Show TO LAY ASIDE TOGA SENATOR Sr HALE OF MAC MAIX avill REFUSE TO CONTEST FOR COR SEAT IN SENATE after being chosen five time times without out opposition veteran statesman does not wish to enter into scramble for office augusta me positive announcement of the early retirement of eugene hale hate from the united statts 56 senate a te was made here on tuesday the news came in a confidential telegram from washington A letter from senator hale to boyd chairman of or the republican Republic am state committee in which he declines to I 1 engage in a conflict for the tor ship was received by chairman boyd tuesday in the letter senator hale bate did not once refer to the condition ot at hia hi health but instead called attention ti to the fact that he be bad had been given what whit no other man in maine had received five unanimous nominations for continuous terms in the senate and it did dit not seem fitting for him I 1 to make a personal contest tor for tho the succession senator hale liale talked w with ith a degree of or freedom during tuesday afternoon concerning his announced determination to retire from the senate he ile tola toll hia his friends that having been accorded the unparalleled honor of at five live full EUGENE HALE united state states senator tro fro maine terms in tho the senate without contest of any character he did not relish the prospect of entering into a scramble at his present time of life while this was the principal reason given by the senator he made it plain his course haj hall not been dictated by any fear of at the result the senator contends so far as the contest conte it baa has gone the indications are entirely favorable to his hi election reelection re it is the conflict itself that appals appala him eugene hale has haa served continuously in the enate senate since 1881 in 1899 1999 when he be came up tor for election reelection re ra for bis his fourth term in the senate some opposition developed from his attitude in opposing the war with spain but this soon disappeared several months mouths ago former associate justice freder ick A powers ol 01 the maine supreme court announced his candidacy for the enate senate and for the first time since 1876 when lot M morrill of augusta was elected a contest waa was started tor for one of the maine |