Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-09-20
TO OUR REPUBLICAN, FRIENDS.
"Have You Heard From Maine ?"

fetal returns:
"Until the returns from Maine were
in, the Argus has refrained from com
ments on the election IN that state.
The earliest returns by counties show
ed positive republican losses to any one
who took the trouble to compare the
vote with the vote of the last presiden
tial year. The Associate press, for nc
apparent reason, except its sympathy,
this year, as in 1SS4,is with the ;'undel
dog in the fight, suddenly began com
pairing returns with the vote of 1886
an "off year in politics, when no one
took the slightest interest In the re-
suit in the Pine Tree state; in its en-
deavors the Associated press was per
sistently backed up by special dispatch
es from J. G.. Blaine, Joe aIanley and
other republican politicians, who claim
ed that the state had given lover 20
600 plurality the largest plurality
in its history" and similar claims,
"After four days effort the Argu,
has at last secured from the Associated
press statement of the result in Maine.
We quote from the Albany Journals
Associated press dispatch last evening:
"Lewlston, Me-, Sept. 13.-The
Lewiston Journal has returns from all
the towns in Maine Burleigh has 70,
6O3; Putnam, 81, 1OS; Gushing, 2,97l;
Simmons, 979.
"These returns are in be read in the
light furnished by J. G. Blaines dis
patches to Ben HARRISON and to White
law Reid, as follows albany Journal
reprinD:
/" Returns indicate that the republic
can candidate will have more than 90, :
600 majority over the democratic can
didate, the largest majority since 1866.
Prohibition vote falls off everywhere.
In dispatch to Whitelaw Reid, Mr..
Blaine says: 1T is not simply great
victory, it is almost a political revolu-
ton. 1t recalls the immense MAORI
ties of the war periods. The question
of protection was the only one discuss
ed. Many democrats turned against
the Mills bill.
I'VE will compare the actual vote
cast with the vote of the September
election in 1891:
Dem. Rep. Pro
September, 1881 ......... 500 s.1s i,i57
GAIN. .............a, o3s l.ssi 1874
Custom has taken away all the
novelty and pleasure to be derived in
proving J. G. Blaine an unequivocal
liar. We use his words and the facts,
with no special desire to 're-
fleet upon the 'uncrowned king, but
merely to make results clear. Thus
the republican plurality this year is
lS,495, against a republican plurality
Of BOO in 1884. 1t is not the
largest majority since 1866 1t is not
SO large as the republican plurality in
the Maine September election proceed
ng the last Maine presidential election.
The prohibition vote falls off
everywhere, says Blaine. In fact, the
more than double their
Tote. They gain 1874 votes on their
vote of 1884. The great republican
'arty, under the leadership of J. G.
Blaine in that state, gains 1924 votes,
Exactly ten votes more than the prohi
,itionists.
"'Ihe question of protection was the
'nly one discussed. Many democrats
urned against the Mills bill, says
Blaine. If that be true, then for every
ighteen democrats who turned against
he Mills bill, thirty republicans voted
or the Mills bill, according to the re-
urns.
sit is no new thing for Blaine and |
lis Maine following to deceive the
ountry as to the result in their state. |
he republican press had three days of
ntoxication over the news from Maine.
We now invite it to seek some remedy |
or the headache which a contempla
ion of the returns from the state-the
lewiston Journal, republican news.
aper-must bring. The result shows
prohibition increase equal to the re-
ublican increase; and democratic in
rease equal virtually to the two COM
lined. The same ratio, we may add.
1onld give New York state to Cleve
md and Thurman by 30, 900 plurality"
Bonds Carried.