The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-05
Every Maine Republican Going About
With a Knife Concealed
About Him.
The Clashing Ambitions OF Blaine,
Reed, Boutelle, Hale, Ding
ley and Others.
Each One Heartily Isislikes tho Other and
Coyets the Fat Offices That
ARC in Sight.

BANGOR, Me-. March 4.-fhs state of
Maine is only a little states It's area Is only
l,119 Of the union, aud it has within It's
border only about 1.sO OF the population OF
the republic. It's leading industry just
now ia cutting ice and gsttfnSr spruce hem-
lock. and pine in from three to ak feet OF
snow: its temperature Is near zero, making
ice sand icicles everywhere, except upon Its
citizens who are in politics. II
But upon such of Tho latter as are at
home the hoary frost OF winter would not
CONCEAL, even were it TEN times as cold.
while upon the Maine contingent IN Wash
inpton-Blaine, Hale, Frye, Reed, Dingley,
Milliken, and Boutelle-a warm political
fight keeps n ~copious pe%rspirSt,on. bou-
telle hates Blaine because he has not
been given such of the earth as Blame could
grant; he hates Hale because he Is after ms
seat in the senate, and the two do. not
speak; he hates the tribe Of nlngley ard
does net speak to the congressmanss
brother, Editor Frank Dingley, Of the
Iewiston Journal. Bontelle secretly hates
Harrison, and once gave him q dressing
down" in his paper. Reed hates Hale, frye
and Blaine, and is not on speaking terms
with either. He hates, too, any man who
finds favor with either the secretary OF
state or the two Maine senators. he too,
ID after Hale's scat and hates Boutelle for
having the same aspirations, and he talks
ABOUT his hates just as freely as he talked
about his hatred for President Hayes.
Blaine hates ths gang as he is cred
lisa With terming them when Reed and
some others endeayored to ridlcule his re-
ciprocity IDEAS. More than once Boutelle,
Reed and Milliken met with IeverBes at his
hands. hut Ne is on good terms with Con
gressman Dinglev and Senators Hale and
FRYE. The four deal out the patronage IN
A way which best suits themselves, and IN
q way which will tend to keep 10 check
Boutelle's march to the senate or keed,s
march to either the senate or the White
house. 4. -%@M #@y Z
Boutelle once told q friend down here
that he was always q dark horse horse can
didate for the presidency, and he 10 cred
tied with thinking that lightning OF thls
sort may possibly strike him. He las a war
rscord and 4 firm belief that the war of the
rebellion is still on. Reed has more fights
on hand than a Harlem cat with a SCORE OF
enemies to punish. He carries a long knife
beneath that we'll known io%coseness, and
he, too, hopes to become q part and parcel
Of the list Of republican presidents. Ding
lev and Hale are rich and will be content
to remain whore they are--Hale refused a
place in Hayes's c~abinet-whilo Milliken
fondly hopes that his unique temperance
pledge and the national garden truck seeds
which he is distributing may return him
again to the house Of representatives.
Maine may, therefore,, be counted on as
having ia the field three presidential can
dates. if Blaine be counted, as many Of his
friends here insist he must. Each man has
a strong following at home, hence the great
political warmth just now in this region OF
ice and snow. Just how warm tbs fight IS
can best be judged by the utterances Of the
home leaders. Take Resd'H case. He de-
sires to 60 to the next republican national
convention as delegate at large. Blaine
will not have it, and volclng the entlments
of the secretary of state, Col. Fred N. Dow,
the collector of customs of Portland, who
got his appointment through Blaine, Halls,
and FRYE, says editorially in his paper:
SIT is entirely safe to assume that Mr..
Reed does not desire that honor, and for
reasons which should debar him from 1t If
he doea. The republicans of Maine have q
right to be represented at Minneapolis, and
every intelligent man among thorn under
stands that Mr.. Reed is at variance with
tho great nsass of his party i'll this state,
both as to policies and persons liable to be
passed upon in the national convention.
He did his utmost at Its inception to an
tagonizs reciprocity, and has had nothing
but sHsers and predictions Of failure for 1t
since. His hatred for MIR Blaine is in
tense, and has manifested itself whether i'll
the health, tire sickness, or the berease-
msnt of its object. He bitterly ~denocnces
President Harrison, and in private il not
in public gives reasons therefor which con-
siderate men canaot approve. MIR. Reed
will doubtless be content with the united
support OF the republicans of the First dis
trict for congress, which will be cheerfully
granted, without asking help i'll quarrels
that have their origin in weaknesses which
his constituents are willing to pity and for
give, hut do not feel called upon to APP
prove"
Mr.. Blaine has never bean conspicuous
as a man who means Mo- when he saws
no, but he can say it most emphaaicaily
and in such q way as will leave no.doubt as
to his meaning. Hs has said mo- in this
matter of Mr.. Reed going to that conven-
tion as delegate at large. he state con-
yention Will give due heed to MIR. Blaine's
desires. But Reed could win even then if
he had a good hold upon his district, for he
could go to the district convention and Sc
cute the double honor of y nomination for
congress and as Il district delegate to
Minneapolis. But this no will hardly I'M
dertake. and therefore it may BIS sat down
as a fact that the s'clar' will be obliged to
work his datk horse presidential boom as
an outsider and not as a delegate to the
convention.
That Reed will sit quietly by and see his
ambition disposed of i'll this manner no,
body assumes to believe. There Is a great
deal of the Indian about Reed. His hate il
intense, aad, as Collector Dow writes, il
has followed Blaine oven when the latter
had his own dead in his home. In this
fight now begun, if Reed knows aught t.
the detrlnent of Blaine which is yet I'm
known TO the world al large hs will give i
out, for he too, like all Maine congressman
and senators, save Mlliiken, IL Nh owner il
newspaper.
Strangely enough, all the Maine con.
upaEcI,ab q N Dat,u ~, ynyt,r ftn,, $40