The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-13
The Maine Election.

BOSTON. September lZ.-fOrIy'e elS NJ
towns in the Third district give Lindsay
2,O6S majority; in the Fourth district
Powers majority will probably be l,5OO;
Hall in the Fifth about 5000; Frye pro.
badly 5000.
PORTLAND, September l2.-Two hum
dred and forty-eight towns in Maine
! give Conner 56,9lS, Talbot 1890. The
same towns last year gave Conner A.
1874; Roberts, 39,47S; Republican net
gain in these towns of 1922. Returns
from twesty towns in Somerset county
give Republican majority of S66 for
Conner The whole county ticket is
elected and five of the eight Representa-
tives are Republicans. All but three
towns in Androscoggin county give
Conner, 3,25l; Talbot, $50; Gaze
(soft money! 2S4 Last year
the same towns gave 3,l03 for the Re-
publicans and 2,670 for the Democrats.
The remaining towns last year gave
Conner $3.50 and Roberts POS votes. All
the Republican Representatives and the
whole county ticket are elected. Lin
coin county will be very close. Con.
ner's. majority will be about 25 in tota
vote of about $500. The county offices
are about evenly divided, five of the six
Representatives are Republicans. The
nearly full returns from knox county,
make it certain the Republicans have
about sixty-three majority in the county,
on the vote Tor Governor and elect
all the county ticket except Senator and
clerk of the court In Farming gton county
all the Republican representatives
to the Legislature are elected except one.
They also elect senator and the county
ticket by increased majorlties. Waldo
county has gone largely Republican; the
whole Republican county ticket is elected,
and all of the eight representatives to the
Legislature. Eight towns in Aroostook
county give Powers, Republican, for
Congress, S2l Danforth, Democrat, CAB
The same towns last year gave Plaisted,
Republican, 724; Madigan, Democrat,
64S. The county has probably gone Re.
publican.
BosToN, September ia special says
the Republicans have swept every con-
gressional district. Thomas b. Reed is
elected in the First District by about
1000 majority, William P. Fryre in the
Second district by about 1000, Stephen
d. Lindsay in the Third district by about
$500. Llewellyn Paine in the Fourth
district by about 1000, and Eugene Hale
in the Filth district by about $500.
PORTLAND. NE, September l2.-Re-
turns up to this afternoon give the Re-
publicans twenty-nine Senators and the
Democrats two. Thus far sixtyseven
Republican representatives have been re-
ported, as against seven for the Demo
crats. This mornings report that Knox
county, almost invariably Democratic,
has gone Republican with the exception
of a Senator and Clerk of the Court, is
confirmed. The county tickets are
divided in Lincoln and Wa.do, and
probably in Aroostock and York counties
The rest are Republican solid, and every
county in tue State has gone Republican
for Governor.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Sept. l2.-The kenne-
bee journal has returns from 2S7 towns
and plantations, giving a total vote of
1909. Conner receiving 63,74S, and
Talbot 1926: Conner's majority, IA, ,447.
The same towns last year gave total of
92,6O7, Conner As 435, Roberts 44,l72;
Conner's majority, 4.263i Republican net
gain, 10,lS4.
LEWISTON Me-, September l2.-An-
droscoggin county, complete, gives Con
ner 4, $50, Talbot 3,4l7, Gage, soft money,
80. Frye, Republican, for Congress,
has 1.I22 majority in Androscoggln,
1850 in Sagadahoc, and above 1000 in
the remaining towns of the district, about
5000 in all. Chase, soft money, has 535
votes in the district.
PORTLAND, Me, September l2.-All
but three towns in the First district give
Reed, Republican, about 900 majority.
York county elects the Republican ticket.