Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1916 — THE MAINE ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

THE MAINE ELECTION.

The republicans have carried Maine by 13,000. They have elected the governor, two senators and the four members of congress, making it a clean sweep. The election proves that the progressives have returned to the republican fold, and is regarded by every experienced political observer as a certain forecast of the election of Mr. Hughes in November. A republican majority of less than 10,000 might have left room fpr argument, but a majority of 13,000 ;s regarded as making a republican national victory certain. The defeat of Senator Johnson was a crushing blow to the democrats. Perceiving some, weeks ago that they had little chance of carrying the state as a whole, despite the fact that their candidate for re-election as governor had made a clean record and was popular, the democrats concentrated their forces on the effort to re-elect Senator Johnson. All their big guns. Sam Untemeyer, Josephus Daniels, senators and representatives, were sent into the state and all of them spoke especially for Senator Johnson. And the result is that the re-

pubMcans have swept the state. It is not surprising that there is rejoicing in the republican camp. Since 1904, the republican governors have been elected in Maine 'by pluralities of less than B,OOQ. lij 1910 the democrats elected the governor by 8,753, and again in 1914 by 3,177. Now the republicans have elected the governor by a vote larger than the combined republican and progressive vote of two >ears ago. Had the republicans and been united in 1912, Woodrow Wilson would have been defeated by 1,300,000 votes. The republican? ami progressives are now united.

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