Word: brann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Potatoes & Protest. What caused Maine's voters to elect dapper, wisecracking, rabbit-lipped Louis Jefferson Brann as its fourth Democratic Governor since the Civil War and send two Wet Democrats out of three to Congress? A variety of causes evidently combined. In low lobster and potato prices Maine is resentfully aware of hard times. Hoover relief is slow reaching its rocky shores, its little towns, its forests and farms. Secretary Mills, stumping the State, urged voters to stand by the President and his party, thereby injecting the Hoover-Roosevelt issue into the campaign. A majority...
Governor-elect Brann explained his victory thus: "The campaign was fought out on economic lines and the ineptitude of the Hoover Administration. They were the controlling factors. The people voted their protest against existing conditions...
...denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate, by some 2,000 votes. Maine's former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster received his third big political setback. Running for Congress, he was beaten by John G. Utterback, onetime mayor of Bangor, by about 2,000 votes. Republican John Edward...