Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-16

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suggestion that Democratic asfsH1a ~ ~
depends upon the continued efetcl IL ~, :.
Republican party; Combined me re Ni an
Republicans and prOgressiVts navy a.
easy majority over the Democrats . uiNiu
ed upon the ratio of last &eat,s utS lsl2 }.
of their strength they are hope'esslS
beaten.
The political straws will not be apt TO
blow very far until the new tstlH Jaw can
be tested. The congressional eIet,l,ns
next year will be indicative. but nothlhS
that can happen prior to that test Oh
strength Will oe o. vaiue in H@cef.e4silll9
the trend of political sentiment
Something sad has invaded the
stables of the donkey. The Globe
Democrat powerful organ of the
Central states-admts that, and finds
the answer in return to the condi-
tions of Demoeracy's lean years
Then an unruptured elephant dealt I'M
varying ACCOMPLISHMENT The sundered
mammoth was easy prey, but, as he
grows again To his sturdy virilty, the
donkey sulks or fiercely attacks the
healing wound.
The Globe Democrat predicts that
the condition of Republican visor Is
promised rapid advancement by the
Maine result. The editorial follows:
f"Globe- democrats Louis, Mo-
The Democratic donkey is stunned
There is something lie can not uiit9i
stand Last year he whipped two ele-
INFANTS This wear one elephant is whip
ping him. wherever he finds NM lie mas
a dim recollection that the same thlhs MAS
hanpening quite frequently before i9lZ'
hui II piiZzles him. and makes his ears
wink to think that his only N1ciorA w.
the elephant in 20 years was Waen t hRafe
were two big ones, ana that st5t9i,s ,l .,'en
to only one again the same Ola tuiHs y
happening 1t has happened TINS year III
Michigan, in st Louis, and al olaer
points where the donkey rushed to tne
FRAY confident of meeting two eiefhdht9
and found but one-and the usual result
Ii happened again, in the Thlrd On
gressional District of Maine Monday III
more striking and siSnlncaat WAY em LII
il had happened anywhere before. me
figures tell the story so enlightenlnsy
that the donkey can read 1t as ne runs:
Last year the divided Republicans OF
the Third Maine district polled Tor ialt
and Roosevelt %. 10 votes. The Demo
Gratis of that district polled for their only
Presidential candidate. Wilson. i4,e'-
votes. The Democrats We're III hihol ~.
of 6io3 in the district. but owing to the
division in the Republican vote. wilson
had a plurality in il of 10. or about one
third Of his plurality in the state Whieh
was nearly 25,Go short of majority OF
its voters. At the special election OF
Monday Il vote as heavy as that of last
year came ont. The Washington admin
istration had made a strong effort 10
elect PattanGall. the Democratic cafdi-
date Secretary Bryan and Speaker
Clark and a host of lesser Democratic
lights had stumped the four counties.
Candidates for federal offices, which have
been carefully held in reserve, eXerted
themselves to arouse the Democratic
electorate. with the result that Patta"-
gall poiled less than 200 votes fewer than
Wilson got last year. There Was no ad-
ADMINISTRATION influence at work among
the Republicans and no smell of pie to
arouse their enthusiasm. but they seem
to have been moved as by a nightly inn
pulse to correct their mistake of last No
Vember The vote they polled for their
candidate, Peters was nearly 2Q01 greater
than that of Roosevelt while the vote of
the Progressive candidate. Lawrence,
was less than half of what Roosevelt got
ten months ago. The total Republican
vote was greater than that for both Taft
and Roosevelt.
Obfuscated AS he is over series of
such results the donkey * capable or see
ing that. by November of next year. the
remnant of the Progressive vote in the
Third Maine district will have practically
vanished there and everywhere. The re-
turn movement began Immediately after
the result of the Presidential electi9" '"st
year had sobered a great army of Repub-
lcanS who could tuen see, clearly, 4iow
much too far they had allowed their en-