The Alaska daily empire., 1914-10-19
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS
 SURE IN COUNTRY


 WASHINGTON. = Sufficient time has now elapsed since the election in Maine to enable the political experts to make their deductions from an analysis of the result of the voting in the Pine Tree State.
 The effect of this analysis has been depression. Encouragement and dis may in the Republican ranks and a corresponding feeling of optimism and rejoicing on the part of the Demo crats. Both effects are warranted by the showing made. In addition to the election of a Democratic governor and a Democratic Legislature which means the control of the State gov ernment, the flat increase in the Dem ocratlc vote as compared with the Democratic vote for President in 1912 is more than ten times the flat in- crease of the combined Republican and Progressive vote for President in the same year. In other words the Democratic total was an increase of more than 10000 The vote of 51,- 900 for President Wilson in 1912 was increased to more than 61,OOO for May or Curtis, the Democratic nominee for governor, or about 20 per cent.
 These figures have stagagered the Republicans, for their significance is omnibus for them. Few, if any Re publicans have ever expected that their party would carry the next House of Representatives. The most that they have hoped for has been to cut down the big Democratic major ity in the present House, but the vote in Maine has sent that hope glim- mering. The rate of increase in the Democratic vote in Maine if carried out and applied to the Congressional vote in other States would show a most astounding result and one which even the Democrats have never con sidered, but which speaks for itself.
 An increase of 20 per cent. in the Democratic vote, as was made In Maine, applied to the Congressional districts elsewhere, would not only elect Democrat from every district now represented by Democrat, but 1t would, in addition, result in net Democratic gain of upwards of forty members in the House. This is some thing which has given the Republi cans pause and has greatly added to the aggressiveness of the Democrats.
 Another significant showing in the Maine election is the fact that for the first time in seventy years, with one exception, the combined vote cast for Democratic candidates for Congress, exceeded the combined vote cast for Republican candidates for Congress which is clearly an endorsement of the national administration and it's policies. Representative McGillicudy the Democratic member from Maine, based the claims for his reelection upon the fact that he had been the consistent supporter of President Will son and the measures put forth and enacter by the Democratic Congress. The result of a campaign along these lines was far better than the most op. timisdc Democrat had expected. Mir. McGnlicuddy's plurality was increas' ed more than four times what it was two years ago. In 1912 he had plu- rallty of less than 1900, whereas this year his plurality was approximately $500, which was in excess of the com bined pluralities of the successful Re publican candidates for Congress. On y in tho election of 1910, when there was a Democratic landslide in Maine, has the party been able to even equal this result.
 The showing was that the Democrat who stood for Wilson policies was the man who gained tremendously in the esteem of his constituents.