Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 18

HAMILTON SEES GAINS IN MAINE G. 0. P. Chairman Says He Welccmes Recount—Aims Statement at Guffey. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, September 18.—Re- publican Chairman John D. M. Ham- iiton yesterday replied to Democratic charges of fraud in the Maine election with an assertion that a recount of the votes would show “a substantial increase” in the Republican plur- alities. While he did not directly charge violation of the election laws as the Democrats did, Hamilton told news- paper men he placed considerable credence in reports from Republican ‘workers that the returns from Lewis- ton, which gave Gov. Louis J. Brann & large plurality in the senatorial race, had been held back in an at- x tempt to overcome Senator Wallace H. White's lead in the State. “I have no objection to a recount in Maine,” he said. “T think it ‘would show a substantial increase in the Re- publican pluralities.” Strikes at Guffey. Striking directly at Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, who an- nounced the Democrats would demand a recount, Hamilton said: “If all I hear is true, Senator Guffey ought to be an expert on elec- tion frauds.” He said he would like to ask Guffey if there was any truth to stories that a large transient vote had been moved into Pennsylvania recently or if it were true that many former Boulder Dam workers were being kept on the registration rolls of that area after being away for months. Hamilton said he was pleased with the primary vote in Michigan and stated that the Maine election has “spread all over” and would be of great help to the Republican cause during the next six weeks. Asked about a story out of Wash- ington that Attorney General Homer 8. Cummings had threatened to take action against persons displaying placards purporting to show the effect of taxes on consumer prices, Hamil- ton said: “Any man who would send another In Advance of the Season Men’'s Famous Make SWE ATERS .69 Your 2-Initial Monogram Free! ® For Golf! ® For School! ® For Auto Trips! ® For Horseback Riding! ® For Around the House! ® For Sunday Morning! A famous manufacturer let us have a limited quantity of his higher priced sweaters for this advance sale. They'll go fast, for sweaters like these won't stay on * our shelves long. Come in early tomorrow morning and get several for the cooler months just ahead. Not every size in every style, but all sizes in the group. Sizes 36 to 46. Men's Sport Shop—Main Floor—The Heeht Oo Packard Arch-Up Men's SHOES G-85 Our entire stock of regularly priced 8.75 “Packard Arch-Up” shoes reduced for this’semi-annual sale. Only twice a year are you able to get in on the ground floor of such a sale as this. 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He indicated the Republicans would make an intensive drive to capiure four States in the “Solid South,” ‘as well as the Middle Atlantic and New England States, which he said were already in good shape. The Southern States are Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Maryland. “Our mail coming out of the South- ern States has been running greater volume than it did in 1928," he said, pointing out that these four States went for President Hoover that year. The States represented at today's conference were Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvanis, Deleware, Vir- ginia, West Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and Maryland. Brann Makes Denial. AUGUSTA, Me., September 18 (7). —Gov. louis J. Brann denied last night that Lewiston’s elpction returns were held back in an attempt to over- come the lead of his opponent, United States Senator Wallace' H, White, elsewhere in the State. John -D. 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