The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-05

1906. Governor plaisted made hum
chairman u the state board of ugsDs.
rDrs ln 1911 ana he rrvrd fJr elk
gears lliH most responsible position.
however has been aH - member uf
the board " directors of tho Federal
Land bank Ht Springfield. Mass
This position ho has held for over
three NoHtE. Tho district tubtut,s
an New England Nrw Yprk ana New
Jersey Mr. Mclutirc was the demo-
.ra'.. Eaa.,nat"t cuudiuutr m
1919 and was defeated by Governor
MIlikru by only 9,bI5 votes.
state safely Republican.
with tho state Ut largo seemingly
.fafrly republican. leaders of .h1t
party are bending all their cucrEi,H
10 elect their four mcmbofs OF con.
gress IN the FIRST Maine district
Louis % Goodalls early announce
mout that ho would not be CauIi-
date Tor third term brought for.h "A
very long list Of arpiraut8 la Tho
primaries Carroll l.. Boedy of port
land, county attorney FOR Cumbor-
ianl, won but had majority of only
2a yu'cs 0vdf Mayor Charles H.
clark uf Portland 80 bitterness
|.
This Boz tho old ThOmar B. Reed die
trict, ana has never since tho forrud.
ton Of tho republican party been
represented by democrat Frank "
Haskell also Of Portland. is thlt
partys candidate this year
In the SECOND dist.lct Wallace ".
white, jr., who wlJ elected four
years ngo aud apan two years ago
has boon accorded n ,hird uuniua
ton HIS opponent n Dr. Wallace y.
Price, a physlcior Of Rl-hmuud. The
election in this district ~ aIwHys
hard fought ana iu.urcGtinS Three
Times, commencing ten yrdru agu.
Daniel j. McGillIpuduy, a Lewiston
lawyer, wus ol"e'cd over he Trpuh-
liCou candidate. but white carried
the district four ycnrs ago ana won
over McGilliouddy two years Ego but
win majority In tue last contest u
but 2,7SO.
Labor Candidate In Third.
Names third district is nearly M
certain to be republican as the first
district. John A. peters, who has been
the representative for the last eight
years. ~ again running with Archie
&. Towle OF Oakland IN opposition.
Two years ago Mr.. Peters carried the
district over Edward Chase Of Bar
ing by 5,3G3. Mr.. Towle ~ making
his fight upon the statement that he
Ia not a politician and that he has
been drafted into the contest by MS
friends. lie has been u railroad IRE
man and engineer and will make his
especial appeal 20 the labor vote OF
his district. lie ~ ~ years OF age. Mr..
Peters ia So and IL "A lawyer at ELS
worth. The year before he first run
for congress to succeed Forrest
Goodwin. who had died In Nfice,
the republican party had been spill
wide open by the bull moose fght'
The democrats had captured the dis
trict as "a result There wos then a
three corncrCd fight. Edward NJ.
Lawrence was the progressive canS
date; W II. pattangall. the old
brains" OF the Maine democracy,
was that party's candidate, hut Mr,
Peters won by "A Substantial majority
and subsequently has served without
opposition In his own party. lie
favored the Esch -Cummins railroad
bill but opposed the Plumb plan
much favored by Mr.. Towlc. IRA G..
Hersey Of Houlton is again the re-
publican candidate from the fourth
NlflTlCI LEON ~ - il'Nh " Nh'i's
whom sIr. Hcrsey defeated two years
ago by n majority OF 3,962. Is the
democratic candidate.
Fcpr of Congressional Loss.
hut over the congressional situa-
ton is a black shaduw-the fear that
the state will lose one of her dis
tricts when the congressional reap
portionmcnt is completed on the
a. 4 Ia.
all OF northern New England. this
state IL slow growing, and has at this
time perhaps about 10000 people
Those In position to know say that
Maine will soon have hut three dis
tricts and of course only that many
members OF congress. The state his
tory on the question OF federal rep
rosontation is interesting.
This is Names first centenary, and
when admitted 6s a state III $40 she
was given seven members. Her pop
ulation at that time was 2gS, 269.
Maine's second delegation to con
grcss, that elected in 1899, had
stephen LonEfellow. father Of the
poet, as n member, 1882. after
Maine had been state for IL years.
her population had increased to al
most 100000 ana eight members of
congress were conceded. Then ten
years later the number was reduced
TO seven, I'm 1852 to six, and In 1882
TO five members.
II was in that year that James G..
Blaine was first elected. In 1882 tho
number was reduced to four. The
delegation elected from Maine that
year had the most remarkable his
tory, so far as it's personnel went, of
any delegation from any state in the
union. II remained the same for IS
years, or until the death of Seth l..
Mllliken in 1897 His associates for
that decade and half had been
Thomas Il. Reed. Nelson Dngley,
jr., and Charles A. Boutellc. Repre-
sentative Milliken was succeeded by
Edwin c. Burligh, OF Augusta, and
1t was largely through his efforts
a1nc Whn