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A man who is his
own candidate is commonly a very bad candidate for his party.
One vote, more than once, would have saved the country from
what I think its wretched policy in regard to the Philippine
Islands. There was just one vote to spare when the Spanish
Treaty was ratified. One Senator waited before voting until
the roll-call was over and the list of the votes read by the
clerk, before the finally voted for the treaty. He said he
did not wish to butt his head against the sentiment of his
State if he could do no good; but if his vote would defeat
it, he should vote against it. If there had been one less
vote, his vote would have defeated it. The Treaty would have
been lost, in my opinion, if Senator Gray, one of the Commissioners
who made it, who earnestly protested against it, but afterward
supported it, had not been a member of the Commission. The
resolution of Mr. Bacon, declaring our purpose to recognize
the independence of the Philippine people, if they desired
it, was lost also by a single vote. The Philippine Treaty
would have been lost but for Mr.


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