Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-09-17
The Maine Election.

Well may the Republicans of Maine re-
joice at the result of last weeks election
In that state the laws require majority to
elect governor, while in most of the states
a plurality elects. Were this the case in
Maine the Republican victory would be
overwhelming. As it is, they have good
working majority in both branches of the
legislature, which would enable them to
elect their candidate in spite of the peculiar
method adopted when there Is no popular
election. That method gives the house au.
thority to select two names from the four
candidates having the highest number of
votes, and to send these two names to the
senate, one of which this latter body must
choose for governor. The house will have a
Republican majority of forty, and eighteen
out of thirty-one members of the senate.
The legislature-elect embraces some of the
ablest Republicans of the state, among them
being Ex-Congressman Hale. There is yet
chance that the official count will elect
Davis by the people, but if not, he will surely
be made governor by the legislature
This signal aud most timely victory is
largely due to the herculean labors of Sena-
tor Blaine. He has been the master-sprit
of the campaign, and the result not only
demonstrates his popularity at home, but
entities him to the lasting gratitude of Re-
publicans everywhere.
At jubilee meeting in Portland, held
after the result of the election became
known, Senator Blaine discussed the charges
of corruption in the campaign, and said
there has been no campaign for twenty
years whose records he is not ready to Law
open. The state committee this year has
expended less than $4,000 in the whole cam
paign, and all for legitimate purposes. 1t
was not money which whipped the enemy
but the hope of every voter to get honest
money for his country. The money ex-
pended were honest dollars which came
from men able to give it. He charged that
the opposition expended five dollars to his
one. ave stand at the head of a new era
of Republican rule. No six hundred thou.
sand people who ever lived were ever better
governed than the people of Maine during
the last twenty-five years under the so-called
Republican mlsrule. Maine has in that time
increased in wealth more than in the whole
time since the discovery of the country. In
eighteen years the national misrule exports
have been larger by Sl,300,000,0OO than
from the Declaration of Independence to
that time, and the increase of the wealth in |
the country since the Inauguration of Lin |
coin is greater than an accumulatons
previous to that event. Under Republican
rule the United States has achieved the |
grandest results of its history. The finan.
cial question is settled and the people in
tend to show that the rebellion worth put
ting down is worth keeping down. and they
don't intend that this great republic shall be
handed over to the people who tried to de.
stroy it. What do you imagine they thought
of the late Maine election Which side was |
jeff Davis on Which side Robert Toombs |
Like the old lady who kept boarders, he |
wanted to find out what the rebels didn't |
like, and give them plenty of it,