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...bitterly complained, was Maine. Final returns from last fortnight's election there were heralded by Postmaster Farley as "proof ample that the New Deal meets with the majority of the people." In winning the first re-election of a Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "Maine Votes For Santa Claus...
...second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their hopes were far from high: Maine's third seat in the House, held by Edward Carleton Moran Jr.; Maine's Governorship, held by Louis J. Brann...
...difficulty of defeating Governor Brann lay in his big personal popularity. Knowing Maine's inborn conservatism, he did not pose as an ardent supporter of the New Deal. But he made use of New Deal support. Army engineers had rejected a proposed PWA project to spend $48,000,000 to harness the huge tides of Passamaquoddy Bay. President Roosevelt, however, wrote Mr. Brann expressing his interest in the project. During the campaign Secretary Ickes went to make a personal inspection?to see whether the Army engineers might not have been wrong. Thus Democrats dangled hope of a New Deal plum...
...Against Governor Brann the Republican candidate, Alfred K. Ames, an elderly retired lumber merchant, was no match in political give & take. But Republicans swarmed to his aid. To Maine they sent Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Representative Hamilton Fish, Col. Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, Representative Allen T. Treadway, and many another. Senator Hale declared flatly that to re-elect Governor Brann would be to endorse the New Deal...
Then Maine went to the polls. With 604 out of 631 precincts reported, Governor Brann had 164,087 votes, his opponent 32,956 less. Senator Hale had 137,149, a lead of 1,155. With complete returns from the first district, Carroll Beedy was defeated by Simon M. Hamlin, Democrat and self-styled "dirt farmer...