The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-09
ELECTION Not IN DOUBT,
No Question About McKinley's Sue
cess Says Mr.. Reed.
OVERWHELMING REPUBLICAN
VICTORY ASSURED IN MAINE.
1t May Como Up Even to the Figures of
Two Years Ago-No Silver Stronghold
Anuwhera In thu Sfafa

Two 1odIS AkU-lSO 6lltcT 6tKoA6AO
Anywhere in the State.
Under Portland date the New York
Post publishes the following;
Speaker Reed in an interview today
with the correspondent of the New York
Post said, replying to the question
whether Maine would follow the example
of Vermont, MAINE will speak for her
self and set her own example," Continu-
ing he spoke substantially as follows re-
garding the situation in Maine:
There islno doubt OF an overwhelm-
ing Repu blicRn victory. The drift Of the
campaign has been all one way. As far
as appears from travelling all over the
state and learning the situation In every
part the silver doctrine has made no i'm
preston anywhere. l do not know Of any
part of the state where the silver men
have made such an impression that itVan
be called silver stronghold. They caI,-
not fnu such place. have not heard
Of single Republican in the state except
one and ! believe he has since revised his
judgment and concluded to stay in the
party. who expected to vote for the silver
Ga ssmoaass: There are great ., many ~
Powers for. Governor. Then there win be
a great many more who will not vote at
all but will simply suny at home"
IL Is possible that Maine may give as
large a Republican majority this year
as In 1894 when the majority for Cleaves
was about 80. 600. But this is not to be
expected for that was an exceptional year
when everything went the Republican
way and many Democrats stayed at
home. We shall get out the full Republi-
can strength this year while there is SO
much division among the Democrats that
they will fail by great deal to poll the
full party vote.
Il do not expect that the vote for the
national Demo ratic ticket in Novem Der
will DO very large. Most of the Demo-
breaking away from their regular party
ticket will vote for the Republican party
straight, and those who cannot do that
will stay at home. There will be great
many OF that class. +"
In reply to . question whether GEORGE
Fred Williams was making much of an
impression, Speaker Reed said: "No, he
does not come up to the expectations Of
the Democratic brethren. judge from
what hear about him and what they
say Of him that they are disposed to
think that he does not amount to as
much as they expected. He has had very
little influence upon the campaign It
may be added here In confederation of
Speaker Reeds opinion that have OBJ
tanned exactly the same information from
a silver man who ia much interested in
the discussions. One Of the Repu blican
managers for this end of the state, even
If his prejudiees are discounted, makes
out poor showing for Williams.
When asked whether any attention was
Given Tn gtata hor ro
piled: 1--WE have no state issues. We have
nothing Of state interest in politics this
year. In reply to q question as to the
most prominent issue discussed, he said
1t is largely the silver issue, but our
people respond very quickly to she tariff
They are better informed upon that than
upon the silver question. That is the
chiof issue OF the campaign.
We are having some very large merit
ings all over the state. Our list Of CAM
paign speakers is very good and we have
some excellent men from out Of the state
and we have some fne home talent.
From out Of the state are J. r. g. Pitkin
OF Louisiana who Is fine speaker. Lee
Fairchild of California is not much
known in the East, but be. proves to be
Miller Of New York is Of course we'll
known. v. B. Deliver Of Iowa is
Howard Of Vermont everybody knows.
@. V. Touseley of Minnesota is good
campaigner. There are also Congress-
men Knox and Moody Of Nassach usetts,
Young Harold Eswnll, son of Arthur
Sewali. the Demooratic nominee for Vice
and thore are many Maine men who are
accomplishing q good deal. We have a
much better list than the Democrats. We
always do. We put deal more into the
campaign than they do. People turn out
By thousands at our meetings and the
Repu blican prospects were never better,
they have never been better In the history
OF the Republican party in Maine than
they are at present.
"We shall hold our own we'll among the
foreign element" said the speaker, in
answer to the question how the French
Canadian and irish votes stood upon the
silver question. "Thera are q great many
Canadians in this state but there are no
signs that they are going with the silver
men exoeps that we hear that some of
them In Biddeford are disposed that way.
But the majority of them will vote the
Republican ticket. The Irish voters, with
some exceptions, will vote the regular
party ticket. But great many of these
people do not know really where they are
AT their state convention in June they
were gold body and little later they
are silver men, and at the Waterville con-
vention the silver men had it all their
own way.
I'm ourymanufacturing villages there
Is nowhere to be found any large GLASS Of
operatives who are carried away on the
silver question. / have never heard Of
such and know Of no center where the
silver men have gained control. Our
voters have never taken to the silver side
OF the question and great many Demo-
Gratis feel SO strongly that they will vote
the straight Republican ticket. The
case is very different from what it was In
the greenback era, nearly 30 years ago.
Then the people had been we'll off so long
that they " ere restless and wanted q
change. They conducted their campaigns
very differently from anything they are
doing this year. They used to get to-
gether in the little local school houses
and talk things over. They got to saying
they had been kept out of share in the
government and that certain of their own