several key points are evident here. waller had the endorsement of "all 21 democrats in the senate", but in 1913 the u.s. had forty-eight states, for a total of ninety-six senators. the democrats were not only a minority, they were all southerners. waller's chances were hardly helped by the small number of democratic senators or by the fact that his grandfather l.w. tazewell was the former democratic governor of virginia. col. bartlett speaks of "the unacceptable baggage of samar", but as we have seen this did not seem to hamper waller's rise from captain to colonel. waller's "reputation for callous and inhumane treatment of the filipino people" was based almost entirely on the editorials in the anti-imperialist press, but these views had been rejected by the public long before. the elections of roosevelt in 1904 and taft in 1908 came long after the courts-martial not only of waller and day, but also of the army officers smith and glenn.