Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-22
That in Maine to Be Of
Exceptional importance.
Washington Deeply Interested IN
Struggle torPIne Tree Mastery.
Second and Sd District Patronage
TO Surprise Some-1hs auesssFs.

Washington. D. c., March co.
| (SpeciaD-After tarrying at the fed
| eral city for a few days to close out
his Congressional work &c far as pos
sible, Representative Edwin C.
Burleigh has departed for Boston, ac-
| companied by Mrs. Burleigh. He will
probably remain there several weeks to
attend to some busiHr7s matters be-
fore returning to Name.
There were numerous official mat.
ters in Washington which the Third
District Congressman could have
dropped on March 4th. but he thought
it due his constitute ITS, who had origt-
nally asked him to look after these
matters to reach conclusions as far as
possib, !. These had to do with PEN
sion cases at III 1ureau of Pensions,
postottice and ruIai Ioute cases before
he postoffice department, and with
errands before Learly every one of the
departments.
His successor, accordingly, will find
the business Of a Congressman for the
Third District right up to late and
next to nothing pending, which could
be disposed of. During the last few
weeks Coy. Burleigh's Lii from Maine
has been very heavy and he has taken
the usual care ~ answering all these
communications al attending to the
requests conVe' ed. He also has been
visiting with nany a his old friends
in the Hous. huth Democrats and Re-
publicans. VIE .s lingering in WASH
ngton. Many Representatives of both
parties expre sSed their regret that he
was leaving Congress and told him of
their hopes that the beginning of the
63d Congress, two years from now.
would see him back in Washington,
either as a member of the House or as
United States Senator
While showing his appreciation Of
such sentiments, Gov. Burleigh has
told all his friends that he has given
the subject comparatively little
thought and was not prepared to say
what course he would pursue. He has
received a large number Of letters
from Republicans in all sections of
Maine. and especially from the Third
District. on the same subject and had
acknowledged the communications
with thanks for the friendly attitude
toward himself. He had no COM
plant to enter because of the vote In
tn" Third District last September, es-
peCially as his supporters turned out in
such numbers that he ran far all
Of the rest of the tick {. WhetN r h.
consents to stand for :, deral Office
again or not he will continue his in
tercst, as a Republican, in Maine poll
ties and will be ready, when the next
campaign comes around to do afl he
can to redeem the state from the
Democrats. The next campaign will
be of exceptional Importance, both In
state and national politics. 1t will
have q bearing also In senatorial
way, because Democrats will make
strenuous effort to gain control of the
Senate two years from now and will
try to win the other Senatorship from
Maine to help them to that end.
In some quarters there is a misun-
derstanding about the control of
patronage in the Third Maine district
for the next two years, while Mr..
Gould of Skowhegan is the Represent
tative. Mr.. Gould will have no voice
whatever about the selection of post
masters and other federal officials In
the Third District and can not expect
to have under a Republican admins
tration.
The endorsements of Senator FRYE
relative to Third District appointments
viii be final and Governor Burleigh
VIII recommend to Senator FRYE
The same rule will be applied for all
federal patronage in he Second Maine
district, now represented by Daniel J.
McGlllicuddy. Senator Frye will
make all the endorsements for post
masterships and other federal offices In
that district, including collectors of
customs, where vacancies occur during
the next two years and his endorse
ment Will he final as far as the Presi-
dent or any of his cabinet are con-
cerned. There ms been long stand
| ing practice that s.Ia tors should have
the selection of postHasterS in their
home towns, because, probably, of the
fact that every senator receives and
forwards a vast deal of mail at his
home postoffice. This rule apNlieS,
however, only to senators of the same
political party rs the President and
will not apply to Names new senator.
Charles f. Johnson. If there comes
d vacancy in tie postotIce a. Water
vile during IL lcxt NO years. Sena-
tor Frye, not Senator Johnson, win en-
dorse the car date who receives the
nomination. -. Hale. while SCI itor
and not Go sIrleigh, had the say as
TO the post.;zi.r at Ellsworth, Maine.
which is MI. italics home town, but il
there comes vacancy in the Els
worth postotfice under present condi-
tons Senator Fryes endorsement will
be honored. In a similar fashion Sem
ator Frye has long had the endorse.
ment of the postmaster at Lewiston,
his home city. and not Mr.. Swasey or
any of his Republican predecessors as
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