The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-04

Stories of the Late Senator HOar.
In the Senate Frisbie Hoar, as he
was known throughout the Bay State,
seldom employed his emasterful sar-
casr-, says the New York Tribune. His
own phrase 'oThe overshadewing Sen
ate was more than phrase with
him. On this very point he wrote in
his Biography of Seventy Years" the
| following anecdote:
In the spring of 1863, when / first
took my seat in Congress, Gen. Butler
was III the House. He was perhaps
| as widely known to the country as any
| man in it except President Grant. He
used to get up some scene of quarrel or
buffOonery nearly every morning ses-
sion. His name was found every day
in the headlines of the newspapers. 1
said to Gen. Banks one day after adj
journment:
Don't you think it is quite likely
that he viii be the next President of
the United States?
Never said Gen. Banks, in his
somewhat granddaughter fashion.
Why, said 1, don't you see the pa
pers all over the country are full of
him every morning? People seem to be
reading about nobody else. Wherever
he goes the crowds throng after him.
Nobody gets such applause, not even
Grant himself
Mr.. Hoar,' said Gen. Banks, when
/ came down to the House this morn
ing there was a fight between two mon
keys on Pennsylvania avenue. There
was an enormous crowd, shouting,
laughing and cheering. They would
have paid little attention to you or
DIT t. ~ n
President of the United States, they
won't take either monkey. ="
This story recalls the sterner utter
ance of lockwood Hoar, who, when
asked if he was going to attend But
lers funeral, replied:
mo; I'm not going, but l approve of
it,"
Senator Hoar used to tell with great
gusto Of conversation that took place
between two Southerners, the first of
whom had but lately returned from Il
trip through New England. Said the
first man from Dixie to his friend:
You know those little, white, round
| beans?"
YES" replied the friend, 1.-THE kind
we feed to our horses?''
THE very same. Well, do you know,
sir that in Boston the enlightened cit
| liens take those little. white, round
beans, boil them for three or four
hours, mix them with molasses and l
know not what other ingredients, bake
them. and then-what do you suppose
they then do with the beans?"
They eat 'em. sir!" interrupted the
first Southerner, impressively. Bless
me, siI, they eat 'em!"
Another little custom of Senator
Hoar's was having one of his Judiciary
Committee clerks from his native town
of Concord, Mass, although his own
home was in Worcester. To his Con-
| cord clerk he was almost as much
father as a superior. 1t is told of him
in Washington that when some news
paper asked for a photograph Senator
! Hoar said to William Garland; a former
Concord clerk, now United States dis
| triot attorney:
Garland, you Just go over. and sit
for that picture" Then, by way OF
explanation, he added You see, Gar
land, is better looking than 1, so when
any one asks. for-~my picture L have
him sit. Then my chief clerk, Good
win, Is a better penman, and when
people write for my autograph l have
him answer Then Doherty, my door
keeper, he's better and reader
L.
I:tervieMers-to him; hell-talk to them,"
OF the simplicity OF his life no more
| accurate picture exists than that
drawn by the Senator himself when
Pittsburg paper charged him with
| living, exclusively on terrapin and
champagne. This document, famous
| in its time as 1.-THE Fishball Letter."
and directed to the editor of "The
Pittsburg POST. read as follows:
United States Senate, Washington,
D. c., Aug. 10, 1S90.-My Dear Man:
| Somebody has sent me a copy of your
paper containing an article of which
you do me the honor to make me the
subject. What can have put such an
| eXtravagant yarn into the head of so
amiable and good natured a fellow? l
never said the thing which you attri-
butte to me in an interview, caucus or
| anywhere else. / never inherited any
wealth or had any. My father was a
| lawyer in very large practice for his.
| day, but he was a very generous and
| liberal man, and never put much value
upon money. My share of his estate
| was about $40, 500. All the income pro-
ducing property / have in the world,
| or ever had, yields a little less than
! $1,000 a year, $500 of which is from
life estate and the other 1000 comes
| from stock in a corporation which has
only PAID 0lVldenuS Tor the last TWO
| or three years. and which 1 am very
much afraid will pay no dividend, or
much smaller ones, after two or three
years to come.
with that exception, the house
where I live, with it's contents, with
| about four acres of land. constitute my
whole worldly possessions. except two
or three vacant lots, which woulA not
bring me $1,000 all told I coulu rot
sell them now for enough to pay my
debts. 1 have been an extravagant
collector of books, and have a library
which you would like to see and l
would like to show you"
The Senator here reviews the period
of his public service, and then con-
| tinues:
The result is. ] have been here
twenty years as Representative and
Senator. the whole time getting a little
poorer year by year. If you thinl.
have not been good one, you have
my full authority for saying anywhere
| that fully agree with you. During all
this time have never been able TO
hire a house in Washington. My wife
and l have experienced the varying
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