New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-26
HANNA EXPECTED FRIDAY.
TO MEET OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EN-
ECUTIvE COMMITTEE.
JOSEPH H. MANLEY ARRIVES FROM MAINE
THOMAS B. REED. HE SAID. HAS BEEN
INVITED TO sPEAK-TALKs WITH
SENATOR SCOTT AND R.
:. KEREN

Joseph H. Manley, of Maine one Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee members of the Republican
National Committee came to this city yesterday
afternoon and went to the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
He will be of the managers of the campaign
at the National headquarters in the Metropolitan
Life Building. at No. l Madison-ave, but he did
not go to the building yesterday. He limped
badly when he entered the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
and after he made comfortable in
room on the third floor he sent for physician to
dress wound on his left shin. Several days ago
he stumbled stone his country place
in Maine and cut cash in his shin, and the
wound has failed to heal thus far.
Frederick S. Gibbs visited Mr.. Manley in his
room late in the afternoon and arranged to have
a talk with him this morning about preparations
for work at the headquarters. Senator Hanna.
chairman of the Republican National Commit
tee, is expected to be at the headquarters to-
morrow for a consultation with other members
Of the Executive Committee. and it is expected
that appointments of secretaries clerks and
messengers who to be employed in the
headquarters during the campaign will be made
then.
Mr.. Maney said he thought there no
truth in report that the Republican National
Committee had decided not to invite Thomas
B. Reed. the ex-Speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, to make speeches for the Republ-
Reed has been invited to make speeches in
Maine" Mr.. Manley said
Senator n. B. Scott, who at the National
headquarters yesterday, said he felt sure the
report about blacklsting Mr.. Reed was without
foundation. He felt confident, he added, that
Mr.. Reed would be invited to make some
speeches for Mckinley and Roosevelt, and would
accept. The report had been telegraphed from
Chicago with the statement that some of Mr..
ea5'c h. l,oia ctro+ in,oy ha-
lieved to have done much harm. and had grieved
prominent Republicans in this city. Senator
Scott said he could not believe that any such
statement had emanated from the headquarters
in Chicago. Mr.. Reed is not in this city at
present.
Senator Scott placed over his desk yesterday
a rabbits foot which he had received gift
from a political friend. He said he expected
Senators Wolcott, Fairbanks and Lodge to make
speeches in the campaign. Several prominent
Gold Democrats who supported Mckinley IN
1896 will be invited to make speeches. Henry
D.. Purroy is on Senator SCOTS list of cam
Richard c. Kerens, of st. Louis member of
the National Committee, had a long talk with
Senator Scott yesterday. Afterward Mr.. Kerens
said:
These people down here are "sooners." Now.
you know what a sooner is. When the Presi-
dent declared the Indian Territory open by the
firing of a gun. the fellows who got in found the
best land taken up by the people who had gone
in the night before. They were "sooners." We
don't expect to begin the Western campaign
until the latter part of August. You see it will
be hot enough in this campaign even when the
weather is cool.
Mr. Kerens said that-the prospects were excel
lent. and that 10 to 1 would be the battle cry
in the West. Asked if the cry of imperialism
would influence the German vote, he said
Not a bit It's merely cry, and will have
effect the situation The Germans think
and are not to be led away by any bugaboo cry.
1t is 10 to l, and only that Bryan telephoned
All the fantastic cranks in Nebraska have COM
bined to elect the two State Senators. They
wanted is to l, and Bryan gave it to the whole
country. Nebraska is running things in the
Democratic party this year. They cannot dodge
the issue now and say this or that is a para
mount issue.
Asked about Indiana. he said: Indiana is al
ways doubtful. But our chances are as good
this year as any. / don't believe the Gold Dem
ocrats will support Bryan. They don't seem to
| show any indication of it, at all events"
Mr.. Kerens was asked if the st. Louis strike
would affect the labor vote in ST. Louis and the
| West and replied:
That strike could have been settled in twelve
hours. 1t was coddled along for political pur-
| poses by the Governor The ST Louis and Kansas
! City police systems under the control of the
| State. l don't think that the strike will alter
| the situation The Republican party is more
tractive to the voters than the Democratic party
/ and we are making gradual gains in the State
| cratic.