The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-10-06
SENATOR HOAR.

OF events IN the life OF the Massachu-
setts Senator who, for weeks past,
has been making his last contest, not
with a Senatorial antagonist, but with
the last enemy of mankind:
Born at Concord, Mass, August
30, 1896 studied in early youth at
Concord Academy; graduated at Har-
ward College in 1916; studied law and
graduated at the Dane Law School,
Harvard University settled at Wor-
c%ester, where he practiced; was soli-
citor in 1850, was president of the
trustees of the city library; was a
member of the State House of Repre-
sentatives in 1862 and of the State
Senate in 1857; was elected Represen-
tative to the Forty-first, Forty second,
Forty-third and Forty fourth Con-
crosses declined a denomination for
Representative in the Forty fifth Con-
gress; was an overseer of Harvard
College, 1S47-1SS0; declined r~e-elec-
ton, but was reelected in 1896 and
again for six years in 1900; is presi-
dent of the Association of the Alumni
of Harvard presided over the Masas-
chusetts State Republican conventions
of 1871, 1877, 1882, and 1885; was a
delegate to the Republican rational
conventions of 1876 at Cincinnati,
and of 1880, 1884 and 1888. at Chicago.
presiding over the convention of 1880;
was chairman of the Massachusetts
delegation in 1880, 1884 and 1888: was
II of the managers ON the part OF the
House of Representatives of the Bel
KNAPP impeachment trial in 1876; was
a member of the Electoral Commits
sion in 1875; was regent of the Smith
sonian Institute in 1880; has been
president and was vice president Of
the American Antiquarian Society,
president of the American Historical
Association, president of board Of
trustees of Clark University, 1900,
trustee of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology, trustee of Leicester
Academy was a member of the Massa-
ohusetts Historical Society, of the
American Historical Society. the
Historical Genealogical Society, the
Virginia Historical Society, fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, and corresponding member
Of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences; is a trustee of the Peabody
fund; has received the degree of
doctor of laws from william and
Mary, Amherst, Yale, Harvard and
Dartmouth Colleges; was elected to
the United States Senate, to succeed
George S. Boutwell,, took his seat
March 3, 1877, and was reelected in
1883, 1889, 1895 and 1901.
An extraordinary summary, disclos-
ing a man of very great versatility of
talents and accomplishments. Mr.. Hoar
had long been a conspicuous figure in
national affairs. Probably his period
of greatest and best distinction was
during the years when this nation was
turning from slavery to freedom
throughout all it's borders. His voice
was clear, strong and insistent for
the abolition of slavery; he VA q
stout champion for the preservation
of the Union and helped to uphold the
hands of Lincoln during the awful
years Of the great civil war.
Possibly 1T had been better for Mr..
Hoar's public fame if his life.had end
ed in the early eighties. For nearly
twenty years past his public life had
been n Of such ecoentricity, Of such
erratic courses, as to bring reproach
and censure upon him personally. He
grieved and embarrassed his lifelong
political comrades, and often, without
cause or justice, gave aid and comfori
to their opponents. In the Senate he
assumed to be the mentor of Senators
and often provoked and encountered
unsparing den%unciation from Senator
Of his political faith as we'll al
his opponents, for his assumption o
the role and office of monitor. HI
was at odds with his party in the mat
ter of it's policy respecting the event
just preceding the wal with Spain
and especially in respect of its policie
on questions raised by the Issue o
that war. He opposed and bitterl'
denounced President Mckinley and
had he not lost his influence in hi
party. and was simply tolerated by hi
party associates who were of a for
bearing nature, his course might hay
been productive of great injury t
what were manifestly the best inter
este, not of his country only, but c
humanity in the new possessions &C
quired from Spain.
Nevertheless. in the days of his mar