I could not undertake to state President McKinley's opinion, conduct or policy, without expressing my disapproval of it, and if I did not do that, I could not state it without being thought by those who heartily approved it, not to have stated it justly and fairly.
Hoar explains the necessity of expressing his disapproval of President McKinley's policies when discussing them.
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Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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