Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-06-12
HOW THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY
WAS WON
4 Significant Vote from the Woodrow
ing and Manufac turing Districts.

The n. Y. Tribune has special and full
information from Oregon which shows the
Republican victory even more decisive and
significant than the earlier accounts. Port
land, Oregon, June O: As returns pour in
from remote counties, the majoritics for
the Republican State ticket are simply as
tonishing and it is not too much to say
that since the free-trade message Of
Cleveland was sent to Congress, Oregon
has underground complete political revolu-
ton. The Republican majority will be
little short of 1000, If indeed it does not
rise above these figures. The largest Re
publican majority ever given before was
when the Democrats refused to vote for
Horace Greeley In 1872, and let the cleo
ton go by default. Then Grant had less
than 400. The average Republican ma
jority for the last eight years has been
1900, while every precinct in the State
shows Republican gains.
A study OF the returns shows that the
largest gains were in the manufacturing
and wool-growing districts. For instance,
In the northern precinct of this city where
saw mills, iron works, potteries and car
rage factories are located, the Rcpubli-
can majority last Monday was G6S. Two
years ago the Republican majority was
rs. In one carriage factory, the entire
force Of thirty employees left the
factory at noon in body and voted the
straight Republican ticket. The Repub-
lican majority two years ago in Portland
was 1000. This year II is 1000. Coos
Bay, where there are large coal and
lumber interests, returns Republican ma
jorities Of $50; two years ago the Demo-
Gratis had small majorities.
The most surprising results, however,
were from the Democratic strongholds,
where agents Of the Administration are
known to have placed large amount of
money to prevent defeat. That part of
Oregon lying east Of Cascade Mountains
never gives less than 1000 Democratic
majority. wool-growing is one of the
principal industries. The Democrats
either lost every county, or carried it only
bya bare majority, and the parts east of
the mountains this year will give the
Republican ticket between 500 and 900
majority. In Columbia county, on Column
bia River, where iron and lumber are the
principal industries, the Republicans
VOTE was just two to one. Heretofore,
the country has given small Republican
majority. Not only did the Democratic
woolmen vote the Republican State ticket.
but the County and Legislative ticket |
besides, and openly renowned allegiance
to the Democratic party, which, they de-
clared, was inimical to their interests. So
eager were they to rcbuke Clevelaud's |
Administration that they disregarded
entirely the local interests and voted |
indirectly for the Republican United
States Senator.
The Republican victory on the Legis- |
lativc ticket is, If possible, more pro-
uounced than on the State ticket. The |
Democrats have only elected thirteen
single member Of the State Senate. The
Democrats, however, have four holdover
Senators, elected two years ago.
Your correspondent today asked John
NJ. Glarin. the Democratic candidate for
Congress, to what he attributed the over
whelming defeat. He answered that it |
was due entirely to his advocacy of Free
Trade, as recommended in Cleveland's
message, embodied In the Mills bills and
adopted by the Democratic State Couven-
ton Of Oregon. The Prohibition candidate
for Congress will have about 1900 votes.
Three out Of four were cast by Repuhli-
cans. This is shown by the vote on the
Supreme Judge. Prohibitionists had no
candidate for that Office, and the Republi-
can nominee has over 5000 majority. Had
the issue been confined entirely to the
two old parties, with no Prohibition ticket
In the field, the majority for Hermann for
Congrcss would have been about 5000.
Latest returns make the Republican
majority on the State ticket 1900. The
Republicans will have so members on
Joint ballot in the Legislature the Dem
ocrats 70.
In 1854 more than 5000 Buffalo Demo
csats attended the Convention that nomi-
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