The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-17
Last Night's Dispatches.
MAINE.
The Result seill in Dorbt-otner Po1i t1cal
News

CLEVELAND. o.. Sept. l6.-Senatol
Blaine sent the following dispatch ,hi,
evening:
AUGUSTA, Me-. Sept. I6 70 Gen j
A Garfield, Mentor. O,-fhe indiea ;ion
now p'int w pG.istakab bly, to the eiection o
Gov. Davis Ii we cnuid be assured OF
an honest vote and hcuest retufus iruLu
the Ertnc plautatious oi AFoosto, k ecuut,
tysry possibility OF doubt would be remov.
ed ihese rlantat;Ins iaye been hotbeds
OF u, ,mocratio frauds for thirty years past
We have not yet received their returns
The total vote for Governor will reach
leariy il not q1ite "A 900. Only twice in
the history OF our party 10 Maiue ilss the
vote reached $4,000, and never reached
.16, 900. The average annual vote for the
past ten years has been little more than
60 900 Our people are in splendid heart
and cour-ge and will go intu the Novem-
Der fight with the advantage Of a popular
majority in the contest Of Monday last,
j. q. BLAINE
three additional towns in AroostoJk show
the following result: Davis 1,345. Piaisted
l.l24, Nye 2. scattering r. Same towns
last year, Davis had ,22s Smitl, 65i
Garcelon 373. Davis gain over all 10 these
towns is votes. There are twenty eight
towns and plantations in Aristook to be
heard from.
PORTLAND. Sept. l6. Fifteen addition
al towns in Penobscott county gives Davis
326 Plaisted cal; last year Davis 307,
Smith 552. Ten additional towns in
Aroostook gives Davis 500, Plaisteds 254
scattering l3. Republican majority AZ;
last year Davis had 2l4, Smith lSl, Garce>
Ion 20, Fusion majority SO.
Later-Four hundred and sixty towns
give Davis II 1874, Plaisted II. .01O; Davis
plurality Ss4, scattering 339. The same
towns last year gave Davis 67,805, Smith
At, ,129, ,Garcelon. 90. 466; fusion plurality So
scattering 262. The towns to come gave
Davis 1903. Fusionists 1916. Fusion
plurality COS, scattering 81, Deduct the
Fusionist plurality to come and the Re-
publican plurality on hand and Davis will
have 276 plurality ii the rest come in as
last year. There are only sixty-eight
towns TO hear from with an aggregate vote
of 3. 305. Blue Riil brings in a further
Republican gain of Al.
PORTLAND, Sept. III A. NJ -Four
hundred and seventy two towns give Davis
72, ,661, Plaisted 7l.l83, scattering 1856.
The same towns last year gave 64,-
ATS, Smith 1857. Gsrcelon 2l.040
scattering 263. Davis plurality S7S,
against Fusion plurality last year oi
l2G. Thirtyfour towns not received
last year gave Davis 635, Fusionists POT.
scattering so. Fusion majority of 572.
If they come the same as last year Davis
will have left 303 plurality Adding the
scattering to that received, we have 4l6,
so!that Gov. Davis will not get majority
without further gain of ia TIE total
vote to hear from is 922s which increased
FIVE per cent like the rest, will bring the
aggregate up TO 146,8 800, as per Tuesday
nights estimate, and 800 pore than pse-
dieted Monday night. 1t will. however, be
divided otherwise, namely, Davis 73, $50.
Plaisted 73.050. scattering 420, subject of
course to further gains and losses on either
side. Twelve Aroostook towns are to
come, Part of them last year gave Davis
157. Smith 70, Garcelon 4S1, total of
only 798, so sbst their changes cannot
very we'll vary the result,
NEW York, Sept. l6.-At the Repub
liean headquarters tonight Col. Hooker
received the following dispatch;
AUGUSTA, Sept. l6. Davis elected IN
less the French towns on the Northern
border overwbelm US by illegal votes,
Official retrr2s aTa sot yet resolved from
them, We have gains enough from other
towns TO overcome their msiorities of last
year aud several hundred to spare.
lSigledl j. SAITH.
Secretary Republican State Committee.