The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-27
The Rehabilitation of the Venerable
George EriSbie Hear.

We observe with interest. but with
cradle friend. the Hon. George Frisbie
Hoar. has announced his intention 10 sup
port the Republican ticket President Nc
Kinley and Governor Roosevelt will have
no more earnest supporter in the country
than L. is the way the distinguished Sen
ator begins his announcement. Earnest?
We should say SO, Mr.. Hoar is the most
intensely earnest statesman Of his day.
Els esrnestness in supporting Aguinaldo
has cost Rim many tear. to say nothing
OF the tears it has cost in other American
homes whose soldier boys have been fight
ing 10 establish American authority in the
Philippines.
Some gullibie people were rash enough
to believe few months ago that Mr..
Hoar meant what he said when he ar
raigned the President and his party for
the present disgraceful conditions in the
Philippines. So believing. they were fool
ish enough to hope that the Senator would
suit his conduct to his fearful elcquence
by renouncing allegiance to his H2lnaized
party But listen: 81 was and still am
opposed TO the policy which brought on
the war in the Philippines. i like the
policy which has been and is to be pur-
sued in Cuba. / am willing now to test
the two methods by their results. But l
have never questioned the honesty of pur-
pose OF President Mckinley and the Re
publicans who agreed with him" It is
refreshing to learn that Senator Hoar
likes the policy that has been pursued and
is to be pursued in Cuba" The Senator has
been much in Boston and belongs to that
sclect class of mortals who are endowed
with faculty which enables them to see
hidden beauties For the rest>of US, all
we have been able to see in the policy
which has been pursued and is to be pur-
sued in Cuba" is system of favoritfsm
in the distribution Of official patronage,
gross mismanagement which has all but
convinced the Cubans Of our inability to
govern. and corruption and thieyery which
strangely have not yet been punished
But here is something which we shall
have to call upon Mr.. Hoar. or come of
his esoteric friends. to explain: II am con-
fident that the great free North, which
achieved and established liberty at home.
will surely and very soon establish it
abroad" What more has the "grea, free
North to DO with the settlement of the
problems brought 10 the naticn with the
results OF the war with Spain than has
the great free SOUTH or tho great free
West" or the great free East" 1t is
true that tho Sacred Goldfish has his home
only in the bays Of the great free NORTH
and that he could no more live In the
rivers of the West for lack of saline prop
critics in the water than he could live In
the bays of the South for lack of the music
of the siren Hoar. But what has the
Sacred Goldfish to do with the economic
problems and governmental issues involved
in the relations CT the United States with
its new insular possessions further than
TO provide the Hears. the Atkinsons, the
Garrisons. ct al. with diet that makes
them indite soneSts to the eyebrows of
Aguinaido? Cannot it be possible that Mr.
Hoar sees in the present political eondl-
tons of the country a call for the bloody
shirt?" We had thought that Il was the
boast OF President Mckinley that the war
with Spain had buried that ensanguined
garment and that it would no more be
waved at the head Of the W. ering Repub-
lican hosts. Still, Senator Hear seems in
clined to lead US to believe that there is n
yawning chasm between him and the Prcsi
dent in this matter as wide as that which
separates their views on the question of
what to do with our insular possessions.
In confederation of this. hear Senator Hoar
a little further along the same line: Does
anybody believe that the American people
changed: that the Republican party has
changed In . minute. In . day, In a