Letter from the Hon. George F. Hoar, March 29, 1899 [Declining Invitation
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h., t E 713 1 c~ .H673 b P COPY 2 LETTER FROM THE HON. GEORGE F. HOAR a 4 MARCH 29, 1899 PUBLISHED BY THE ANTI-IMPERIAIJ8T LlZAGU16 ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL PRESS, BOSTON, MASS. LETTER FROM THE HON. GEORGE F. HOAR. BOSTON,Feb. 24,1899. TOthe Hon. George F. Hoa~: SIR: Many of yay$ fellow-citizens are anxious for an opportunity to give expression to their sense of obliga- tion to you for your courageous and patriotic defence in the Senate of the United States of the principles on which our government was founded. We, therefore, beg that you will do us the honor of being present at an assembly of the people to be called for that purpose in the city of Boston, and trust that it may be agreeable to you to name an early day for the occasion. George S. Boutwell. Charles S. Rackemann. John Lowell. Eliot N. Jones. James Murray Marshall. George M. Reed. Alvin F. Sortwell. James R. Hodder. Francis L. Coolidge. William E. Hutchins. Thomas N. Watson. D. C. Delano. John W. Threshie. Benjamin J. Loring. John F. Sullivan. Francis L. Hayes. John G. Miller. Sanford Joyce. Henry Martyn Clarke. Chas. H. Hemenway. Samuel W. Reed. Matthew Binney, Jr. William C. Smith. Arthur R. Potter. Birney C. Parsons. Joseph A. Denison. H. H. Wilder. W. Allaltbain. Frank B. Fay. William T. Sedgwick. Albert B. Harris. Theodore Hough. Maurice P. Spillane. Samuel C. Prescott. William M. Noble. F. W. Chandler. Edwin Sweetser. N. W. Weysse. S. Gannett Wells. Davis R. Dewey. Henry W. Darling. Robert H. Richards. Ralph V.Gloag. Moorfleld Storey. Wallace L. Pierce. Arthur Layler. Joseph W. Stevens. A. Lawrence Rotch. H. 0.Hofman. Edwin D. Sibley. Francis C. Gray. Francis M. Edwards. Nathaniel H. Henchman. P. M. Keating. George T. Tilden. Robert J. Edwards. Joseph B. Moors. Thornton K. Lothrop. Redington Fiske. David Green Haskins, Edward R. Maker. Jr. William 8. Leavitt. Francis Burke. Laurence Minot. Walter C. Cogswell. Frederic Cunningham. Charles E. Stratton. David A. Hincks. John M. Corbett. Jerome Jones. J. G. Lyman. J. S. Rust. William B. Herrick. W. J. Ham. Z. L. Arnold. John %$des. Dudley C. Pickman. Charles C. Nichols. Francis W. Adams. Frank H. Jones. George M. Amerige. Frank Higginson. Frederic B. Holden. C. E. Macullar. Charles B. Cummings. James H. Mellen. George H. Davenport. T. A. Seile. Joseph J. Corbett. H. B. Pitts. Samuel Cabot. A. L. Jewell. F. I. Eustis. C. P. McDougall. Charles P. Parker. Henry W. Bragg. Frank Linscott. John B. Newhall. A. Presbrey. Charles S. Lincoln. John Homans. John Lathrop Wakefield. 2. F. Coone. Josiah H. Quincy. Arthur E. Thayer. Alban Andren. E. N. Lacy. Charles L. Abbott. Harvey W. Shepard. T. B. Parsons. George G. Field. David P. Kimball. Cyrus G. Beebe. Walter E. Robie. Bred. T. Willey. Francis P. Sears. Charles S. Sullivan, Charles Warren. John P. S. Churchill. Chas. S. Tuckerman. Fiske Warren. E. J. Keating. Henry B. Cabot. Horace Dennie. Nenry W. Cunningham. N. P. Murray. Eliphalet F. Philbrick. James W. Stillman. 