New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-10-13
900 REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL VOTES

Following up the forecast of electoral votes
made by the republican publicity association
published in the Record a few weeks ago, the
figures from the recent election in Maine at
ford conclusive grounds for claiming the cleo
ton of Hughes and Fairbanks with more thar
three hundred electoral votes in the college,
or more than two to one Tor the republican
candidates.
1t makes no difference what angle Of ap-
proach is employed. The Maine election points
conyincingly TO republican victory in Novenl-
Der.
The total vote of Maine republican and
democratic) this year is I4S,207 for governor.
In 1912 for the same office, when there was
no progressive candidate and both elements
Of ,republicanisln were working together as
they did this year, the total vote was 1891.
Gov. Plaisted, a democrat, was then seeking
reelection just as Gov. Curtis was this year.
He received 67,74S votes, as against 71,o43
cast for William T. Haines, who was elected.
The plurality Of the united republicans of
Maine in 1919 was 3305. This year it is 49,
6o7, whereas the increase in the total vote is
.o5o6-this years plurality being 100 larger
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rality Of four years ago. In this connection il
is interesting to note that Gov. Plaisted, when
seeking reelection in 1912, received 67,748
votes, while Gov. Curtis, on his second trip
to the polls got only 67,3o5.
In other words, the democratic vote of
Maine is stationary, while the republican vote
has increased more than sixteen per cent over
that of IOI2-even though that earlier vote
contained the strength Of both clements Of the
party.
Applying this percentage to the vote of 1912
in the several states of the Union, it means
that Hughes and Fairbanks will carry not only
the states which gave a clear republican plu-
ralitv in the congressional vote of two years
ago, but will gain, in addition, Arizona, In.
diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, and Tennessee
and will nave $40 votes in the electoral col
lege to Wilson and Marshall's I82.
Comparing this years vote for governor of
Maine with that of two years ago as cast for
members of congress, we find that the repub-
lican strength has increased 34.I2 per cent,
while the democratic strength has gained only
1905 per cent. Two years ago there were
6o,0S3 votes cast for democratic candidates
for congress in Maine, the republicans having
90, 3IS, and the progressives 1888. This year
a republican ~governor-elect gets $4,000 to his
democratic opponents 67,3o5, showing the re-
strength to be 2,O26 more than the
combined vote of republicans and progressive
1914. OF the total gain registered, the re-
p~ublicans have taken So4 per cent; the demo-
Gratis have only 1910 per cent, Assuming this
percentage to represent the division of the for
progressive vote between the two parties,
and applying it to the vote of the other states
as cast either two or four years ago, our demo-
cratic friends are again confronted with the
of the electoral college by a wide margin.
The issues upon which the president has
chosen to go to the country were vigorously
presented in Maine by five members of his
cabinet and by senators, congressman, federal
officials of all grades and spellbinders of ev-
cry degree. The peace and the prosperity"
we are told are ours and which, we are
come from Mr.. Wilson's benevolent
1and. were eloquently depicted in every city,
every village, every crossroads, even, in
Maine-and Maine has registered her opinion
Of that peace" and of that prosperity" Her
is also that of the country-and a few
more of "watchful waiting" will DEM
it.