There was another question that came to the front after the Spanish American war,--the question of "Imperialism,"-- upon which they may have been in accord; but this is not positively known to be a fact.

Indeed, the tariff is such a complicated subject that they may not have been in perfect accord even on that.

Mr.
Cleveland was elected President in 1892 upon a platform pledged to a tariff for revenue only.

The Democrats had a majority in both Houses of Congress; but when that majority passed a tariff bill, it fell so far short of Mr.Cleveland's idea of a tariff for revenue only that he not only denounced it in strong language, but refused to sign it.

Whether or not Mr.Bryan was with the President or with the Democratic majority in Congress in that fight is not known; but, judging from his previous public utterances upon the subject, it is to be presumed that he was in accord with the President.
It is claimed by the friends and admirers of both Mr.Cleveland and Mr.
Bryan that each could be truly called a Jeffersonian Democrat; which means a strong advocate and defender of what is called States Rights, a doctrine on which is based one of the principal differences between the Republican and Democratic parties.