The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-09-10
The Maine Election Probable Results
Tisc Grent Issue with the Central states.

The Maine Election Probable Results
Thc Grent Issue with the Central states.
| The annual State election in Maine comes of
to-day. 1t is much more important than thai
Of last year, "a it involves the election no
only Of a Governor and Legislature, but oil
! the State delegation Of five members Of Con-
gress. The candidates for Governor are
General J. i. Chamberlain, radical. and A.
i. Pill,bary conservative. Chamberlain pos
sesses tho prestige Of having baen a
Uaion soldier who went into the late wer as
private and came out mlior general; while
his opponent labors under the disadvantage
of having been an anti-war democrat. The
fight, however, will be on the Congrcssional
ticket, and especially in the first. fourth and
fifth districts, in which there is some prospect
that fusion OF the republican conservatives
and the democrats may defeat the radical can
didates In the State elections of 1854 and
1865 tho vote for Governor was as follows:-
lnS .epIuean .ol oie
Republican majority. 1926
lse5-Cony republican. 81 449
Howard, democrat Observation-Disclosures. III
Republican majority Observation-Disclosures: 81 800
But this apparent republican gain amounts
to nothing The election went by default;
for agaiusta deficiency Of eight thousand in
Cony's vote as compared with that OF 1864
was falling off in the democratic vote Of
fourteen thousand The latter party gave up tho
fight in advance. This year all the resources
on both sides will be brought ont, and the
new conservative coalition, especially in Con-
grcss, expects considerable achievements
from the administration republicans. In the
Congressional contest Of 1854, which was car
ried by the Presidential ticket of Lincoln and
Johnson and the war for the Union against
the Chicago peace-at-any-price platform, tho
republicans carried every district by hand
some majority, the smallest being $500
Uynch's) and the largest 400 (Perham's).
How far the new issues and new organization
Of parties resulting from the radical measures
Of the last session of Congress shall have
operated 10 change these results we expect 10
inform our readers tomorrow. Meantime,
when 1t is remembered thst a republican ma
jority Of 10000 on the comparatively email
total popular vote of Maine is equal TO ma
jority Of 100000 In the State of New York. We
can hardly expect Maine to be re-rcvolution-
lied or seriously shaken BY the frat campaign
OF the new opposition movement II the
Union conservatives secure nothing more in
Maine than clear gain OF 5000 or 1000 upon
the FULL popular vote, the ratio will be enough
to indicate a defeat OF the radicals in both
Pennsylvania sni New York.
Al all events the real struggle for the
Fortieih Congress viii not begin with this
Maine election, but IN the nsylvania. Ohio
the re,urns from those thrces great Central
States will probably .dcierp. ne what this Con-
sres, is 10 he. a conservative majority rom
the States represented in the present Congress
VIII secupc, with the organization Of
the next Congress (any time after The
4ih OF March ncxD, the admission Of
all the excluded Ststes and 80, witt, the
complete triumph OF President Johnson's res-
tpra.ion policy, We shall! have speedy aud
satisfactory settlement OF this business Of
Southern reconstruction. On the other hand,
il TIL radicals como ont OF this fghi with
working majority in the next House OF Repre-
sentssives under The present ministraiions OF
tina, boiy), we shall not only have The great
work Of Southern restoration indefinitely post
poncd, but q reconstruction Of The government
nj Washington Of the most radical kind. We
may expect this work to begin with the i'm
peachuien, Of President Johnson AMI 10 b.
made perfect with the substitution Of man a.
proai,Ienl g,yo fc,o who will sieu anvil,,po
coming from "Oid Thad Stevens" nom q
sweeping conllscaton OF Southern estates 10
The distribution Of them among the loyal
blacks" Of the frcedmen's Bureau. u Will
he perceived in this connection that stevens,
In opening his canvass Of Pennsylvania, takes
no step backwards, but Intends, in returning
10 Congress, 10 resume hi original programme
and 10 fight for II 70 tnc las. extremity Of his
"labogs on EARTH
The argument h nj an end IN Maine, and
The case there has gone TO the jury. The yer.
diet WILL Ia oil probability, indicate no very
great political reaction in that quarter; for
Maine lies In n sort Of distant eddy. in which
the great rsshing currents OF public opinion
are comparatively only lightly felt Greeley
says he wilt~e satisfied with ten thousand ma
jori,y in Maine; but IL he gels no more We
may confidently begin 70 count upon another
political revolution IN The Central States in
October AID November, because n the spell OF
radicslism Is broken In Maine, the end " that
turbulent and dangerous faction !. close ~
hand