The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-09-07
u,he election on Monday in Maine.

The EleCLlOU Ou UAou1e1J IA NAs SAN0e'
ON next Monday the State election, IN
Maine takes place. This election wiit attract
general attention. It Is very evident rom
the frantic appeals and the extraordinary ef-
forts that are being made by the Administfa'
lion party to save the State that they 40 l'o'
feel very easy, and are alarmed at the pros
pects before them. Appeals are dnily going
M to Washington for help, both In docu-
ments and financial aid. GRANT himself can
see that II will not answer to permit inc
Administration Speaker of the lower House
of Congress to be defeated, and tina, s"ch 4
result would be fatal to hin In all the eiec-
tions which are to follow. 1t is already ap-
parent from the accounts which come 10 US
that the Republican detection In Name Is
very large, but that 1t will be large enough
70 carry the State for the Liberals ,s hardiy
nossible. Important changes may, however,
be made in the congressional districts, from
one of which Speaker BrA.SB comes
The election is for Governor, Legislature,
and members of Congress. AT the Suberrla-
torial election In September, 1868, two
months previous to the last presidential cleo
ton, the total vote poled was 13l ,2GG, OF
which the Republican candidate received
90, 404 majority. At the presidential election,
two months later, the total vote was over
$4,000 less than that number, while Mt the
election for Governor in 1870 the total vote
was only 9S,574, and the Republican majority
g.506. AT the gubernatorial election held
last SeptcInbcr the total vote was Jog, $50
and the Republican majority 1851. 1t
will thus he seen that a full vote is rarely
polled in that State except at the State
election in September previous to the presi-
dental election. While, therefore, the Re-
publican majority has only been about
10000 in the last three years, neither of these
three elections furnishes basis to calculate
the result of the coming election upon, fol
the reason that full vote was not poed by
either side. TO carry the State now for Mr.
KIaBALL, the Democratic and Liberal Repub
lican candidate for Governor, it will bt
necessary to overcome the ~, 404 Republican
majority of September 1868. That is the
election and the vote which it will be neces'
sary to use rs our guide. 1t will require,
therefore, the full Democratic vote polled
in September, 1868, and an accession OF
1000 i'm addition from the Republican
ranks to insure an anti.GRAHT victory at the
approaching election. Has this number OF
accessions been securedY We are aware that
the changes have been numerous, and that
they number many of the ablrst and most
influential meu in the Republican party, in
Guiding men who have polled the largest vote
as candidates of the Republican party ever
given to any man in that State. The change
required is u trifc less than fifteen per cent.
of the Republican vote in 1868. II so much
can be secured the Democratic and Liberal
Republican State ticket can be elected.
There being hut sixteen counties in the State,
il will he necessary for Mr.. kIMBALL to secure
an average of $50 Republican votes in each
county.
This year the GRANT candidate for Gov
ernor is SIDNEY PERnAM, present incumbent,
who was elected last year by Il majority of
1861, gain of 1925 over the majority of
The previous year. The Liberal candidate is
CHARLES =. KENDALL, of Portland, who was
defeated last year. For more than decade
Maine has given Republican mnjorities;
those of the past five years were as follows: