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Show THE RETURNS FROM MAINE. The election in, Maine a defeat for that clement within the Republican Re-publican party which, known as "Regulars," has been resisting the reformations demanded by Roosevelt, Dolliver, Cummins, La Folletto, Beveridgc and other statesmen whoe labors for tho party in the pav have been r.bove criticism, and whoss fealty had never been questioned until the abuses within the party became unbearable unbear-able and forced tem to demand changes, which act?cn the "Stand Patters" tried to make odious by branding those men as renegades and insurgents. Now the body of the party is rejecting the "Stand Patters" and making the Insurgents the controlling force, and . where that process is not in progress, the party itself, as in Maine, is being defeated. In Maine the party leaders, realizing their weakness on national lines, sought to confine the conflict to state issues, but the Democrats, Demo-crats, seeing an advantage, forced the campaign on tariff and Can-nonisrn, Can-nonisrn, and won. Congressman McKinley of California invaded the state and.as a sj2iker, sought Co persuade his hearers that the ".Stand Patters" were the iours of the country. The answer he has received must be a source of "deep meditation and quiet reflection on the useless-ness useless-ness of attempting to persistently fool the American people. There is a lesson in Maine's election returns which should be studied by the men in control of the Republican party in Utah. If Utah's Republicanism continues to stand for Cannonism, something may happen in this state quite as surprising and dreadfully shocking shock-ing as the landslide in Maine, that rockribbed stronghold of Republicanism, Repub-licanism, which is ribbed with rocks no longer. |