MAINE ELECTIONS
REPUBLICAN SUCCESSES
HELPED BY KLAN SUPPORT.
(CNITED PRSSS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) '(AOSTRALIAN-SEW ZEALAND CAIJLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YOEK, 9th September. A telegram from Portland, Maine, says the elections of State and Federal officers resulted in a decisive Democratic defeat, the Republicans carrying the State by a majority of over 35,000 of the total 225,----000 votes east. This has encouraged the Republican leaders, because Maine's ■election, coming- before the other States, is generally regarded as, a barometer of the national electoral inclinations. The Ku Klux Klan issue complicated Maine's gubernatorial election. Mr. -Balph Brewster, the Republican, had the Klan's support, and easily defeated Mr. William Pattangall, who, as a member of .the Resolutions Committee at the Democratic National Convention,, had vainly sought to have a plank adopted denouncing the- Klan by name. Mr. Pattan.gall's defeat highly gratifies the Republican leaders,, who repeat the old cry "the Klan is no issue."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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148MAINE ELECTIONS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 63, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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