The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-09-18
A SPLENDID REPUBLICAN TRIUMPH

Maine Goes Republican by Large Ma
jority-The Third Party Nowhere.
The election in Maine on Monday re-
suited i'll a splendid victory for the Re-
publicans. There were three and in many
instances four tickets in the field. The
Republicans elect Bodweil, governor, and
congressman from each of the four dis
trlcts of the state. The victory is COM
plete and the Republicans are .jubilant.
A special from Portland concerning the
victory says. Mr.. Blaine has doue more
! than his share of the work, contributing
as much as any candidate and paying his
own expenses while travelling about tn e
STATE making speeches. This was no
small thing to do, as owing to the large
area of the state-equ Al to that of all the
| other New EugIan States combined-It
requires a great deal of travelling to reach
all parts of it. In making his thirteen
| speeches. Mr.. Blaine travelled "a little over
two thousand miles. His speeches had a
marked effect in arnusng the over conf.
dent Republican voters to a sense of their
duty. The closest relations existed in
the contest between the Democrats and
| the ProhibitIouists, and i'll some places
the Democrats endorsed a third party
| candida lie to encourage the movement.
That the Democrats staked high on
| the Prohibition vote, is evidenced by the
| fact that Chairman Brown continued to
| declare that the Democrats would carry
| the state il 600 votes could be changed,
| but last Friday he gave up all hope of
| doing it, the Prohibition leaders count
ed on polling over / 600 votes II will
| be noted that the comparisons of the vote
| in the returns here gwen are made with
| 1854, when Mr. Blaine was presidential
| Candidate and the Republican vote was
unusually large.
McGIllicuddy, the ID mncratic candi-
date for state treasurer IN the Lewiston
| district. who is AN nutspokeu uppouenJ of
| prohibition. addressed meetings from the
same platform with EustiS, the third
party candidate Tor Congress. Bo:h
| speakers were equally abusive of the Re
publican party. The Democrats in their
state convention rgatirmed their opposi-
ton to sumptuary legislation, and vet
third party men hold joint meetings with
| them to abuSA the Republican party. If
the third party had kept st. John out of
the stale. they would have been wise. He
did their cause no good in Maine, and the
men he brought with him from Kentucky
| to advocate prohibition were equally I'M
popular ST. John aud his friends worked
like beavers. They made all sorts of
combinations and coalitions with the De-
mocrats. 1t is reported that the Demo-
Gratis fooled them in several inStances
where they had promised them local
offices. When it came down to the vot-
ing the Prohibtionists we're left out in
the cold.
Chairman Manley reports as follows:
The result of to day S election is far
larger X publican majority than was an
ticipated-the largest, indeed, given in
the state for til. past fifteen years, ex-
cept in presidential years. We expected
seven or eight Thousand plurality. The
figures at this hour eleven o'clock in
dictate plurality for Bodwell of not less
than T., 600 and not improbably $4,000.
We have carried every congressional dis
tlict, and elected two-thirds to three
tourJhs of the legislature. thus securing
us the Senate and county officers prob
ably i'll fourteen OF the sixteen counties
| of the state. The Republican plurality
in Augusta is the largest ever thrown,
being more than 100 ont of IA total vote
of | 500 The total vote of the state will
be above 131 600, which is extraordinarily
large for All OFT year. Dat of this, the az
gregate of the third party will not exceed
1000, far less than was expected by the
leaders of the movement.
(S'gned) J. II. MANLEY,
Chairman Rep. State Committee.
PORTLAND, Sept. II Returns show
that the State Senate will be composed of
26 Republicans and ) Democrats. The
last Senate was entirely Republican. The
House of Representatives of 1885 was
composed of 1l5 Republicans "a Demo-
Gratis and : Greenbackers. The Repub-
icaus have gained II and lost :. and 4
more are in doubt. If the doubtful dis
tricts all elect Democrats the Repubi-
cans will have gained six over last year
AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. IA Official
election returns are being received at tine
State House, about 100 towns and cities
having responded so far. Chairman Man
ley says this afternoon that BodwelPs
majority over Edwards will reach fully
IA 600 The Legislature will be as nearly
strongly Republican as two Years ago.
Inc Republicans got every representa-
tive district but one in Franklin county,
and Carry the county by 600 majority.
Young men or middle-aged ones, suffering
from nervous debility and kindred weak
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