Show DEMOCRATS MAKE A BIG GAIN IN MAINE C u Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's Administration 1119 Indorsed In In- 9 sed by voters of Bay State tate Will Vill the old cr cry As Maine Votes So Votes the Nation be the battle cry this year L I As Maine votes so votes the thc nation ya We wonder if the thc enemies of the president will quote this laminar familiar old expression as they have haye in the p past St St. They had an ur election yesterday in Maine l The policies of Wilson formed the thc battle cry The politicians de declared lared ared that the results result would either condemn or uphold the administration at Va Washington The Republicans appealed to the voters to show their disapproval by electing a Republican governor The Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- cra urged them to show their approval of the president by placing a Democrat in office Th The lines ines were clear cut and plain Gov ov William T. T Haines Republican was a candidate for i re re- re c- c election He was opposed by Mayor J Oakley C. C Curtis of Portland Democrat and Halbert P. P Gardner of Patten Progressive The Associated Press dispatches dispatch s declare that unofficial returns returns re re- re- re turns from all but thirty seven of the cities and towns gave the Democrat a plurality of The comparative figures from cities and towns for the election yesterday and the presidential election ion in 1912 follow For Governor Yesterday For President 1912 Curtis Democrat Woodrow Wilson on Haines Republican William H. H Taft Gardner Progressive Theodore Roos Roosevelt velt Ir In 1912 Haines received votes for governor Frederick F. F Plaisted Democrat polled 18 votes Accurate comparisons cannot be made with these figures until the complete returns from yesterdays yesterday's election are announced The table of Maine 1 elections since 1872 shows but one Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic plurality That was in 1910 when Plaisted was elec elected ed In 1912 William T. T Haines Republican was elected as the states state's chief executive with a vote of against for Plaisted Now with two years of Woodrow Wilson rule to judge and I with the campaign issue one of rejection or approval of his policies what does the sweeping victory of the Democrats mean It simply means that the people of Maine 1 like the free freethinkers freethinkers freethinkers thinkers throughout the United States are extremely mely well weB satis- satis fie with the work of the president and want his plans carried carded out The personal popularity of Theodore Roosevelt was plainly proven en by the enormous vote he received in 1912 compared with the Progressive vote cast at yesterdays yesterday's election ejection Many Ian r of the Republicans Republicans who broke away two years ago to rally around the Bull Moose Ioos standard because they p preferred Roosevelt to Taft foll followed fol fol- ol- ol l lowed their natural bent in voting for governor yesterday in cities and towns The total Republican and Progressive vote in in 1912 for president president president dent was In the same cities and towns the combined Republican and Progressive vote yesterday to a again gain of only 1470 The he Democrats in the same districts during the same time gained It was Wilson that's Wilson that's all |