Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05

li.s uauohai education bill that he accepted
another nomination with a view to doing
| what he could to carry II through, At the
emo OF that term he announced his purpose
70 Withdraw. but very earnest letter was
sent 10 MN bearing the signatures of the
| principal men of the district, saying that It
was not for the interest of the people of
the district to make a change. Two years
later ne again announced his purpose to re-
tire from Congress. but yielded once more
| to the urgent appeals of his friends. 1t was
| the year of tidal wave of democracy and
,here was grave doubt whether the repub-
! licans could carry the Worcester district.
Mr. Hoar consented to stand again in order
| TO conserve the party forces, and was re-
elected by majority of a few hundred. as
against several thousand on former occa-
| sions AT the end of that term he peremp-
torlIy declined to run again. and his sucl
cessor was nominated and elected.
II Is at this point in his autobiography
that Mr. Hoar makes one of the broadest
statements of all concerning his political
| principles. He says:
/ have often been charged with blind
and Jealous attachment to party The
charge is sometimes Made by persons who
consider that desire to do right but think
that my understanding and intellectual fac
uitles are guided and blinded by that emo
uon. Others are not so charitable One
| very self-satisfied critic Mr.. William Lloyd
Garrison, sometimes in prose and some-
! times
"A sereechin' out prosaic verse
An like to bust
! says that 1 differ from my honorable coll
! league Mr. Lodge. in that Mr.. Lodge has
no conscience. while I have a conscience
but never obey t. II any man be disposed
| to accept these estimates II is not likely
| that can convince him to the contrary by
my own certificate. But 1 will say two
| things:
Il have never in my life cast a vote or
done an act in legislation that 1 did not at
the time believe to be right and that 1 am
not willing to avow and defend and debate
with any champion of sufficient importance
who desires to attack 1t at any time and in
any presence.
80. Whether 1 am right or wrong In my
opinion as to the duty of acting with and
adherence to narty, 1t Is the result, not of
emotion or attachment excitement but
of as cool, calculating. sober and deliberate
reflection as | am capable to give to any
question of conduct or duty. Many of the
| things which 1 have done in this world
| which have been approved by other men,
| or have ten led to give me any place in the
| respect of my countrymen, have been done
| IN opposition, at the time. to the party
to which belonged But I have made that
| opposition without leaving the party In
| every single instance unless the question
| of the Philippine Islands shall prove an ex-
| ception, and that Is not a settled question
| yet, the party has come round in the end,
| to my way of thinking. l have been able
| by adherfng to the republican party to ac-
comp lish, in my humble judgment. ten-fold
| the good that has been accomplished by
| men who have ten times more ability and
capacity for such service who have left the
| party"
Mr.. Hoar is wholly frank in displaying
| his antagoniSm toward Gen. Butler, with
whom he was repeatedly thrown into con-
/ dict. 1t was owing in large measure to his
attitude toward Butler that he was chosen
to the Senate to succeed Mr.. Boutwell,, who
was friendly to the ambitious eX-soldier.
Mr. Hoar did not desire the duty, but ac-
cepted it when fortune placed it in his way.
| He says:
Il can truly say that was as indifferent
| to the result SO far as it affected me per-
| W Ia hAr T oh
walk on side of the street or the other.
| l did not underValue the great honor of
| representing Massachusetts in the Senate
| of the United States. But had an in
| finite longing for my home and my profess
sion and my library. l never found public
employment pleasant or congenial. But The
fates sent me to the Senate and have kept
me there until / am now the man longest
in continuous legislative service In this
country, and have served in the United
States Senate longer than any other man
who ever represented Massac husetts"
1t is impossible to give further examples
of Senator Hears style in referring to him.
self and his honors and achievements. It
should not be understood, however, that the
volumes consist chiefly of such matters On
the contrary the great bulk of the pages
are filled with references to men who have
been in one capacity or another associated
with the senator. His recollections of his
experiences in the House, followed by the
more familiar story of the public events &C.
! curing during his senatorial career. are
told with the delightful humor which has
always characterized Mr.. Hoar's public ut
terances. His discussion of the Philippine
question is particularly interesting, and is
given with frank proclama ton of his feel
ings.
The volumes contain no illustrations other
than the frontispiece portraits of the au-
thor, one taken at the time of his entrance
into the House in 1869. and the other of re-
cent date. A copious index facilitates ref
erence to subjects and names.
NEW ENGLAND HISTORY IN BALLADS By
Edward e; Hale and His Children with a Few
Additions by Other People. Illustrated by Ellen
D., Philip l.. and Lillian Hale. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co.
DR.. Hale may always be depended upon to
produce something interesting whenever he
puts pen to paper. His latest product, q
sort of Hale family affair. is one of the
most entertaining books of the season, not
only because of its novelty. but because of
its quality. Twenty years ago. on the eve
of journey to Europe. DR.. Hale proposed
to his family that during his absence he
and they try to Ali the gap in American lit
erature which for a long time he. agreeing
with Lowell, had seen. by creating a series
of ballads commemorative of events con-
nected with the history Of New England.
The task was not accomplished during his
absence. but from time to time since then
he and his collaborators have made prog
ress until now 1t is possible to present a
good-sized volume of ballads of dignity and
fine quality, supplemented by the few nota-
BILE exceptions to the general lack of this
style of poetry already extant.
Mr.. Lowell declared that there were no
good American ballads because modern CON-
ditions prevented. The authors of the old
English and Scotch ballads, he said, had
certain advantages. hardly possible today,
thus: They were not encountered with in
formation; they sang well because they
never thought about it; they had the mag
netism of the sympathy of their hearers.
seeing their faces as they spoke; they
plunged into deep water without preface;
they lived when and where there were no
newspapers; they neither harangued nor
described, but said things; the ballads were
really folk songs, and the only ones, and
finally, travelling from place TO place as the
ballad singers did they had that education
for uplift which comes from life in the open
air and from that only.
The quaint rhythm and rhyme of the old
ballad have been in large measure repro
duced In these songs of history, which are
printed without token of their authorship,
save those which are reproduced from other
sources than the pens of the Hales They