New-York tribune., 1920-09-07
Republicans
Fix 10000 as
Maine Plurality
Votes of Women Expected
To Be Main Factor i'm
Victory Surprising That
WON by Milliken i'm 1916
Reception Cold
Personal Attacks ON Colonel
Parkhurst Chief Fea-
ture of Democratic Fight
By Charles T. White

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 6.--Maint
Republicans have set 10000 plurality
as their mark for both the state cleo
tion next Monday and the Presidentia
election in November.
Governor Milliken, Republican, car
ried the state in 1916 by about $4,000
but his plurality fell to 5,545 in 1918.
With the women voting this year anc
with the Democrats doing little OF
nothing in the way Of organizing the
women voters, the Republican mana
gers are confident of reaching the 90,
900 mark.
1t is admitted in both camps that the
advent Of the women voters lends ar
element Of uncertainty to the situa-
tion, but even the Democrats admit that
the Republicans have the ledge" or
them, meaning that the Democrats have
no hope of success.
| Disregarding the issues outlined by
President Wilson, the managers of the
Maine Democratic organization appar.
emily have decided to base their cam.
paign on vilification of Colonel Fred.
eric H. Parkhurst, the Republican can.
didate for Governor, a leatheg manu-.
! facturer of Bangor, who undertook
| government contracts, but who has ar
unsettled account with a rival manu-.
facturer. By what appears to be col
lusion between the rival manufacturer
and bureau officials in Washington
this unsettled account between Colone
| Parkhurst and his business rival is
| m $n rpfocfinp
integrity of Colonel Parkhurst, anc
at this writing Federal officials ere ir
| Portland and Bangor comforting with
| Democratic politicians for the purpose
of "queering" Parkhurst.
Unfair Tactics Charged
Colonel Parkhurst has made q com
plete answer to the direct and implied
charges Of the Democrats. Representa-
! tive John A. Peters, who is conversant
with the features of the controversy
between Parkhurst and Allen & Sons
the firm which sold leather to Park
hurst, in commenting to-day on the
latest "drive" by the Democrats against
the Republican candidate, said:
Il believe that this is an attempt on
the part of Allen, stimulated by poll
ticians opposed to Colonel Parkhurst
to collect an unliquidated claim with
between parties"
The attacks on Colonel Parkhurst
whose reputation for probity and fair
dealings never before has been ques-
! toned, have recoiled on the eXploiters
netting them loss instead of a gain.
Until this campaign the Maine De-
mocracy usually has sought to win by
taking the wet end in every state and
national election. This kept the party
fairly intact, but rarely carried an
election for them. National prohibi-
tion has deprived them of their wet
issue this year, and they have substi-
tuted calumniation.
"As goes Maine, so goes the Union,'
is the traditional slogan which Repub-
licans are joyfully quoting these days,
and they have buckled to the task OF
whaling" their old time opponents with
an enthusiasm that BODIES i'll for the
Democratic jobholders.
Roosevelt Speech Frost
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate Tor Vice-P resident, wound up
a speaking trip in Maine last week, and
local Democrats admit that, so far as
Portland is concerned, his tour was q
frost. It is q fact, verified by the
Tribune correspondent to-day, that at
the great Auditorium here last
Thursday night ne talked to an audi
ence of 1900, nearly one-half of whom
were Republicans. The local Repub-
lican managers took pains to check up
plause and all-around deadness of the
meeting.
The Auditorium has a seating ca
pacity of 4,000. When the late Colonel
Roosevelt spoke to the Republican
State Convention here two years ago
last March the roads were almost i'm
passable, but the Auditorium was
packed to the doors, hundreds from the
northern counties walking out Of the
woods on snowshoes.
The Republicans are staging q rally
for Wednesday which bids fair to
break attendance records. Governor
Coripne Roosevelt Robinson, of New
York, are to be the principal speakers.
Major La Guardia is coming later in
the week. Whether the weather is good
or bad there is no doubt that these
rallies will attract enormous crowds.
The aim of the Maine Republican
managers Is to get the triumphal car
going at q good clip for the election
next Monday, and then keep it going.
Four years ago Governor Milliken
scored an emphatic victory in Septem-
Der, and then the Republicans went to
sleep on the job, their slackness re-
sulting in reduced margin for Hughes
in November.
Interest To Be Maintained
State Chairman Frank Ham, Nation
al Committeeman Guy p. Gannett, At
torney General Guy H. Sturgis, the
two United States Senators, Frederick
Hale and Bert NJ. Fernald; Hiram w.
Kicker, president Of the Harding and
Coolidge Clubs Of Maine; Major E. E.
Philbrook and others in charge of the
campaign are determined that there
shall be no letting down after Monday.
On the contrary, they are planning to
keep everything going full tilt until
the November election.
The election Of Carroll L. Beedy, Of
Portland, over Frank H. Haskell, Dem
ocrat, is conceded in the 1st Con-
gressional District. Haskell is q for
mer Republican, having been turned
down by the Republican managers in
the 1915 campaign, when he wanted to
go on the stump.
Mr.. Beedy Is prosecuting attorney of
Cumberland County and man of af-
fairs in this, his home city. Mr.. Has
kell has not been prominent. The 1st
District, in which Beedy and Haskell
are contesting, is composed Of Cum
berland and York counties, containing
Portland, Biddeford, Westbrook. Old
Orchard, Sandford and Saco. There are
extensive cotton mills In Biddeford
and worsted and plush mills in Sand
ford.