He had just returned from a lengthened visit to the United States, and what he had seen there he kept at first very much to himself.

But at a small committee meeting held when his election was still a matter of doubt, he unbosomed himself at last to some effect.
"The vote we want," he said, "is the vote of those people who are losing their bread, and who see ruin and starvation coming in upon them.

I mean the middle-class manufacturers and the operatives who are dependent upon them.

I tell you where I think that as a nation we are going wrong.

We fixed once upon a great principle, and we nailed it to our mast--for all time.