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ELECTION in Maine next MONDAY
WATCHED With NATIONAL INTEREST

Maine-roek.ribbed Maine--has a
state election next Monday and as
usual politicians all over the country
are watching TO see what happens mp
in the state where every election has
a marked national angle.
Col. Roosevelt himself has been in
Maine, speaking during the third week
in August and the colonel is reported
TO have been cordially received.
All three parties have been engaged
for months in the practical work Of
organization, and the leaders Of each
claim TO be not only satisfied but con-
fdent.
The Democrats are declaring with
great emphasis that their candidate
for governor, Oakley C.. Curtis, mayor
of Portland, win beat the Republican
candidate, William T. Haines, who is
now serving his first term as govern
or, by substantial plurality, and they
express confidence aiso Of general Vie
tory in the state and county tickets.
Democrats Denounce Prohibition
Thus far, in their literature and in
the few speeches by local candidates,
the Democrats have laid all their elu-
NMaciS vi bHC rum QtCEtfOnf RJlntAnE
cut what they term the fat failure Of
Gov. Haine's administration to bring
about any better enforcement of the
prohibitory law than obtained under
previous administrations, Democratic
or Republican, and denouneing the
whole performance as the eontinu-
ance in an aggravated form Of POI
Iitical hypocrisy that has cursed
Maine for half a century or more.
When the speakers from out the state
began talking that rum was somewhat
sidetraeked or left to the small fry,
while national policies as formulated
and carried out by the Wilson admin
filtration was the text of scores of en-
inent spellbfnders.
Among the men who went to plead
the Democratic cause are Representa-
tive William A. Cuilop Of Indiana,
Representative William f. Murray Of
Massae husetts, Representative Ken
meth d. McKeller Of Tennessee, Rep
resentative Eugene F. Kinkead Of
New Jersey, Representative William
N. Baltz Of Illinois, Representative
John J. Mitchell and M. r. Phelan Of
Massachusetts,, former Gov. Dockery of
Missouri, Secretary Of Commerce Red
field, and Representative Thomas L..
Reilly Of Connecticut.
The Republicans secured among
their orators Representatives Julius
Kahn Of California and J. Hampton
Moore of Pennsylvania, for the open.
ing week, with host of big guns to
follow.
Never was the result of an sleetion.
in Maine more in doubt than now.
The achievements Of the Wilson ad-
ministration are favorably viewed in
Maine and that will be source Of
strength to the Democrats. The cities
and towns are opposed to prohibition,
and that also viii make Democratic
votes. But the wave of high prices,
now rising higher, is regarded as an
adverse factor, and this with the
strength Of prohibition in the rural
regions, viii tend to even things up
as between the two old parties.
The lumber business is almost dead,
and shipping even worse, while in
some other lines there is stagnation
and hesitation, but until the war dis
tufbance came there was generally
satisfactory condition in trade and in
most industries.
All these things win have their
weight with the voters, and have been
seized upon by the Republican orators
In their efforts TO make the people dis
contented with their lot and dissatis-
fed with the national administration.
Unless the Progressive vote, which
il 1872 for Roosevelt approximated
$1,000, has faded, as the chairman Of