Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-13
ONLY 4 SMALL GAIN
FOR COP. IN MAINE:
OVER 1872 RESUL is
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

1'S"'SoN
right, 1924
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-"As
goes Maine SO goes the nation is
IN old batt,a cry of the Republican
party and tie Democrats have been.
loath to Use it except when toe
election seems to be turing their
way.
1t is no secret that the Demo
Gratis expected to either win the gov
ernorship in Maine or cut down ma
terially the Republican majority. On
the face of the latest returns they
have lost the election and the ques-
ton of how much they have cut
down the Republican majority de-
ponds altogether on whether 1920
or 1922 is taken as basis of reckon,
ing.
In the 1920 election the governor
ship as we'll as the presidency was
won by the Republicans in Septem-
Der and November, respectively, by
approximately $4,000 majority. To
uoS IHC INGD IDl'CdilS nave 4ou IAloI
majority cut down to almost halt.
To that extent the idea that 1920
may be taken as a basis of com
putation for the 1924 election and
that Davis will be beaten as was
Cox is subject to sharp dispute by
the mathematics of the case
Small Gain For g. D. p.
COMPARED with 1922! which seems
q fairer basis for calculation, the
Republicans have made a small
gain. They won then by 24,000 and
it was remarked at that time that
the cut from 1920 represented con-
siderable loss 20 the Republican
party. The Maine results were con-
sidered significant and they were
indeed borne out by the congress
siOnal elections, for applying the
same ratio of loss to the Republicans
in other states the mathematician
did figure out about the loss of
seats in congress which they did
suffer. SO Maine pointed in 1922 the
way the nation went.
What does a gain of from $4,000
in 1922 to 5000 in 1924 really repre-
sent? 1t means that the Republicans
not only have held their own but
have made a gain Of about 1000
votes, though the difference between
a gOVernorship and a presidential
vote is always a few thousand any
way, so to all intents and purposes
the situation has not materially
changed from 1922. Had there been
any landslide in prospect for the
presidential race the barometer in
Maine should have registered al
This dispatch is written on the basis
of early returns and it may be that
later figures may show a $4,000
in which case the Republic.
ans will have just cause for jubila-
ton as to the meaning Of the Maine
election.
Entirely apart from the effect
which the figures will have on the
workers of both parties-for they
VIII interpret it as they please
Maine may have an Importance in
another field Of controversy, namely.
the ku kluX Khan. The defeats of
the Khan in Texas and Oklahoma had
made some of the supporters of the
Khan in politics somewhat timid. The
Coolidge political managers were ad-
viscd that a strong khan vote would
be cast for the Republican canli
date for governor in Maine because
of the denunciation of the khan bv
Mr.. Pattangall, the Democratic nomi. !
nee. A victory with Khan support
always goads the anti-klan elements
into action. Perhaps the most pro
VocatiVe headline which the Demo |
Gratis could wish for is that which |
today was used by one of the Re I
publican newspapers here, "Brewes-