Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-25
An Unofficial Ambassa dor.

Under the above caption the following
editorial appeared in the New York Sun
the morning Mr.. Manley left for Europe.
1t is highly complimentary to Mr.. Man
ley and we take pleasure in republishing
it:
The chairman of the Republican nation
al executive committee and of the Maine
State Republican committee sails for
Europe today on a journey of recreation
The Hon. Joseph II. Manley is one of the
most interesting of today's Americans.
We call him the Hon. Joseph H. Manley,
because he is frequently so styled, al
though we are not aware that he has ever
held any public office other than that of
postmaster at Augusta. Perhaps he has
held other small offices; if so, the fact is
unimportant, for it is not in that line of
public usefulness that Mr. Manley has
won the distinction which now belongs to
his name.
1t is as Joe Manley the campaigner that
this uncommon political genius has come
to the front in Republican affairs. The
personal qualities which have determined
his evolution from ward worker in
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in chief of the militant organization of his
party, are about as well understood now
in Walla Walla and in Little Rock as in
Kennebec county, Maine. He has got to
the head of his profession because his
loyalty to his chieftain or his cause is alb
solute and self sacrificing, because his in
dustry Is as boundless as his vigilance is
unremitting, because he is square in his
dealings with ally or opponent, and be-
cause almost the only thing he doesn't
know in politics is how to go rainbow
chasing Other celebrated campaigners
in the service of the Republican party
possess some or all Of these virtues in an
equal or nearly equal degree; but they are
SO well balanced in Joe Manley of Maine,
and so well fabricated by modest SILENT
devil thinking merit peculiar to him
self, that he seems to make one or two
revolutionsa minute more than any of the
other fellows. Consequently he has forged
ahead.
For many years Mr.. Manley was best
known as the devoted friend and trusted
political adviser of James G. Blaine. He
loved that great American unselfishly
and served him wonderfully, but when
Blaine died Manley did not drop out of
sight.
Mr.. Manley goes abroad with the hope
of meeting and conversing with the Pope,
Prince Bismarck and Mr. Gladstone, who
he regards as the three greatest men OF
contemporary history. He carries letters
of introduction which will doubtless pro-
cure for him the high privileges he de
sires These eminent statesmen ought to
| be as anxious to see Joe Manley as he is
to see them; fer to them, and to all other
European students of American types. the
chairman OF the Republican national ex-
ecutive committee will present in his own
person an unsurpassed illustration of the
American principle that the sagacity and
energy which mean success in small poll
tics, even the politics of the county or the
ward, count for just as much and just as
surely when the field is enlarged to con-
tinental dimensions
We haven't the advantage OF personal
acquaintance with Chairman Manley,
but we hope he will have good time
II he should happen to encounter the Hon.
William Collins Whitney in Rome during
Holy Week, two thorough Americans will
shake hands, even though they may look
rather curiously into each others eyes.