DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT.
AT PORTLAND STATE ELECTIONS. INDICATING COUNTRY’S LEANINGS. New York, Sept. 9. A telegram from Portland, Maine, says the elections of State resulted in a decisive Democratic defeat, the Republicans carrying the State by an excess 35,000 plurality of a total of 225,000 votes cast. This has encouraged the Republican leaders, because Maine’s election, coming before the other States, is generally regarded as a barometer of national wide electoral inclinations. The Ku Klux Klan issue complicated Maine’s gubernatorial election. Air. Ralph Brewster. Republican, who had the Klan’s support, easily defeated Mr. William Pattangall, who, as a member of the resolution committee of the Democratic National Convention, had vainly, sought a plank denouncing the Klan by name. Air. Pattangall’s defeat highly gratifies the Republican leaders, who repeat the old cry that the Klan is no issue.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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138DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 235, 11 September 1924, Page 5
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