For example, there are some worthy Republicans
who are free-traders. But they agree with the Republican
Party in everything else. If you ask them to put a Democratic
President and Congress into power in order to get free trade
they must consider whether if they get power they will give
them free trade. Otherwise they sacrifice everything else
for that chance and get no benefit in that respect. The Republican
free-trader who voted for Mr. Cleveland in 1892 did not get
free trade. He got only what Mr. Cleveland denounced as
a measure of infamy. In the third place you have under our
Constitutional system to determine whether the chance to accomplish
what you want in regard to one measure warrants placing the
political power in hands you deem unfit, so that the party,
in your judgment right on one thing, but wrong in every other,
will have the fate of the country in its hands for a four
years' term, and deal with every new and unexpected question
as it shall think fit. I was bitterly reproached for supporting
Mr. McKinley, and refusing to support Mr. Bryan, when I differed
from Mr.
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