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Show HOAR HAS A HOBBY Senator Is Never Hampered by Facts. HE MISINTERPRETS HISTORY HlsOratlona In tho SenRte Correct In Most of Illietorlc.nl nourish, but tho Massachusetts Man, on Account of Ills Very Poetic Nature, Rnds History Inaccurately The BncllH of Antl-Impcrlallsm Seerna to Have Permeated His System He Tor-rjets Tor-rjets Brnve Soldiers, ITUIDIINR SPHCIVI j New ork, Jlay 31 SmtMor Hoar, like mnny n Journalist whom -we have heard of, Is never hnmpered by Iho facta Ills orations In the Senalo mny hnio hepn n gient philippic, correct enough In moat nf Its rhetorical nourishes, nour-ishes, but the t-cnnlor, on nccount of his ery poellc niturp reads history Iniiccuratelj, nnd ho la now na In the ndmlnlstinllnn nf Prealdont McKlnley, lotnlly unnblo In comprehend the spirit spir-it or our American Institution He himself once sold to n friend In Washington Wash-ington -It muat Imp b.en enrly In Ihe SSpnnlsh war time-that Iip supposed tint he nnd hla collpigue Mr l.olge, Mere erj much nllko except that he looked nt matters na nn old man did, while his colic iiruc looked nt them like a oung man, U Is Indeed n common com-mon thing with old men to feir, as they nppioach their four score eara. or even their three scoro enrs and ten, that Hip country Is going to be nble to get nlong er badly nftcr they nre gone Natural!), the) posse's none of the spirit of daring, nor el en ot self-confidence, common to oung men They have not the Ingenuity of jounger men It Is Impossible to nrt,ue with n, man like S(nntor Hoar The bacillus of antl Imperialism has somehow got Into his sjatem nnd no matter whnt tho honor of the ling mi) require, no matter whit we outfit lo do for the support of our own soldlpr hoa wlio lite lighting nt the front nil of this hla no weight with the senior cxnator from Mnssachusctta 11 la a. fact that Senator Hale, who la aliout IhP onl) othor noted atitl-lm-perlallat In the Pennlp and he disgraces dis-graces hla own State nf Maine eien morp tlnr p. tutor lloir disgraces his own Stato of Maasaihusetts rpcelies n great man) requests dill) for copies or his nntl-ltnperlnlist speeches NeaV-I) NeaV-I) ill of these, howeier tome from college girls, who mint to get hold of lint side of the nrgutnPnt In order to prLpare their essns or dcbiles tho hetlet This gives ua a goo 1 Idea of what there really Is lo null Imperialism. Imperial-ism. Take away from It the support nf ft few faddists In Iloaton who would he taking up with some other atrange notion no-tion If not with this nnd of n few dp-haters dp-haters throughout the iountr wlin must preparp their aide of the argument argu-ment nn matttr what the right or w rong nny be, nnd there Is mighty Utile of It iiiiywhcip During the Inst national cnmpilgn, nt the request nf n lending political manager. I made a trip through tho dr) goods Jobbing district of Nnv York, Here ate meiehanls nnd tra 1-eis 1-eis supposed to he tnoto conservative thin nny other class whin It ionics to n matter of wnr but here more thin nn where else I discovered Ihe strongest strong-est kind or stntlin.nl In fnvor or keeping keep-ing Iho llig up In the Phlllpilnes or nnywhere else where It had once been raised This also vvnull hive been agreeable to these merchants nnl trad-era trad-era tven If n considerable war, In order or-der to gain n foothold In China for this coiinlr hid been Involved The nntl-Imppilnllats nntl-Imppilnllats nre rilnrorccd (onsldcrn-hl (onsldcrn-hl b the attacks of Jlomocrntle Sen-fttora Sen-fttora The Coppeihtada or civil war times nre the exact prototjpea of these, The muat And some Issue, or try to find one. Hllil this thev Iblnk flmv hn In the cry of nntl Imperialism The mil find out their mistake when the otcrs come to take sides If this question should renll) ever come to un Issue Then It would bo shown that tho policy of scuttle will not gi. and also that those who are not with us are ngnlnat us Ihe great miuufacitirlng concerns nf Ihe Muilebikcr llros bought n blot k In upper Hroulwn) at lynngiu re squire several months ngn for f.nnOun see they nre going in build In Salt I.nkn Cll) Their great steel building Is . nly up two or three flours hut they have now been offered a million doll ira fir this properly' Thla giies