The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-03
MAINE.
HOW THE STATE HAS VOTED FOR
YEARS.
FACTS AND FIGURES OF PAST
CONTESTS.
HOW WILL THE STATE VOTE THIS
YEAR.
From the Portland (Me.) Correspondence of
the Chicago Tribune

From the Portland (Me) Correspondence of
the Chicago Tribune.
In Maine, in 1864, Lincoln obtained
1892 majority over Mcclellan, in poll
of 100000 votes. In the September vote
of 1868, Chamberlain, republican, received
1888 votes, and Pllsbury, democrat,
90, 430-being majority for the former of
2O,4O4. The full vote was 1926. Both
sides put forth the utmost efforts, and the
question of Grant rersus Seymour de-
termined the result General Chamber
lain may have run few hundred votes
ahead of his party, by reason Of his great
personal popularity; but, rs Grant re-
ceived 5000 in November, the frst-men-
toned vote must be admitted to have ex-
hibited very little, If any, over the repub.
lcan majority in the state. The aggre-
gate majority of the republicans, on the
vote for congress at the same time, was
17,I63; and somewhere between this and
Chamberlain's vote may be assumed as the
| republican majority of the state that
year. No one will forget the
effect created by this announcement of 90,
600 majority for Chamberlain. The De-
| mocracy all over the union were stunned
| by it, and the more sagacious ones read in
| it the death-knell of their hopes in the
| November contest. Mr.. James q. Blaine
was then, as now, the chairman of the
State Republican Committee, the shrewd-
est and most indefatigable party manager,
certainly, that Maine can boast
In 1869, the vote stood For Chamber
lain, Republican, 50,9S0; Smith, 3S,502 !;
and Hlichborn, Temperance, 400. The
apparent Republican majority had fallen
to l2,47s; but, to this, Hichborns vote
all Republicans-should be added The
total vote had decreased from l3l, 266 to
N,l72-a loss Of over $1,000 votes. 1t is
obvious that the Republican vote had not
been drawn out There was no occasion
for it, As for changes to the Democracy,
there were none at that time.
| In 1870, it was the same story of a light
vote. There was only 9S,7S votes, being
a loss of 32,3s4 on the vote of 1868 The
majority for Sidney Perham, Republican
over Roberts, Democrat, was $500. The
majority of the congressional vote was
somewhat larger.
Last year (ls7l) the total vote for Gov
ernor was l0G,9Os, or 24,357 short. Per-
ham, administration candidate, had
5S,I57, and Kimball, democrat, 4s,l26 /;
majority for Perham, 1861. There had
been no changes TO the democracy, but
they had taken advantage Of republican
apathy to make n quiet canvass, and got
their vote out. This was discovered just
before the election by the administration
managers, and in season to prevent q
snap-judgment being taken upon them.
1t is perfectly certain, from these figures,
that only the excitement of the presidential
year, or the apprehension Of close con-
test never imagined till now for many
years., can bring out the full republican
strength in Maine. Their majority in
1865, the last full vote had in the state
was 20,403. This year, the presidential
contest will swell the September vote to
the neighborhood of 10000, and the
question now is, Will the administration
party be able to maintain their former
proud majority of 20,403 If they do
then they are justified in their sneers a,
the liberal republican element in Maine
and may claim, as they do, that however
strong liberalism may be in the West
or Middle states, it has secured no solid
foothold in Maine. But, if this majority
SHALL BE CUT DOWN oNE-HALF
it will be obvious that even here, in spite
of an iron party despotism, and an enor-
nous amount OF patronage, money, and
emissaries used in this canvass, the liberia,
party have eaten into tho very vitas OF
the administration party in the state Of
Maine.
What the liberal element is in Maine
1t is perhaps too soon to compute. i
there be 5000 of them all-and this seem,
to be an exceedingly moderate estimate OF
the whole state-the grand majority Of
10000 of four years ago will be cut down
to 10000 or Whereabouts. Mr.. Blaine may
toot his norm over such result as this
but he will not be able to convince the
country that the Grant cause is prospecting
in the face of such large detection.