Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-30

of his life in his autobiography, Senator
Hoar says:
Il have had few idle moments since. I
nave probably put as much hard work into
life as most men on this continent
After being graduated in law Senator
Hoar settled in Worcester, when that town
had but 1900 inhabitants. He at once be-
came identified with it's interests The
anti-slavery movement was at it's height in
Worcester at that time, and Hoar plunged
into it with zeal His ambition did not
reach out to anything beyond career as
lawyer with practice to pay him 81 $50
a year.
Although strongly anti-slavery and bit
terly opposed to that institution of the
south, in later years. after the scars of the
civil war were obliterated, he showed the
greatest friendliness toward southern peo-
pie. His own recollections carried him back
to people who had taken part in the revo-
lut1onary war and he was a thorough stu
cent of revolutionary times He lived
much in the events of those early days of
American history and the study brought
his mind in close contact with southern
history. In his review of patriotic deeds
he saw far beyond the dark days of slavery
The southern revolutionary patriots and
the part the south played in the early hts
tory of the country was to his mind more
important than later events. At any rate
they brought him in close sympathy with
the south and its problems. He had
great respect for southern statesmen of the
old school as represented by many of the
men in the minority of the Senate.
A Large Legal Practice
AT Worcester his practice grew far be-
yond his expectations. Not only did he
have clients in that city, but in all the
towns of the county, and in many of them
in the state the people came to him for
legal guidance. AS the court sat from
early morning to or o'clock in the even
ing, the young lawyer had his time well
filled with work. The hard work, espe-
cially at night. eventually impaired his
eyesight. For twenty years that was his
life. The training in law he got in that
way and the custom of hard work were
the foundations of the success he was to
meet in Congress. where he was especially
valued for his sound judgment on legal
matters.
After his removal to Worcester Mr. Hoar
became identified with the free soil party,
and in 1917 he cast his first vote for the
nominees of that party. He had no idea at
that time of receiving political favor from
the new party, as he did not in his early
years believe he had the kind of talents
that would make him especially useful in
that field of activity. Indeed, when he be-
gan the practice of law he thought his
voice was harsh. and that he was gem
orally untitled for that exercise of oratory
that in that day had SO much influence be-
fore jures, and he contemplated combining
his practice to that part of the law that
would not make such appearances neces-
Sary. But he drifted into the kind of
legal work he did not think he was fitted
for so he drifted by mere fitness into
position in the political field that he had
not contemplated in any dream he might
have had. His first prominence in political
life was the result of eXtemporaneous
speech by which. like his father and broth