The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-09-14
DEMOCRATS HURT
BY GARDENERS
DEFEAT
THE ONLY DIsHEARTTNINa FEA-
TuRE OF THE MAINE RESULT
HE WAS NEEDED.
STATE is CERTAIN TO
GO FOR GOV. WILSON
and Moosers at Each
Others Threats Since State EIeo-
tion, Know their Electoral Tickets
Are Doomed-Murphy Handicapped
(By Walter Cain.)

(By waiter Caln.)
Special to The Netos.
New York, Sept. 14.-There was
disheatening to Democrats
in the result of the Maine affair, save
only the defeat of Senator Gardner
for reelection, By very thin ma
jority the Republicans got back what
had really been overwhelmingly theirs
for more than a generation. The old
time September majority was want to
run much higher than the meagre
5000 at last Monday. With Bull
Moose and Elephant together, all diff
ferences pooled, the best they could do
was to save their two hides. Now
that they are pulling apart, each with
all the ferocity of jungle association,
the situation is manifestly very easy
for Wilson in November. No Taft
trencher and no Roosevelt rooter Is
willing to stultify himself to the ex-
tent of cherishing or expressing so
much hope that his chieftain has even
remote chance of look-in. Should
Teddy" prove as strong in Maine
proportionately. as he was in Yer
mont, it would make Wilson q very
pronounced plurality winner In the
state, even were he no stronger than
Gov. Plaisted in the latest popular
expression. s,
The Senate Very Doubtful.
But, with November prestage a.
surely Democratic, the ugly wouHi1 Is
Gardner's defeat cannot but be deplorA
ed. Democrats needed Gardner; they
needed him for his vote, to say moth
ing of his servicable strength as q
Senator. A change of five Is now
needed away from Republicans to
Democrats to make Democratic Sen.
ate-independent Of the Progressives
who are or have been Republicans.
don't know where this gain In to come
from; that is, reliably to come from
New Jersey may pass up Briggs for 8
Democrat; Colorado may elect g
Democrat to succeed Guggenheim
Illinois has a chance to send two
Democrats, supplanting Cullum and
the elected Lorimer; Nebraska will
have to go at Brown and Kansas a
Curtis. There are other states, more
over, which are as likely to be Demo
cratic as Republicans such as Oregon
Montana, Nevada and Massachusett
But a net gain of five out Of sue
possibilities is whole lot to conf
IDENTIFY expect. The political tide b,
ing very distinctively Wilsonwart
Democratic managers hereabouts fee
much confidence. Still a Democrat
President, a Democrats House and a
adverse Senate would not be extrem
ly to the disliking of Big Busines
which though seriously embarrasse,
3 remains in the lookout tower an
hopes for a egislation-blocAing o.
i portunity.
Vision We. Smith.
Gov. Wilson has done what WI
t expected of him; he has come out vel
r strenuously In opposition to the ca
didacy for the New Jersey Senate
ship of James Smith Jr. This ms
huTr him in way in his own stat
but 1t was the proper and only couri
\ for the Governor to pursue and W
, help him vastly in other states.
The New York Situation.
The Bull Moosers of New Yol
st named a strong man for Governc
He is a multi-millionaire and a Je'
'e but philantropist, scholar, a fine
ie poised statesman and a patric
i Regular Republicans and Democra
I, must not overlook him as a col
Or manding factor in the November ele
RS ton. They must name really worti
er men to oppose him. II the TammoI
n leader, Mr.. Murphy, so thorough
lr. discredited and humiliated at Bal
is mare. should have an ipse dixit
IL naming the Democratic candidate,
BY may cost the party with which
IN processes allegiance many thousal
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