Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-10-29
ALL CONFIDENT.
Republican Managers Conf
dent Of a Sweeping Victory.
Mr.. ManIey Says Northwest and Bor'
der Southern Swinging into Line.
What a Journal Man Saw and Heard at Re
publican Headquarters in New York.

Republican National Headquarters
New York, Oct. 2S.-(SpeciaL) 1.-The
certainty of Mr.. McKinley's election is
not the general topic of political dis
cussion but how large the majority
Your correspondent visited Republican
headquarters this morning, and, after
talking with several of the leading gem
erals there, came away with the wish
that all the Journal readers might get
in touch, if but for a few. moments,
with the irresistible trend of the politi-
cal current so plainly To be felt about
headquarters and. in fact. wherever
one goes.
The estimates sent out no longer
seem overconfident. Those which Mr.
Manley has made, ! believe TO have
been made below rather than above
what he thinks it Will be. found him
at his desk by 3 O'Clock with a mass of
correspondence before him, and callers
innumerable. Nevertheless he kindly
devoted more moments to the journal
than it seemed he could well spare, and
in compliance with my desire for
statement he dictated the following:
The information received at head
quarters this morning from the North
west and the border Southern states
is more encouraging than it has been
at any time during the entire cam
paign. The committee feel now that
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are as secure as are the New England
states, and they have positive assur-
ances that Kentucky and Tennessee
have both entered the Mckinley and
Hobart column. and that the electoral
votes Of these two states will be cast
for them without question.
The outlook all along the line has
never been better and the claim of the
Democratic national committee given
10 the country this morning provokes
only laughter and merriment. No bets
can be obtained on the general result
although sums in any amounts are
offered as high as five to one on the
election of Mckinley"
1t will be seen that this is the first
time Mr.. Manley has publicly claimed
Tennessee for Mckinley. In fact no es-
Inmates have placed Tennessee in the
Mckinley column and a few have Civ
en- ii in the doubtful column. Mr.
Manley has kept in touch with all the
details OF the campaign in Tennessee
and North Carolina and | haven't the
slightest doubt that he feels confident
of both states and considers his state
ment respecting Tennessee conserva-
tive. although the Popocrats in Ten
nessee are in mood to stop at moth
ing in counting in the Bryanites cleo
tors. 1t will be hot fight in both
states.
Mr. Quay, Mr. Bliss and General Os-
borne We're at headquarters this morn
ing and when your correspondent was
introduced to Mr.. Quay friend from
the keystone state was chatting him
with the assurance that it would give
fifteen or twenty thousand for McKin-
ley. 1t is idle to strain the imagina-
tion with the big figures which meas
ure the Quaker states majority for
sound money and protection.
Chairman Hackett of New York state.
wore this morning the look of a man
who is troubled by nothing except one
asks him to estimate the size of the
Republican majority in this state.
Think of New York city, with its nor
mai Democratic majority of from sew
cnty-tive to hundred thousand going
for Mckinley. Yet there seems to be
little doubt of it and no one is found
to bet that ii wont. There are just
nine Bryan and Sewall banner flags
in all the city and over seven hundred
Mckinley and Hobart flags to greet the
eye in all parts of the city.
Maine must look to her laurels next
Tuesday or some of the states which
Bryan is now claiming will have big
ger Republican majority. 1t may sur
prise Massachusetts to wake up
Wednesday morning and find that illi-
nois gives bigger Republican major
i,y than she.
Mr.. Manley said this morning that
but few bets are made because the Re-
publicans can find no takers. There is
one man in the city who has from a
thousand dollars to million dollars to
place On Mckinley and odds of five to
one on the Republican candidate.
j. " LANE