De Alexander: “Opposition to slavery was, at last, respectable in politics.”

Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future....

Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects.

In accepting the Democratic nomination Cleveland had the great advantage of not being obliged to refer to anything of which he was ashamed.

More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.