Betting Strongly Favors Repeal but Temperance Sees Victory
Prohibition opponents claim a large statewide majority may reach 18 000 to 20 000 as betting runs brisk in downtown hotels. Prohibition leaders insist farmers in rural areas will outweigh urban gains and cite unpaid canvassers as reliable indicators. Clergy across the state joined mass prayers while parades with children marched under banners urging to save children from rum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Fassett
License League
Rum
Past Figures of Maine Elections
The article lists election tallies from Maine showing for President in 1908 Watt RS and Bryan with totals 35,403 and 66,987 respectively, Taft’s plurality 1,758. Total votes 106,335. For Governor in 1910 Plaisted with plurality 8,753. Total votes 141,031.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watt
Bryan
Chant
Taft
Nea Plaisted
Prohibition Parade Leads Maine Campaign Rally in Portland
The Maine prohibition campaign featured 3000 demonstrators in Portland led by Captain Richmond P Hobson and Mrs L M N Stevens. Floats carried anti license messages while children wore white and urged votes against licenses. Hobson spoke at the Auditorium and projected a national and world reach for prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Santiago Harbor
Robert B. Glenn
North Carolina
Hanley
Indiana
H. Hubert B. Stewart
Chicago
Prohibition
Portland
Richmond P. Hobson
Lincoln Park
Monument Square
N. M. N. Stevens
Hobson
Adam P. Leighton
Maine State Prohibition League
Portland Public Schools
S. J. Bassford
Maine State Sunday School Association
Edna Rowan
Kansas
Anna and
Elizabeth P. Gordon
Predictions of Vote in Maine Prohibition Referendum
The Maine pro prohibition campaign leaders forecast a substantial statewide vote, estimating about 130 000 ballots cast and majorities between 10 000 and 18 000 in favor of the license movement. They credit country voters and farm sections with decisive impact while noting contest in Kennebec and Hancock counties.
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Portland
George W. Norton
Maine
Prohibition Campaign
Androscoggin
Penobscot
Knox
Hancock County
Kennebec
Hancock
Frederick G. Fassett
Maine License League
Maine Prohibition Votes Highlight 1884 Result
Historical excerpts show leaders from the No-License League and WCTU predicting a pro prohibition victory and antis temperance push. The 1884 vote totals reveal a constitutional amendment approved by a widespread majority of 46 479 with district tallies ranging from about 5 118 to 7 923 yes.
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Maine
Plan Great Crusade for World Wide Prohibition
A proclamation calling for a global push to enshrine prohibition in all nations and the U S Constitution within ten years was read by Mrs. Lillian M N Stevens in Portland Maine on the eve of Maine voting to remove prohibition from its constitution The message urges global cooperation among temperance and philanthropic groups and cites sending a copy to the International Congress against Alcoholism in The Hague.
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Hobson
Lowell
Congress Street
Forest Avenue
Maine
Jefferson Theatre
Portland
United States
Lillian M. N. Stevens
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woman's’ Christian Temperance Union
America
International Congress Against
The
Hague
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Prohibition Movement
Fassett
Lillian C. Stevens Mond P. Hobson
Captain Rich
Maine Elections
Henry Siegel CO
New England
Boston
Fred Harvey
W. Manning
G. A
Washington
Boston, Mass
L. Seagraves
Raihway Exchange
Chicago, Ill
San Joaquin Valley
California
Rose Cotts Farm
John
Kantafe
Liformia
Huppy Nana
Papa
Hans P. Smith
Stevens
Edwin Riley
Maine G. A. R
Clement 8
S. Stetson
Grange
State House
Union
United Kingdom Alliance
Manchester
Eng
Ford
G. Long
A. P. Leighton
Seth C. Gordon
William M. Pennell
Cumberland County
World’s and National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Paine
Amer.ca
Paes
Paine Furniture Company
Canal Street
North Station
Haymarket Square
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