man with courage enough to enjoy himself on Sunday is a refreshing
and healthy example. All things considered I do not see but that
Cleveland is doing well enough. The attitude of the administration
toward the colored people is manly and fair so far as I can see.

_Question_. Are you still a Republican in political belief?

_Answer_. I believe that this is a Nation. I believe in the
equality of all men before the law, irrespective of race, religion
or color. I believe that there should be a dollar's worth of silver
in a silver dollar. I believe in a free ballot and a fair count.
I believe in protecting those industries, and those only, that need
protection. I believe in unrestricted coinage of gold and silver.
I believe in the rights of the State, the rights of the citizen,
and the sovereignty of the Nation. I believe in good times, good
health, good crops, good prices, good wages, good food, good clothes
and in the absolute and unqualified liberty of thought. If such
belief makes a Republican, than that is what I am.

_Question_. Do you approve of John Sherman's policy in the present
campaign with reference to the bloody shirt, which reports of his
speeches show that he is waving?

_Answer_. I have not read Senator Sherman's speech. It seems to
me that there is a better feeling between the North and South than
ever before--better than at any time since the Revolutionary war.
I believe in cultivating that feeling, and in doing and saying what
we can to contribute to its growth. We have hated long enough and
fought enough. The colored people never have been well treated
but they are being better treated now than ever before. It takes
a long time to do away with prejudices that were based upon religion
and rascality--that is to say, inspiration and interest. We must
remember that slavery was the crime of the whole country. Now, if
Senator Sherman has made a speech calculated to excite the hatreds
and prejudices of the North and South, I think that he has made a
mistake. I do not say that he has made such a speech, because I
have not read it. The war is over--it ended at Appomattox. Let
us hope that the bitterness born of the conflict died out forever
at Riverside. The people are tired almost to death of the old
speeches. They have been worn out and patched, and even the patches
are threadbare. The Supreme Court decided the Civil Rights Bill
to be unconstitutional, and the Republican party submi