Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02
TO ASK PRESIDENT
TO GO INTO MAINE
Democratic Leaders Laying
Plans for Spirited Cam
paign This Summer.
HUGHES AND ROOSEVELT
LIKELY TO FOLLOW HIM
Bryan and ether Oratorical Forty
Two Centemeters Are Expected
to Camp on Republicans Trail.

President Wilson will be asked to so
into the Maine campaign this summer
and if he does he will probably be
followed by Candidate Hughes Col
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft. whereupon
William J. Bryan and group of great
democrats will trail them.
The first big night in the national
campaign of 1916 will occur in Maine,
two months in advance of the general
elections. and a campaign which prom
fses to be of unusual intensity is al
ready under way. September II Maine
will elect two United States senator's,
four representatives in Congress and a
governor and state ticket. Presidential
electors will be voted for in Novem-
Der.
For several reasons the Maine cam
paign this year will be considered of
exceeding Importance by the political
managers of both parties. The moral
effect of a victory in this state upon
public sentiment in other states is al
ways considered asset by the ma n
ayers. The death of Senator Burleigh
and the expiration of the term of Sen
ator johnson make two vacancies in
the United States Senate to be filed.
Both Sides Are Confident.
These facts alone would endow the
campaign with great Importance and
added to them is the further consid-
Grafton that the state is very close and
each side has reasonable ground for
confidence of winning the election.
The democrats and republicans are
preparing to send into the state their
heaviest artillery in CAMPAIGN orators
and workers and to bend every en-
ergy to capturing the state. From
end to end the state will be narrowed
by spellbinders and sown with cam
paign literature.
The night for the two United States
senatorships will attract wide atten-
ton. Senator Johnson, democrat, has
been renominated at the primaries and
will be opposed in the election by
Frederick Hale. son of Eugene Hale.
who for many years held seat in
the Senate.
Senatorial Primaries July "A.
To nominate candidates to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of
Senator Burleigh primaries will be held
July "a. The republican candidates
for the nomination are Ira G. Her
shey. president of the state senate;
ex-Gov. Bert NJ. Fernald and Repre-
sentative Guernsey of the fourth con-
gressional district. The democrats
will probably nominate Dean Stills of
Bowdoin College.
The campaign in Maine is always
embarrassed by the tendency of the
liquor issue, and this year Will be no
of that problem and their bearing
upon the voting will furnish chapters
of speculation as the campaign pro-
crosses.
to the drift of the bull moose vote,
although it is expected by the repub-
Ncans that most of il will come their
way. However. since Col. Roosevelt
nomination incipient revolt has
started among his former followers
against hitting the trail after him.
That the progressive vote will be an
important factor in the election is
shown by the returns of the presi-
Dental election of 1912 and the con-
gressfonal and state elections of 1914
In. all these the combined republican
and progressive vote exceeded the
democratic vote.
Voting Strength Compared.
In 1912 the total democratic ,ote
was 3I.113 and the total of the rel ub-
lican vote was 15.03s. Col. Roosevelt
receiving 4s.4s3 and Mr. Taft 1856.
The republicans will count heavily
upon Col. Roosevelts personality to
swing his former supporters into line
for the republican tickets
In the gubernatorial election of 1914
the great Roosevelt vote of two years
previous had dwindied to I,sz5 pro-
gressives. but the combined republican
and progressive vote exceeded the
Democratic vote by over $1,000 In
the confessional elections of 1914 the
districts divided S follows:
First district-Democrats I6O35. re-
publicans. 1892: progressives, e,276.
Second district-Democrats I6.50s:
republicans. 11,335; progressives, $3.50.
fhird district-Democrats. 1906: re-
pGblicans, 1860; progressives, 1857
Fourth Embellishments. lO.o55:
republicans. l2,1s1: progressives, 5 ,4se
Representative Kinds will not be a
candidate for reelection, his health not
permitting him to make the race
Representative. Guernsey has also de-
cilhed TO run again. being a candidate
Tor the senatorship nomination The
incumbents in the other two districts
vii! stand for reelection.