The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-09
USUAL PLURALITY DOUBLED
REPCBLICANS CARRY MAINE BY
 ABOUT 27, 1000.


 Democrats Gain in State Legislature
 and Their Candidate for Sheriff i'm
 Cumberland County wins-Incroase
 In Socialist Vote.
 Portland Me, Sept. S.-Maine rolled up a big off-year plurality for the re- publican ticket in the election to-day, it approxlmating 27.OOO in comparison with 12,O0O for the average of other years. Complete returns will be very late owing to the remoteness of many towns. Figures from 24O cities and towns give Hill, rep, 4O,962; Gould, dem, 24,53S. The same towns two years ago gave Hill. rep. 47,431: Lord, dem., 27, ,754.
 The legislature, while as usual, strongly republican. will have an un- common number oe democratic mem bers, some of the strongest republican towns of the state electing representa- tives of that party. The senate will have one democrat in thirty-one mern- bers, l.. M. Staples of Knox county. In the First congressional district Con- gressman Amos L. Allen, rep. was re- elected over Dr. Seth c. Gordon of Portland, dem, and Fred F. Irish, so- cialist, with a plurality of about $500, as against plurality of 1000 two years ago. MT. Allen, who succeeded Hon. Thomas B. Reed, for whom he was sec retary, ran behind his ticket in York and Cumberland counties. Dr. Cor don's personal popularity contributed to this result. An incident was the in- crease in the socialist vote, increasing from 70 of two years ago to 300 this year in Portland alone.
 In the Fourth district, owing to it's great area, the returns will not be completed until late tomorrow, but the estimate is that Congressman LleWellyn Powers, rep, has been reelected by a plurality of 1000 over Thomas White, dem. In the Third district Congress- man E. c. Burleigh got the prohibition ist vote and ran slightly ahead of his ticket in defeating E. H. Henson, the democrat
 In the Second district Congressman c. A. Littlefield had no difficulty in de- feating his democratic opponent, run ming well ahead of his ticket.
 The city and county contests nearly all presented features, but the most in teresting was that in Cumberland coun- ty of which the late Rev. Samuel Pear r.t,o rf,n ,I,VioT R4b to-day was won by Pennell, the demo- crat, by thousand in Portland and nearly 1000 in the county.
 The election was marked by good weather, quietude at the polls and an uncommonly large number of irregular ballots. The latter was the leading feature of the day. Never before in the history of the Australian ballot system in Maine had so much cutting been done.
 In at least four of the big counties of the state-Cumberiand, AndrOscoggon, York and Hancock-there were contests for the sheriff election based on local differences relative to the enforcement of the prohbitory law, but In other sec tions there was little to bring out full vote.
 George F. Hughes, chairman of the state democratic committee at Bath, gave the Associated Press the following statement;
 Incomplete returns show gain of several members in the house of repre- sentatives. A complete victory in Knox county the election of sheriff in Cum berland, the largest county in the state, an democratic victories in the citers of Watervile and Lewiston, indicate that the democratic vote for state candidates is close to that of the last presidential year and will show gain over the last election of more than 10000. This has been accomplished in campaign where we have been without funds and where the individual voters have done the work themselves.
 Chairman F. Marion Simpson of the state republican committee at Bangor stated that he estimated that the re- publicans had carried the state by 25,- 900 and had elected four-f1fths of all the representatives and practically all the senator's
 Chairman Simpson of the state com mittee tonight sent a message to the president saying:
 Maine has gone republican as it once went for Governor Kent. We have car ried the state by 8 plurality of 25,O00. Have elected the entire delegation to congress by large majority. Have chosen every senator with one exception and nearly, if not quite, four-fifths of the legislature. The Pine Tree state endorses your administration with no uncertain voice.
 A message of like import was sent to Senator Hanna, also saying: Maine has to-day shown her appreciation of the republican policies which have giv- en to our country prosperity unequal led in the history of the world"
 Congressman Burleigh sent a message announcing the result to Chairman Babcock of the republican congressional committee. He said that the average off year republican plurality has been 12,000.