The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-26
sENAroR HoAR's TREATY VOTE

SENATOR HoAR'S TREATY VOTE
 Senator Hoar said he was satisfied and voted for the treaty with Panama. This is precisely what everybody expected. It is his habit to roar loudly and thunder in the index. When the time comes to vote the unspeakable Scott of West Virginia is no more to be depended upon than the senior Senator from Massachusetts. He mouths his New England virtue before the vote and at the end discloses his true character as a hide-bound Republican. In his autobiography he dwells lovingly up- on his moral perfections He often chal- lenges the Senate to doubt he is the most honest man that was ever in public life. It must have been curious to see Senator Pettus seated at his elbow waiting the explanation of the somersault. He is, we believe. Senator Hoar'!s pair. a relation that implies great confidence and respect if not intimacy. We should like to know our junior Senator's real opinion of his pairs effort to square his conscience with the demands of his party. General Pettus Is a type of all that is ruggedly honest. He is not a pretender He does not dis simulate. He tells the truth. He is man, first and last Senator Hoar would have us believe he is made of the same stuff. Is he? Let us take an example. He went to Charleston a few years ago and lathered the Carolinians with the most fulsome flattery. Not long after he repeated this performance at Richmond. Yet no man has said such bitter things of the Southern people as he has in his place in the Senate. In his book he has written down for such time as the work will survive, his deliberate opinion that the Democratic party is made up of our people in combination with the criminal classes of the great cities.
 Hon. Lyman Martin used to have a phrase that exactly describes Senator Hoar in his character as public man. We dare not employ it. It Is sacred to small gatherings of men. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, as Senator Vest once said on a famous occasion in telling of the reception of a song by Miss Mary Annondale, nevertheless and notwith- standing. Senator Hoar Is politician who looks one way and pushes the other. He Is forever playing upon the vanity of Massachusetts. He has resurrected quantity of obscure dead men there and gravely pronounced them one after the other the greatest the world has ever seen. There was thick growth of great men in Massachusetts. especially in the neighborhood of Worcester, his home. Not long since he dangled before the Senate a poem written by a Massachusetts man that was the finest. he declared. in Amer ican literature. Nobody had ever heard nical in its language. that no man who had not spent ten years before the mast could have understood two lines of it. The poet was a class mate of the Sena- tor and we doubt not left many kin peo- pie of the male sex in Massachusetts. We do not wonder he is worshipped in his native State. "The secret of success in life," declared a Russian Ambassador, is fattery; and the coarser the better" Sem ator Hoar knows this maxim well. He uses it on Massachusetts. He refines on 1t too. He fiatters them to their faces and then pleases them still more and gives them a high erected pride of damning with the bitterest invective the people of the South. Down here he deluges us with praise.
 It will be seen we are not in love with Senator Hoar. We confess 1t. We re- joice that the facts are available in the Congressional Record and in the press to prove, with all his enormous pretensions, to a singular virtue, what a zig-zag course his morality as a public man has pursued.