Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-04-12
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A Senator from New England

Three distinguished members OF the
United States senate had seats togeth-
err in the second row on the republican
side of the chamber some twelve years
ago. They were descendants of q
common ancestor OF the revolutionary
period and were sometimes known as
the Great Cousins"-John Sherman,
William Maxwell Evarts and George
Frisbie Hoar. Perhaps 1T Is not i'm
pertinent TO remark that John 6. Cal
houn might have CLEANED some OF his
states rights views from some OF the
preachments Of hat ancestor, Roger
Sherman. These three senator's were
Of the purest and bluest New England
blood, n though the first named two
are gone from the walks Of men, Mr..
Hoar yet lives 10 illustrate the virtues
and the possibilities OF American citi-
zenship and TO shed luster on an Amer
lean senatoTship.
1t Is q wonderful race, hat New
England people, descendants OF the
Pilgrims and the Purttans. There
was q state without king or mobiles;
there was q church without a bishop;
there was u people governed by grave
magistrates, which II had selected,
and equal laws, which IT had framed"
They had gone far and will 20 farther.
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west, the south. They sail the seas
and carry their ideas TO remOtest
climes and nations. They settled north
ern Ohio, northern Indiana, northern
Illinois. They are In Iowa n Min
nesota and Kansas. In the south they
can be. frequently are, intensely
southern. Everywhere they are build
ers and toilers, They people cities ana
possess the land. They are clergymen,
teachers, physicians, lawyers, editors,
statesmen, bankers, merchants, ar
tisans, farmers. Alwaystheyare push
Ing, energetic, indefatigable, resource
full, irrepressible class.
George f.. Hoar Is a statesman and
an eminent one. He is not or the order
OF Rlchelieu or Chatham or Bismarck,
who could say, and perhaps not with
truth, the whole truth
"Oh. Abner, / fear God, and nothing
beside"
But he is rather Of the order OF
Burke, or Webster, or Calhoun, who
could say, with truth, with the who'll
truth, what Plato said;
I'VE may endeaVCr To persuade u
fellow citizens, but it Is not lawful TO
force them ven 10 that which Is best
for them"
senator Hoar - a man OF thought,
ilOl VI tlNAl'Aif - 'lNnN'fN''
rather than q constructive. He has
beer "a conspicuous figure in the ma
tional councils for q third OF a century;
but his name is associated consplcu~
ously with none OF the great measures
OF that period, other than as an ac-
complished debater. an crudit scholar,
q learned jurist, a consunmatc master
Of his mother tongue and n sincere
lover OF his country and his fellow
man.
The Forty~fourth congress Is famous
FOR it's able statesmen n renowned
debaters There were giants in those
days. Who can forget the most bril-
liant parliamentary engagement OF the
~post-bellum period between benjamin
II. Hill and j.. q, G. Lamar against
James CT. Blaine and james A.. Gar
field, with amnesty and the "bloody
shirt" for theme? 1t was the congress
that r~etrenched expenses n inVestl-
gated Blaine, that created the cleo
toral commission, that impeached the
secretary Of war. Though oNerWhelin-
ingly democratic the house appointed
George II. Hoar n OF the managers
OF that impeachment. The accused had
for counsel the very elite Of the Amer
lean bar, Black, Carpenter and Bldit,
and the trial was second To but one OF
our state p%ageants If we may so name
IL. and il is only truth to say that the
most vivid memory of that trial, the
finest thing connected with II, the one
beautiful classic IN that abundance Of
eloauent speech, Is the closing SEN
fences Of George T.. iloar's speech
summing up for the accusers. 1t a
survived all else of hat imposing spec
tacle.