The Portland daily press., 1880-09-17


gregate vote of 3,3O5. Bluehill brings in fur
ther Republican gain of 81.
Midnight-472 towns give Davis. ~ ,661
Plaisted.. III 1888
Scattering. 1856
Same towns last year Davis. ........68, ,478
SmItn........ -! ,56a
Garcelon...... ......21,040
Scattering. ...... 263
Davis plurality S7S, against Fusion plurality
the last year of 129. Thirty-four towns not re-
ceived gave last year
Davis. ..............-... .............. 635
Fusonists. ........................ .1,207
A Fusion plurality of 572. If they come the
same this year Davis will have left 3O3 plurali-
ty. Adding the scattering to that received we
have 416, so that Davis will not get majority
without further gain of ia.
The total vote to hear from is 1922 which,
increased five per cent. like the rest will bring
the aggregate up to 146,800, as per Tuesday
nights estimate, and 300 more than predicted
Monday night. 1t will however be divided the
other way namely:
Scattering .,. .,..., 42O
Subject of course to further gains and losses on
either side.
The twelve Aroostook towns to come,
part of them in the French district, gave last
year:
Davis is......................... 157
darceion....... ........... ...,........-.....4S1
total of only. ........... ................7OS
So that their changes cannot very we'll vary
the result. The other % towns are four plan
tations in Franklin county up by Rangeley
Lakes at the head waters of the Kennebec,
three in Oxford and two in Somerset in same
wild region, six in Hancock, two of which are
remote coast islands, and four in the back for
ests of the county, three are in Penobscot
county, Clifton, Exeter and Garland all ac-
cessible and near Bangor. The remaining
four are in Washington, all III unsettled lake
regions, SO that the whole % are widely scat
tered and cannot swing together. The same
remark will partly apply to the twelve Aroos-
took towns. We therefore conclude that Davis
will have a plurality of about 300.
The last IL towns received, 3 from Hancock,
1 from Somerset, from Washington and 3
from Aroostook, which therefore sample the
rest, gave Republican gain of so in t,tal
vote Of 1,540. A similar gain on the 1922 to
hear from would give only 63, which would
bring Davis's plurality up to 366, and leave
him 30 short of majority if the scattering
come in as anticipated.
The Kennebec Journals Figures.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 16-Returns have been re-
ceived from all but 80 towns either officially or
by telegraph. These give Davis plurality
over Plaisted of 11S5 votes. The towus to be
heard from gave last year Fusion majority of
$40. If they have voted the same this yeas as
last Davis will have plurality of 315 votes.
We have dispatches which say the Fusion ma
jority in those towns is less than last year.
Senator Blaine to Gen. Garfield.
AUGUSTA, Sept. Ex-senator Blaine sent the
following telegram this afternoon to Gen. Gar
field
AUGUSTA, Me-, Sept. 49, 1880.
To General James 4. Garfield, Mentor, Ohio:
The indications now point Enthusiastically to
the election of Governor Davis. If we could
plantations of Aroostook county every posi-
bility of doubt would be removed These
plantations have been the hot beds of Demo-
cratic fraud for thirty years past. We have
not yet received their returns. The total vote
for Governor Davis will reach nearly, if not
quite, "a 900. Only twice in the history of our
party in Maine has the vote exceeded 5000,
and never reached 10000 The average annual
vote for the past ten years has been little more
than Ga 900. Our people are in splendid heart
and courage and will go into the November
fight with the advantage of a popular majority
in the contest of Monday last.
(Signed) j. G. BLAINE.
Celebrating the Victory at Damariscotta
DAMARIsCoTTA, Sept. 16.-The news this
evening of Davis election was received by a
joyous demonstration, the Republicans cele-
brating with ringing of bells, bon fires, drums
horns, cheers, &c.
Chairman Barnum Puts his Foot in It.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-The Democratic Ma
tional Committee has sent out the following
despatch this afternoon:
NEW YORK, Sept 49,
The latest information is to the effect that
Plaisted has a clear majority of somewhere
from 500 to 1900. No amount of cheating,
which it is apparent the Republicans are try
ing to do, can effect this result. Everything is
being done to watch them and defeat fraud on
their part. w. H. BARNUM, Chairman.
Had the Democratic press of the country
published the Associated Press dispatches from
this state, which gave not only results but also
the vote of each town in which these results
were based, they would have saved the chair
man of the Democratic National Committee
from making foolish exhibition Of himself.
These returns show, as anyone eau see by ex-
been made principally in Fusion strongho.ds
where either Democrats or Greenbackers con-
troll the check list and ballot box and do the
counting, so that If the returns have been
falsifed for the benefit of the Republicans.
Fusion selectmen and town clerks are the
guilty parties.1