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Show MANLEY RETIRES FROM POLITICS Republican National Committeeman Prom Maine Abandons Candidacy for Governorship. Special to Tho Tribune. AUGUSTA, Me., April 2. Joseph H. Manley, member of the Republican Republi-can National committee and for a quarter of a century influential factor in State politics, announces his retirement from active politics, due to Impaired health. For the last ten years Mr. Manley has been a member of the Executive committee of the Republican National committee. Ho has been a candidate for the nomination nom-ination of Governor of Maine and -his friends had expected his re-election as National' Committeeman, but he says his health will not permit any further participation in political life. The loss of "Joo" Manley will bo keenly felt when the nominations are made at Chicago and the actual work of the campaign begins. For many years he has been a Republican war horse whose greatest value was felt to bo in the councils of the Campaign committee. He Is C2 years old. but his recent illness ill-ness was more serious than was supposed, sup-posed, and his renunciation of a long cherished ambition to become Governor of Maine Is proof that his letter is to be taken literally. Mr. Manley was made a member of the State committee when James G. Blaine resigned In 1881 and for many years he was its chairman. He has been a delegato to every Republican National convention since 1890. and his abilities as a campaign manager gave him the same distinction in National politico as he had In his own State, where he usually predicted the size of the majorities with unerring accuracy weeks In advance of election day. At every National convention ho has been a prominent figure, but the convention con-vention of 1S96, which nominated Mc-Kinley, Mc-Kinley, did more to injure his prestige as a politician than any other occasion of his life. It was at this convention that Mr. Manley, who had been in charge of Speaker Reed's candidacy, suddenly admitted that 7Ur. Reed had no chance, at the samo time declnrlng that his friends would vote for him. This so disgusted Samuel Fessenden that, according to the story telegraphed all over the country, he strode up to Mr. Manley in a hotel corridor and exclaimed: ex-claimed: " 'Joo' Manley, God Almighty hates a quitter." |