Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-30
New England Politics Com
manding General Attention.
SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS
Maine and Vermont Choose State Of.
fcers and Representatives.
NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES
fractional Troubles Imperil Republic
can Success-Review Of Condi-
tions-List Of Nominees.

Special From a STAFF Correspondent.
BOSTON. August 3O.-New England
promises to fill the public eye for the next
two weeks Maine holds it's election Sep.
tember IL. Vermont September 9. while
New Hampshire will experience its first
statewide primary and direct nomination
October g. Massachusetts Is in the throez
Of a campaign for the selection of candi-
dates. Connecticut will nominate in Sep
tember. Rhode Island Is wondering wheth-
er Senator Aldrich intends to quit or
was only fooling. and. taken altogether,
this neck OF the woods promises TO be right
lively from now on.
Maine as I have tried to point out in
dispatches from that state. Is decidedly
doubtful. II - an even wager whether
the democrats or republicans elect gov
ernor. Asher Kinds will probably be
elected to Congress, but the odds are
against the return of Swasey, republican.
in the second district.
New Hampshire is torn with factional
dispute, the outcome OF which cannot be
estimated until after the primaries for the
nomination OF governor. which will be
contested by the progressive republicans
and the conservatives.
Knitting Of Factions Feared.
Careful Observers in New Hampshire
are fearful that whichever side wins the
other will knife the ticket, which is a fine
prospect for the republican party. will
not ask you to take my word alone about
New Hampshire, but will quote John
torrance of the Boston Advertiser, who is
an authority on New England politics.
After tour Of the states. he says:
whether progressives triumph with
Bass or regulars with Ellis. each group
admits all republicans will have to work
as never before to elect their candidate,
and that defeat In practically certain IL
the other wing should triumph at the pri-
IT is not hard to ind the cause The dark
outlook IL not due to dissatisfaction with
national republican politics or even with
republican management OF the state
government. 1t is conceded that not In
long time has the state had so capable
and conscientious an executive as Gov.
Quinby. There has been progress, too,
decided progress. in latter-day lesisla-
ton.
THE republican party has responded to
lican thought. Drastic and strange laws
have been put on the statute books. The
cause provocative Of party defeat Is
found In the party itself-intense faction
alism. The republicans have split into
two wings, called progressive-insur-
gent or Lincoln republicans-and the
regulars, who are sometimes denomi-
mated machine men. The forces are about
evenly divided, with perhaps the progress
sives showing greater and greater strength,
throat for the past four years.
Different This Year.
''Theiregulars have. as a rule. triumph
ed. They have been able to control the
elections: but this year II Is ali different
the nominees will be named At the pr-
maries. It cannot be deciphered who will
win. But II the regulars have won at
to command the full party vote at the
polls. Thousands Of republicans have
preferred to vote the democratic ticket.
Tn 1908. when Floyd defeated Churchill.
and when the progressives claimed the
nomination was stolen from Churchill,
Floyd actually came out Of the polls with
out SUFFICIENT votes to elect him by the
people. He had to be elected by the legis-
lature. Not in years had this taken place
In 1908, when Quinby ran, he defeated his
and had only . majority Of 100 votes over
all candidates. The state was carried by
Taft At this election by $1,000 The vote
for governor revealed large and disQufet.
ing independent voting. The progressivei
were not voting the state republican tick.
ct For a presidential year Quinby's vote
was extremely disappointing.
'In other words. the progressive OIL
anti-machine agitation and propaganda
has been making two or three democratic
votes where II has been making one, and
1t has become now common belief that
since this propaganda is livelier and more
aggressive than ever. nothing (but a de.
cided abandonment OF factional nghting)
can save the democrats from actually
eiecting their candidate for governor this
fall. and that. too. by vote that will b.
majority over all votes cast-in Other
words, a most decisive vote"
The tickets nominated in Maine and
Vermont are as Follows:
Nominees in Maine.
Republican-Governor, Bert NJ. Fernald
West Poland; auditor. Charles P. Hatch
Augusta. Congress: First district-AsheI
c. Kinds. Portland: second district, Johr
p. swasey. Canton; third district, Edwin
C. Burleigh. Augusta fourth district
Frank o. 0urnsey. Dover.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Frederick w
Plaisted. Auguste; auditor, Lemont A
Stevens, Wells. Congress: First district
william M. Pennell. Portland: second dis.
trict. Daniel ]. Mc0iilicuddy, Lewiston
third district, Samuel W. Could, Skow.
hogan; fourth district. George NJ. Han.
son, Calais.
Vermont Candidates.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, John A. Mead
Rutland; lieutenant governor. Leightos
p. Slack. 81. Jshnsbury: secretary o.
| state. Guy b. Bailey. Essex Junction
| treasurer. Edward w. Davitt, Montpelier
auditor. Horace d Graham. Craftsbury
| attorney general. John G. Sargent, Lud
low. Congress-: First district-David ]
Foster, Burlington; second district. Franz
p Lumley, Northneld.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Charles D. Wat
| son, St. Adams: lieutenant governor
Rev. John B. Reardon. Springfield: secre
tary Of state, c. l. Mcmahon, Stowe
treasurer, John w. Thurston, Islant
Pond: auditor. r. F. P1att, Brattleboro
attorney general. II. c. OhurtlefY. Mont
| pelier. Congress: First district-P. M
Weldon. Rutland: second district, Alexan
| der Cochrane. Groton.
Socialists and prohibitionists have alst
nominated tickets In both states.
N. o. NJ.
MINISTER EGAN Dimes NELL
De Richelieu Talks With Longshore
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