Hoar would remain in the Republican Party, he
was right. If he had taken the same course himself, he would
have been a powerful help in saving his country from what
has happened. If the gentlemen who acted with him in that
way had remained Republicans, and the gentlemen who agreed
with him, who have remained Republicans, who abandoned public
life, had kept in it, they would have saved the country from
what they and I deemed a grievous mistake and calamity. There
was but one vote lacking for the defeat of the Spanish Treaty.
There was but one vote lacking for the passage of the Teller
resolution. If Mr. Speaker Reed, the most powerful Republican
in the country, next to President McKinley, had stayed in
the House; if Mr. Harrison, as I earnestly desired, had come
back to the Senate; if Governor Boutwell and Mr. Adams had
uttered their counsel as Republicans, the Republicans would
have done with the Philippine Islands what we did with Cuba
and Japan. I could cite a hundred illustrations, were they
needed, to prove what I say to be true. There was undoubtedly
great corruption and mal-administration in the country in
the time of President Grant.
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