Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-09-14
How Reeds State Voted in 1892 and
1894-COnceded to Republicans
by Increased Majority.
REPUBLICANS WORKED HARD FOR VOTES
Senator Faulkner Admits Democrats
Have No Show in Maine-A Massa-
chusetts Man Says Something
Might Have Been Done.
Vote Of NJ ainc.

hepQDlCan TOT governor. bJ,0JJ
Democratic for governor. ........ 30,621
Populist for governor .... 5,32l
Prohibition for governor. ........ 2,73C
Iotal Note ............. ''loo'1 -
Republican plurality .........:.. 3S,97s
Reeds plurality for representative in
congress in 1894 was S,184.
The state legislature of 1895 was COM
posed as follows: Senate-Republican
81; house-Republicans 14G; Democrats,
s.; Republican majority on joint ballot
172.
HEAVY VOTE BEING PoLLED.
Portland, Me-, Sept. 14.-All the indi-
cations point to heavy vote in this city.
At IL O'Clock the prospect was considered
good that the largest estimate of the Re-
publicans would be exceeded.
Augusta, Me. = Under weather condi-
tions not in all sections as favorable as
hoped for by the Republican leaders, yet
by 70 means discouraging, the election is
progressing to-day. The reports at II
O'Clock indicated that the average vote in
the state would be exceeded. The weather
was cloudy, but rain did not seem prob
able.
REPUBLICAN SUCCESS ANTICIPATED.
Washington, Sept. 14.-Senator Faulk-
ner, chairman of the Demoratic congress
sional campaign committee, freely admits
that the Democrats have no show for sue
cess in the Maine election to-day. In an
interview he said:
"The significance in Arkansas consists
in this: 1t is demonstration to the
country that the candidates and princi-
Piles nominated and promulgated at Chi
cago meet the full and enthusiastic in
dorsement of the great masses of the
Democratic party. This is shown by the
large increase of our vote in state that
was as certainly Democratic as Vermont
was Republican. 1t Is demonstrated that
the large amount of literature sent into
Arkansas by the Republican committee
has had no effect, nor have the former
Democrats who have bolted given any
evidence of strength.
eve expect our Republican friends to
carry Maine, and would not be surprised
at all to see an increased Republican ma
jority. The Republicans have plastered
the state with literature and employed
large number of able speakers to increase
the Republican vote, whereas our party,
recognizing the state as clearly within
the Republican column, have made no
special effort whatever as national or
ganization, but left the contest almost
exclusively to local authorities to man.
age"
REPUBLICAN GAINS PROBABAE.
Lewiston, Me-, Sept. IL. - jeremiah
O'Sullivan, of Lawrence, Mass, who has
been making Democratic speeches in
Maine for two weeks past, was to-day
asked for his opinion of the outlook. He
said:
"The Democrats are sadly handicapped
by lack of funds, and, although the state
committee is hustling hard, they have not
been able to make much headway. If
George Fred Williams and a couple Of
men like him could have put in a month
here it would have been different thing"
"Do you anticipate gain over the Re-
publican majority of '94?"
II really wouldn't be surprised to see
the Republicans carry the state by 10000.
They have splendid organization, and
are spending more money than was ever
put into campaign before. They have
held rallies in towns where none have
been held for generation. Every ham
let in Maine has been visited by some Re.
publican congressman; literature in favor
of the gold standard covers the state like
drifting snow in January, and they are
making preparations to bring out the
lame, the blind and the halt, and it is not
unlikely that they will get over 10000
majority, although many Democratic
politicians feel quite sure that it will not
be over 25,0O0."
"How does the silver sentiment here
compare with that in Massachusetts?
''It doesn't begin to compare. The
silver sentiment in Massachusetts, es-
pecially in the manufacturing cities, is
spreading Thousand times more rapidly
than here, although it is said there is
quite good feeling up in the northeast
ern part of the state. I think, however,
that, if the Democratic national commit
tee had made fight here, a remarkable
change would have resulted, for never
saw people so greedy to obtain informa-
tion. The great trouble is that.the state
committee is too much handicapped to
supply the demand"
Alas ka's Reasonable Prayer.
Chicago, Sept. 14.-Oongressman AL
drich, who has just returned from a six
weeks trip in Alaska, says that the peo-
pie of that distant territory think it has