The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-21
rnaintains its ascendancy as a summer
pleasure resort
TRUE TO HIS PAST.

LROh III 111S
For a period covering a year or over
the venerable" Senator Hoar, Of Mas
sachusetts, was very popular man
among Democrats. His opposition to the
imperialist policy Of his party led many
of the most sanguine of the opposition to
Republicanism to assume that when the
battle against the new foreign colonial
policy came to be fought out, Senator
Hoar would be on the side of the peo-
pie, even to the extent Of going into OPP
position to his party.
In the light of what so many expected
then, the following opinions Of Senator
Hoar are of especial interest:
when Col. Bryan says that if he Is
elected he will call an extra session at
once and propose to congress to give up
the Philippines to their own people, Ne
must know very well that this talk Is
the idleSt and most ridiculous nonsense.
He knows he could not expect either
house of congress to do this thing until
the people of the Philippine islands have
abandoned their opposition and have re-
established an orderly government under
Our protection.
''He knows that If there should be a
Democratic majority in the house Of
and If the Republican majority in the
| senate should be reduced or wiped out
altogether, there are still earnest and
| pledged imperialists enough in the Demo-
| cratic party to prevent any such action.
mo, the anti-imper1al1sm of MI Bryan
and that of his party is but mask-it
| is a mask to cover the things they nave
| had most at heart from the beginning,
| it is a mask to cover their purpose to
| establish the free coinage of silver, a
| mask to cover their purpose to bring IN
| free trade, a mask to cover their purpose
| to overthrow the banking system, a mask
to cover an attack upon the supreme
court and purpose to reorganize 1t if
they can get the opportunity.
1t would be easy to quote ex-
tensively from the addresses and papers
Of the Massachusetts senator to show
that his present attitude, toward his own
party at least, is at war with all his
professions on the subject of that party's
policy in the Philippines and elsewhere in
the former Spanish possessions But that
would afford but little comfort to those
who, failing to distinguish between the
real and spurious profession of adher-
ence to Democratic doctrine and policy,
have set more store on lip service than
on the record of answering loyalty to
the traditions and doctrines of the Dem
ocracy of Jefferson.
Senator Hoar will go his political way.
just as have gone and will go thousands
like him of other party political affilia-
tons; and the Democratic party will sur
vive not only the defeats of today and
yesterday, but the thoughtless acceptance
by its adherents of beliefs which never
have had a place among the tenets of
the Democracy.
Senator Hoar's dissertation on masks,
when taken in connection with his own
present attitude, shows but little more
than how familiar he himself is with this
particular form of political concealment,
and how little party political antecedents
count with those Democrats who take
such infinite stock in the genuineness of
the professions of those who happen to be
in temporary agreement with them.