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Show I ELECTION IN MAINE MONDAY Recognized as somewhat of a propb :Vci on political events, Mark Sullivan i i speculating on ths outcome of (be roup essl onfll election to be held In ihe Third congressional district of Maim- on next Monday. Noting that ihe district was carried by Harding In 1920 by 36,00" to 15.000, Sullivan says that if this majority of 21.000 1 cut down to 12.000, the Democrat shall hae trained in prestige. Analyzing the political situation in Maine. Sullivan sa "An election for mayor in the ci'y of Saco, held early this month, was carried by the lieniocratQ for the first time in ten years Some persons in Washington who are eager to know Im reason, as a oasis or possioie nc 1 ductlons about the state of political feeling throughout (ho country, were told that the chief reason was that , the cotton mill operatives of that city 'suffered two cuts in wages, one in 'December and one In February, aggregating aggre-gating over 40 per cent Idealist ' may deplore this as a basis of politi-I politi-I teal action, but persons experienced in "politics will take It as giving some ground for the theory that tho national na-tional contest this year is going to be a dinner-pail election, with domestic and economic issues elbowing wholly out of the way all such matters as tho iour-power treaty and every other variety va-riety of international Issues In this connection, it is clear that while busi ness conditions are getting worse, in the Industrial parts of the country they are Improved markedly in tho6e farming communities of the middle west which are the Republican strongholds. I "The farmers are reported as being much more comfortable, and it is said that discontent with tho party in power, which was severe a few months ago. has measurably died down. If this is true, it is measurably measur-ably due to the farm bloc. There is xnbxh evidence that President Harding Hard-ing doesn't approve of the farm bloc, but It is undeniable that if the Republican Re-publican senators and representatives from the middle west had not joinod the farm bloc and put through their Measures for relieng and placating the fanner there would have been j i wholesale defections from the Repub Jican party in that section this year." While ihe Republican party mav suffer from a natural reaction in the Ejections this year, if the party re-1 re-1 stores prosperity by 1924. it will be gi?en a long lease or power. There) 'it.no denying that the American vot T! are greatly influenced by industrial indus-trial conditions. oo |