Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-20
A F,ks
Was That Alleged Interview With Mr.. Reed
At Ann krbor.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 9.-Hon. Thomas
b. Reed of Maine arrived in the city, last
night, and is the guest of Congressman j.
Frank Aldrich, at the Chicago Beach hotel.
Mr.. Reed was much fatigued, went to bed
early last night, and did not get up until
late this morning, when he consente TO an
interview.
When asked about an alleged interview
said to have been had with him in Ann
Arbor, Mich, in which he was quoted as
criticising the Mckinley bill and saying he
did not think it was necessary for the
safety of the Republican party that it reen-
act such a measure, this interview having
been printed in the Washtenaw Times, an
Ann Arbor afternoon daily, Mr.. Reed
said:
II never authorized any such interview
at Ann Arbor. said nothing whatever to
justify it. / am amused to see how the
Democrats are catching at straw. have
not been criticizing the acts and doings of
the 5lst Congress, in which l, myself, took
part.
There is nothing whatever in the pur-
port of that interview which I recognize as
having come from me. If anything of the
sort was said il must be distortion of
You did not say then, Mr.. Reed, that if
the Republicans should be successful this
year"
Mr.. Reed interrupted with some feeling,
81 decline to be catechized about this mat
ter, l have denied it in general and that is
all l wish to say about It,"
"Do you think there will be any kind of
tariff legislation soo1 after the meeting of
the next Congress-"
"If the Democrats are successful they
will endeavor to harry the country for
more. Ali the statements of all the leaders
from Cleveland down show this con-
clusively. If the Republicans are chosen,
it is not question of choice with them, the
Senate being Democratic and the President
Democrat, either wholly or partially.
The Republicans cannot take any positive
action. As the business of this country
needs quiet that is a simple way to get it,"
Asked as to his views on the situation in
New York, Mr.. Reed said |: at looks to me
as if were going to have a strong Republi-
can victory in New York, extending to the
city. OF course, nobody is prophet on
elections. l simply give you my opinion.
BY the way, has the President made any
observation to Mr.. Hill?"
Mr.. Reed was told that he had not. and
that MIR Straus had formally withdrawn
from the Tammany city ticket as candidate
for mayor.
Mr.. Reed expressed the first animation
of the interview at this information.
"What hope is there for the party now"
said Reed, "since Straus has withdrawn"
1t seems to me if had been given carte
blanche in New York / could not have
fixed up the situation which would look
worse for the Democrats"
When shown an article in the morning
papers alleging that the tariff receipts have
fallen below the actual necessities of the
country since the passage of the Wilson
bill, Mr.. Reed said: elf this is so, it is
only realization of what might have been
expected. Had it been the Wilson bill in
stead of the German bill that passed, the
deficit would have been still more striking.
The fact is, our industries generally have
received very severe blows from the gen.
eral stagnation of business and the purchas-
ing power of the country has been so ter
ribly diminished that we cannot patronize
foreign brother to that extent Mr.. Wilson
hoped for when he wrote his bill.
at may be that that is what Mr.. Wilson
went to London to explain about"
"What are your views as to the next
House?"
ct seems necessary for the peace and
quiet of the country and to stop the clamor
of the Democratic leaders, to say that l
expect to see the next House Republican
and elected with the great good will of
large portion of the Democratic party"
Mr.. Reed will speak to a mass meeting,
tomorrow night, in the I'd Regiment armory.
Monday night he viii, speak at banquet
given in his honor, at the Auditorium hotel,
by the Hamilton club, and Tuesday he has
consented to speak for an hour somewhere
in the northern part of the city.