elf, and if they
are not willing to give me the rights they claim for themselves,
they are not civilized.

No man acknowledges the truth of my opinions because he votes the
same ticket that I do, and I certainly do not acknowledge the
correctness of the opinions of others because I vote the Republican
ticket. We are Republicans together. Upon certain political
questions we agree, upon other questions we disagree--and that is
all. Only religious people, who have made up their minds to vote
the Democratic ticket, will raise an objection of this kind, and
they will raise the objection simply as a pretence, simply for the
purpose of muddying the water while they escape.

Of course there may be some exceptions. There are a great many
insane people out of asylums. If the Republican party does not
stand for absolute intellectual liberty, it had better disband.
And why should we take so much pains to free the body, and then
enslave the mind? I believe in giving liberty to both. Give every
man the right to labor, and give him the right to reap the harvest
of his toil. Give every man the right to think, and to reap the
harvest of his brain--that is to say, give him the right to express
his thoughts.

--_New York Press_, July 8, 1888.

JAMES G. BLAINE AND POLITICS.

_Question_. I see that there has lately been published a long
account of the relations between Mr. Blaine and yourself, and the
reason given for your failure to support him for the nomination in
1884 and 1888?

_Answer_. Every little while some donkey writes a long article
pretending to tell all that happened between Mr. Blaine and myself.
I have never seen any article on the subject that contained any
truth. They are always the invention of the writer or of somebody
who told him. The last account is more than usually idiotic. An
unpleasant word has never passed between Mr. Blaine and myself.
We have never had any falling out. I never asked Mr. Blaine's
influence for myself. I never asked President Hayes or Garfield
or Arthur for any position whatever, and I have never asked Mr.
Cleveland for any appointment under the civil service.

With regard to the German Mission, about which so much has been
said, all that I ever did in regard to that was to call on Secretary
Evarts and inform him that there was no place in the gift of the
administration that I would accept. I could not afford to throw
away a good many thousand dollars a year for the s