The Portland daily press., 1892-04-12

after his own heart, and whose method
are the same as his methods. But
even German recognizes that the Hill
boom is dead. His right hand man in
Baltimore, MI. Rasin, has just Offered
in the Calumet club of that city a resolu-
ton endorsing Mr.. Cleveland. German
does not love Cleveland, but he is too as
tute a politician TO linger around politi-
cal boom which is moribund.
GOVERNOR ROBES WITHDRAWAL.
Governor Robe, whose letter with
drawing from the contest for delegate
from this district to the Minneapolis
convention, appears elsewhere, seems at
loss to understand why his candidacy,
which he was told would promote har
mony, encountered such wave of oppo-
sition that out of SO delegates so far
elected, and all of them, too, in the
country towns, he secured but nine. We
think we can inform him. Governor
Robe was overwhelmed simply and sole
ly on account of the unpopularity with
the Republicans of this county and dis
triet Of an idea which he had the mis-
fortune to stand as the representative of.
1t was not any personal unpopularity on
his part, it was not any fear that he
would not creditably represent the Re-
publicans of this district that over
whelmed him, for we believe
Governor Robbie is popular
with the Republicans, especially
of the country districts, and the various
Offices which he has filled have always
been filed by him creditably. 1t was
the belief on the part of the Republicans
of this county that his candidacy was
the concrete expression of the
idea first preached in the Evening Ex:-
press and afterwards repeated in the
Portland correspondence Of the Boston
Herald that the representative of the Re
publicans of the First District at Mime
apolis must either be a man positively
hostile to Mr.. Reed, or one so Indifferent
as not to resent the imputation of such
hostility. 1t was this belief thatswamped
Governor Robbie. That belief was the
outcome of no haphazard guess
OF suspicion. The Republicans
of this county early discov-
cred that the same influence which had
been at work for months to undermine
the congressman from this district by
innuendo and insinuation in a syndicate
of newspapers, the same power which
had pompously announced that the Hon.
Charles F. Libby could not go to Mime
apolis because he was heartily seconded
by Mr.. Reed was the creator of Gov.
ROBBIE candidacy and its chief impelling
force, and they naturally concluded that
his candidacy was but another factor in
the peculiar game which is being played
by the gentleman who presides over the
Portland custom house and figures as the
official head of the Republican party in
this county. That is what settled Gov.
ROBBIE. That is all there is to it. The
Republicans of Cumberland county are
not ready to lend themselves 20 a move
ment Matched in the Portland custom
house to humiliate the congressman
from this district.
Doubtless some Republicans lent their
aid to Gov. Robie's candidacy without
knowledge of the true inwardness of it,
and with the idea that it would prove
generally acceptable as it might, had it
had a different inspiration. The COM
mendation of the Governor in the circu-
lar of the citizens of Gorham was just
enough, but it did not disclose the whole
case. Those people did not know the
use the Governors candidacy was to be
put to. Indeed, the Governors state
ment that he thought his candidacy
would promote harmony shows that he
could not have fully understood it him
self.
An attempt has been made in the fur
therance of Governor Robes campaign
to make it appear that Mr.. Libby's can
didacy is, in some way, demonstration
of hostility against Mr.. Blaine. There
is no truth in that whatever, and it is
simply a ruse on the part of the men who
were pushing Governor Robe to divert
attention from their own purpose. Mr..
Libby has never been identified with any
one of the Republican factions in this
state. He is friendly to Mr.. Blaine, as
is well known. He is friendly, too,
with the senators, both of whom cor
daily supported him for the circuit
He is a friend, too, of MT.
Reed. Colonel Dow is not in the
habit of commencing Republicans for
high Offices who are hostile to MI. Blaine
and the senators, but it was Col. BOWS |
organ, the Evening Express, that first
suggested the nomination of Mr.. Libby
for senator from this county. The only
reason under the sun why he is encoun-
tering the active hostility of Col. Dow in
this contest is because it will be impossi
BILE to torture his selection into a rebuff |
by the Republicans of this district to Mr..
Reed. All the talk about his selection
being an affront to Mr.. Blaine is nonsense.
Governor Rohie seems tn assume in his |