He got only what Mr.Cleveland denounced as a measure of infamy.

In the third place you have under our Constitutional system to determine whether the chance to accomplish what you want in regard to one measure warrants placing the political power in hands you deem unfit, so that the party, in your judgment right on one thing, but wrong in every other, will have the fate of the country in its hands for a four years' term, and deal with every new and unexpected question as it shall think fit.

I was bitterly reproached for supporting Mr.McKinley, and refusing to support Mr.Bryan, when I differed from Mr.McKinley on the great predominant question how we should deal with the people of the Philippine Islands.

But the men who criticised me most bitterly were some of them the men who applauded my purpose to do so when it was first declared.

One of them, the President of the Anti-Imperialist League, wrote me a letter saying that I could be more useful to that cause by remaining a Republican than in any other way, and declared in a public interview that of course Mr.
Hoar would remain a Republican.