Show THE MAINE ELECTION That there is weeping and wailing among and pains in the slummick of the Republican part in Maine is forcibly forci-bly told in the following from the Albany Argus the editor of which has made the work of political campaigns in America a study for fifty years past The second week of the campaign in Maine opens with a most discouraging out look for the Republicans The Blame circus has had a hard time of it and the antics of Frye and tho blunders of the stars have done little to help the cause The Pro hibitionists have forced the fighting in every instance and instead of being in the least dismayed by the appearance of the Repub lican leader on the stump they rather enjoy it and follow him up with rare per tinacity picking his favorite arguments to pieces and turning his logio into ridicule and his man Fryeday has been called to account ac-count by the chairman of the National Pro hibition Committee for calling the prohibition prohibi-tion leaders unblushing impudent mona drels Chairman Finch in his letter to Senator Frye calls upon the latter for proof of his charges or offers him the disagreeable disagree-able alternative of being branded as a slan derer and a coward An opposition headed by two such influential men in Maine as Neal Dow and St John must cause considerable consid-erable alarm in tho Republican ranks especially es-pecially as the leader In whom they had such hopes appears to be in a very bad form this season The labor organizations donot take kindly to the sovereign specific offered them by Mr Blain in the shape of a high protective tariff and the war veterans are still nursing their wrath at one of their number being thrown overboard for Mr Elaines wealthy contractor for the governorship In a letter to the New York Tribune in which the hand of Mr Elaine is visible there are evident signs of hiding It is not expected that the majority this year will be as large as in a presidential year Chairman Manley looks for a majority of about 8000 or 10 000 This is a decided comedown from the extravagant predictions of a few weeks ago Evidently the hard pressed party will find it necessary to import a few Statesmen to make a stand against the powerful opposition oppo-sition which confronts it The Plumed Knight is doing enough to depend upon and Frye is doing more harm than benefit to the Republican cause Why not send for John Logan and Halstead They would increase the liveliness of the campaign cam-paign Elaine knows now how foolish it was for him to shoulder Prohibition and call it a State issue while all the Republican State Conventions yet heard from call it a National issue thereby raising up a ghost which affrights him and makes him sore indeed Both St John and Neal Dow are men whom the nation knows and both are respected by the best men of Maine and both being keen logicians they will put a lance into every hyprociitical argument and plea advanced i by Blaine and his satilites and this time I at least the people of Maine will have a I knowledge of how they are voting and for I whom No special pleas can long hold water where two such able men are I who are actuated in their work by the motive of honesty and all the platitudes and dishonest promises ever invented by the ablest Republican politician will be I made mincedmeat of by these two Dro mios whose intent is similar in all I points Bodwell the Republican candidate candi-date is already in the toils and the local press is already pounding him unmercifully unmerci-fully something hitherto unknown in Maine politics and all things point to such a revulsion of political sentiment as Ito I-to ensure the wiping out of the great Republican majority that has hitherto bound that State to the service of hypocrites and turning it over to the Democrats who will see that the laws on the statute books are enforced no matter who Buffers thereby Blaine would give much of his wealth if now he could recall the Sebago splurge and all the pointers that went before it i but like poor humanity for centuries when actuated byambition he has overshot over-shot the mark and now has to fight the liquor interest from which he erstwhile scraped such staunch help in his political games Arnica and goose grease will beat be-at a high premium in Maine in a few weeks from now |