Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-09-15
Maine.

nARAnCs
We said the other day that wo did not
propose TO indulge 10 any Growing over
the result in Maine. Nevertheless, now
that we have the full returns OF the re-
cent election in that State, we feel much
relieved. There is in them nothing in
the world TO discourage the Democrats,
but much 10 encourage them. Ask your
self. "If the Republicans gained
nothing in Maine over their ma
jority in 1884. in what State
can they expect to make gains ?"
Think of il: Is there State in the
Union where the Republicans can be ex-
pected to gain in view OF their failure to
gain any in Maine, and of the facts
first, that BLAINE lives in Maine and can
vassed the State for HARRISON second,
that the fisheries troubles and the fishe-
ries message Of President CLEVELAND
disgruntled some Of the Maine Demo
Gratis and third, that there is great OPP
position in that State TO the Mills bill !?
We estimate the result Of this weeks
elections in Maine just as Mr.. HAIsTEAD
stated in his paper before the election
was held that the contest was to be es-
timated That's TO say. we measure the
result as he proposed beforehand to mea-
sure it. He said
off Maine gives an increased Repub-
lcan majority corresponding to that OF
Oregon and OF Vermont the Republicans
hold that al irresistible drift will be es-
tablished, and that the success of the
Republican National ticket becomes next
to certainty"
Was that irresistible drift estab-
lished Did Maine give an increased
Republican majority corresponding to
that in Oregon and that in Vermont {?
No emphatically, no. The Republican
candidate for Governor received this
year Is, 495 plurality. In 1884 the Re-
publican candidate for Governor re-
ceived 1900 plurality. Instead Of
gaining as in Oregon and Vermont, tho
Republicans lost, according to these
figures. more than one thousand.
There are other features OF the Maine
election to which we desire TO call at
tention. The good Democrats in Vir-
ginia, if any such there be, who are in
clined to desert the Democratic party
this year and vote the Prohibition ticket
should not overlook the fact that in
Maine, rs IN Vermont, the Prohibition
vote fell of, many Of the Republican
Prohibitionists going back to their old
party. Nor should they forget that a
vote in Virginia this year for FISK is in
effect vote for HARRIsON-a vote for
the Republican party. We call the at
tention Of any Democrat who feels dis
posed to vote the Prohibition ticket, and
thus in effect to vote the Republican
ticket, to what the New York loicc, the
national organ OF the Prohibition party,
says as 10 how the Republicans carried
Maine A Boston correspondent Of that
paper interviewed before the election a
number Of liquor-dealers in Boston. He
writes
lone of the most striking political
facts developed by these interviews is
that Just before election the liquor traffic
in the State of Maine is 'scot-free. as
one guilty party puts it, the rumsellers
there having fun swing, because they
can influence votes for and against the
dominant party. Some remarkable facts,
too. are broughtout in the interview with
John f. Bresljn, who gives names Of
many prominent Republican saloon
keepers of Portland, Me, who were all
once Democrats, but who came over from
that party because the Republicans can
gire them more priUitcgos than the
Democratic party"
The Voice says editorially:
"A more shameless, goddess, damna-
bic conspiracy against the laws of the
land and the good of society was never
exposed than the conspiracy between the
lquor-deaers Of Boston and the officers
OF the law. mostly Republican, in Maine,
exposed on our first page this week.
That exposure ought to rcuOimionize the
notifies Of .Nainc. 1T ought to reach
every voter in the State. 1t is absolute
ly Trustworthy, and we challenge denial
of the facts as given"
Said we not truly that the result in
Maine was under the circumstances one
that ought to encourage rather than dis
courage the Democrats?