3'. Alcott Pratt. I John Boyle O'Brien. Benj. Delano Sweet. Fred H. Williams. John Kent. Fred Pope. Henry W. Putnam. John F. Morss. Joseph H. Curtis. E. A. Rich. Daniel C. Linscott. Charles T. Gallagher. D. E. Yresbrey. Samuel H. Wentworth. John C. Palfrey. P. B. Runyan. John V. Beal. George T. Angell. John E. Harrington. Rhodes G. Lockwood. Henry R. Page. W. T. Salter. Charles B. Brooks. Silas H. Lord. R. W. Thompson. William M. Blatt. James Dillon. J. G. Francis. Robert Pitch. Salisbury Tuckerman. Julian Codman. Charles D. Fullerton. Gardner Perry. William H. Adsit. William S. Hall. T. A. Richardson. T. Raymond Pierce. George W. White. C. E. Harris. M. C. Ayers. Arthur H. Vinal. Hartley Demett. E. V. Banks. James F. Cobb. Michael Meehan. L. D. Robbins. D. F. Kimball. Charles J. Lord. F. M. Caine. Edwin L. Gerrick. R. H. Colain. George H. Sheehan. John F. Martin. James M. Curley. Edwin B. Hale. Otto Sharp. William I. Monroe. Edmund A. Whitman. G. U. Crocker. P. E. Everett. T. E. Kendall. Jerome A. Bacon. Charles H. Fiske, Jr. Ed. J. Bromberg. Laurentz N. Moller. Chester L. Stoddard. John H. Blanchard. P. W. Smith. Edward A. Kelly. J. Edwin Jones. William H. Hidden. Parker N. Jenkins. Winslow Warren. Chas. H. McCauley. Charles P. Greenough. Thomas J. Barry. Arthur Lincoln. Sumner Dresser. F. Simpson. Edwin G. Champney. Isidor M. Hirsche. Chas. Fleischer. H. W. Morton. Samuel Richard Fuller. Uriel H. Crocker. Frank 0.Hall, Cambridge. Nathaniel N. Thayer. Thomas A. Rowe. Albert Stevens Parsons. Alfred F. Macdonald. Franklin A. Cobb, Jr. J. Alfred Anderson. William Roger Greeley. Edwin M. Bacon. Louis Prang. George H. Reed. Charles M. Cox, Melrose. Samuel D. Hannah. J. Pickering Putnam. &I.Austin Belcher. George E. Rogers. Edwin C. Holman. William W. Putnam. Charles B. Choate. George H. Abbott. George K. Clarke. Alan Arthur. C. P. Phelps. John J. Curley. H. Glemtis. A. C. Burnett. M. D. Flattery. William Cushing Wait. Wolff Brown. E L. Jones. James J. Storer. Moses Williams. Francis S. Hesseltine. James Dennie. Willis B. Mendum. Horatio N. Glover. Daniel B. Ruggles. Henry G. Nichols. William F. Paskell. Andrew Fiske. William J. Hennessey. A. E. Pillsbury. Charles Wood Bond. William B. Sullivan. Joseph D. Dillworth. Frederick Hehan. Arthur R. Dinn. Charles I. Quirk. P. H. Cooney. J. W. Turner. W. Edwin Ulmer. David W. Murray. Charles C. Bucknam. Thomas A. Mullen. Charles E. Burbank. George E. Howe. Timothy F. MciDonough. George L. Shorey. Francis A. Campbell. Brooks Walker. H. P. Morris. James H. Vahey. G. E. Gould. George D. Alden. A. B. Gilpatrick. James H. Aylward. John D. Bryant. Thomas Riley. Samuel W. Mendum. A. A. Pinkham. William Sullivan. Gamaliel Bradford. I H. B. Mackintosh. Horatio Newhall. Charles F. Kittredge. Grenville H. Norcross. Frederic H. Moore. Osborne Howes. William Keyes. A. D. Salinger. F. T. Hemenway. 1 Stephen H. Williams. Malcolm McLoud. B. S. Ladd. Henry Baldwin. Patrick A. Collins. William N. Storer. Eben Hutchinson, Jr. Samuel H. Hudson. John A. Collins. Charles Frank Day. William R. Sears. John J. Collins. P. J. Flatley. William B. Blakemore. William F. Nagle. W. T. Sears. Samuel M. Child. E. H. Clement. George W. Wiggin. Godfrey Morse. F. C. Hanscom. L. C. Hastings. William L. Smith. J. Williams Beal. James H. Sweeney. William B. F. Whall. Fred L. Norton. John H. Appleton. John E. Griffin. George 0.G. Coale. J. H. Hodges. James