The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-11
THE MAINE ELECTION.
THE CARRY THE STATE
AS USUAL, BUT BY GREATLY
REDUCED MAJoRITIEs.
The Southern Illinois Penitenttary Located
at Chester.

PORTLAND, Me, Sept. lO.-The city
vote is as follows: Connor, 2,062; Will
fams. 1912; Munson, 400; Connor's ma
jority SO, against 500 last year.
Biddeford gave Williams ll6 majority.
The city aud county ticket is ahead of Viii.
hams
Returns of forty-fve towns give Conuor.
republican, 1896; Williams, democrat,
1909; MunsOn. greenback, l,247; Con
nor's majority, l,l2l, against 3,739 last
year.
The democrats carried the whole of the
Knox county ticket by 450 majority 10
Washington county the republicans elect
both senators and the full county ticket by
800 TO 400 majority The democrats carry
Lincoln county by about lis majority.
Returns from eighteen towns in York
county. including Bidd2ford and Saco.
show a democratic gain over last fall of
395. The remaining eight towns will not
materially change the result. The repub
lican county ticket is probably elected ty
from 200 to 800 majority. The republicans
elect their entire county ticket in Hancock
county by majorities ranging from 800 to
200, Androscoggiu county, except three
towns, gives Connor 2,446, Williams ,599,
Muuson 953 All the republican caudi-
dates for representatives are elected in
Lewiston ard Auburn. This county is the
headquarters of the greenback party,
which has polled larger vote, a majority
of which comes from the democrats. The
entire republican ticket in Arostook county
| is elected by 800 to 400 majority.
| Seventy-fve towns 10 the state give Con-
nor IS, 440, Williams Il, ,444. Muuson l, ,974
Connors majority 1908, against 1928 last
| year.
| MIDNIGHT. One hundred and thirty
seven towns give Connor %, ,060, Williams
2l.390, Munson (greenbackl 1897, Talbot
| (democratl l47, scattering 3. The same
towns last year gave Connor 40,773, Tai
bot q sol, scattering l42 Connor's ma
jority this year 4, l24, against 500 last
year in the same towns The aggregate
vote will be about 5000, and Uonnor s
majority probably 5000. The legislature
is strongly republican in both branches.
FARMINGToN, Sept. 10.-Connor has
small majority.
chosen as the location of the Southern
ers Fonda and Clements in favor of that
pIdCe UaS DSeu iOImdlly uteu Win the gov
ernor. The report Dames Chester as the
point selected, and what is known as the
Portland tract above the city and near the
mouth of the Kaskaskia river as the site
The location is urged as in Southern
Illinois, aud south of the Ohio and Missis
sippi RAILROAD AS the commissioners con
strue the law to mean, Chester is declared
to be accessible by rail and river. Orator
is argued against as having no railroad
and regarding the bond of Jersey county
citizens to build railroad in case of th,
prison location there, the commissioner
say they doubt whether such an obligation
could be enforced by law. East Carol
delet is declared to be below the high waite
mark cf 1914. Alton is declared to be un,
suitable. the old prison unfit even 70
? temporary use, the price asked for adjoin
; ing lands too high, and it is further urge
, that the land offered, though in one body
: is irregular in outline, and some of it to
broken for any use whatever. Chester i
! stated to have good limestone, with sand
stone on the Kaskaskia, only three mile
distant. Commissioner Lawrence dissents
but has not presented his objection i
8 writing, nor as yet prepared q minorit
q report. The governor is authority for th
4 statement that the location will be approx
;, ed by the reviewing board.