ou n fair notion of the enormous enlnncement nt values In reil estate on this island of Munhntlin A filenl of mine wna looking for olll.e quarlera In lower Hrondwny lial work llo went up nnl down eerwlure into the old buildings build-ings and Into all of iho iipiv a ,y. scrapers nu rant get nnthln H all ror less tlfin K n squire root nnd In Ihe Umpire building, nt Iteitor atreet prloea nre rrom $1 to Jl n squ up root A building or perhnpa fort) f.rt front In lower llrnulnny hna hnnlly been completed The United Stales Steel corporation takes six nr Its (lours nt "Walt) u lloor An 1 tlirto lire twent). one doors so that jou cun llgutt out ror jourseir Hint thla plot nnd bull I-lug I-lug ma) eusll) pav 1', i cr cent on II -nan 000 I have In mind n lurge new ottlee building on nm or the side streets downtown Tin slru.iure wna put up (lie eiua ago laud nnd building have nppiMlalel n , pr ,ini ,ln-t, live jenia though llguilng the Knml value, that la pi rhaps not inoro thin i ler tent There Is nothing quite so glll-odged as real eatat. tn Ni u . ork nnd HmA.nl estate proposition enn enslly he made lo llminco Hnir ll along the line nr tho subivs) mil ihnumh Iho aiihurbiin dlstrhls vvhrren. u l.nlle) lines have been projectel and with lliein new enn-nectl.ma enn-nectl.ma to the aulma) and the pIpviH-od pIpviH-od rosda un tin labind here, values have gone up anuialngly. Of i nurse the Tnmmany p. ul laps hive made a good deal or th li money In this wn) The) have known whnl Imprnvimnnts 10 expect an I have undo their Inveal-inentH Inveal-inentH nccordlnglv Another notabl. 1 velnpment nf the timet. Is the r. al . at ,t nn( building compan) Hv lugiai of Iheso ihe c.eorgo W fuller . .mpniiv f Chle,it,o This lemarka went Into tho constiiicHon it ak) acrnpere died worth JtoOOoilo at tlm age of 43 hut left n huilneaa which Ina been marvo-louly marvo-louly developed by in. n llko ex-Mnor llntHiey Grant lohn I) Cilmmona the rotm.r ramman) conirnctoi, nnd others oth-ers of their kind n I now a new construction con-struction eompnni In initiation nf thla one has been oiginlxnl with n cnplt il of -60 0O4 00C h) they tenr down ten.tr,r buildings If tdsj need Ihe ground for a bloi k ur twenty stories' That hna happenel nt Iho lUHron where I Ifth avenu, and Twenly-thlrd atreet meet. And at ill Hroadwny i downtown tin liorcel building a strurttiro with its land which muat be worth -(KK)00l u irnnt. Is (onimg down tn make wu (or n twuity-story aky-cruir Aa tho llltle gin said of this wonJcr-fill wonJcr-fill illy, ' It will hi in,,, nhcu they Ket 11 done ' (Hover cievdmd seems to ho writing ror n I'hllaijilphla nrv spiper consider-ihn consider-ihn of lole Nnt lung ngn ho discussed Ihe )irorcr behavior of fisherman, and noi he tells us what a i ir bio thing li is r r a Trisid nt to b n ' t olfli. ' ek is Th troubl will (inn r ( leic an I nnd with nil nth r 1 1 Ml n's who hul made Ihla corni 1 not (inl think hem en there Imieni be n man) ) la that the) would n it ic ir) or (he detalle or their work to Hi ir ub ordlnatea Chester A Arthur act a goo I exami l In this part culir 11 w mid sign hundreds of postmaster .onuni rlons In blank nnd then send Ihnn lovvn lo the Pi stofflce department f" that l H Postmaster OenertI could fill I t,,p namea nt will He had lime to ill nd to the office seekers and nlso to loi k nfter some of the larger affairs of i-l in Not so ( levelnnd and others that I might mention He especlall) ued to alt up till 2 or 3 o clock In the mnrmni. there In his shirt sleeves In his olll. In the While House pot Ins oier all of the pners In hiindrel of poslofTlce cases This w is ver uonsclentlous to be sine but he muldn'l seem to tiust an) of this kind of work to his Cabinet officers not letllzlng I suppose, that the) welt consclentloj. loo 1.x Senator Illll ' C handler has lately told us thnt vie ought lo have two Prea-Idents Prea-Idents one to ae' the public Ihe olllcc-spkers olllcc-spkers ln-luded and the other to attend at-tend to publl bmln There again a good man not weighing three hundre 1 in 1 (lfl) pounds this lime mtk's ft sad mlstnke It does not seem to occur in mnnv Presidents that this whole mat-teh mat-teh of oillc seeking ran be diverted lo the .lift, lent ex-ciillie derartimnla It will be said cf course thnt the olll.e