Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: "soap," in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.