Arizona republican., 1900-10-09
THE SECOND BATTLE
Bryan Will End the Struggle
 In New York
Mckinley Leaders Willing and Will Be Ready-Manley Over Conf dent - Other Predictions to Be Made.

"" 1Oih h' CO'- S.-SOIne or the pO- litical leaders as republican national headquarters think that Joseph H. Manley of Maine has become infected with the malady of over-confidence which the campaign managers have been trying for months past to eradi- cate. They say that although Mir. Nanley is justified in predicting the re-electiOn of President Mckinley. he has given one or two states to Mo Kinley in which a republican victory is not yet assured. They admit that MT. Manley's estimate Is probably cor- rect, but think that a political forecast should be confined to certainties The one or two states which they assert should be placed under the doubt fuI" head have only 9. small electoral Vote. and will not affect the result tn any serious extent. The names of those states will appear in d day CT two, when Senator Scott will publish q prediction" This is the season for political forecasts, ana it is said that before long each of the national com mt,teemen will follow Mr. Manley's lead and make ., forecast.
 The campaign managers understand that MT. Bryan will not visit New York until October 27. That means that the fight is to be wound up in this state, and that New York is to be the battle-ground of the final conflict in this campaign. If the report is true, the, republicans will make prepara tions to meet MT Bryan. The most effective orators in the party will be brought here, and the last few days of the campaign may turn out to be decidedly interesting.
 The republican leaders believe that they have at lase pinned the demo- cratic candidate down to his para mount issue. It is div ided into three heads and is intended to meet the views of all class of democrats. In the east the issue is trusts and im- perialism. and in the west free silver.
 The reports that are received at headquarters from all over the coun. try indicate d sweeping republican vic tory in November.
 R. F. Davis of Los Angeles. Cal, for instance. who has been engaged by the republican national committee to speak in New York city and state dur ing the present month, said:
 There is no foundation for the pes simistic reports about California being in .le doubtful column. There is ID state in the country more solid for Me Kinley. All the talk about apathy in my section is nonsense. The climatic conditions there make everybody apa- thetic, but our people will all go to the polls and vote in a matter of fact sort of way, and the state will go for Mo Kinley and Roosevelt by a large ma ,T,15 man will be elected"
 Col. w c. Hummer of North Da- kota. who is as closely in touch with political conditions in the Dakotas as any man in the northwest, said:
 Mckinley carried North Dakota by 6,OOO in 1896; he will carry the state by 15,OO0 next month Bryan carried South Dakota. by 200 votes in 1896; Mo Kinley will carry the state by 5000 next month. Prosperity has been the salient Influence which radically changes the political complexion of these two states, but immigration from other states has alone been sufficient to make them republican this year"
 A prominent lawyer of Macon cOun- tv. Mo. said: "There are no republi- cans who have left our party since 1896 in this county. All of the free sli- yer republicans have come back to us, every single maa. The republicans are enthusiastic. the democrats ap2thetlc. The conditions look better here than ever saw them before. TnTea-quarterS of the gold democrats are with us. The pops are defunct. The country responds enthusiastically on the war issues and favors holding the Philip rines. I am of the opinion we can carry Missouri"
 The republican managers hope for Nebraslza's vote in Nove vember. Several Drivate advices are to the effect that the democrats themselves regard the state as very doubtful. It is known that during the last few days great many Bryan votes ia Nebraska have been traded for votes for legislative candidates. and that the Bryanite managers are now directing thelr main efforts toward CarrNi ing the state legislature. so as to elect Bryan to the United States senate.
 The news from West Virginia con tinues most encoura ging. As one en- thusfastic correspondent has it, grass was never SD green. flowers never so fair. birds never sang so sWeetly as in West Virginia this year, politically speaking." His only objection to the election of Mckinley IS that in that case he will have to hustle out after more men, to wpl k .1 his coal mines