Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-03
All for Reed in New England.

Morning Telegram Troy, N. Y, Sept.2
The efforts of the friends of Hon.
Thomas B. Reed in New England to
unite that section solidly in his support
for the presidency are making good prog
ress. That the six states comprising that
important and solidly Republican quarter
of the republic will give him their IS
votes In the national convention Is no
longer a matter of doubt. The impulse
given to the movement by Hon. Charles
Marseilles in the Exeter News Letter
and the Concord Monitor and Indcpen-
dent Statesman, Senator Chambers two
newspapers, and the cordial endorsement
given them by the senator himself. the
most powerful politician in New England,
have carried New Hampshire for him
solidly and enthusiastically. Maine is of
course unit for him and has been from
the beginning of the discussion of prcsi.
Dental preferences the Republican papers
Of Boston and other cities of Massachu-
setts have spoken for him with united
voice; in Rhode Island his candidacy has
been received with enthusiasm, while he
has nowhere in the union warmer or more
united admiration than In Connecticut
and Vermont Practically it is settled
that New England will give Mr. Reed its
united vote and stand by him like the i'm
mortal 300 of 1880, till the last vote is
taken and the great question settled
1t cannot be denied that Mr.. Reed is an
ideal candidate. He is alphabetically a
man of the people. He was like Lincoln
a plain country boy, and his life among his
neighbors and oven in public station has
been simple and unpretentious. There
has been no scandal connected with his
career indeed, his honesty Is SO plain, so
transparent, so instructive, that scandal
would be Impossible, and the breath of
suspicion can never assail him.
Then there Is his career of twenty years
in Congress, which became conspicuous
for ability and brllliancy from the first.
and placed him at once among the leaders.
When the opportunity came to his party
he was placed in the speakers chair,
where he rendered service so wise, so
courageous and SO successful that he be-
came marked as the man who combined
in himself all the qualities that make a
great and good executive in higher degree
than any other man in the country Then
all agreed that Thomas i. Reed was his
party greatest best and truest Republi-
can, and that in the not distant future If
he lived he must be sent to tho White
House. New England DEGREES that the
time and the opportunity have come
We have already quoted at length from
the various letters of Mr.. Marseilles in
advocacy of Mr.. Reed, and once more we
have occasion to note the earnest and elo-
quent manner in which he continues to
support the man whom he regards as the
foremost of living American statesmen.
Another letter from his pen appeared in
the Concord Monitor of the eth inst, in
which, after pointing out that Quay's
triumph In Pennsylvania assured the sup
port of that state to Reed, he offers the
following computation of the probabili
ties:
The success of Quay means a solid dele
CATION of Ga votes In the national conven-
ton for Reed. These will be added to
the rs votes of New England as a starter.
New York will undoubtedly throw its 70
votes for Reed after Morton has received
his complimentary vote, and New Jersey
with its 90 votes will follow New York. If
indeed, it does not lead the way Does
anybody doubt where the other Atlantic
states will stand, from Delaware down to
NA'N SUI, ''ANii Ittch a. tllc Only ChBUl-
date east of the Alleqhanies? No other
candidate can possibly have so large a
lead. No two candidates combined will
be able to match him by uniting their
forces. New England, New York, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey will have 81
votes in convention of 1896, or consider
ably more than one quarter Of the whole
The other Atlantic states will furnish 1872
votes, bringing the total eastern vote up
to 366. The gulf states, Alabama Louis
lana. aud Mississippi, have interests iden.
teal with those of the southern Atlantic.
and they have Sc votes. With these we
are within 81 votes OF majority, which
can easily be supplied from the so votes
of kentucky, Tennessee and Texas. To
assert that the east can no longer have a
potential voice in the selection OF a Re
publican candidate for President is pre-
posterous. In two elections an eastern
Democrat has won, once over a popular
president and an admittedly wise and able
statesman. If the Democrat party with
ideas opposed to the prosperity of the
great industrial interests Of the east can
elect an eastern President why should the
Republican party shrink from the under
taking:
In another part of his letter Mr.. Mar
sellies, after noticing the fact that Mr..
Reed is neither playing to the galleries