If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

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

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

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

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

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.

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.