The Portland daily press., 1893-04-05

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They Want for the Ofices-And When
That is Done Cleveland Will Tell Max
well and the Other Axemen to Wade
| In.
The Great Plum Trust met at the Fall
mouth Hotel last evening to settle some
important matters relative to the distri-
button of the federal patronage in this
state. Nearly every member of the trust
was present, headed by John B. Dono-
van, chairman, and included Committee
man Kimban Eastman, who carried the
bag of Cumberland county post Office
! plums. These are the members of the
committee who gathered to represent
! their counties: J.. K. Willett of Waldo
] boro, w. j. Dreamer of Penobscot, j. F.
| Arnold of Foxcroft, III. j. Hathaway of
! Houlton Gust appointed colleetor}, Geo.
E. Hughes of Bath, r. M. Mason OF Au-
burn, ]. H. Montgomery of Camden, u.
| O.. Greenleaf of Pennington, Fred En-
cry Became of Hallowell, w. J. Bradbury
of Fairfield, W. P. Thompson of Belfast,
John B. Donovan of Alfred, Kimball
| Eastman of Westbrook, G. r. Wiley OF
| Bethel, and q. l.. Jones of Waterville
In addition to the committeeman, there
| was present State Organizer Charles B.
/ Morton, who has just returned from
! Washington, where he has had the ear of
1 Cleveland, and won the great fight in
! which Hathaway of Houlton won the
collectorship of that place against Don
| Powers, the candidate of the regular De-
mocracy of the district. Mr.. Morton is
| believed to be very influential in the dis
tribution, and, as may be imagined,
where he sat yesterday was the head of
the table. Beside Mr.. Morton, there was
| General Samuel D. Leavitt of Eastport,
who represented Washington county on
the committee. Other Maine Democrats
present were G.. F. Mansfield of Jones'
port, Justin Sherman of Camden,
F.. B. Bigelow of Auburn, W.
Y. Patch of Bangor, John
S. Derby of Alfred, Joseph L. Smith of
Bangor, and A. S. Kimball of Norway.
A cluster of local Democratic stars
thronged the corridors of the hotel dur
ing the evening, waiting patiently for the
result of the deliberations of the Great
Plum Trust.
OF course first and foremost among
| them were the two candidates for collect
or of this port, Hons. w. III. Clifford and
M. P. Frank. Then there was Alderman
Tolman, who came to see that A. S. Kim
ball of Norway should not carry away
the Portland appraisership. Mr.. Toiman
| has just returned from Washington,
where he had some very satisfactory in
terviews with Mr.. Cleveland.
Other Portland Democrats present
were Col. A. W. Bradbury, Virgil G..
| Viii son, Alderman Joseph A. MCGOWAN
The first case before the committee
| was the Gorham post Office case. Axe
man Maxwell, on recommendation of
| Dispenser of Cumberland County Post
Offices Kimball Eastman, has just APP
| pointed Simon B. Guthrie to succeed
Col. III. r. Millet. This appointment
| angered Gorham Democrats greatly.
/ There were three other candidates for
the office: Silas Strout, F. W. Harding
/ and Theodore B. Edwards. The Cor
i ham Democrats represent that a general
meeting of the town committee was to
| be held at which the matter was to be
| settled; but the first thing they knew
they learned that Guthrie had been APP
pointed. A big delegation of them came
| in last night, and appeared before the
committee to show that Guthrie had got
his support by a still hunt, in the course
of which he is alleged to have represent
| ed that he was the only candidate. The
| Gorham Democrats want the State COM
mittee to have Guthrie's commission
withheld; and last night appearances
were that they would succeed.
After disposing of this case the COM
mittee went into executive session which
lasted until late into the night.
1t is generally believed that Morton
has brought word from President Cleve
land that he desires that the Maine
Democrats shall settle their differences
at home, and present to him their selec-
tions Then civil service reform needn't
interfere with prompt action.
There was rumor during the day yes
terday that one object of the committee S
meeting would be to settle the conflict
ing claims of the Hon. W. III. Clifford
and M. P. Frank, to the colleetorship.
Both those gentlemen were present in
the evening; but Mr.. Frank said to the
PRESS representative that he thought the
present meeting would not get to the
conside Iteration of the collectorship.
Half pair lace draperies at Atkinson S