Evening star., 1936-09-15
6. O. P. Governorship and 3
House Candidates Win as
More Than 306, 900 Go to
Polls, Shattering Record.
BARR0WS $4,000 AHEAD
OF DEMOCRAT OPPONENT
Third Party Tickets Fail to Make
Headway- Brewster Is Re-
elected by 10000 Margin Over
Mabee-0liver, Townsendite, Is
First District Victor.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Republican sweep in Maine''
election yesterday returned that State
TO its normal political stand.
The question political Washington
was asking itself today was whether il
meant that tie United States, which
normally until 1882 was believed to
have more Republican voters thar
Democratic, would follow in Names
footsteps in November.
Republican leaders, greatly encour-
aged by their victory in Maine, insisted
the Landon-Knox ticket would win ir
November.
Democrats fatty denied this.
For four years Maine has been in the
Democratic column in its State elec.
tions. In 1882 and again in 1884 Loui.
j. Brann was elected Governor by the
Democrats. Yesterday Brann was de.
feated by Senator Wallace White, Re-
publican incumbent, in the senatorial
race, by nearly 5000 votes. With Z
precincts still to be heard from, the
White vote was 157,86l to 152,876 fol-
Brann. The precincts still to be heard
from were in White territory.
Barrows $4,000 ahead.
In the gubernatorial race, Lewis O.
Barrows, Republican, at present Sec
retary of state, defeated Harold Du-
bord, Democrat. by more than $4,000
votes. The vote, with 7 precincts
still out, stood; Barrows, 172,o93, Du-
bord, 129,064.
All three congressional district con-
tests were won by the Republicans
Thus Maine will have a solid Repub-
iican representation in the next Con-
gress after having had only one out OF
three Representatives in the House
during the last two Congresses. Ideal
weather brought out flood of voters
TO set primary record of ballots cast.
Cold calculation OF the election re-
$urns shows them bringing aid only
to the Republicans. Whereas Maine
mas had a democrataic Governor for
four years and two Democratic men,
bers of the House, it now has neither
a Governor nor any member of the
House of that party.
Furthermore, the 4o,OOo-plus VIC
cory of the Republican gubernatorial
candidate is very substantial victory
and higher than normal Republican
lead in Maine.
The contest for Senator had created
she greatest interest. Gov. Brann's
personal popularity with the voters was
20 great that the Democrats believed
he had chance to win. As it was,
he came within about 5000 votes of
Senator Whites total, narrow mar
gin in Republican Maine.
Brann was the New Deals white
Aope. But Brann himself kept away
from the New Deal and President
Roosevelt in the campaigning. He
knew he had to have large Repub-
ncan vote to win. At the very close
of the campaign he was found insist
ing that the New Deal did not enter
Into the senatorial election
Brann ran strongly in the cities.
He carried II out of 20 of Names
municipalities, but was killed off in
the rural districts. He and White both
hail from Lewiston, a Democratic
stronghold. Brann carried the city
by more than 5000, but this was not
enough for him. In Portland, Names
largest city, the Brann lead was 95
votes.
The New Dealers would have been
entirely content today had Brann
emerged q victor-despite the fact he
did not campaign actively for the New
Deal. Apparently sensing the fact
that Maine was on the way back to
the Republican fold, Chairman James
A. Farley Of the Democratic National
Committee decided long ago to place
all his eggs in one basket-the Brann
basket-in Maine and did what he
could to persuade Brann to make the
(see MAINE, Page A-3.)