laine has dropped out, and is now writing a book. Conkling dropped
out and is now practicing law, and so I might go on enumerating
leaders who have severed their connection with the party and are
no longer identified with it.

_Question_. What is your opinion regarding the Republican nomination
for President?

_Answer_. My belief is that the Republicans will have to nominate
some man who has not been conspicuous in any faction, and upon whom
all can unite. As a consequence he must be a new man. The Democrats
must do the same. They must nominate a new man. The old ones have
been defeated so often that they start handicapped with their own
histories, and failure in the past is very poor raw material out
of which to manufacture faith for the future. My own judgment is
that for the Democrats, McDonald is as strong a man as they can
get. He is a man of most excellent sense and would be regarded as
a safe man. Tilden? He is dead, and he occupies no stronger place
in the general heart than a graven image. With no magnetism, he
has nothing save his smartness to recommend him.

_Question_. What are your views, generally expressed, on the
tariff?

_Answer_. There are a great many Democrats for protection and a
great many for so-called free trade. I think the large majority
of American people favor a reasonable tariff for raising our revenue
and protecting our manufactures. I do not believe in tariff for
revenue only, but for revenue and protection. The Democrats would
have carried the country had they combined revenue and incidental
protection.

_Question_. Are they rectifying the error now?

_Answer_. I believe they are, already. They will do it next fall.
If they do not put it in their platform they will embody it in
their speeches. I do not regard the tariff as a local, but a
national issue, notwithstanding Hancock inclined to the belief that
it was the former.

--_The Times_, Chicago, Illinois, October 13, 1883.

THE REPUBLICAN DEFEAT IN OHIO.

_Question_. What is your explanation of the Republican disaster
last Tuesday?

_Answer_. Too much praying and not enough paying, is my explanation
of the Republican defeat.

_First_. I think the attempt to pass the Prohibition Amendment
lost thousands of votes. The people of this country, no matter
how much they may deplore the evils of intemperance, are not yet
willing to set on foot a system of spying into each other's affairs.
They know th