I have seen the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs in the House, now a distinguished member of this court, rise in his place and demand the expulsion of four of his associates for making sale of their official privilege of selecting the youths to be educated at our great military school.
Hoar describes a dramatic moment in Congress where a member demanded the expulsion of corrupt associates.
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And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
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