De Alexander: “Besides, it meant a complete and final separation between the President and his party.”

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

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

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.

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