The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-11
.L|TTLtF|ELD AND
COBB WINNERS
IN MAINE
GOMPERS AND LIQUOR ADVO.
GATES LOST TO REPUBLi-
CANS-NARROW MARGIN.
CAMPAIGN WAS HOT ONE
Piprsity Given Cobb Unusually
Small While Labor Men Cut
Largely From That of Their
Opponent.

| Portland, Maine, Sept. 10.-Goyera
or William r. Cobb. of RockIand r.
| publican. standing on a platform de
voted almost exclusively to the con
t.nuance Of prohibitory law, was re
elected today by a plural ty Of lesr
than 900 and with but few excep
tions the smallest margin of vote.
ever given Republican governor il
Maine. '
More intere ting, from certain
standpoint, was the reelection of Con
gressman Charles f. Littlefeld. Re
publican, In the Second district, by
reduced plurality Littledeld's can
d'dacy was a subject of bitter oppo
sition on the part Of Samuel Gompers
president Of the American Federation
Of Labor, who asked for his defeat on
he grounds that he voted against Ger
tain labor measures at the last ses-
lion of congress.
Littleheld's plurality Is estimated to-
night at about 1000. Congress man
Edwin c. Burleigh, Republican, was
reelected in the Third district by n
plurality of 1000 and Congressman
Lewellyn Powers. Republican in the
Fourth district by a plurality Of g.
600 The reelection of C0ngres ssman
Ames l.. Allen. in the First district
oil ,g1 6Kg
The legislature will be Republican
by safe margin
The campaign in Maine was the
most exciting and stssnrions since me
famous greenback days Of 1S79S0. A
governor, four representatives to con-
gress, county officers and representa-.
tives to the next legislature were
chosen. The next Legislature is TO elect
a successor to Senator Frye. The Re
candidate for governor was
william 7. Cobb. or RGckland, the
present incumbent who asked for a
second term. He Is close friend Of
Littlefeld. The Demo
cratic nominee was Cyrus w. Davis,
If Waterville, promoter of Colorado
mines. This was his second cand dacy
or governor, he having been defeated |
n 1904.
The issue which had given the |
Democrats fighting strength and |
aised their hopes to a high pitch is
he old one of prohibition of the liquor
70 Ell, RIafnn u.itl. ,,rnhili+;,, Z, -
constitution and statutes, has for
many years been ostensibly a dry
tate. But in the cities the law was
utilized and liquor was freely sold,
he Republicans generally holding the
ote of the liquor men and their
Sturuis Law an Issue.
The legislature Of 1905. through the
forts of Governor Cobb and Others h
nacted the Sturgis law. which pro.
ided for comm sion and deputies TO ,
nforce the liquor law. The commits
on could send its constabulary into ,
very county where il deemed the law !
as not enforced. The commission en-. {
red forr counties-Kennebec. An. /
roscoeein Sagadahoc and Knox {
hat the Democrats will win many t
)tes on the Sturgis issue Is not de. J
ed by the Republicans. but the latter !
SO expect to win some by II.
In 1901 Cobb had a plurality over &
avis Of 20 SIG in a total vote for O
,th cf t271Ns. III
The Republicans. while they Will g
Sc in the cities. are depending on s
q country towns. which are almost O
idly Republican and for enforced q
Republican leaders to. o
ght are claiming 5000 plurality for Il
,bb. o
Littefield's Fight IL
In the Second congressional district al
Littlefield has been hav- NJ
2 the fight of his life. mainly owing "
the antsgcnism of the labor lead o.
President Gompers. Stuart Reid.
lieutenant. Loveley. National
2 ident Of the United Shoe Work
nm on. and others have entered
district and for three weeks at Va
'ked the congressman in the indus VI
81 centers ringing the changes in OF
shin subsidy. comp lsory pilotage I'd
2 Injunction bills They have de. Sc
lnced NJ. Littlefeld a. the frio-d I'd
I 10 ] Of the generations and the
Of labor Mr. Littlefeld has been Ia
The stump constantly in opposition
has had The assistance Of Secre-
y Taft. Speaker Cannon. Henry
bot Lodge and many Of the ablesf
'ne speakers. Litffefeld in 1904 had la'
plurality of 5.2s1. There Is little iea
sfian bss fsat he uo,,1r y, -. sta
Ills opponent. the Democratic can eF'
'te is .. !. McGillicuddy. an Irish tiI
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