The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-28
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In public life there are few more courageous
and straightforward men than Senator Frye, of
Maine When President Cleveland, at the tail
end of his administration, nominated Melville
w. Fuller, Democrat to be Chief Justice of
the United States there was general desire
among Republican Senators to defeat the nomi-
nation by allowing the session of the Senate to
die without acting upon it. The idea was to
wait until Harrison should be inaugurated, that
he might nominate Il good Republican to that
high office. AT such moment there were prob
ably not two Republican Senators who would
have had the courage to come out boldly and
publicly in support of Mr. Clevelands nomina-
tion. There was one, however, and that was
Senator Frye. Mr. Fuller's name had not been
laid before the Senate an hour when Senator
Frye, with all the courage of a strong man whose
individual Judgment was not subject to any die
tation from the outside, told me (for publca-
tion) most emphatically that the nomination was
agood one, that there was no reason in the world
why it should not be confirmed, and that he
most certainly would vote for confirmation.
The other day when Speaker Reed had scored
his remarkable success in his Congressional dis
trict in Maine and when everybody was talking
about the gall and wormwood that Reeds vic
tory would be to Mr.. Blaine and to the two
Maine Senators, Senator Frye had the courage
and the frankness to volunteer to me for publi-
cation the statement 81 don't like Reed myself"
Now, beyond doubt Blaine and Senator Hale are
as far from liking Reed personally as Senator
courage to speak as Senator Frye has done. Yet
while he says publicly he does not like Reed per-
sonally, there is not Republican in Maine who
will do more at any time to prevent the posi-
campaign against Democrat. Mr.. Frye is
brave man and strong man, good Republi-
can, and a good American.
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So many people have recently been making
comparisons between Speaker Reed and Secre-
tary Blaine, and these comparisons, with the
comments appertaining thereto, are so contra
sdictory and based SO much upon personal and
party preiudices, that it seems well to have re-
course to a disinterested authority Turn to
Websters dictionary, and what are the com
ments that you find there upon Blaine and
Reed Here they are, transcribed verbatim:
BLAIN, neuter. Saxon, Blegene; Danish,
Blein. A pustule; blotch; a blister. In
farriery, bladder growing on the root of the
tongue, against the windpipe, which swells so
as to stop the breath.
REED, neuter. [Saxon, Hreod Reod; Greek
Rieth; Danish, Riet; Gothic, Raus; French
Roseau; Irish, Readan, probably allied to Rod.
/. The common name OF many aquatic plants
most of them large grasses with hollow jointed
stems, such as the common reed of the genus
Phragmites, formerly Arundo,) the bamboo
etc. The bur-reed is of the genus Sparqanium
the Indian tlowing-reed OF the genus Gamma
2. musical pipe, reeds being ancently used
for instruments of music.
3. little tube through which hautboy,
bassoon, or clarionet is blown.
4. An arrow as made of reed headed.
5. Thatch.
6. A weaver's instrument for separating the
threads of the warp.
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Now, will anybody say that Mr., Webster, the
author of the standard dictionary, was not a
man of political sagacity, phophet? There is
only one item in the whole detail of his analy-