Show TO LAY iff ASIDE TOGA SENATOR HALE OF MAINE WILL REFUSE TO CONTEST FOR SEAT IN SENATE after being chosen five times without opposition veteran statesman does not wish to enter into scramble for office augusta me ble positive announcement of tho the early retirement of liu li u gene rule hale from the united states senate was waa made here on tuesday the news came in a confidential telegram from washington A letter from senator hale to byron B boyd oyd chairman of oe the tha republican state committee in which he declines to engage in a conflict for the tor torsh ship lp was received by chairman boyd tuesday in the letter senator hale did not once refer to the condition of his health but instead called attention to the fact that he had been given what no other man in maine blaine had received five ave unanimous nominations for continuous terms in the senate anait did not seem fitting tor for him to make a personal contest tor for the succession senator hale talked with a degree of freed freedom 0 m during tuesday afternoon concerns concer concerning nl ng his announced determination to retire from the senate ile he told his friends that having been accorded the unparalleled honor of five full EUGENE HALE united stats states senator from malna maine terms forms in the senate without contest 0 any character he did not relish the prospect of entering into a scramble a at t his present time of life while this was the principal reason given by the senator he made it plain Us his course had not been dictated by any tear fear of the result the senator contends so far as the contest has gone the indications are entirely favorable to his reelection election re it Is the conflict itself that appall him eugene hale has ha served continuously in the senate since 1881 la in 1899 when he came up for reelection election re tor for his fourth term in the senate some opposition I 1 developed from his attitude in opposing the war aar with spain but this soon disappeared several months ago former associate justice frederick A powers of the maine supreme court announced hla his candidacy tor for the senate and for the first time since 1876 when lot ba M morrill of augusta was elected a contest was started for one ot of the maine blaine senator ships |