F. Joslin. Edward Fitzwilliam. Harvey N. Collison. I. Homer Sweetser. William F. Haskell. James P. Stearns. A. L. Brainard. Charles P. Curtis. Edmund M. Wheelwright. John Wells Morse. Wilbur Macgregor. B. R. Felton. George A. King. C. A. Sampson. Alfred Munroe. C. W. Dodson. Edward W. Emerson. Henry Stetson. Edward J. Bartlett. Roscoe P. Owen. Edward C. Damon. John S. Patton. William H. Hunt. John P. J. Ward. Lorenzo Eaton. J. Brooks Fenno. William L. Eaton. Thomas L. Livermore. Henry J. Hosmer. William H. Hart. Charles H. Walcott. Charles E. Shattuck. Prescott Keyes. Arthur Reed. Henry I?. Smith. James G. Freeman. Henry J. Walcott. James Ballantyne. John S. Keyes. W. K. Richardson. Woodward Hudson. Frank W. Gaskill. William T. Way. D. L. V. Moffett. Lorenzo Cowen. W. H Osborne. Frederick H. Temple. John H. Connors. Benjamin F. Trueblood. Allen P. Worthen. Edwin D. Mead. I?. A. Barham. Horace E. Scudder. Thomas W. Byme. Lysson Gordon. Cheever Newhall. S. Endioott Peabody. Melville M. Bigelow. Edward Atkinson. Thomas M. Babson. William Lloyd Garrison. H. L. Rollins. Charles G. Ames. Harry H. Barrett. Eben N. Hewins. Selwyn Z. Bowman. Edmund Kent Arnold. Samuel J. Nash. A. W. Stevens. James M. Barnard. Leonard G. Babcock. Charles C. Jackson. Leonard A. Saville. Hollis R. Bailey. G. W. Sampson. Theodore Badger. Ralph L. Stevens. Charles K. Cobb. Fred S. Piper. Samuel W. Creech, Jr. Edward P. Bliss. Leverett S. Tuckerman. James S. Munroe. Francis Peabody, Jr. Charles H. Stevens. Henry S. Mackintosh. Charles Francis Carter. John Bartlett. Frank M. Copeland. William Read. A. S. Hobart. W. B. Lambert. George R. Stimpson. Charles W. Eliot. Charles-Edward A m o r y J. I. T. Coolidge. Winslow. Robert DeC. Ward. Thomas Wentworth Hig- William Brewster. ginson. Robert N. Toppan. Henry H. Edes. Coolidge S. Roberts. John Ritchie. William Amory Gordon. Charles F. Dunbar. Henry H. Richards. Francis E. Abbott. Irving C.Gladwin. Samuel A. Eliot. Sherrard Billings. Alvin F. Sortwell. Edwin H. Higley. Samuel Williston. Arthur H. Woods. William Endicott. Robert P. Clapp. Thomas Post. James B. Prince. Herbert C. Parsons. Henry W. Lewis. Willard Howland. Cornelius Wellington. Dehon Blake. Franklin Alderman. Charles F. Dole. Frank E. Nickerson. Charles E. Fay. Charles E. Lay. Bosewell B. Lawrence. Charles M. Hemenway. William Z. Ripley. Francis A. Osborn. R. H. Manson. Albert 8. Eustis. George H. Whittemore. Hugh Cochrane. Francis E. Seaver. Lewis F. Weston. William R. Ellis. Harrison Otis Apthorp. Watson G. Cutter. Joseph S. Nowell. Albert F. Harlow. Lewis G. Janes. Charles A. Whittemore. William James. Henry B. Davis. Jabez Fox. Norton Folsom. F. W. Taussig. Wm. B. Durant. Moses P. White. Joseph P. Livermore. Edwin H. Abbot. A. D. J. Bell. Archibald M. Howe. George C. Deane. Josiah Royce. Edward L. Beard. Ellery Sedgwick. Morrill Wyman, Jr. Charles R. Lanman. George G. Wright. Erving Winslow. WORCESTER,MASS.,March 29,1899. GENTLEMEN:I received, just at the end of the late session of Congress, the letters signed by you and other gentlemen, asking me to be present at an assembly of the people in the city of Boston, to give expression to your approval of what I have said and done in defence of the principles on which our government was founded.