Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-07
MAIN L.
The Political Situation-Excitemen on
the Increase-Both Sides Working Ac-

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the Increase-Botn Sides Working Ac-
lively.
GuSroS, Mass, September 6.-The
State election in Maine occurs week
IRON to-day, and as the time approaches
the excitement increases among the pO-
litiCal parties engaged in the strife. Dur
ing the past week both the Democrats
and Greenbackers have redoubled their
eNertiOns in making aggressive war on
Blaine and his greedy followers, and as
4 result the break which the Republi-
cans so gleeiully anticipated
among the Greenbackers has
not vet occurred. Weaver, al
though refusing to speak from the
sane platform with Butler, mas stitlened
the backs OF the Greenbackers; and. as
the Democrats are solid in support OF
the Fusion candidate, the Republicans
are now not rs confident OF victory as
they were week ago. Ii the meeting
ot the FuSioEists and Democrats at
Bangor on Saturday is 4 criterion, it is
plain, as the Democratic leaders to-day
claim. that the Republicans can not
carry the State. Over twenty thousand
people alone were present from the sur
rounding towns.
The Probable Result.
Both sides prophesy sure victory,
the Republicans claiming they will have
all the way from three 10 ten thousand
majority. The latter figure by cool
headed men competent TO Judge is con-
sjdered prepOsterous, inasmuch as last
year the Republicans Jailed to get a
majority against the same forces now
arrayed against them. Special telegramS
personally from leading editors OF Maine
have been received bv the Boston Herald
relative to the probable result, and the
same are conflicting, as might be expect
Ell from men who base their calculations
in a measure on their respective pOliti-
cal preferences and prejudices. The
Bath Times claims Frye's election To
Congress TO be- conceded by three thou
sand over Fogg, the leading member OF
Governor Garcelon : Council last year,
and that Davis would have ten thousand
majority. The ROckland Courier pre-
diets Murch's defeat in the Filth district,
aud the election OF Milliken to Congress.
The Fairfield Journal thinks the pros
uect of the election OF a Republican
Congressman in the Third district is
very favorable, and the Somerset Re
porter thinks Davis will carry the dis.
trict hv l,SOO. The Biddetord Times
claims the First district as largely Re-
publican. The Piscataquis Observer
ciams that Reed tRepublican) will 90 to
Congress by four hundred, and Davis
will have one thousand majority. The
kennebeC JoUH1l elects Davis and the
Congressman in the Third district by at
least three thousand. The Lewistown
JOUrHQi claims the Republican majority
IN the Second district will be twenty
five hundred. The Bridgewater NS'rS
and the Waresville N,,rS are more mod
crate, and claim the plurality OF Davis
will De from three 10 five thousand. IL
the estimates of the rabid Republican
Journals relative 10 the Congressional
districts are to be considered, they
would carry the State by at least fifteen
thousand. But when their estimates IN
this regard are compared with the ma
ioritv they expect for Davis, they show
the inconsistent and prejudided manner
in which they make up their maJorltleS
on naper.
The Fusion and Democratic journals,
on the other hand, prophesy the
Defeat of the Republicans.
The Bangor Commercial, one OF the best
Journals in the State, says: at is GER
tain that at no time during the progress
OF the present political campaign have
the prospects from the standpoint OF
the opposition to the Republican party
appeared So promising as at present.
All the resources OF campaign un-
eaualrd in desperation on the Republl-
can side have tailed to turn back
the current which has set steadily
against them from the first. \ can
yaSI oi number OF representa-
tive towns in the county and district,
made bv careful men, upon the request
Of the DuB Commercial, with lnstruc-
tionS 20 rive the benefit of the doubt in
alI cases to the Republican side, shows
nm every instance gain over last years
vote Tor the FutiOnlS's. Ii is the Judg-
meut at the most conservative OF our
political managers that We shall elect
Congressman Ladd by from five hundred
10 one thousand majority, carry our
whole county ticket by AT least five hun
drrd majority, and ii the counties west
of the kcnnebec DO equally well with
those east, elect General Piaisted rs
,ioyrrnor by five thousand majority