De Alexander: “What is it but the same party which has led in the commission of all those aggressions, and claims exclusively the…”

Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.

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

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

Referring to the fraudulent practices, he said: "No one claims, no one believes, that I had lot or part therein, or previous hint or suspicion thereof.