The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-22
Republican Campaign Looking Better
than in 1883.
ALL THE WESTERN STATES SURE
FOR HARRISON AND REED.
MIR. ManIey's Talk to the New York Re-
porter and gives His Opinion of the
situation.--New York Prospects Evil
IDENTIFY Improving.
(New York Recorder.)

(NeW GOrk h6COru6f.)
Hon. Joseph Manley, usually of Maine
| but just now very much of New York, is
one of the strongest personalities direct
ing the Republican national campaign.
.'Joe'' Manley is his national sobriquet,
! and by that familiar designation he is adj
dressed and talked about all the way
| from his own State of Maine to the Gold
| en- Gate of Frisco Next to Chairman
| Thomas II. Carter he is the man most in
| demand by callers at National Headquar-
! ters. From early in the forenoon until
sunset you can find him every day in a
deep-seated oak armchair, in front of a
big roller-top desk, that sets against an
upstair window of 51S Fifth avenue. 1t
would be interesting to know just how
many callers this short, thick-set man,
| with a strong, masterful face that has
business capacity stamped in every line
of it, receives in the course of day;
just how many straight tips he receives
from them, and just how many State
secrets he communicates to them in re-
turn There are no accessible statistics
on this point, but everybody who visits
National Headquarters and looks on
there for an hour or two realizes that
genial ''Joe'' Manley sits right at the
heart of the Harrison and Reid campaign
and that their election will owe about as
much to his sagacity, zeal and hard work
as to those of any other one man in the
country. He is in
Constant sDaily Touch.
with the Republican leaders in every
part of the country, and if any man is
competent to make an intelligent and
trustworthy estimate of how the tide of
| national sentiment and opinion is setting
and who is being borne to victory on its
bosom, he is surely that man.
1t was about the middle of the after
noon yesterday, when a Recorder repre-
sentative handed his card to the colored
messenger who stands at the door of the
! iron grating that bars the advance of un-
desired visitors in quest OF the national
committeeman upstairs. In a few min
utes the messenger reappeared and
swung the iron door widely back, with a
cordial invitation to "step right up
''Want to interview me, eh?'' exclaimed
Mr.. Blaine's old and trusty friend from
Augusta. 'Well, what about?'
About the General Outlook
all over the country for the Republican
ticket" said the Recorders representa-
tive.s
The sturdy little men from the Pine
Tree State settled himself well back in
his chair, pulled cigar from his case,
lighted it with care, and sent the first
cloud from the fragrant Havana curling
up toward the ceiling;
ssYou ask me,'' said he, "what the gen.
eral prospect is for success and I am
happy to tell you that it is much better,
in my Judgment, than it was in 1888 at
the same stage of the campaign. OF
course, any one familiar with the nation
al campaigns of the last quarter of a CEN
tury knows that a campaign may be won
or lost in the last two weeks. A cam
paign goes through a succession of
phases. and, like a race, you can't tell
how it is going to come out until the
homestretch is reached. The drift to-
day is certainly with the Republican
party"
'sHow does this campaign compare,
Mr.. Manley, with the campaigns you
have gone through in former Presiden-
tial years?'
II have taken an active part in every
national campaign from that of 1872 to
the present one, and this campaign is
quite unique. 1t is different from any
of the others. Every campaign that |
recall had it's distinctive features. The
distinctive character of this present con-
test lies in the fact that it is not noisy,
torchlight and drum corps campaign,
but campaign of literature, and qulet,
earnest work"
'sThe opinion is quite freely expressed,
YOU know, Mr.. Manley, that general
apathy prevails on both sides to an I'M
precedented extent. What do you think
about it?"
'I Think he replied, ''that the i'm
preston you speak of is true, and, at the
same time, not true. I'll tell you what I
mean by that. There certainly is not
much of that hurrah, torchlight, brass
band and fireworks style of campaign en-
thusiasm that we have seen in previous
campaigns. Nevertheless, all the reports
we receive prove conclusively that so far
as the Republicans are concerned they
are fully alive to the issues at stake,
and | venture the prediction that in the
contested States we shall poll our full
party strength
II understood you to say that this is
more literary campaign than any that
has preceded it,"
Infinitely more so.'
sWhat sort of literature is most in de-
mand?n
"Tariff Literature is
of course first of all in point of promin-
ence. Every phase OF the protective
system, and the advantages which the
American people undoubtedly enjoy un-
der it, has been explained in tariff lea
Aets. as we'll as in lengthier documents,
as it never was explained before. The
differences in the conditions of living
here and in Europe. the effect upon our
industries of the Mckinley tariff, the di-
rect bearing that the tariff has upon
wages: all these things have been ably
and thoroughly set tforth nthe campaign
literature of the Republican party for
1892. 1t is indeed a campaign of educa-
tion. For the last two weeks we have
been unable to meet the demand for lit
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