Arizona republican., 1898-10-21
TOM REED AT HOME.
4 SkefCl of inc Maine Statesman
 by Democratic Newspaper.

We are all creatures of habit. The voters Of the First congressional dis trict hlve got in the habit of electing Hon. Thomas B. Reed to congress and elected. Any change in the pro- graInme would trouble both Mir. Rsed and the voters. A habit Of twenty two years standing is hard to break of suddenly Men who have smoked twenty-two years know this. People in other states who have indu' ged in the use of liqucr twenty-two years will confirm this statement.
 The average man sees but little Of Rsed-unless he lives at Grand Beach during the summer months-and the newspaper men Of Portland see him very frequently. Newspaper men who s5e him cniy once in lifetime, and who think that Reed is hard man tc approach know little Of the Thcmas B. Reed who represents this district. He will talk as freely as any man, but he talks seldom for publication. H.. in these latter years, has but little to say to the world through the newspapers. He has been a great talker i'll his time. but Of late has talked through many publications, finding that 8 good way in which to reach the people.
 It may well be believ.d that Nr Reed does love this, the city Of his birth, and that he doss find his highest pleasure iii the society Of few old and trusted friends. He generally does have his own way elsewhere, but he al- ways doss here. Probably he is wrong as often as the average public man, but the people Of his district long ago settled down to the conviction that he would be wrong in an original way and that when he did happen to be right he would take the country with him. MT Reed doesn't ask the people CT his district to agree with him, but Cnly U vote for him once in two years. He cheerfully comedies t. every man the ri ght to his own opilic2 ard lis views are his own, and he takes the liberty Of acting cn all public questions as he may deem fit and proper.
 The writer happened to ba just be- hind Mr. Reed on Congress street cDe day recently. The speaker was on his way to his office on Exchange street, where by scrt Of legal fiction he is supposed to be in bVsins ss. Of course everybody knows that Fir. Reed is a tyrant and politically speaking q very bad man, but there was nothing except universal beneyolence in his kindly lie might have been 8 blsa- op, visiting enc Of the churches in his diocese He might have sen an un- commonly devoted pastcr cn his way to a prayer meeting. He did not come up to the generally received estimate the world has formed of Thomas E. Reed, according to a recent writer "tyrant and outlaw"
 He stopped frequently to talk for 2 moment with some friend. One was farmer-like looking individual, tut n reality 8 snrewd politician from one cf the surrounding towns. He tcld story CT two, trailed eplg1ams Dehlnd him as he moved down the street and reached his office only to find nun Der waiting to see him.
 "Reeii don't work fer his dist-ics, it is said and very truly, but that means that Reed don't get offices for parties who are anxious for a good place. These who want places go else where. So those who call to see him are friends-Reed men, who have coth- ing to hope for from him and nothing to desire. They are Rsed Elan because they believe in Reed. They hope for one thing; they desire one thing, and in many cases live fer one thing, Reeds election to the presidency. No wonder he feels at home surrounded by such men. No wonder that he did net deem it necessary to make 2 cam paign this year.
 Mr. Reed is apparently the same i'm personation Of universal benevolence wherever you find him. Perhaps, though, he is 6 shade mere So at the Cumberland club than elsewhere, ex- capt possibly al Grand Beach. There he meets friends and theEe he talks freely. The bright and cheery ap- pointments of the place suit him well. He feels at foma there Some way che never really conprehends how abso- lutely and astonishingly plain ha is until he is seen surrounded by pretty things.
 But suppose Johnson had had ID Boswell. We should then caIy have tcdsy 2 faint and anything but ecm- plinentary idea Of the greates5 talker this earth e--sg knew. If Reed could hut have his Boswell! But then the transcs1dent biographer wouldn't be