The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-12-22
HOdr UnhOrSed by
Senator Foraker.


The venerable senior Senator from
Massachusetts, evidently imaglnes
himself the custos morum OF the ma
ton. He assumes to be the custodian
of the national conscience, the keep
er of our morals. He assumed the
place in the Philippine affair and he
comes out strong in the role concern
ing Panama. Senator Hoar claims
to think that the President and
State Department conspired to bring
on the revolution in Panama, after
the Colombian Congress had turned
down the canal treaty. From his
mental viewpoint under the sacred
Goldfish in Boston, he can not realize
that the people of the isthmus, see
ing their dearest hopes negatived by
a gang of self-seeking politicians in
Bogota, took matters into their own
hands, and severed the political
bonds which CALLED them and which
prevented the vast benefits that will
come to them by the construction of
the canal. Hence Senator Hoar con-
lures mp a conspiracy between the
Washington authorities and the Pan
aminos.
It looks, however, as though the
Senator had INDUCED in little con-
spring himself His speech was a
bitter arraignment of the President:
and he was at once followed by Cor
man, the Democratic fox, in care
fully-prepared speech along the same
lines. Evidently German knew that
Hoar proposed to make the attack,
and got himself in readiness to fire
partisan broadside into the Presi-
dent, in the hope of turning the ques-
cion of building the isthmian canal
into party ISSUE
This combined assault stirred the
| fighting blood of Senator Foraker
The unwarranted assumption that
the President had acted with duplic'
ity was resented in a speech of ex'
ce optional power. His peerless abil'
ties as an extempore speaker never
had a more brilliant demonstration
Taken entirely unawares, as was the
entire Republican side by Hoar's at
tack, he made one of the notable
speeches of the session, without
nores, and on the spur on the moment
The Ohio Senator put the matter
in its true light. The news dispatch
es from the isthmus, weeks before
Panama declared her independence
showed the likelihood of such d move
ment. The government at Bog ot5
saw fit to neglect the mutterings o.
the coming storm. 1t could have
sent its whole available military
force to Colon and Panama, ant
there would have been no interfer
ence on our part, and no cause for it
1t did nothing. The United State
government moved promptly whel
the revolution began in order q
maintain peace and uniIterrupte'
transit on the isthmus, as it wa
pledged by treaty to do. The peop!'
of the United States will not be per
suaded by the querulous old gentle
men from Massachusetts that Presi
dent Roosevelt has engaged in an,
; double-dealing in the matter. Their
was no reason he should do so.
was plain to the observing tina
trouble was coming because of tn
rejection of the treaty 1t was no
a matter in which we could interior
before hand The President wisel
and properly made ready for an,
Iexigency. All these facts were sc
forth by Senator Foraker in his ener
getic manner. Hoarisquirmed unde
the attack, and interrupted with ex
plantations which did not explain
Foraker's brilliant cavalry charg
routed his forces, captured his gun;
and demoraliZed power. And Cor
man went down in the wreck of tn
Massachusetts, senator's specious &c
, cusations and arguments