The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-12
REEDS AMBITION.
Some Of the Reasons Why 1t Is Not
Likely to be Gratihed.


Likely to be Gratihed.
washington, Dec. 11.-Underneath the
surface in Washington and especially
among the republican politicians, is a great
deal of scheming and maneuvering for the
presidential nomination in 1856. And Tom
Reed. Of Maine. is right in the center Of
the whirlpool
II would, indeed. be a strange thing If
the next republican candidate for the
presidency should be taken from the east
ernmost state in News England. In fact
there are comparatively few of the lead
ers who believe that Reed can be noni-
mated, but in Mr.. Reeds own mind there
is no doubt. His boom has had something
Of a rise in the past few days by the an
nouncement that Senators Cameron and
Quay, of Pennsylvania. are both for him.
Between Reed and Cameron there is. and
always has been, a very warm feeling of
regard. The two men like each other in a
social way and there is no doubt but that
Cameron's famous silver letter and Reeds
equally famous London article, in which
he said a good word for silver, were both
had discussed. the financial question with
each other. Mr.. Quay, however, is not
given to sentiment. He is a politician first.
last and all the time. In concluding to sup
port Reed-as he undoubtedly has done
he must either believe he is on the win
ming side or else he has a lively hope of
favors yet to come.
The impression is very current that
Quay is simply playing Reed for big
stakes OF course, Reed will be elected
speaker of the next House. That goes
without saying. He WILL therefore, have
the appointment of the committees. Penn
sylvania has not only a candidate for the
Craftsmanship of the ways and means COM
mittee in the person of Representative
Dalzell of Pittsburg but she has also a
candidate for the clerkship of the House
in the present congressman-at-large Mr..
Mcdowell. Ordinarily, IL would be too
much for one state to expect to secure both
of these places. but there is no telling
what might happen if it was understood
that the siXty-four votes of Pennsylvania
in the national convention were to be cast
for Thomas 3. Reed.
In other words, it is not at all unlikely
that Mr.. Quay will get all he can out of
Mr. Reed in the next House and will prom
man. And then, when the convention is
held the vote of the state will go to
Reed for few ballots it be-
ing understood and known all
the time that he cannot be nominated
and then the sixty-four votes will be
swung to the man who is nominated.
BY this maneuvering Mr.. Quay could not
only redeem his debts, but get credit
from the nominee for having brought
Pennsylvania into line at a critical mo-
ment.
Mr.. Reed has trouble in his own state.
Some of his colleagues in the House, no
tably Mr.. Dingley, is for him, but there
is some reason to think that Mr.. Bou-
telle has not much faith in his ability to
gain the desired plum. Mr.. Boutelle be-
lieves that no one whose name is now
mentioned will be chosen. Experience has
shown, he said to your correspondent,
that the man who plans and schemes a
nomination is the very man who gets
left. "A railroad accident, slippery
pavement, thousand and one things may
happen to interfere with all plans" he
said, land even if everything goes right,
the very striving excites suspicion and
makes enemies. Harrison, it Is true, was
renominated very largely as the re
suit of thorough organization, but he was
President and had control of the patron
age. 1 am speaking of men who seek
the nomination for the first time"
Mr. Boutelle. too, is talking significantly
about protection being the great issue
in the next campaign, and is saying that
if the republicans return to power in
1896 the next tariff bill will be as highly
protective in it's nature as the Mckinley
bill. Such talk as this is treason in the
Reed camp, and when it is also known that
Reed has no support from the senators of
his own state, it is easy to see that he is
handicapped in the very outset
l. r1s,.1rr hot NTr will
subordinate everything in the next House
to his presidential ambition, good many
of the republican leaders are already be-
ginning to fight shy of taking positions
of responsibility under him. Mr.. Burrows
of Michigan, who would naturally be the
chairman of the ways and means commit
tee, and the ranking member of the COM
mittee on rules, is already seeking to get
the senatorship from his state because his
position would be one of the empueSt
honors. He would have to sink his own
individuality in that of Mr.. Reeds, and he
would be expected to yield without ques-
ton to every wish of the speaker. Mr..
Reed can be a tyrant when he wants to
be, as every one knows who has had in
innate relations with him, and there are
very few of the prominent republicans
who care to bend their backs to his lash
ing whip. Mr.. Burrows, for one, will
not do it unless he is placed in position
where he cannot help himself.
All these things are being talked in
undertones by the New England dele
cation in Washington, and they snow
that even with the convention two years
distant. the question of the next republic
can candidate is a live and interesting
tonic