Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-09-08
MAINE CAMPAIGN
CLOSES TONIGHT
SPEAKERS OF NATIONAL PRoMI-
NENcE HAVE BEEN sTUMPlNe
THE ENTIRE STATE.
Special to the Herald.

pOrtance III the SIdle ne SiSS'io4
will be ON Monday AS the Maine
election will afford the people of the
country the first real line they have
on the strength and effect of organ
lied labor in politics, all parties have
put forth their utmost efforts to
make the best possible showing.
The Republicans do not attempt to
hide their concern over the result in
the Second congressional district,
where President Samuel Gompers of
the American Federation of Labor has
been working with his coat off in an
effort to defeat Congressman Charles
E. Littlefeld and thereby make an
example of him for other congress
men who have not taken what Mr..
Gompers considers the right stand in
relation to proposed labor legislation.
To offset the efforts of Mr.. Gompers
and save the scalp of Congressman
Littlefeld the Republican national
committee has sent into the district
orators of national reputation, among
them Speaker Cannon, Senator Bev-
eridge of Indiana and Secretary Taft
If the four congressman from Maine
are reelected by normal majorities,
it will be assumed as a matter of
course that the rest OF the country is
safely anchored to the Republican
mornings, and as Maine goes, so goes
the Union. That is the view the Re
publicans will take. They will say
that Maine has indorsed Roosevelt
and all his works, and it will stimu-
late every other district to do the
same
But if the majorities of the four
Maine congressman are cut down, or
if, even better still from the Demo
cratic standpoint, one at least of them
should be defeated, Democratic cam
paign stock will go up with a rush.
As regards the state ticket national |
issues have cut little or no figures in
the campaign. The great, almost the
only, issue this year is again the
liquor question, which for seventy
years has been a troublesome factor
in Maine politics. A pioneer in the
temperance movement, it is today
battle between prohibition and resub-
missionists. the latter urging that pro
y ten has -, ssSss' Lar >-ss--: :
III, ,,a,, -, ,,,b;cb hoe
me upon the stage since the consti-
tional amendment was passed
mould have another opportunity to
express themselves on the subject.
The Republican platform is squarely
for prohibition and the rigid enforce
ment of existing laws
Taking advantage of this unpopu-
larity of the prohibition laws, the
Democrats have forced it as the most
prominent issue. arguing that the peo-
pie should be given the chance to say
whether that law should be repealed.
AS to the gubernatorial candidates,
both are able men of good record.
Governor Cobb, who is a candidate
for reelection on the Republican
ticket, was graduated from Bowdoin
College and later from Harvard Law
School Instead of practising law,
however, he has carried on the ex-
tensive lime manufacturing business
at Rocldand which his father founded.
He is man of wealth and culture,
who has applied strict business prin-
ciples to the work of his office.
The Democratic candidate is the
same as in 1904, Cyrus w. Davis, of
a hustling business man,
who has made much money in real
estate, electric railroads and Colo
RADIO mines. He has been mayor of
and a member of the leg
slature.
Curiously enough, although the is
sue between the Republicans and
Democrats is that of prohibition or
license. the Prohibition party has a a
candidate in the field At this party's
Governor Cobb's course
was warmly commended and he was {
highly praised by the speakers and in
he resolutions. and then the dele
gates proceeded TO nominate Henry {
Woodward Of Winthrop for governor.
{ seemed a most inconsistent thing t
10 do, but it really makes little diff v
ference, as the Prohibition party cast f
only 27SS votes in 1904. S
The Republican pluralities for gov a
srnor in the past six elections were
as follows: f
1S94-3S.917.
1S9G-4S.24G. d
1SgS-24.415. h
19OO-33.3S4. t
1gO2-25,247. a
1gO4-25.8O
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