Reply to a letter to the editor written by P. Tideman (see 1909.19) and published in De Standaard, no. 10700, February 2, 1907. Tideman was running as a candidate for the Free Liberal Party. Some Anti-Revolutionaries had reproached Tideman with a lack of character and Tideman had inquired whether Kuyper—as leader of the Anti-Revolutionary Party—took responsibility for this accusation. In his reply Kuyper disavows the accusation as too personal. He opines that the reproach should be leveled not against Tideman, but against the Free Liberal Party. As Kuyper saw it, that party drifted between two river banks because it supported, on one side, the leftist S. van Houten, who was an avowed atheist, and, on the other side, the right-wing P. Tideman, who respected gospel principles.