I had become the embodiment of my own epigram, "a tariff for revenue only." Mr.Cleveland, in the beginning very much taken by it, had grown first lukewarm and then frightened.

His "Free Trade" message of 1887 had been regarded by the party as an answering voice.

But I knew better.
In the national platform, over the protest of Whitney, his organizer, and Vilas, his spokesman, I had forced him to stand on that gospel.
He flew into a rage and threatened to modify, if not to repudiate, the plank in his letter of acceptance.

We were still on friendly terms and, upon reaching home, I wrote him the following letter.

It reads like ancient history, but, as the quarrel which followed cut a certain figure in the political chronicle of the time, the correspondence may not be historically out of date, or biographically uninteresting: II MR.