The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-01
FEW REPRESENTATIVES q
OF OUR EARLY IDEALS
Senator Hoar Unique in His Attitude, But Command
ing Respect Nevertheless in an Age Of
DOllar---WOrShipS.

| Lorimer was driving street car Oh ~
West Side Of Chicago. and carefullV9
studying how an extensive acqusinsanes
made effective in the DEVELOPMENT 81 81
political organization which you'd hax1
to be Recognised" II was recognises
business and then he had number q
lucrative assignments under the city e616
ernment- He was elected to Congress- 81
1890. and has since been a great factor ~
belongs to the Yates organization. ana.
had much to do in The recent selection of'
Albert J. Hopkins as the party nomineo
for Senacor.
While Mr.. Lorimer Is q typical Reruh,
'lican on one side and Mr.. Hoar on ms
other, both represent important eIeIneaf6
In American public life. The differences
between them II the difference between
the Concord Of 1870 and the Chicago ~
The peculiar loneliness OF Mr. Hcar
among those who should naturally hayo'
been his associates Is almost uatheticsl
In an eloquent address, recently delivered
In Boston. he told Of his lifelong friend.
ship with DIR. Edward Everett Hale. and
vet Dr. Hale does not trust him on the
Philippine question, as he would on a.
most any question of the State In which
the Republican party was not involved.
candidate for Congress this fall VIII
doubtless have to stand on an imperiaitsk
platform. Whatever his opinions, the son
could not, as a party candidate take the
It will be recalled that when Amos Al
len. Speaker Reeds private secretary.
was nominated for Congress to represent
nis old chiefs district t, he too psiSs g
party on the expansion policy and not
with Mr.. Reed. Thus the tide sweeps
along.
Nearly all of the doubters concerning
tbe Dhi1fpnfna nnlfrv Nj If h4HAt
dropped out of public life. or are soon TO-
be driyen-out. wellington. of Maryland
who came into the Senate a few years
viii soon retire. Mason. Of IlIinois. who
was an original anti-imperialist. was
obliged, In the interest Of his re-election,
to adopt policy Of silence. but even
OF New Jersey, originally q fprcefui OPP
ponent of the Philippine acquisition, has
died and no successor inherits his mis-
givings Perkins. Of California. likewtse
opposed. asked his Legislature what ne
should do with the treaty Of Paris, and
with immense enthusiasm 1t instructed
him to vote for ratification. or his re-
tirement from public life there = no
delegate a great moral question, on which
he himself feels strongly. to the decision
of a party assemblage ct home. with
vastly less means than ne OF knowing
what 1t Is all about. possesses the sure
key to success.
Thus one after another Of the Repub-
lican doubters has fallen by the waysides
So strong in this country IL the momen-
tum of party organization that the man
who in the future Goes most TO shape his
tory win be be who can succeed best n
Infection gets the run OF party y car
ries everything before It, and those who
do not succumb gracefully or otherwise
must he prepared to step one side, When
the silver issue gained ascendancy In the
Democratic party II drove out OF public
life all the Senators and Representatives.
who dared stand ont against 1t. a few
like Catchings of Mississippi who con-
scented to accept the instructions Of 81
convention, were permitted 20 remain,
but the sturdy sort. like Caffery OF Lou
isiana, Lindsey of Kentucky, and Gray
Of Delaware. are in politics among the
forgotten. Other mon representing their
Views may in time come TO the front. but
not they. There Is a remorselessness -
the discipline Of parfies which ensc's =
survival of the .unfittest.
Mr. Hoar's loneliness on the Kepuoii-
can side of the Senate today VIII tohs
remain an interesting historical picture.
The terrible earnestuess pictured IN MS
face as he uttered the most telling pas
sages of his great speech is something
that those who saw Ii Will never forge..
At its close the presiding OFFICER feit
for Violating it's own rules against aps.
plause II is usually the gallery. ana
not the floor. that offends. This time y
was both. And. although the newspapers
have said much about the stxty-pound
salmon. contributed by Mr.. Mitchell o.
Oregon. as a Senatorial feast. which was
in waiting below, and so gave occasion
for the recess Of thirty minutes which
the senate took when Mr.. Hoar conciud-
ed. IL must be acknowledged that there.
were deeper reasons than this for the
cessation of business. Nobody couia Eo
an after him His eloqnence and power
had taken the wind out of the sails OF
friend and foe alike There are times
when silence Is the greatest trioute. anu
this he received in a marked degree.