Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-09
SPIRIT OF '96
i'm Maine THIS
YEAR, SAYS ALLEN
Voters Turn to Republicans in a
National Crisis M in e to
Give Splendid Plurality

Unless all the indications fail this
year Maine is going Republican by
plurality ranging from 10000 to 5000.
gather this not alone from the state
Of expectancy which I find the local
Republican leaders wherever have
gone in Maine but from the voters
themselves"
So spoke in Augusta Friday Henry
J. Allen. the distinguished newspaper
editor Of Wichita, Kansas. who has
been speaking in behalf of the Re-
publican cause in many part of the
State. Four years ago Mr.. Allen sup
ported Col. Roosevelt for President
and stumped Maine for him. This
year he is back in Maine for Charles
Evans Hughes and all that makes for
Republican ascendency in nation ana
State. Mr.. Allen is one Of the best
spell binders in the country and he
has provided a "corking time" for all
who have heard him. No more eff
fective speaker has been heard in
Maine in this campaign. Mr.. Allen is
tremendously optimistic Of the out
come on Monday.
The present political interest IN
Maine" he added to his forecast Of
the result, where campaign orators
fairly crowd one anothers heels. so
fast they come, indicates the relative
Importance of next Mondays cleo
ton. 1t has been years since the Sep
TENDER election in the Pine Tree State
has mean SO much to the nation, and
all the State leaders of both parties
are eagerly looking for Monday, for
the first sign from those sturdy
Americans who have so often spoke
prophetically in their early voting in
rational years.
The attitude of the people Of Maine
is more like the attitude in 1895, than
in any campaign since. They are
thinking deeply; they are giving at
tention to the discussion of the vari-
Gus speakers that is decidedly studi-
Gus in character. Nothing is SO evil
dent as their interest in the tariff.
They seem full alive to the future i'm
portance of what we do now. They
are looking at our present prosperity
with fine discrimination. realizing fully
that it is builded upon an abnormal
foundation which will crumble when
the war is over in Europe and the 49,
100000 men now engaged in carnage
turn their energies to the creation Of
merchandise for world wide markets.
The Maine voters are getting back
to the traditional Maine view point on
the need of a protective tariff, and the
ancient doctrine has taken on even
new importance this year because Of
the realization Of the world wide read
1ustment that will come jumping at us
when the war closes.
II find the Maine farmers turning in
this hour which looks towards new
adventures in our commercial life
toward the Republican party with a
feeling that its leadership is safer-
ripper and more achieving. The Maine
farmer has never had much faint in
the Southern craftsmanship which
now dominates Congress.
This is more than a State election
In Maine. 1t is national in its i'm
portance. not only because of it's in
f1uence upon November's general re-
suit, but because of the fact that you
are choosing two U. S. senators and
-four congressman. 1t is of the same
importance that the Republican
candidates for the Senate and the
House of Representatives be elected
in Maine on Monday as that Hughes
carry the State in November. We do
a frivolous and thoughtless thing if
we elect Hughes and fail to provide
him with a Republican Congress. 1t
would be like sending a farmer to
plow with a balky team and expect
him to get results"