De Alexander: “The Constitution of these United States was intended to form a firm and perpetual Union.”

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

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

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.

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....