De Alexander: “He seems the most eloquent, I might almost say the only eloquent man in the Senate.”

A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....

He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.

In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....

Indeed, his administration admittedly ranked with the best that had adorned the State for a century, and his friends, including Independents and many Stalwarts, rallied with energy to his support.