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...Victory Parade." At 7:45 p. m. on the last night of the campaign Nominee Landon's special train chuffed into Portland. Governor Brann was at the station to greet him, hand him a Maine fishing license. A whooping torchlight parade escorted him to the Municipal Stadium. There, a thick, cold mist had wet the folding chairs of his 15,000 auditors. Stepping out in his new fighting role, Alf Landon kept warm by shaking his clenched fist, pounding his reading desk with unaccustomed belligerency. His audience, chilled and uncomfortable as the one in Buffalo last month, was equally...
Meantime Republicans were concentrating their energies in pointing out to Democrat Brann's Republican friends that votes for him would vastly injure Alf Landon in the nation. Their new slogan: "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal." Indignantly the Governor summoned reporters, barked: "The New Deal is not an issue in this campaign. This is a State campaign...
Racketeer & Rebuttal. No sooner had Governor Landon left his Portland microphone, than Governor Brann stepped up to one in the State House at Augusta for a well-advertised "rebuttal." Boomed he: "I ask Governor Landon whether he sanctions contributions made from the wealthiest men of the nation to the Republican State Committee. I ask him if he sanctions the contributions made by J. P. Morgan...
...biggest GOP winner was Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, leading Democrat Dubord for the Governorship by 38,000 votes. Republican Congressional candidates were in the clear by 17,000 to 20,000 votes. But in Maine's prime race, Republican Senator White had beaten Democratic Governor Brann by a bare 4,000 plurality...
Simple was it now for the GOP to point to the Governor's popularity and non-New Dealism, change its tune from "A vote for Brann is a vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon...