Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-05
PRESIDENTIAL ROOMS.
Reed of Maine and Senator Davis of Minnesota Favorably
 Mentioned.
The Administration Moving Against Blackburn in His Kentucky Campaign-Cash is Senator
 Gorman's Mainstay.
(From our regular correspondenD.

WAsHINGTON, Sept. ?, 1895.
 "How would Reed and Davis strike Iyou?" The question was asked by one
 of group of prominent republicans
 who had been discussing opinions which
 had been expressed by Senator Petti-
 grew of South Dakota, and ex-Senator
 Sabin of Minnesota, on the presidential
 outlook. The responee was prompt and
 emphatic, "good." Senator Pettigrew
 depressed the belief that Senator Davis
 would be supported for the presidential
 nomination by from five to eight states
 at the opening of the convention, and
 that, owing to his very friendly relations with all the other candidates, his chance
 for winning would be excellent in case
 of prolonged contest. MT. Pettigrew
 thinks Senator Davis a splendid csndI-
 date. He says of him; "While nobody ever accused him of being n trimmer or of attempting to carry water on both shoulders, there is no truer friend in the country ot both the working man and the business man. It is perhaps n curious fact that while so many distin- guished and able lawyers have been si- most all their lives representatives of opulent railroads, steamship companies or other corporations. Davis has never been corporation lawyer. Is would be & great thing for the United States if 1t would have at the head of affairs man whose sympathies are so cosmopolitan, and whose scholarship embraces aJ once toe practical knowledge of the states man and the elegant requirements of 6 Iiterateur."
 Ex Senator Sabin, while not dispar- aging Senator Davis, thinks he cannot hope for anything better than the vice presidency. He states his opinion of the situation to be as follows: ''Out in the northwest, as far as can learn by per- sonal contact with the rank and fife, az we'll as the leaders of the republican party, the trend of sentiment IS favor able to the consideration of Thomas B. Reed, of Maine. He possesses the qual- Itie5 which so endeared Gen. Grant to bis supporters, conspicuous among which Is the fact that he alwaye stanCs by bis friends. That is the kind of man to lead and win with. for you always know where to find him in an emergency. Senator Quay's success in Pennsylvania and the result of the recent republican convention in New York are indications favorable to the Reed boom, for Quay ard Platt admire the Maine statesman, because he has the courags of his con victiors and is not afraid to epeak his sentiments. Hence 1t may he set down as certainty that the Empire and Key stone states will be found linked tOgeth- CT at the republican presidential con- vention in support of Reed. With New England and the middle states for him 1t will be a difficult matter to overthrow the standard of Reed, and all over the west the sen timent is steadily increasing in his favor. It would not surprise me, under the to sec his nomination for president on the first ballot; and cer t8inly DO truer exponent of the princi pies of republicsnism can be found. With Reed at the head of the ticket and a good man from the west as bis run ninG mate an old time majority would be rolled up, for every republican in the United States would wan. to cast his vots for such ticket"
 Tie administration men have made new move against Blackburn in the Kentucky campaign. It was ipaugur- ated when Representative Berry, of that state, announced himself candidate for the senate, and will, it is said, bs followed by similar announcements from othor a1 m: rt tiop tc uho personally popular enough to get the support of few of the democratic can- didates for the legislature. Noue uf these men have any serious intention of coming to the senate, even if the demo- crats can hold the legislature. Their object is to aid in electiDg a democratic majority of the legislature and to control majority of the democratic majority of the legislature so elected, in order to prevent Blackburn's election. When cannot be reelected the name of Secre- tary Carlisle will be pushed to the front as compromise candidate and all the administration men will promptly retire in bis favor. Quite a sbrewd game in it's way, but it will be nicely blocked if the republicans carry the legislature.
 If any doubts remained in the minds of the republicans about carrying the state of New York this year they were removed by the boting of Senator Hill's Syracuse convention by the cucksos New York is all right this year, and also next.
 It iR now said that Senator German has given up whatever hope he may have indulged in of receiving any help from the administration, and that he is now depending solely upon cash, with which the sugar trust and other corpor ations under obligations to hin are plentifully supplying hIm, to retain his hold upon Maryland. If be fails, his influence in national politics will here T.