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Maine's Water-Power Fight
Sparling, Earl | December 21, 1927 issue

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For two years Samuel Insull, the Chicago power and political magnate, has been battling in Maine for what is called the greatest water-power prize in New England. Mr. Insull did not start the quarrel. He only inherited it. But the voters of Maine, of whom there are still a few, are beginning to realize just what that means. The voters were asked with some ceremony on October 18, 1927 to vote their voting privilege into limbo. The irony of the request did not go unnoticed. About 30 per cent of the voting population reported to the polls, and the proposed abolition of the State's direct-primary system was defeated by a vote of something like two to one.

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WATER-power; INSULL, Samuel; VOTING; POPULATION; WATER resources development; MAINE; UNITED States
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