Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-05
SENATOR HOAR
His Unique Position as the Last of His
Glass In the Senate.
Boston Transcript.


Boston Transcript
Among seriously disposed people who
listened to Senator Hoar's great speech on
Thursday, the comment most frequently
heard was that he and his ideals were
typical of an age that is passed. In some.
what varying from, according TO the point
of view, this was the comment of i'm
perialist and apti.imperialist. One side
said that he was behind the times and
living IN the past, while the other asserted
that the America of the present day had
forgotten the old ideals to which it was
once attached, and in that way they ac-
counted for Mr.. Hoar's loneliness on the
Republican side of the chamber. But
whichever way the notion is expressed,
whether by impatient critics or sym,
pathetic friends, its effect is the same;
Senator Hoar belongs to the older order.
Nearly all of the doubters concerning
the Philippine policy, when it began,
have dropped out of life or are soon to be
driven out. Wellington, of Maryland,
who came into the Senate few years ago.
with great blowing of trumpets, will
soon be retired to private life. Mason of
Illinois, who was an original antrim
perialist, was obliged, in the interest of
his reelection, to adopt policy of silence
but even that did not suffice to save him.
Sewell, of New Jersey, originally force
ftA opponent of Philippine acquisition, has
died, and his successor does not share bis
doubts. Perkins, of California, asked his
Legislature what he should do concerning
Philippine acquisition since personally he
opposed the policy, but its members
decided with immense enthusiasm to in.
struct him to favor it, and he has since
done so.
Thus one after another of the "doubt-
ers" have fallen by the wayside, and no
new ones come to take their places. So
strong in this country is the momentum
of party organization that the man who
in the future shapes history most will be
he who can succeed best in shaping bis
partys policy. When new issue gets
the run of party it carries everything
before it, and those who do not succumb
to the new standard, gracefully or other
wise, must be prepared to step one side.
When the silver Issue gained ascendency
in the Democratic party it drove out Of
public life all of theSenators and Repres-
entatives who dared to stand out against
it, A few, like Catchings, of Mississippi,
who consented to accept instructions of
convention, were'permtted to remain,
but those who voted as they believed,
like Gallery, of Louisiana; Lindsey, of
Kentucky, and Gray, of Delaware, are in
politics among the forgotten. Other men
representing their views may in time come
to the front, but not they. There is,
thus, a remorselessness in the discipline
of parties,
Mr.. Hoar's loneliness on the Republi-
can side of the Senate will long remain an
interesting historical picture. The terrible
earnestness pictured in his face as he
uttered the most telling passages of his
great speech (for he skipped much that
appears in the public prints and in the
record) is something that those who saw
it will never forget At the close of his
speech the presiding officer felt obliged to
call the Senate itself to order for violating
its own rule against applause. 1t is
usually the galleries that offend. This
time it was both.