her attorneys
will want to try, and the old ones have. My opinion is that we
have had the last of the Star Route trials. It was claimed that
the one tried was the strongest. If this is so the rest had better
be dismissed. I think the people are tired of the whole business.
It now seems probable that all the time for the next few years will
be taken up in telling about the case that was tried. I see that
Cook is telling about MacVeagh and James and Brewster and Bliss;
Walsh is giving his opinion of Kellogg and Foster; Bliss is saying
a few words about Cook and Gibson; Brewster is telling what Bliss
told him; Gibson will have his say about Garfield and MacVeagh,
and it now seems probable that we shall get the bottom facts about
the other jury--the actions of Messrs. Hoover, Bowen, Brewster
Cameron and others. Personally I have no interest in the business.

_Question_. How does the next campaign look?

_Answer_. The Republicans are making all the mistakes they can,
and the only question now is, Can the Democrats make more? The
tariff will be one of the great questions, and may be the only one
except success. The Democrats are on both sides of the question.
They hate to give up the word "only." Only for that word they
might have succeeded in 1880. If they can let "only" alone, and
say they want "a tariff for revenue" they will do better. The fact
is the people are not in favor of free trade, neither do they want
a tariff high enough to crush a class, but they do want a tariff
to raise a revenue and to protect our industries. I am for protection
because it diversifies industries and develops brain--allows us to
utilize all the muscle and brain we have. A party attacking the
manufacturing interests of this country will fail. There are too
many millions of dollars invested and too many millions of people
interested. The country is becoming alike interested in this
question. We are no longer divided, as in slavery times, into
manufacturing and agricultural districts or sections. Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas have manufacturing interests.
And the Western States believe in the protection of their industries.
The American people have a genius for manufacturing, a genius for
invention. We are not the greatest painters or sculptors or
scientists, but we are without doubt the greatest inventors. If
we were all engaged in one business we would become stupid.
Agricultural countries produce gre