Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-03


portunity that is to come to him as
speaker of the next house and the great
ability with which he will improve it:
:, He will not be found posing for effect
there but he is pretty sure to meet with
antagonists such as he did not encounter
in the fifty first Congress- for there will
be Republicans as well rs Democrats in
the house who Will seek to embarrass him
in the hope Of injuriDg his popularity.
This will make the opportunity for the
display of his commanding abilities, his
GOODNESS and steadineSs of temper, the in
fexibillty of will, and his power to COM
mand men, fnlly equal to that furnished
in the fifty first Congress, where he stood
like rock of adamant for the mainte-
nance of a principle which his enemies
have since confessed to be right Next
winter, and during the whole of the first
session of the coming Congress, Thomas
3. Reed will be the most commanding
figure in the country, the most states
lnanlike and the most heroic. His service
there, finn, courageous courteous, just
and faultless, will arouse the same enthu-
siasm with which 1t was greeted during
those months in which he was demon
strating that he was the greatest parlia-
mentarian who ever sat IN the chair of
the House of Representatives. He will
ngain be the speaker of the whole country.
knowing no north no SOUTH DO cast, no
west. And when the convention meets
there will come to it the same warm adj
miratiOn for him from the great Repub
lican west, and from the valiant Repub-
licanism that has shattered the once solid
south as Is now felt for him In the great
Republican east.
OF past services and achievements Mr..
Marseilles remarks in conclusion:
Mr.. Reed is q national statesman. His
name and services are as familiar to the
Republicans Of California Texas, Florida
and Michigan as they ore to these Of
Massachusetts, and New York. He would
be the president of the whole country.
And tho whole country knows that he
would be just and fearless because that is
his record UNMARRIED by any sign of weak
ness or any mistake. He would be an
American president, for he loves his
country, Is proud of it, glorles in it, and
stands for such policies and such acts of
administration as would command for il
the respect of other great nations, He Is
a man of the people, born and reared
among those who live by hard and honest
industry, and his sympatbies are with
them and for them. The country knows
with what wisdom he presided over the
deliberations Of the house under an adj
ininistration that stood for protection to
American industry, how admirably he
arranged the house committees with that
great end in view, how he subordinated
minor questions to the one that proposed
greater prosperity to every citizen who
worked, and how he exuItCd when the
work was done which gave the country
the most perfect system of protection and
the best tarlH for revenue ever enacted
Ii was the grandest service ever rendered
to the great body of the people of this
country, and because Of his share In it,
even II he had made no other record, the
people, who have suffered nearly three
long years of Democratic panic and de-
preston, will rally around the standard
of Thomas Bracket Reed with an cnthu-
siasm and uDanimity like that with
which they voted the false and faithless
party of Cleveland, Carlisle and Wilson
out of power in 1894
Mr.. Chandler's paper the Concord Mon
itor, comments as follows upon the letter
from which we have quoted, and upon Mr..
Narcotics services in leading the fight
for Reed
All for Reed THE Washington CORE
spondent of the Manchester Union CON
firms Charles Marseilles' prediction that
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania and ex-
Senator Platt of New York will be for
Thomas b. Reed for the Republican can
didate for president next year. In fact il
seems now to be accepted as settled by all
leading politicians that the New York
and Pennsylvania delegations will unite
solidly with New England to nominate
the Maine hero. That Mr. Marseilles led
the country in the charge for Reed Ia most
creditable TO that gentleman political
astuteness, and the flsttering prospects of
success are more than complimentary to
his powers as a convincing writer and his
sagacity in aDalyzing situations. He
was the first to boom heed, using the col
umps of the Monitor and Statesman for
that purpose, and the refrain has been
taken up BY Republican NEWSPAPERS
throughout the length ard breadth Of the
land.
We print in another column a third
communication from Mr. Marsejlles