e will be nothing neutral about
it. I think that the next administration will be one-sided--that
is, it will be on the right side. I know of no better definition
for a compromise than to say it is a proceeding in which hypocrites
deceive each other. I do not believe that the incoming administration
will be neutral in anything. The American people do not like
neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than
on neither. And, in my judgment, there is no paper so utterly
unfair, malicious and devilish, as one that claims to be neutral.
No politician is as bitter as a neutral politician. Neutrality is
generally used as a mask to hide unusual bitterness. Sometimes it
hides what it is--nothing. It always stands for hollowness of head
or bitterness of heart, sometimes for both. My idea is--and that
is the only reason I have the right to express it--that General
Garfield believes in the platform adopted by the Republican party.
He believes in free speech, in honest money, in divorce of church
and state, and he believes in the protection of American citizens
by the Federal Government wherever the flag flies. He believes
that the Federal Government is as much bound to protect the citizen
at home as abroad. I believe he will do the very best he can to
carry these great ideas into execution and make them living realities
in the United States. Personally, I have no hatred toward the
Southern people. I have no hatred toward any class. I hate tyranny,
no matter whether it is South or North; I hate hypocrisy, and I
hate above all things, the spirit of caste. If the Southern people
could only see that they gained as great a victory in the Rebellion
as the North did, and some day they will see it, the whole question
would be settled. The South has reaped a far greater benefit from
being defeated than the North has from being successful, and I
believe some day the South will be great enough to appreciate that
fact. I have always insisted that to be beaten by the right is to
be a victor. The Southern people must get over the idea that they
are insulted simply because they are out-voted, and they ought by
this time to know that the Republicans of the North, not only do
not wish them harm, but really wish them the utmost success.

_Question_. But has the Republican party all the good and the
Democratic all the bad?

_Answer_. No, I do not think that the Republican party has all
the good, nor do I pretend