Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — Senator Hoar Goes to New Orleans. [ARTICLE]

Senator Hoar Goes to New Orleans.

In pursuance of Mr. Sherman’s resolution, certain election outrages which are said to have been perpetrated in Copiah County, Mississippi, are to be investigated. Mr. George Frisbie Hoar is to lead a sub-committee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the hunt for outrages in Mississippi. Next to getting a crumb of patronage, or uttering virtuous declamation in be•half of civil service reform, a Southern outrage is the most cherished treasure of Mr. G. Frisbie Hoar’s soul. With an apparently promising opportunity before him to gratify one of his dearest desires, one might think that Mr. Hoar would fly as fast as parlor-cars can go' to the wilds of Mississippi, pick up imaginative testimony and affidavits of horrors as horrible to be told as his time allows, and then hie back to Washington with his sub-committee, and compose a speech to make the haughty South tremble, and the Worcester Spy weep for pride in the pride of Worcester. Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee, however, have determined to go to the scene of the Copiah outrages by way of the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans. They are afraid to go to Copiah County. The people of Copiah are excitable fellows, who might arise in wrath and make several vacancies in the United States Senate. The people of Copiah would massacre any witness who dared to give the kind of testinfony Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are looking for. Perhaps, too, that kind of testimony couldn’t be found in sufficient quantity in Copiah County. It can be found in quantities to suit at New Orleans. No doubt Honest John Sherman has told Mr. Hoar about the advantages of New Orleans as an affidavit-producing center. Mr. Sherman was there in 1876. The cooking in Copiah is, as Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee justly urge, likely to be _ primitive, and to be rieb only in fried abominations. The cuisine at the St. Charles is much better. Anjl it costs more. The greater distance of Washington from Now Orleans than from Copiah also has a part in bringing Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee to their praiseworthy determination. The more an investigation costs the Government, the merrier for the investigators. Far be it from ns to distrust the wisdom of Mr. Hoar and his sub-commit-tee in preferring the delicacies of the New Orleans markets to the jjjistio messes of Copiah County. If Mr. Hoar’s temper is any test, his liver is disturbed. For the peace of the Senate, it is well that he should live well. We should think, however, that he would have preferred to come to one of the hotels of this city and investigate. Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are bonnd to have a good time. There are many happinesses in a Senator’s life, and hunting outrages in a hotel which has a tine bill of fare and a well-stocked wine cellar is not the least of them. Yet there are ill-natured persons who will say that to incur unnecessary expense by holding in Louisiana an investigation of a Mississippi election is an outrage as great as any that Mr. Hoar and his sub-committee are likely to ferret out. —New York Sim. The ice-cold reception accorded the great Mahone-Sherman programme advises hypocrities and political desperadoes, who are posing as knightly defenders of the wronged, that they will not be allowed to wear the cloak of righteousness to cover sins.—Cincinnati News-Journal. The American hog, upon investigation, is likely to be completely vindicated, wbioh is more than can be said of Keifer, John Sherman, Dorsey, and some other Republican swine. —lndianapolis Sentinel.