The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-11
REPUBLICANS WIN IN MAINE.
LITTLEFIELD rs ELECTED BY
ABOUT 1000 PLURALITY.
Democrats Garry the cities. but Country
Districts Are Expected 70 Turn the
Result &C OVerno CODb's Plurality rs
iimstssi ss {. O0O-smalIest I'm "a Years.

Portland, Me-, Sept. IO.-At midnight
returns from to-day's election had been
received from the twenty cities and 81
Of tho 600 towns and plantations In Maine.
They gave Gov. William T. Cobb, Re-
publican, SS.777; Cyrus W. Davis. Demo-
Orat, sI,4l8; other nominees, 44s: Republi-
can plurality. 1891. compared with 1890
plurality in those towns two years ago.
The Republican net loss ia $500; net Demo-
cratic gain, S.s3s.
Using as a basis OF calculation the returns
received up to midnight. 1t Is estimated
that Gov. Cobb IL reelected by 1000 10 5000
plurality over Davis.
Cobb's plurality two years g was "a, $40.
The estimated plurality in the State Ia the
smallest the Republicans have had In
t~wenty-four years. The nearest approach
to IL was I2,5Os plurality for Gov. Cleaves
in 1897.
The four Republican Congressman are
reelected. Amos Dsllen by ZOO plurality.
compared with 5000 two years ago; Charles
E. Littlefeld, $50 plurality. a loss Of $500;
Edwin C. Burleigh, about 5000, a slight
gain over two years ago: LlewelIyn Powers
$500. q loss OF 5000.
Congressman Littleneld said at mid
night that he expected his plurality would
reach 800.
The Democrats carried all but two Of the
twenty cities in the State, swept the Re-
publican counties Of Cumberland and
Kennebeo and increased their representa-
ton in the Legislature from four Senators
and twenty-six Representatives to twelve
Senators and about sixty Representatives.
This Legislature will elect Senator Frye's
successor.
LEWISTON, Sept. IO.-Littlefeld Ia elected
by about 1000 plurality. This is Chair
man Carter's claim. Gompers's work
against LittIefeld does not show in any
degree in the Second district. Cities in
the First, Third and Fourth districts showed
fully as large Democratic gains az those
in the Second district. The great issue
the so-called Sturgis law and the en-
forcement OF it. Never has there been such
a conflict in Maine and never have the
Democrats been so we'll organized. The
result. disappointing to Gov. Cobb. ia gen
orally accepted with jubilatiOn by the Re-
publicans who nave been fearing a land-
slide.
The Democratic gains throughout the
stats are generally ascribed to their position
on the question OF resubmitting to a vote
- a. -.LsIlSz -. E-.-. $1,000
ment inserted in the State Constitution in
1884. Three times Republican Legislatures
have turned down the resubmission propo-
sition.
An attempt was made by delegates from
some Of the largest cities TO insert a resub-
mission plank in the Republican State plat
form, hut it was overwhelmingly beaten.
Resubmission was the chief plank in the
Democratic platform and the campaign
was fought by the Democrats on that issue
alone, only local speakers being utilized
on the stump.
The Republican orators, some OF the
biggest guns in the nation among them,
endeavored TO have the fight confined to
the question OF the tariff. national pros
perity and Endorsement OF ROOSEVELT
Administration
In addition to the demand for resub-
mission, the people were stirred by the
passage OF the Sturgis law by the lG' tLegis-
lature. Its aim was to aid in the closer en-
fOrcement OF prohibition The act gave
the Governor power to appoint a COM
mission and this commission to select dep
uty commissioners who could go into any
county in the State where the local officers
allied to enforce the liquor law. This legis-
lation was very unpopular.
In the counties where the Democrats
made their hardest fight for resubmission
their gains were greatest. They swept
Cumberland county, in which William II.
Pennell, a Democratic Sheriff, had tried
to regulate" instead OF prohibit the liquor
traffic. In this county resides State Sena-
tor SturRis, the author Of the Sturgis bill
who was turned dOwn in the Republican
county convention.
Sheriff Pencils plurality in the county
Is about 1900, Of which no comes from
Portland, the birthplace OF Maine prohi-
bitiOn.
It is a good guess hat one OF the first
measures to be presented in the next SEES
sion OF the Legislature will he one resub-
hitting to- the people the prohibitory
amendment.
Great interest centred in the Second
Congress district where Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation Of
Labor, made speeches in opposition 10
Littleield, alleging that he
was opposed TO labor measures in Con-
gress. Iittlefield ia elected by near 1000.
Two years ago he received a majority over
his Democratic opponent Of more than
5000. Gompers passed three weeks in
the Second district and wa assisted by a
Of his l~ieutenants.
Not for many years were the voters 80,
aroused AZ to-day and the vote is among
the largest in the history Of the State. The
weather was ideal for an election day and
every effort was made to get out the full
strength OF zach party.
Although the returns are coming In
It is believed the Democrats nave
their entire tickets in Cumberland,
Kennebec, A~ndrosooggin, Lincoln and Knox
counties. Augusta, the home OF Congress-
man BuTleigh, the head Of the State Repub-
lican machine, went Democratic by n good
as did Lewiston, the home OF
United States Senator Frye, and Ellsworth,
tha hOua Of Senator Haze