Before every national election Maine gives a pre-season showing of political styles. Last week both parties strained every resource to win the State election. Republicans expected, with the aid of Maine's normally Republican, normally conservative votes, to re-elect Senator Frederick Hale. They hoped to re-elect bald, dapper Representative Carroll Beedy of Portland, and to elect former Governor Ralph O. Brewster to a second seat in the House now occupied by Democrat John G. Utterback. But for two other jobs lost to the Democrats in 1932, their...
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