sequently must take him with his mistake--they must take him
with his message, and then show that all he intended by "free trade"
was "reform."

_Question_. Who do you think ought to be nominated at Chicago?

_Answer_. Personally, I am for General Gresham. I am saying
nothing against the other prominent candidates. They have their
friends, and many of them are men of character and capacity, and
would make good Presidents. But I know of no man who has a better
record than Gresham, and of no man who, in my judgment, would
receive a larger number of votes. I know of no Republican who
would not support Judge Gresham. I have never heard one say that
he had anything against him or know of any reason why he should
not be voted for. He is a man of great natural capacity. He is
candid and unselfish. He has for many years been engaged in the
examination and decision of important questions, of good principles,
and consequently he has a trained mind. He knows how to take hold
of a question, to get at a fact, to discover in a multitude of
complications the real principle--the heart of the case. He has
always been a man of affairs. He is not simply a judge--that is
to say, a legal pair of scales--he knows the effect of his decision
on the welfare of communities--he is not governed entirely by
precedents--he has opinions of his own. In the next place, he is
a man of integrity in all the relations of life. He is not a seeker
after place, and, so far as I know, he has done nothing for the
purpose of inducing any human being to favor his nomination. I
have never spoken to him on the subject.

In the West he has developed great strength, in fact, his popularity
has astonished even his best friends. The great mass of people
want a perfectly reliable man--one who will be governed by his best
judgment and by a desire to do the fair and honorable thing. It
has been stated that the great corporations might not support him
with much warmth for the reason that he has failed to decide certain
cases in their favor. I believe that he has decided the law as he
believed it to be, and that he has never been influenced in the
slightest degree, by the character, position, or the wealth of the
parties before him. It may be that some of the great financiers,
the manipulators, the creators of bonds and stocks, the blowers of
financial bubbles, will not support him and will not contribute
any money for the payment of election expense