The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-09
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Republicans and Progressives
Lined Up Against the Demo-
Gratis for This Day Only;
Tomorrow Fight Begins.
BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
: International News Service.

BY International News Service.
~ ORTLAND, Me, Sept. S.-After the
~ most amazing campaign this once
rock-rbbed Republican state has
IL ever seen the tired political lead
ers are preparing tonight for
Mafne's prophetic election which begins
at O'Clock tomorrow morning. Cover
nor Frederick ". Plaisted. Democrat
said tonight that he would be reelected
by 10000 majority, which Is much more
than he got last time. His state chair
man. John s. II. p. Wilson OF Auburn.
raised the majority to $1,000. William T.
Haines. Republican candidate, says he
will win but gives no figures Haines's
state chairman. Warren Shelbrook Of Wa
tervile, also prophesies victory. but only
claims comfortable majority. so 1t seems
that the Democrats are lot more conf
dent than the Republicans.
Fight After Election.
The astonishing thing about the situa-
tion tonight is that the Bull Moose and
Republican bosses, having done all they
can for each other. are actually at work
on material to swat each other with Tues
day morning after the election. When
George NJ. Sids.- former law partner of
Thomas 3. Reed. and Bull Moose chair
man, pulled down his desk tonight he
looked about him on a room piled high
with pamphlets soaking the regular Re-
publicans and a force OF clerks all ready
to mall them.
In the regular Republican headquar-
tors Is to be found all the literature Mr..
Hlllcs has got together, giving reasons
why Roosevelt ought not to be president
Of anything. much less the United States
Haines Under Cover.
The names of Roosevelt and Taft have
not been mentioned In the campaign.
Plaisted dared Haines to say whom he
was for all the way through. but Haines
closed the campaign without doing so.
Whether or not he is elected. he will say
Tuesday, however. and II is generally be-
lieved that the first thing he does after
he gets up and reads the returns Will be
to pin Bull Moose button on his coat.
1t Is certain that most Of the men who
have been making the fight for the al
lies are Bull Moosers-thet is most OF
the fighting men, Tho Taft men aro
apathetic- II they win. they will claim
that the great name Of Taft, which was
never used. pulled them through. II
they lose they will assert that It was the
butting In OF the Roosevelt crowd that
cost them the victory.
Vote Will Be Close.
AS to the probabilities Of tomorrow's
cline to make forecasts. Everybody ad-
l,,,Ifc hof x1ill hp No
party OF Blaine and Reed and Dingley
and Boutell Is not what 1t used to be. 1t
has got one black eye from the Demo-
Gratis and it is not at all sure that the
other will be the same color tomorrow
evening.
Strongly In favor OF Governor Plaisted
is an economical administration. Moth
ing makes such hit with native Of
Maine as showing him how he can save
few dollars and there Is no doubt that
Plaisted, by refusing to let the Legislature
appropriate all tho money In the treasury,
has cut the tax rate down. Then Plasted
has as his real manager Attorney General
Pattangill, who Is also mayor Of Water
Vile and the nearest approach TO a boss
the Democrats of this state have even
seen.
| Pattangill Is personally popular, as Is
shown by the fact that he holds two Of
| flces at once, Besides that. he Is a
shrewd politician and Plaisted, by follow
Inc his advice. has avoided lot OF rocks.
Haines Is Popular.
| What is helping TIaines Is his great
personal popularity and the skill of Ed
win c. Burleigh, who is after the sem
| atorship. Burlelgh a politician In
Blaine's day and he will probably continue
to be a politician long after the young
huskies of Maine politics are wearing
gray boards. He knows personally nearly
every voter in the state and his influence
goes into every county. II a Republican
| legislature is elected he will be the SEN
ator, for he has already been named as
the party choice In a preferential pri-
mary.
Tho question as to whether demon
rum shall or shall not get back into
the saddle in Maine has not entered
/ into the campaign to any appreclabIc
extent, II is generally believed that
Plalsted is for local option, but Haines
has not made any Issue of 1t and the
| Prohibitionists arc content to leave II
out this year
| Neither do the suffraeists enter into
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