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Show MAINE VOTES NO. "We do not believe the suffragists expected ex-pected to carry Maine, although they made an earnest effort to make an impression upon the Tine Tree state voters. If they did expect to j 'win they were more optimistic than aj j majority of people "who have any ac-j ac-j qnaintance with the "down casters.'' The people of Maine belong to the ultra I conservative class in spite of the fact ; that they were radical on prohibition :and slavery and it is not an easy mat-j mat-j tcr to sway them at election time. In the rural districts the average voter : hangs his hat upon the same peg used 1 by his father and his grandfather and he votes as they voted. There is no such thing as making him over, at least , so far as suffrage is concerned. The odds against equal rights might nut have been so heavy, however, had not ' the performances of the militants nt ! Washington furnished the anti-suffni-1 cists with a good argument against en-! en-! f.Vncliisii.g the women if tho ronntrv. rTilii'ants h:ie l-fn weakening it riqht a !n n 2 as r. p'l as h r i r, s r. the n: el v js , into dienjput I"'''t 3 it is qwi'e pov sible the;.' care more for notoriety than .thy do for tho ballot it h quite probable prob-able the figures from Maine do not. lintf-rest them. If this be true the pick- !etiri2 will continue1, j i i |