here the sovereignty is divided among the
people, that is to say, among the men, in order to accomplish
anything, many must unite, and I believe in joining the party that
is going the nearest your way. I do not believe in being the slave
or serf or servant of a party. Go with it if it is going your
road, and when the road forks, take the one that leads to the place
you wish to visit, no matter whether the party goes that way or
not. I do not believe in belonging to a party or being the property
of any organization. I do not believe in giving a mortgage on
yourself or a deed of trust for any purpose whatever. It is better
to be free and vote wrong than to be a slave and vote right. I
believe in taking the chances. At the same time, as long as a
party is going my way, I believe in placing that party above
particular persons, and if that party nominates a man that I despise,
I will vote for him if he is going my way. I would rather have a
bad man belonging to my party in place, than a good man belonging
to the other, provided my man believes in my principles, and to
that extent I believe in party loyalty.

Neither do I join in the general hue and cry against bosses. There
has always got to be a leader, even in a flock of wild geese. If
anything is to be accomplished, no matter what, somebody takes the
lead and the others allow him to go on. In that way political
bosses are made, and when you hear a man howling against bosses at
the top of his lungs, distending his cheeks to the bursting point,
you may know that he has ambition to become a boss.

I do not belong to the Republican party, but I have been going with
it, and when it goes wrong I shall quit, unless the other is worse.
There is no office, no place, that I want, and as it does not cost
anything to be right, I think it better to be that way.

_Question_. What is your idea of Christian Science?

_Answer_. I think it is superstition, pure and unadulterated. I
think that soda will cure a sour stomach better than thinking. In
my judgment, quinine is a better tonic than meditation. Of course
cheerfulness is good and depression bad, but if you can absolutely
control the body and all its functions by thought, what is the use
of buying coal? Let the mercury go down and keep yourself hot by
thinking. What is the use of wasting money for food? Fill your
stomach with think. According to these Christian Science people
all that really exists is an illus