The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-09-21
LAS GOES MAINE"

The old adage, LAS goes Maine, sc
goes the Union, cannot always be
depended upon. Maine, in the state
election in 1916, returned a Repuhli-
can victory, and in the presidential
election in 1916, gave Hughes, Repub-
lican, $4,000, while Wilson, Demo
crat, received 64,127.
Therefore, the Republican victory
in the state election in Maine, last
Monday, does not necessarily imply
that a republican president will be
elected in November
A determined campaign was con-
Quoted in Maine, prior to Monday S
election, and the league of nations
issue was injected into the state cam
paign. That the republicans have
gathered strength in Maine in the
last two years is indicated by the
voting, Monday, which, incomplete
returns disclose, gave for governor,
Mcintyre, democrat, 69,249 In Mon
days election, women of Maine voted
for the first time. These figures may
be compared with the 1918 guberna-
torial returns, which gave Milliken
republican, 64069, and Mcintyre, dem
ocrat, 5S,91S.
Although Maine in 1912, gave Presi-
dent Wilson q plurality, it was less
than 5000 votes Wilson, democr at,
received i'll this election, 81, 113;
Roosevelt, progressive, 4S,495, and
Taft, republican, 26,545.
Maine is normally a republican
state, but elected democratic govern
ors in 1910 and 1914
Prior to 1916, Names choice on
president proved the nations choice
as far back as 1896 In 1892, however
Maine gave Grover Cleveland, demo-
crat, only 4S,024 votes, while Harrison
republican, piled up a total of 62,S7S,
yet Clevelands plurality in the cleo
toral college was 1872. In 1884, In
Maine, Blaine ran more than 10000
ahead of Cleveland, who was elected
president.
The saying, LAS goes Maine, so goes
the Union" therefore, should not al
ways be taken literally-Idaho Coun- |
ty Free Press.
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Farmers who raised peas are COM
planning because the prospects are
they will have to take from 2% to 8 /
cents a pound. or from $1.50 to $3.50
per bushel for them. Peas are said
to be averaging about so bushels per
per acre for crop of peas grown as
a summer crop, in lieu of summer fall
lowing. When we compare these re-
turns with the old methods of farming
when about half of the land was sum-
mer fallowed and brought no returns b
at all and the land that was farmed
brought anywhere from So to $40 per
acre (the latter being regarded as an
enormous return for a crop we are
reminded that conditions have changed
in the Palouse country. And when we
remember that hogs are worth is to a
is cents a pound, and the demand is
greater than the supply and that peas {
make the very best hog feed, and we
compare these prices with wheat at {
80 to SO cents a bushel and hogs at
215 to cents pound, we again rea- )
lie that conditions on Palouse coun-
try farms have improved wonderfully {
in the past 20 years. The farmer who
raises peas at $1.50 per bushel is far
better off than the farmer who sum-
mer fa1lows his land S
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