Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-09-10


Mount, Mount,
All honest and true;
Seventeen thousands the tune.
For Tlppecanoe and Tyler too.
"oh, have you heard the news from Maine,
Maine. Maine,
AL honest and true;
For Governor Kent, six thousand gain,
For 1lppecsnoe and Tyler too"
Campaign Song Of $780,
Two hundred and ten towns and cities IN
Maine give Perham IS So, aud Kimbsn 6,32S.
arepublcan majority OF i2.o59. Last year the
same towns gave Perham - 9iS and kimball
Sl,5i6, showing republican net gain from 1871
OF seq. II the towns not yet heard from in
crease IN the same proportion, Perham's major
ity will exceed 10 600. The total vote will, ii il
u increased in proportion, be l25 Coz, OF which
Perham should have 81, 465, ami himbau a, lS5.
Last year the total vote was los, S9T, OF which
Perham had 5s,2s5, and Kimball 4s,57S, and
scattering 34-majority l0,10. In 1S6s Cham
berlain. rep, had rs, 525, and Pillsbury, dem,
50 ,252 republican majority 70 ,273, making a re-
publican net loss OF nearly 90 from that year:
but the aggregate vote of h6s was the largest
ever thrown, being 13l 81 or 5000 more than IL
will be this year, and this reduction of the az
gregate would decrease the majority about
1000; 80 that the net loss will be g. 90 from Is
lOur later dispatches show that there is a very
much smaller loss, IL any, since ls6S.
THE VOTE PoR CONGRESSMAN.
The i've Congressional districts are all carried
by the republicans. In the LIST district, Bur
leigh has about 9, 900 majority, against 1876 for
Lynch in 1SO-a republican gain OF 500; in the
ID, Frye has ,O00-a republican gain OF 1900;
in the Sd. Blaine, , J0-a republican gain of
Loo; In the ith, Jersey, 5000 republican
gain OF 400; in the 5th, Hale has $50 majority
gain of over 800. The contest in the county OF
kennebec, where Speaker Blaine resides, has
been peculiarly animated, and resulted in giving
towns of the county. Six of these towns are
usually democratic.
SPEAKER BLATNR's DISPATCH.
Speaker Blaine sent the following dispatch:
TO the President u the United States, Long
Branch, Nelc Jersey:
"we have carried the state for Governor Per-
ham by more than 5000 msjOrity-a net gain
of GOO on last years vote We have carried all
the Congressional districts-the closest by well
nigh 1900 majority. We have carried every
county In the state, something we never achieved
ouI once peIore. w nave elected every senator
and chosen more than four-hfths OF the house OF
representatives. Our victory is complete and
overwhelming at all points, and insures you
more than 25,Ooo majority in November"
TIE LEGISLATURE ALL REPUBLICAN.
Every county has been carried by the repub-
licans, making the senate unanimously republi-
can. No returns are yet received as TO the Rep
resentatiyes, but the complexion OF the House
may be judged by the general result. Knox
county gives q republican majority for the first
time in ten years.
republican headquarters in New York last
night:
AUGUSTA, Sept. 8, 6 p. Nall the returns
thus far indicate a sweeping republican ma
jority. In this city my majority is more than
double that received at the last election.
(Signed) 81. q. BLAINE"
THE VOTE IN THE CITIES.
Every town heard from gains handsomely over
last year. Six towns-Augusta, Hallowell, Bath,
Rockland, Lewiston and Auburn-show a net
gain over 1871 of s64. Bangor gives Perham,
Rep, 1897, and Kimball, Dem, I.635, being a
republican majority of 362, against the vote last
year Of ,459 for Perham, and JIG for Kimball,
a republican majority then Of $40. Rockland
gives Perham $40 majority against - last year.
Belfast gives Perhsm, Rep, lso majority against
2i0 last year. PASSPORT gives Perham 3is and
kimball Isl. Hale, for Congress, has 3iS and
Pike Us. Pike resides at Eastport. Portland,
corrected, gives Perhsm 2,S22 and Kimbali
2,121, republican majority of 95, against last
years vote of 2, 1872 for PeTham, and 9l4 for
Kimball. In 1868 the vote stood, Chamberlain
Rep, 1871 and Pillsbury 2,3T9. The vote for
member of Congress is Burleigh, Rep. z, S75 and
Clifford, Dem, 2,69l, being a majority Of Isl,
against majority for Lynch, Rep, in
1870, OF Oh. Portland is Kimball's resi-
dence, and he runs ahead of the
ticket. At Augusta, the capital of the state
the place where Greeley has in years past held a
ghttering sceptre OF power, and the home OF
Blaine, the republican majority is 40, gain OF
lis over last year, the largest majority ever cast
IN the city in q hOtlv contested canvass