Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — WHAT DOES MAINE SIGNIFY? [ARTICLE]

WHAT DOES MAINE SIGNIFY?

While the Republicans are going about the country and proclaiming a "sweeping victory” in Maine, they are also trying to hide some of the significant facts disclosted by the official tabulation .of returns. Sills, unsuccessful Democratic

candidate for senator in Maine, polled 10,200 more votes than did Wilson in 1912, while Fernaid, Republican candidate for senator, polled 4,000 fewer votes than the combined Roosevelt' and Taft vote the same year. While Hale, Republican candidate for senator, received 5,000 votes less. If the change indicated by the Maine vote prevails all over the country, the Democrats will gain largely, and the ‘re-united’ Republican party will lose heavily. The same proportionate alteration in New York would swing the Empire state to Wilson by 250,04)0 votes. In the whole country such a change would give Wilson the Presidency bv 750,000 majority of the popular ▼ote.