De Alexander: “Seldom has an election been contested with such prodigality of partisan fury.”

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....

He had been an honest lawyer as well as an upright public official, and the people believed that his stubborn independence and sturdy integrity would make him a real governor, the enemy of rings and bosses, and the foe of avarice and…

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

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