Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-10
BY CHARLES E. GUPTILL.

~ ORTLAND. Me, June 9 R.-
l. Democratic and Republican
voters of Maine will name their
i candidates this month for the
most portentous election to be
held in the State in nearly score of
years.
For the first time since 1916, Demo-
Gratis who vote in the primary election
June Is will find the names of their
candidates listed on a white ballot
significant of the fact that their
party's candidate for Governor polled
the largest number of votes in the last
biennial election.
Republicans will receive from cleo
ton clerks the yellow ballot which
Democrats have been accustomed to
carry into the voting booths for the
past two decades.
Fighting Slate.
Eager to reassert its traditional
power in Maine politics and chastened
by the amazing victories scored by
Democratic candidates in 1882, the
Republican party is hopeful a fighting
slate OF candidates will emerge from
the primary pot pourri.
Young Republican Clubs dedicat-
ed to the task of revitalizing the party
have injected a new note of progress
sivism into the Republican contests
One such group from Cumberland
County succeeded in debating most OF
the party's platform at the Republican
State convention, including a plank
specifically pledging every Republican
candidate to support the platform.
The group failed only in its effort
to put through a more liberal plank
on State prohibition repeal than the
one ultimately adopted by the con-
vention.
Brann Renominated.
Foremost among the party's prob
lens is the task Of selecting the can
didate to oppose Gov. Louis J. Brapn
Democrat, for the governorship. Brann
is unoppoSed for denomination.
The Republican gubernatorial can
didates are Bin W. Page, regarded by
some observers as having the support
of part of the old guard leadership;
former National Representative Donald
B. Partride, who was temporarily re-
tired from public Office by the reap
portionment act of 1882, which
merged his congressional district with
two others; Frank w. Carlton, member
of the Governors Council, veteran
politician, former legislator and de-
feated candidate for his party's
gubernatorial nomination two years
ago; and Alfred K. Ames, retired
lumber magnate, who also made an
unsuccessful bid for the nomination
in 1882.
Interest centers, too, in the effort of
Louis A. Jack, liberal-minded former
legislator, to win the Republican
nomination for United States Senator
from Senator Frederick Hale, who is
now completing his third term.
Three Seek Senate.
On the Democratic side. three
prominent members of the party are
seeking the senatorial nomination.
Two, F. Harold Dubord, national COM
mitteeman from Maine, and Paul c
Thurston, a member of the State
Highway Commission, were candidates
for the gubernatorial nomination two
years ago at the time Brann was
chosen his party's standard bearer.
The third, Clinton c. Stevens, of
Bangor, has been in the thick of
Democratic campaigns for a score OF
years.
OF the three incumbent Congress
men. only Edward c. Moran, jr.
Democrat, of the second district, faces
a primary contest. He is opposed by
Arthur G. Hersey of Auburn, whose
occasional sorties into the political
arena have attracted little attention
either from party leaders or voters.
Representative Carroll L. Beedy
Republican, and Representative John
G. Utterback, Democrat. have no op-