New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-12
SPEAKERS FOR MAINE
THOMAS B. REED NOT on THE LIST
BUSINESS MEN TALK OF THE PROS
PERITY UNDER M'KINLEY.

Joseph II. Maney,
publican National Headquarters in this city yes
terday, said that the list Of speakers for Maine
had been practically completed. More than seven
hundred speeches will be delivered by Republican
orators in Maine in the campaign for the election
of State officers The speaking will begin on Au-
gust 20 and close September s.
The name OF Thomas B. Reed. the ex-speaker Of
the House of Representatives Is not on the list OF
speakers, although Mr.. Reed was invited to speak
Governor Powers and Senators Frye and Hale. OF
Maine. will be among the orators The list in
cludes the names of George Edmund Foss, OF Chi
cago; Charles W. Fairbanks. Of Indiana; II. Clay
Evans, Of TENNESSEE; Victor g. Deliver or Iowa;
Adam E. King, of Maryland; Curtis Guild, Of Mas
, sachusetts: William H. Moody. of Massachusetts;
Charles A. Russell of Connecticut; John s. Wise,
of New-York: General Charles II. Grosvenor, OF
Ohio; w. S. Kerr, OF Ohio; John Barrett, of Wash
ington; Charles II. Ltchman, OF New-Jersey; SAM
uel w. Mccall. of Massachusetts,; Cushman X.
Davis, Of Minnesota; Oscar T. Williams. or New
York; j. Hampton Hoge, of Virginia: Governor G.
w Atkinson OF West Virginia, James 7. Du Bots.
Of Pennsylvania; Andrew j. Colburn jr of Penn
sylvania; Willard Rowland, of Massac husetts;
Wilbur Morse, of Pennsylvania; John NJ. Harris,
of Pennsylvania; Julius C. Burrows, of Michigan;
Lee Fairchild, of Washington; Charles Emory
Smith OF Pennsylvania; Henry Cabot Lodge. of
Massachusetts,; Charles n. Fowler. of New Jersey:
T H. Roberts of New-York; Amos L. Allen, OF
Maine Charles e. Littlehed Of Maine; Edward
Payson Brown of New-York: Edgar G. Pratt of
New-York: C. L. Jewett, of Indiana; Benjamin Pit
man. of Massachusetts, H. w. Palmer. of Pennsyl-
vania. and ]. W. Lansing. OF New-York
Governor Roosevelt is expected to be at the Ma
tional headquarters Tuesday to consult with
Senator Scott. and then It is probable that the
Governors itinerary in the West will be fixed.
The Advisory Board of the Republican National
Committee will be announced Tuesday, 1t is ex-
pected The Board will consist Of eighteen promi-
nont Republicans who are not members Of the
National Committee They will be selected from
States in which the National Committee intends
to carry the most vigorous campaign work.
Tuesday probably will be day of unusual activ-
ity in the National headquarters. delegations Of
Republicans from the West have arranged to meet
Senator Hanna and other leaders in the headquar-
tiers that day.
Governor Crane of Massuchetts at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday and made a call
upon Joseph H. Manley. They talked politics. and
Governor Crane assured Mr.. Manley that Massa-
chusetts will be found in the Republican column
when the figures added up the evening Of
Election Day
Miss Jewett, a young woman of Boston. who has
! been denouncing the lynching of negroes in the
South, was at the National headquarters. She ex-
pressed disappointment when she learned that Sen
ator Hanna would not be at the headquarters until
tomorrow.
Some additional interviews with business men
were given out yesterday at the headquarters.
William Kenefck, of Kansas City, is a
tractor who builds railroads through all the West
ern country. and at times he has several thousand
men in his employ. He says:
My business depends entirely upon prosperity
connay eihsh Me are uT6 y emo
They will not order railroad built unless pros
wsys 6 ns m iSs t looks s'a as
ticket again this The 10 eToe rae can
der the control Of Mr. Bryan is further from the
drew Jackson than the Republican party IS to-day
was at Kansas City, during the Convention that
numbers of Democrats who were delegates and
that Convention had put the silver plank again
into the platform. These men have not Palmer
for Mckinley sure Ny line of business is more
cen Of he ae any @ t ten and
vote for Mckinley. Business men ali over the coun-
His election is bound to upset business CONDITIONS
Therefore business men should not go to sleep
We're not asleep in Missouri and Kansas.
J. B. Haines of Pittsburg. is the head of the big
wholesale drygoods firm Of J. B. Haines Sons
He expressed himself Friday as follows:
business mere P9 eO Sqt & SV to- the
disastrous results of a Democratic victory, and we
watch the campaign in other States. I
peclaly Interested in Kansas, where am in close
touch with affairs. Never in her history has Kan
sas been so prosperous. The crops are immense
and money is free. am convinced that Kansas
change. which in all human probability must be
for the worse 1t is my business to keep in touch
of u. 900 bales this year-an immense crop. The
have an eject m states ike KentucRy Which b bs
lieve will be Republican this year I am also IN
touch with West Virginia which is normally
Republican. There has been great prosperity in
that State during the last four years because of
the opening Of great mines OF coal other min
erals railroads have been built through the State
and are now being built. Northern business men
and workingmen have gone there. The State has
lost It's Southern character Business men and not
race prejudice Will affect the voters and West Viz
GINA will cast her electoral for Mckinley
The only thing that the Republican party has TO
fear in this campaign is overconhdence.
The Kalamazoo Railway Supply Company is one
OF the large in the country manufacturing
implements of all kinds that are used on railroads
H. c. Haines. of Kalamazoo, a member of that
firm, said on Friday.
Our business has been better in the last two
years than ever before. I sometimes meet a man
so hdebound that he will deny there is prosperity
in the country. He is not a thinking man and
have not met single responsible business man
who denies the existence Of phenomenal pros
perity. / seldom talk politics, but have observed
conditions. The Democratic managers are claim
ing that the Gold Democrats are going to vote for
Bryan. Why earth should they? 1t was fear
Bryan four years and that fear is greater to-
day than then. In my travels the country
have not met single Gold Democrat who saws he
will vote for Bryan. On the contrary, have found
many Democrats who voted the Bryan ticket four
years ago who intend to vote for Mckinley this
year Yet it is necessary that the business men
of the country be on the alert and fully alive 10
the danger OF apathy which can be the only direct
cause of Democratic victory. Michigan is ali
right. but business men in States like indiana and
New-York must be up and doing.