The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-13
MAINE PLURALITY
LEAD IN STATE IS
 ONLY 5000.
That of Congressman I,0OO--Represen- tatfve Opposed by UnfOnists Suf- fers Loss of 4,000 fin Margin
 of Votes.

Special to Chicago Record Herald. Augusta. Me. Sept. 10.-The rock ribbed Republicans of the counsry sron,
 'e1s erGssns aSaa defest asea in snfr the of Maine. Governor William T. Cobb was reelected for a two year term py a plurality of about 5000. Two years ago Cobb had 26.soo plurality. Four years ago John F. Hill was elected governor by 27,490 plurality The result in exact figures Tn tne second congressional district, where reelection by Daniel J. McGillicuddy and the American Federation of Lapor, Is not known. but the returns rom fifty cities and towns out or izS III the district indicate Littlefield,s Ire re. turn by plurality of about 1000 TWO years ago Littlefield carried the dis trict by 5.ssI. His plurality in 1902 was 5,55S and in 1900 7,776.
 Heavy Loss for G. o. F, Returns to midnight from fifty cit ies, and towns out of l23 in the sec ond congressional district gave Litr
 1etisle bemS SEP SEP RepaSlican seaS5 n' piufsisy S6O; net Republican loss, 2.is8. The same towns four years ago gave Lit- tlefieid s,422. Foss lDem2 S S'SSa, O;,,as and towns out of 52o give Cobb (Rep;) 6S,142, Davis (Dem) 56,S14; Republi- can plurality. s.s2S; net Republican n years ago gave Hill (Rep) 5s,7s4, | Gould (Dem.) 35.432.
 Democratic gains in the legislature are large, but that body will remaih Republican by a big ma54T1ify; naJb1icsn infa state officers, the governor being the only state official chosen today.
 Congressmen Amos l. Allen, in the first district Edwin c, Burleigh in l the third and Llewellyn Powers in the | fourth all Republicans, are reelected | by reduced pluraiitles. Burleighs | plurality Is about 2.000 compared with about S,oOo, compared with s,7oO in | 1904.
 interest In Labor Fight. Interests in the election enor cemaerer | and for congressman in the second district. Governor Cobb and Cyrus w. | Davis, the Democratic candidate, con | cal issues, the chief one being resuo- mission of the prohibitory amendment | to the people.
 In the second congressional district | the fight was made on national issues, | and those raised by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federatlon | of Labor, who came into the distrlct three weeks ago Snds and nas asdie%ees t | tlefield was attacked for his oppo- sition to the anti-inJunction and other l labor measures and his adVocacy oi | the ship subsidy bill.
 Mir Gompers has not denied that this attempt of the American Fedora 1 tion of Labor to defeat candidate | for Congress is the beginning of
 series of similar attempts through l out the country, and for this reason
 interest in the result has become ma tional.
 The moral effect of a victory over MT. Gompers In his first open contest | in politics was considered of sucn
 great importance by the fsnnnn EspTSllcsses ses
 eretary Taft and other national lead
 CTS were sent into the state to assist
 Congressman Littlefield in his cam
 paign. Among those placed at the Sisposal of the Republican state com l mittee were Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, Senator Al, bert J. Beveridge and Consressiiian
 More than week ago MT Com pers declared that he had accomplish
 ed his object and that Mir Littlef1eId would be defeated at .ne the p1bnS baSd Ro exo pressed the belief last night that he l would be elected by plurality & exo
 ceeding that which he received two tion has been realized. both sides may
 claim some credit for IAttlefields s margin of victory is narrow.
 | Democrats Gain Cities.
 | That it was the towns which saVed the day for the Republicans was | shown as the later returns came III; | The cities were first heard rom anu
 on the strength of these optimistic Q men at Democratic headquarters at 5 o'clock claimed the election of DaVls | for governor, but the votes or the
 towns soon changed this. dne i,is rirSs
 to have made Democratic gain or
 more than IS per cent, compared With
 gains of less than 1 per cent Tor the
 Republicans. As there are oIv planta-
 tions. towns, and cities in the state,
 the result of the election became a
 serious problem for the RepuDhcahs | to figure out. ,...,o.
 tance to be heard from, and the re- l turns created alarm at the RepuDll- ! can state headquarters when It was
 seen that the city r, Tor many many Hevis HHeaIs i strongly Republican, had gwen DaNis
 Cobb Loses Home Town. Rockland. the home city or Cover
 G096 ve. to gaHg S1s pePmoeratc % Opponent
 while Congressman Littlefield also a
 resident of Rockland. carried the cltS'
 by only twelve votes. TWO years aso his plurality was 250.
 Waterviile, the home of Cyrus w. Davis, gave him plurality of more
 than 500 over Cobb. ~ | The cities of Bath. Rockland. Au- burn. Belfast, Ellsworth ana Augusta | the capital considered as among the
 strongest Republican cities in the
 state, sent In their re, returns aTa Witn thus pius placed on Governor Cobb was shaken slowly 9h ' but surely cut down the lead of Davis and finally sent Cobb into
 the lead. Even Republican leaders | declined early In the evening to pre- 1 dict that their candidates plurality would reach 5000. the smallest plu- ] rality given to a Republican governor since 1882 ,, the cities are indicated in the follow ing table comparison being made with 1962. which was the last "on year election in this state oo
 1906 1902 Cobb Davis. Hill. Gould Rep Dem. Rep. Dem Auburn ..1,143 1928 1,472 1912