New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-15
MAINE.

The bitteTest political campaign ever fought
in the State of Maine ended yesterday, and
the result is before our readers so far as it
comes to us up to tho hour of going to press
Maine is a scattered State, and many OF the
counties we are compelled to estimate. The vote
last wear was little over 10000, of which the
Republican candidate gained majority OF over
! 1000. Mr.. Blaine, the Chairman of the State
| Central Committee, and a careful. competent
observer. telegraphs lis that the full vote VIII
be about 12S,OOO This is larger vote than
was polled in 1856, when the canvass reached
1O6 250, and larger than in either of the Lin
coin campagns-1OO,91 being polled in $780,
and 1896 in 1864, when Mr.. Lincoln was re-
elected According to Mr.. Blaine the Repub-
can majority is about $4,000, which Is
larger than Lincoln gained over Mcclellan,
and with the exception of 1866 when every
body felt happy over the close of the war-of
$780, when Republicanism swept the country
and of 1856, when Fremont made his brilliant
canvass-the largest majority ever received by
the Republican party in Maine. Harrison, III
| 1910, after the "news from Maine" which
"set the ball rolling so merrily, had
only All majority. Mr. Polk, on reduced
poll in 1914, beat Henry Clay by 11,34l
and Van Buren, and Clay combined by 66O5.
In 1s4s, Cass beat Taylor by 4,735 plurality,
although counting the Free-Soil vote, he was
in minority of 7,s41. In 1852, Pierce beat
Scott by SAG, although, including Hales vote,
his majority was only about 1000. We do not
think that in a poll of $4,000 votes it is fair
to expect a majority as large as that indicated
by Mr.. Blaine. AT this early hour of writing we
estimate the majority at about $4,000, or a
gain of about 6,OOO over our last vote. Fur
thur returns we hope will do better. But we
are perfectly well satisfied. The Republicans
have gained splendid and well-earned VIC
tory, and We send them our heartiest congratu-
latOns.
Our readers have no doubt read with terror
western shores of the Lower Pacific. Along
the beautiful and romantic region of the Incas
the messenger of death has swept with
irresistible and appalling fury. The writer's
have no words to tell of the misery and
desolation, the mighty grandeur of the calam-
! ity, of cities sinking into the earth, and huge
deep assures hitting the angry earth, from
which came nOisome and deadly gases. We
hear of the earthquake, and the whrlwind. We
read of the Tidal Wave that swept along the coast
as far as California and told of the coming ca
tastrophe. What we saw in this fearful con
vulsion of nature, our Democratic friends will
see in this news from Maine. The great Tidal
Wave of public honesty-which swept Van Blu
rem out of power in 1910 and Lincoln into
power in 1S6O-is now rushing over the country
1t is the work of no party. 1t comes from nc
political machinery. The earnestness of a mere
election canvass, the clamOrOus and eager
strife for Office, sink into nothingness before
this majestic swell of public opinion.
However widely loyal men may differ about
minor issues, there can be but one opinion
when the national existence is at stake. The
Republican party fights for national life and
national honor. In 1864, VIC nailed the flag Of
Emancipation to the mast, resolved to sink
with that banner flying, rather than float un-
contest we fly the legend "All Rights for All
Vermont has answered with q majority as decis-
i've as that which aided in rejecting Lincoln, and
Colorado cbeerily responds from her mountain
peaks and Maine exultingly says Amen! This
we firmly believe indicates the decision of the
American people The citizen who quietly cast
his vote yesterday on the banks of the Penob-
scot was merely type of the Americans
who are preparing to vote in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, and New-York. 1t is posi-
bic he was not altogether pleased with
the Republican party. He had heard
Pendleton coyly and slyly depreciate the ma
tional credit, and was, perhaps, rather in doubt
as to whether his greenback was as good as it
it might have been. He had listened to the
insidious sophistry of Cox, as he assured him
that Congress had ruined the ship-building,
and probably he thought that if the Repre-
sentatives had been more liberal and progress
sive, his ak would be buster with the oak and
the pine. He may have been vexed with the
Temperance issue, and not content with the
taxes. He, however, remembered the boy who
| died at Antietam and the sacrifices that