The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-12
REPUBLICANS ARE ALARMED Mighty Flutter Over Maine Election. ARE TELLING TWO STORIES Say Sturgis Law Cost Their Ticket
 Many Votes. Also Declare that Bryan's Madison Square Garden speech Kept Democrats from Securing ss
 Great Victory in
 the State.
RE TELLING TWO STORIES

Washington, Sept. 12.--(Special, )-- Not many of the leading Republican office holders are here at present but most of these in the city are in mighty nuttor over the results In Maine yesterday. They are doing their ut- most to make it appear that 1t was due to the Sturgis bill involving the prohibition question rather than to the efforts of President Gompers of the Federation Of Labor. that such slump in the Republican vote occurred. un- biased politicians of both parties ad- init beyond question that the liquor fs- sue has mush to do with the result. but Secretary Frank Morrison of the Federation of Labor. says that if any man thinks the horny hand sons of toll" are not after scaips of Congress- men this year they are greatly mis- taken. They have both Republicans and Democrats marked for slaughter to the pols in November. ! What alarms the Republicans is that in the warfare they will suffer ten to one compared with the Democrats Congressman sherman, Chairman of the Republican Campaign committee. lives 1t Utica, N. Y. His district is full are strong up there. Gompers is after Sherman and has sworn to defeat him. What hurts the Republicans and causes them alarm over the prospects at the November election is that they gent Secretary Taft, Speaker Cannon and other shining lights of the party into the Maine campaign and all their stump orators dinned Into the ears of the voters that any marked falling off in the Republican vote would be slap at President Roosevelt.
 The Slap Administered.
 The slap having been administered, the politicians here Insist that the Ill Ia tts.a Star. a Republican paper, and whose editor is a native of Maine. labored hard today Tn special dispatches, edito- rials and local mention to explain the wonderful gains made by the Demo- erats. The paper contends stoutly that 1t was due more to the Sturgis bill than anything else. It win be recalled gress Representative Bowie (Alabama) furnished some lively information ob- tained from Governors of various States regarding the number of Speak easiesv known 10 be hourfshing in the conn monwealths in violation of law. Maine was in proportion to population very high up in the list, regardless of the fact that strict prohibition is supposed to exist in that State.
 The Republicans have put out a re- port that Bryan's Madison Square spaech prevented a pronounced Demo- cratic victory in Maine yesterday. They claim that Maine Democrats sent tel- egrans to this city to that effect. Bry- ans friends resent it and ask why, If the Republicans insist that 1t was the liquor question. any man should try to make 1t appear that it was national Instead of a local fight. The general talk here seems to indicate that th@ Republican managers would rather have 1t appear the liquor question and Bryan's speech figured in the contest than to admit that Gompers and his followers exerted a big infiuerce. Most of the Democrats assert that their par- people are getting tired of Republican rule and at Democratic headquarters the belief is strong that the Republican slump in Maine Is only a forerunner of what may be generally expected In November