The Voice of Maine The Republican rejoicing over the Maine
results is altogether natural, but it will be tempered by a recog- nition of the general facts as presented during the conclud- ing weeks of the Presidential campaign. " As Maine goes, so goes the nation," is a saying that can be applied in a strictly limited sense. No State is more resolutely Republican than Maine, so that when, on the rarest occasions, it goes all Democratic, the Republicans realise in September that they must lose the Presidency in November. But it is by no means true that a Republican Maine means a Republican President, and on Tuesday, while. the governorship was decisively won, the Republican Senator secured only the narrowest majority. Mr. Roosevelt, hdwever, will know the meaning of the tote. He will recognise the force of the reaction against the New Deal and will not underrate the campaigning powers of Governor Landon, who made a successful eve-of-poll incursion into Maine. There can be no doubt that during the last stage the behaviour of Mr. Lemke's third party, with its mutually repellent sections, will be watched with the closest interest by the managers of the two regular parties: But there is little likelihood of its polling heavily enough to injure Mr. Roosevelt.
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