seeket la never satisfied until h( hna been to the Whllt Hous Thsre Is something In th it hut ir he lln Is out onto ror all that It does Jilm no good to go there that In short he can make out bettel b) going In the Trenstlly department sa) ihnn Into the Presl rienilal preten. e Itseir then Ihepmbb n Is solved The work Is better done and the President has time ror big things (.nn. r i lew lan 1 neier undeislood about these things at nil He hid n Cnngr-sa nn hla hands' lipcauap In woiiidii t "el it get off his hauls He hid trouble wllh the otllte-seekers because he woiildn t let any nf his Cabinet olll cers nttm.l to Ihem He pored nv.r papers pa-pers until 2 or 1 o clock In the morning when a hundred dollar clerk In one of the l partmems could have examined them mor quickly rnd Jullrlnll) I notice that the pieseure of otllce seekers wus never sulllclent lo cause Mr lleve land to resign and so )ou notke Is II with those Presidents who complain or who permit their friends to comjilnlu thnt the While House Isn t ver) comfortable com-fortable It has never seemed to be ao uncomfortable thit the) have h en eager lo quit .t before the end of their term and n good man) of them have Bought a second term with no compunctions compunc-tions of confcclenie Hon Tom ltd ex Speaker of thf House and now n great corporitlon lawyer In New York has In charge nn Interesting Prenrh spoliation claim These nip several generation old na ou knou nnd while the Court of Claims has passed upon Ihem fnvorabl), the trouble Is to get Congrpss to appro prlalp money tn pi) Ihem In this milt ter .Mr Heed represents none other than Mme Nnrdlca, the great npara-slnger npara-slnger who vvns l.llllan Norton de secndanl of dipt lor bod Norton de dustr) Me He followed the sea nnd no doubt hi claim I n good as nnil.olvi Lillian Norton a more Immediate ante cedent In fart, her grnndfnther 1 think wn Cninp-Meeting' in,n Allen who for joain was fumoua throughout north ern Maine for having organized uhout all Iho (list-class camp meetings that the) ever hnd Cars Ihe great inn-tinltn, inn-tinltn, nlsg cams from Maine and l.tn-ina l.tn-ina 1 nines vvns n native of Hath I Milan Norton ins a bright pupil nt the Hoston ennservntnry when she via ft llltle rJrl fven from that time h.r rnrior seemed eas) nnd publlo enough I think she hna been married tvvlci Hist to ft man who went up In a balloon and ncicr heard nf afterward, nnd then lo some one considerably younger Ihnn herseir nnd possibly this Incident ma) not haie tuinPd out happily cither It Is npt to be that i) wheie the older womin m irrles the jounger tnnn Wo Invent nny business to sny nii)lhlng "f "fj, " to Ihe present hnpplnesa of Mrs Trances Hodgson Hurnett. whose I resent name I can t think of, but nil), how aflu her divorce from I)r Hurnett In Washington and he wus one of tho most rtspe. ted of prai tltlonera nnd one or the 'Inest men-she waa married to her Kfiritnr) In London They were In New ork r.rpntl) Mrs Hurnett going to ii sanitarium to huve her nervis in inlr. d and the jounger man apparently going bnek to London without hla brldt 1 eople cannot bt nrrienlp I f..., .I.... . lug ihdr own contluslons under thesi t-lrcunisUnccs nnod Jnko on James K Clarksnn whom eiervbod) knows as chairman or the it publican national committee onte upon a time nnd now urve)or or tlm port or New i ork In one or Ih. arl) cainpnUns prohahl) that or IDM or nf. n ?t."H"n.fr rlHrl"0n lommended io the then rnllsctor of the port or Ne i ork n bright black mess, nger w ho hid been nlmut headqunrleis He una ft good man nnd prnbahl) deserved ihe r.ir Al..n." '"" he got it The other hi) thla same fellow wna brought befoiH the survejor or the poit fnr neg-lit, neg-lit, mo Natiinilly the mllector snit for the papers lu the ease and the lii .. """. on" """ '"Hies H ( I irks ii thn, nf ,hl pan,,,,,!, ,m,nt. odic',n'i'.o,,T .1"' n,,"0.r"llnK lo " f he IndlcnHniis the man hud been nppnliii. td I ut unqupsllnniihly Iip bad delerl- 2lnC:l ,"' ," ,n l"8l,n,: """ 'IflnKIng ""hat will iibp up any man l.s.e clnll) Is such a person now iinsnri In JR .',, """",: rrvl" at -Ne" ork rnr nre looking about nnd thej huie t backing or I'm , .,jse bwi In their cndeaiors to cleanso end sllmulaie the service and they are doing It right 1"1 " 11 U i:.NA L |
