justice in the distant islands which
have been brought under our control The
alternative of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. David B.
Hill, any other associate the democratic
party is likely to give him. is not to be
thought of tor a moment.
Mr.. BryanS eleC ton will overthrow the
protective system now happily established
and the wonderful prosperity 1t has brought
to all classes OF the people and will mean
disturbed and f1uctuating currency, great
diminution of value of all debts and cav
ings, the overthrow of the authority of the
Supreme Court a dangerous attack on
property, socialism and the complete sue
cess of the attempt now going to dis
franchise 1O.UNOOO American citizens at
home and viii render null and void the
great constitutional amendments.
II was ana am still opposed to the policy
which brought on the war In the Philippine
Islands. I like the policy which has been
and Is to be pursued in Cuba l am willing
now to test the two methods by their re-
suits. But l have never questioned the
honesty of purpose of President Nc Kinley
and the republican leaders who agreed with
him. The past cannot be undone. l think
P,,t,, U-1n L. g.
in the hands of President Mckinley than
of Mr.. Bryan in the hands of the republic
can party than of Tammany Hall and the
solid south. In saying this am but repeat
ing what l said In the Senate and what l
said last year in Massachusetts Mr.. Bryan
earnestly advocated the treaty which
bought the Philippine Islands and secured
for it the votes of seventeen of his sup
porters. For this action of his no motive
can reasonably be assigned but the desire
to keep the question for issue in the
campaign.
THE republican party in its platform has
refused to commit itself to keeping the
Philippine people in subsection against their
will and cites the example of Cuba, to
which 1t renews Its pledge of independence.
The Massachusetts, republican platform of
1899 promises them after hostlities over
government as free. as liberal and as
progressive as our own: believe these
pledges will be kept. Whatever mistake
may have been made in the past, I prefer
to trust the future of liberty to the party
that for fifty years has never gone wrong
but once rather than to the party that for
sixty years has never been right once.
Does any one believe that the American
people have changed; that the great north
has changed: that the republican party has
changed in a minute, in day. in the twink
ling of an eye? Liberty Is not dead. JUS
tice is not dead. The great Declaration is
not dead. Men will differ. Good men will
differ. Good men will sometimes err Par
ties are not infalible. But 1 confident
that the great free north. which achieved
and established liberty at home. will surely
and very soon establish 1T abroad"