Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1910-09-16
RHsuLTN MAINE.


The returns from the Maine cleo
ion on Tuesday last shows that the
Democrat party carried the State
slecting a Governor, the Legislature
and two Congressman. This is the
first time in quite a number Of years
that the democrats have been able to
carry that r0ckribbed Republican
State, heuce, there must room for
reckoning at the result. It was due
10 local conditions and to the person
al popularity Of Mr.. Plais'ed, the
Democratic Candidate for Governor.
That it is due to anything else can
not be conceived by those who are
in a position to know and are not
carried away with partisan reasoning.
Many democrats look upon the re-
suit of this election as significant Of
she attitude and feeling Of public
sentiment throughout the nation,
tending towards democratic suecess
in the fall elections. They say it
means success for the candidates OF
that party next November. Such
however, will not be the case. II they
are basipg their hopes on such a turn
10 events they will find out when it
is too late that results because of local
conditions have no bearing on The
national election that follows.
The result OF the election in
Maine is not a weather yane pointing
to Democratic success this fall.
The old idea that the results in
Vermont and Maine are a weather
vaue indicating which way the politi-
cal wind will blow in the national
election that follows does not hold
good in this case, because this idea
has so often before been exploded.
The state Of Vermont went Repub-
lican and INTERCHANGEABLE so accord
ing to this idea the political weather
vaneis pointing both ways. Certainly
our democratic friends will not under
take to predict that the House Of
Representatives will be evenly diyid-
ed between ths two p4jtigs-1--
That local ea 'af,A'iittions together with
the personal popularity of Mr.. Plais-
ted alone responsible for the De
mocratic victory in Name on Tues
day last, cannot be successfully denied
and will not be denied by impartial
men. In fact this has been practi-
cally admitted to be true by the dairy
press throughout the State.
The main issue in the fight in the
State of Maine was the question OF
prohibition aud on this issue the Re
publieans lost. Perhaps and in fact
many will attribute the result to
the tariff aud the high cost Of
living, but, there appears to be abso-
lutely no ground for this contention.
OF course no one will pretend to
predict which element of the Repub-
lican party will dominate the next
House Of Representatives, whether
it will be the regulars or insurgents,
bat, it will be safe to wsger that it
will be safely Republican. Itmatters
not, however, which element domi-
mates, the Democratic party will moi
be materially strengthened in either
House of Congress. From all indi-
cations there is no disposition among
the democrats of the State Of Maine
TO attribute the victory to other thar
local conditions. The disposition tC
wrongfully place it on the tariff i;
manifested only by those who under
take to wrongfully pray upon public
sentiment.
Itinvariably occurs that local con
ditto are responsible for results ii
the elections held sometime prior t.
fall elections whether the Republicans
or Democrats are successful, and
nine times out Of ten except whtr
elections are stolen landslides sucI
as was the case in Maine are due t.
local conditions alone. An exampl,
Of local conditions being responsible
for the way the tide turns was hat
Ia this State in 1895. The PEG
pie of the State remember tina
election too well to be fooled BY
false arguments to the contrary
One thing however, is certain an,
that is, that the election on Tuosda,
will not have the least effec
throughout the country in tb,
election next fall and thesiSty-secon,
Congress viii be safely and surel
Republican aud upon this GU
Democratic friends can rest assured
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