isputed duty of the
Government to protect every citizen at home and abroad.

_Question_. What do you think was the main cause of the Republican
sweep?

_Answer_. The wisdom of the Republicans and the mistakes of the
Democrats. The Democratic party has for twenty years underrated
the intelligence, the patriotism and the honesty of the American
people. That party has always looked upon politics as a trade,
and success as the last act of a cunning trick. It has had no
principles, fixed or otherwise. It has always been willing to
abandon everything but its prejudices. It generally commences
where it left off and then goes backward. In this campaign English
was a mistake, Hancock was another. Nothing could have been more
incongruous than yoking a Federal soldier with a peace-at-any-price
Democrat. Neither could praise the other without slandering himself,
and the blindest partisan could not like them both. But, after
all, I regard the military record of English as fully equal to the
views of General Hancock on the tariff. The greatest mistake that
the Democratic party made was to suppose that a campaign could be
fought and won by slander. The American people like fair play and
they abhor ignorant and absurd vituperation. The continent knew
that General Garfield was an honest man; that he was in the grandest
sense a gentleman; that he was patriotic, profound and learned;
that his private life was pure; that his home life was good and
kind and true, and all the charges made and howled and screeched
and printed and sworn to harmed only those who did the making and
the howling, the screeching and the swearing. I never knew a man
in whose perfect integrity I had more perfect confidence, and in
less than one year even the men who have slandered him will agree
with me.

_Question_. How about that "personal and confidential letter"?
(The Morey letter.)

_Answer_. It was as stupid, as devilish, as basely born as
godfathered. It is an exploded forgery, and the explosion leaves
dead and torn upon the field the author and his witnesses.

_Question_. Is there anything in the charge that the Republican
party seeks to change our form of government by gradual centralization?

_Answer_. Nothing whatever. We want power enough in the Government
to protect, not to destroy, the liberties of the people. The
history of the world shows that burglars have always opposed an
increase of the police.

--_New York Herald_