Evening star., 1936-09-14
WEATHER IDEAL,
VOTERS FL0CK|NG
TO MAINE POLLS
Republican Hopes Spurred
by Prospect, Of Record
Balloting.
INTEREST IS CENTERED
IN SENATORSHlP FIGHT
Governor, Representatives and
Other Minor Officials Being
Selected Today.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me-. September IA
Clear, crisp weather stimulated voting
today in Names indicator" State
election, with political leaders predict
ing a record poll.
While the Nation waited Impatient
" for results of the first election in
the country-disputed index of ma
tional sentiment in presidential years
reports came from officials and
election clerks of heavy turnout.
This is Republican weather" said
Arthur E. Sewall, chairman Of the Re-
publican State Committee. The
people of Maine are piling up a record
vote today, which means substantial
Republican majorities."
Some Polls Crowded.
Perhaps in no other election have
major parties organized to the extent
of the present in seeing that every
registered voter had opportunity and
transportation to reach the polls. From
some places came reports that intense
interest led crowds of voters to polling
places without waiting for transporta-
ton by party workers.
The secretary of states Office esti-
mated the total vote would approach,
and might exceed, 100000.
The echoes of an unprecedented
campaign in which three presidential
nominees visited Maine hung over the
polling booths as United States
Senator. a Governor. three Repre-
sentatives and minor State and county
officials were chosen.
The largest recorded Maine vote
was 295, ,538 in the 1882 presidential
election. Maine was one of six Hoover
States that year.
Eleventh Hour Oratory.
Accuracy of the slogan, LAS goes
Maine so goes the Union," has been
debated since its coinage in 1840, but
Republicans and Democrats made ex-
ceptional use of it in the campaign
which ended last night in furry of
eleventh hour political oratory. CEN
tering mostly around the New Deal.
Republicans sought, besides the
Etate dominance lost four years ago.
O victory preSaging what its leaders
called return to national sanity"
Democratic candidates predicted
freely victory that would uphold the
Federal administration, which they
said had returned prosperity to Maine
and the Nation.
President Roosevelt, Gov. Alf NJ.
Landon and Representative William
Lemke were the three presidential
aspirants to come to Maine during the
campaign.
Landon predicted "a great victory"
at Portland Saturday night; Lemke
aided his party candidates and fore
cast his own success, and Roosevelt In
o non-political visit to Eastport prom
ised, I'VE will have Quoddy," refer
ring to the abandoned $40 0,000, 900 tide
harnessing project there.
Interest in Senate Fight.
Polls opened generally at am
(E. S. T) and were to close at 7 pm,
although towns of 300 population or
less could close two hours earlier.
The fight between United States
Senator Wallace H. White, jr., Repub-
lican, and Democratic Gov. Louis j.
Brann for Whites Senate seat drew
the widest interest.
White attacked the New Deal and all
Its policies; Brann, although appeal
ing to the people chiefly on his State
record, upheld the need and use
fulness of Federal relief money in
Maine.
Brann's ticket mate, F. Harold Du-
bord, defended Roosevelt policies
heartily against Republican attacks.
His Republican opponent. Lewis o.
Barrows, was equally vehement in as
sailing New Deal expenditures and
what he termed similar extravaganza
Of the Brann regime.
James c. Oliver, Republican. con-
testing with United States Repre-
sentative Simon M. Hamlin, Demo-
crat, for the latter's. first district seat,
had both Townsend and Union
sanction.
Three Claim Townsend Aid.
OF four second district candidates,
three claimed Townsend support from
one source or another. Clyde H.
Smith, Republican, was Endorsed by
the State Townsend manager. Rev.
Gerald L. K. Smith, ally of DR..
Townsend, spoke for A. Raymond
Rogers, Unionite, and the districts
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