Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — THE MAINE ELECTION. [ARTICLE]

THE MAINE ELECTION.

The state election in Maine last Monday is a source of much gratification to Democrats all over the country, and shows conclusively that the people of the east as well as the west are dissatsified with stand-pattism and the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Of course the stand-pat newspapers saV that the election has no national significance; that only local questions were involved, but the dispatches in their news columns do not hear out this theory, The Chicago Record Herald's newv dispatches from that state says: On all sides the judgment was passed that the triumph was part and parcel of the insurgent movement that is sweeping the West, and that in principle it was of kindred nature to the insurgent victories in lowa. Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin and California—a protest, pure and simple, against stand-pat-tism as practiced by the Cannon and Aldrich men who controlled the last Congress and against the Ald-rich-Payne tariff act. The democrats carried in whole or in part thirteen out of the sixteen counties for county officers and elected sixteen of the high sheriffs of the state. Governor Plaisted’s plurality was about 9,000. The importance of the victory is indeed great. It means that the democrats will send a representative to the United States senate to succeed Senator Hale, the first democrat sent to the senate from that state in almost fifty years, and the first democratic senator from any of the New England states in over forty, years. Two of the four congressmen will be democrats and the legislature will he democratic on joint ballot by thirty-six majority. Control of the legislature in Maine is of more importance than in most of the states, as the legislature elects, the state treasurer. attorney general, secretafv and commissioner of agriculture. The last legislature »tood 122 republicans to 60 democrats.