New-York tribune., 1872-09-10
A REVIEW OF THE CONTEST.

INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ISSUES THE PRoHIDI-
TfONIsTS SUPPORT PERHAM-VENAL DEMO-
CRATs BOUGHT UP BY THE CONGRESS CAM
DIDATEs-THE GRANT MEN CLAIM l2,OOO MA
JORITY.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
PORTLAND, Sept 9-l1 p. m.-Ihe returns DO not
come in with SO much method as ordinarily, the
lest ones Of course being the principal places showing
Administration gains. Biddeford Saco, Kittery and
one OF two other towns in York County show Ad-
ministratiOn gains. and sufficient to insure that
county to the Grant candidate for Congress. In
Cumberland County, the other half of the District
similar gains are reported in Deering, Westbrook,
and Bndgeton Portland is the only large place that
has shown decided Liberal gains but several of the
smaller places make most excellent showing, the
Grant party barely electng their representative
ticket where the average majority has been from 800
10 LOO There can be no doubt of the election Of
Hale i'm the Vth District, but 1t will be two days
before a inst estimate of the vote can be made
Concerning all the other districts there have been
no doubts expressed. So far as can be judged at
this hour the aggregate vote viii be above the
average estimate, and the majority for Perham may
exceed 10000 There is great difference here among
the fgurers as To whether the vote shonld he COM
pared with 1868 or with last year If with the for
mer it is Liberal victory; otherwise, 1t is mani
TEST loss of possibly two TO three thousand, and so
each party puts forth its claim, appealing to its par
1isans. The Associated Press here is making up an
elaborate comparison of the vote with former years
ia detail which no doubt will be trustworthy in the
main.
The result, on the whole, must be conceded to be
favorable to the Administration hopes, but if the
world knew the expense of it, the victory, such
as it is claimed to be, would seem barren one. No
appliance has been neglected, while hundreds OF
trading Democrats be proved TO have struck
hands with the dispensers of money among the Re-
publican Congressman. The Liberal Republicans
so far as this city is concerned seem TO have stood
well up to the work against the pressure brought to
bear upon them and full of pluck, though disap
pointed in the majority against them III the country
towns As YOU were told many days ago. the class of
Greeley men who belong to the old Wing
and Free Soil school voted almost invariably for
Perham. only very few mixing up State with
National issues. This class Of Greeley men belong
to the Perham stripe of Temperance Refomers and
resolntely stood by their candidate. 1t has been
insisted upon and will betstll urged. that all the
disaAected Republicans belonged to the Kimball
marty. and that many Greeley supporters would not
heed the significance of a vote for Perham.
The fact is that Kimball, no doubt, received
many Republican votes In some lew places on
account of local issues; but the discipline was
too strong to allow this to be done in any
general way, and 50 | am strengthened III my former
belief that the Greeley vote from the Republicans
will be much larger in November than the Kimball
vote now Among the many workers TO keep Liberal
Republicans from supporting Kimball was Gen.
Neal Dow, who made personal appeals for Perham
and the temperance legislation, and substantially
encouraged support of Greeley as against
Grant. remarking that to vote for the lat
ter WAS a severe dose. This view of the case
will be made palmer by and by.
AS to the Congressmen's majorites nothing but a
rough estimate be made tonight. The gains
will be chiefly in the lid and IVth Districts, where
the Democratic nominations were the worst, in
suring defeat under any and all possible cir
cumstances. At the Republican Headquarters there
IL ubilatiOn, and they claim that the majority will
surely be 1900. The summing up of the election
to-day is IN general terms such as will make the
November contest open question, it is evident
the Republicans cannot afford another such effort
this, and while they have gained certain kind Of
advantage they cannot at all rest upon it. TOmor-
row we shall all see more clearly the proportions and
the tendency of the vote to-day.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS.