The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-13
NATION WATCHING 1 RESULTS OF MAINE ELECTION TODAY
Predict Success By 30,000, While Demo- crats Claim Victory By
 Small Majority

By Associated Press

Portland, Me. September 12.-The bien-
 ial state election in Maine, to which much importance is ,Sttached in the na-
 ion in presidential election years be-
 ause of the tradition that as Maine goes so goes the country will be held
 pmorrow. A governor and state audi
 IT, four members of Congress, a state
 gislature and county officers will be
 hosen. There will be no election to the United States Senate this year.
 The republicans, who have conducted hn aggressive and well-organized cam paign, predict that they will carry the Etate by at least 5000. It is sixteen rality even approaching that figure, and ordinarily they have been content with bne-haif of t. Their greatest plurality lwas in 1896, when they carried the state by 4s,Oo0.
 The democrats have quoted no figures. put claim victory by small majority. 1 An element of uncertainty has been added in the entirely new factor of the womens vote. It is estimated that ap- proximately So,O0o women have regis every two men tomorrow. The repuo- licans claim they will have majority (of the womens vote, but Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic candidate fer vire president, af speaking tour og the tate, said saeei gat women
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 The publican speakers nEve h. lhuded Governor Coolidge of Masss- Ichusetts, Senator Lodge of Massae! |setts and Senator Frelinghuysen or New Jersey.
 Many congressman an political lead |ers from other states also have stumped |the state for both parties.
 The campaign has been waged upon national issues with chief emphasis on the League of Nations. The republican position on the league has been in sup port of the Senates refusal to ratify the treaty without reservations de- signed to protect the safety, sovereign ty and independence of the United States.
 The democrats have declared for prompt ratification without reserva- tions destructive of the spirit and eff fective operation of the treaty"
 The importance of the issues and the prominence of the speakers have at tracted large and serious audiences and all indications point to heavy vote.
 The republican candidate for gov-' ernor is Frederic H. Parkhurst of Bangor. His democratic opponent is Bertrand G. Mcintyre of Norway. whom Governor Milliken defeated in the elec- tion two years ago.
 Maine has gone consistently re- publican in its state elections since 1882, except in 1910 and 1914. The plurality has averaged about 1S.00o and the tradition has been that 15,000 pointed to success for the national ticket in November. The re- publican plurality in 1916 was 13,s30. but in November Hughes had only 5, ,447 more votes than President Will son when the democrats carried the country. Yet in 1918 Governor Milli- ken defeated the democratic candidate bv only 5,545 and that year saw re- publican success in the congressional elections in the country. The total vote m the state. however, was only 121,669, nearly 30.0oo less than in 1916.