The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-06
WILSON TO AID DEMOCRATS IN
 MAINE BATTLE
President May Speak During Campaign Planned In
 That State.

cratic guns will be In action within
 two weeks. Plans have practically
 been completed for strenuous cam tpaigning in Maine during the latter ipart ofsJuly and all of August in an ;offort to keep that State in the Dem locratic column. In 1912 the six cleo
 floral votes from Maine went to Will teon. ,n f. More important even than the six
 votes Maine casts in the Electoral College, the Democrats regard the lmoral effect throughout the country
 of the Maine election Maine holds !tts Statas elections on the second Mon-
 day of September. and the result is kalwaysf7looked upon by political ob- lservefs as a straw indicating how the wind blows Four years ago, how lever, Maine elected Republican gov Eernor, Nut returned a majority for lWoodr&& Wilson In the State cleo
 ton tufE years ago Maine went Dem locratic rby small majority
 Tt wA$ learned yesterday tbat an ef- Mort is being made to induce the Pres ftdent to make one or two speeches in
 Maine in August, when the campaign will reach its climax Oakley c. Cur his, the Democratic Governor elected I 1 telecfion, and so is United States Sen lator Charles F. Johnson. who was ,,electedxfn 1911
 In t&k last two weeks in July it has jo4en u1&nned to send several Demo tcratic E0ngreasmen into Maine to cam lpaixn for the State and national tic ! iket- ksbatch of Senators will follow. 4! In August imembers of the Presidents 8 | }Cabinet, and, if he yields to persua- fsion, the President himself, will speak i'm MafnA- sOf Cabinet members, Sec of the Interior Franklin Knight tLAne 6f California and Secretary of !comn E. Wl3iaY9 e fSsfYld are al ssd- #
 Thssbemocrats believe they have a
 1ighting chance in Maine, even though }xhe Republicans and the Progressives, ! ostensfhiy at least. have patched up stheir differences. There is one earlier Istate election than that in Maine. This t3S in Vermont. where State officials iHFe eledted on the Tuesday following (he first Monday in September, or al- aost gweek in advance of the Maine 1electi0t5f But Vermont was one of l the two States which gave it's electoral lvota to Taft four years ago when the {Repub1icans and Progressives parted { icompany and is not regarded as af- i1ordiug any opportunity whatever for 7he Democrats to make themselves }$eIt -s ir M
 l Homer s. Cummings, Vice Chair 1sman of the Democratic National Com mittee, who will be in charge of the tspeakexis bureaurat committee head 1 tquart1a4 In the Forty-second Street tBuildt8k. expects to leave for Maine I withiniA few days to make plans for the campaign
 iI vauco C. Mccormick, Chairman of lfhe Democratic National Committee, tsaid yesterday that the date for noti- living President Wilson of his renom- lination, had not :aslyet been fixed. It iis regarded as likely that, this cere- mony will be deferred until after Charles E. Hughes. the Republican 1 nominee, has been notified and made ipublic his letter of acceptance. This. f3t Is pointed out, would afford Presi- Ident Wilson an opportunity to meet I statensnts in the Hughes letter which might call for answer or comment in his own letter of acceptance
 Mrt in all likelihood will lnot appoint, his campaign committee lthis week. FsHis only announcement ,yesterday was of the appointment of Robert w. Woolley, Director of the f United States Mint, to be head of the ! Publicity Bureau. MT. Woolley was lat national Headquarters yesterday, land expects to be there for two or three days every week during July. He will not relinquish his office to 1 give Ids entire time to the campaign luntilsAug. l.. Just now MT. Woolley ]is bun supervising the sculptors' ImodelG for the new coins. f 1 Mr. Woolley said last night that he expected the Democratic Campaign
 Book to be completed by the middle
 |cf August, which would be two weeks sIearliers than in the campaign four
 years ago.