Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-13
Nebraska
RETURN OF MAINE
PLEASES OFFICIALS
Secretary Beebe Of Republican
Committee See Revolt
! Against Tariff Law.
DEMOS DEEP IN DUMPS

tFrom Staff correspondentD
Lincoln, Sept. l2-(Special.) 1.-The
election result in Maine has caused
jubilation at republican state head
quarters at the Lindell hotel. At the
Lincoln, where the democrats are at
tempting to do business, there is a
corresponding gloom.
\ Chairman. Beach is out in the state,
but Secretary Beebe and the office
force are all smiles. The officials of
the committee feel that the result in
Maine is true indication OF what
the people are thinking about just
now and forerunner OF republican
victory in November.
Senator Johnson, who was defeat
ed for reelection, was very popular
ra,an in his state" said Secretary
Beebe. Probably no democrat in that
state had better chance to win an
election, but he was member of the
committee which drew up the Under
y wood tariff bill, and the election has
shown that the people know all the
apparent prosperity we are having is
not because of the new tariff bill, but
because Of conditions on account of
the war in Europe. The defeat of the
democratic candidate for the United
States senate in Maine was simply a
revolt against that kind OF tariff
bill and indicates that the voter un-
derstands the situation What is true
in Maine will also apply in Nebraska.
No Consolation for Dems.
II fail to see anything in the cleo
tion there which could give democrats
any consolation, unless it be the fact
that it wasn't any worse. 1t appears
to me that the fact that every repre-
sentative in congress who supported
President Wilson and his policies was
defeated looks very much like re-
pudiation Of the president. 1t is not
so much the amount of the majority
against those candidates as the fact
that making their campaign, backed
by an army of the best democratic
speakers in the country, on platform
of supporting President Wilson, every
one of them was defeated.
"For the first time in the history
81 the state of Maine, as understand
It, the people had the chance to vote
directly for United States senator,
and while Mr.. johnson was mighty
popular man with the people, on that
kind of an issue, he went down to
defeat, and at the hands of the peo-
pie, who for the first time were given
q chance to express their views on
the situation by their vote on senator.
1T simply shows the people of
Maine have repudiated the democratic
congress which passed the Underwood
tariff bill, their own United States
senator helped to frame, and the
president who advocated its passage
and then signed it. II the democrats
can get any consolation out of that
kind of showing, ! am willing they
should have it" Ks
Demos in Sorrow.
At democratic headquarters an air
of gloom existed which even George
Foxworthy, who was suffering from
a severe attack OF govt, could not
overcome. A man with the govt was
in good company this morning when
he mingled with the officers of the
state committee and they all felt as
cheerful as he did They were trying
to be cheerful, but it was hard task
and even though Chairman Langhorst
usually wears a smile, it had sort
of funeral aspect today. Neither the
chairman nor Secretary Sprague
would give anything out regarding
the Maine election and when asked to
express an opinion adroitly changed
&he subject to a discussion OF how
George Foxworthy, newspaper man,
could honestly become possessed of
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