The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-13
 GAIN ALL
 IN MAINE
Governor, Legislature, Uni ted States Senator and
 Congressmen Are Theirs
May Be Doubt as to Two Congressional Seats, But Others Certain and
 Hale Is Whipped
Special from United Press.o

 Augusta, Me, Sept. 13.-With only
 a few scattering backwoods towns and plantations unheard from, revised re- turns of the Maine election this af- ternoon give Frederick M. Plaisted, Democrat, 78,849 votes for the Gov
 ernorship, a majority of 9,123 over
 Governor Bert M. Fernald, Republican who has boiled 64.726.
 The Iates figures obtainable show the election of Asher Hinds, Repub- lican, to Congress in the first district
 by about 180 votes. Congressman F.
 E. Guernsey, Republican, in the fourth
 district, claims victory by 260 votes. In both of these districts a recount will be demanded. In the second Congressional district, D. J. McGilli-
 cuddy, Democrat, has won by 5000 ma jorfty, and in-the third, $. w. Gould,
 Democrat, carried the district by 1000. The Democrats have captured 21 of the 31 seats in the state Senate and while the House returns are not yet in they will surely have a majority
 of the 182 votes on joint ballot, rend-
 ering certain the election of Demo-
 cratic United States Senator.
 Insurgency in the Republican par ty, a rebellion against the "Old Guard'' who have been the backbone
 of the strength of the Hale oligarchy in Maine, the distrJfst- of the people
 for the Sturgis prohibition law, and
 above all the idea that the Republi-
 can party through its high tariff was
 responsible for high prices and is
 given as the cause of the Democratic
 landslide.
 Depending upon the cities for his
 vote the Democratic candidate for
 governor concentrated his efforts upon
 them and for weeks Democratic lead
 CTS from all over the country have
 prea ched their doctrine in every cen
 ire of population in the state. That
 their time was we'll spent is indicat-
 ed today. P1aisted carried every city in the state except Belfast and Calais and even the smaller towns. hitherto always strongly Republican, fell in
 line for the Democratic victory. irresistible And today the Democrats have captured at least four out of five of all the offices in Maine.
 ''The people knew what they want Governor-elect Plaisted today summed up the result. ftI knew should have a plurality of at least 5000. I am
 happy that the figure set is exceed
 ed. The people of Maine were sim ply tired of Republican misrule, They voted against the extravaganza of the Republican administra ton of
 state affairs. They want the state conducted on business principles. l They do not approve of the Sturgis I law and as governor shall see to it that the Sturgis commission has no appropriation.
 Local conditions were not solely
 responsible for the great Democrat 1 ic victory. The people of Maine vot- | ed on National issues as well .~~IIigh 1 prices, the control of the Republican party in the interest of the trusts, Cannonism-au contributed to swell 1 the vote for the Democratic ticket" Republican leaders today were un- able to explain in any way the tre- | mendous change in Maine's political sentiment but close political observers 1 declare insurgency has struck the state in it's most virulent form. The political page has to be turn l ed back to 1880 to find even reversal of the Republicans and there it was found that Colonel Plaisted's father, nor on a Fusion ticket by a narrow margin of 169 votes. All the other l Maine governors since 1855 have been l Republican.
 I is the son of Harris Nj. Plaisted, the Fusion governor of 1881 and 1882, but ] where the father won in the election | of 1880 by a scant 150 votes the son plurality larger than that given two | years ago to his defeated Republican
 opponent, Governor Bert M. Fernald l of Poland
 1 a young man in point of age but an l old hand in the political game. Col. P1aisted was born in Bangor in 1864 | but did not marry until two years | ago. He has always been a Democrat ] and received his title while serving l on the staff of his father. He ran l for mayor of Augusta five times and won four elections. While holding I that office he was chosen sheriff of | Kennebec County and occupied both l positions with credit for two years. 1 He is identified with a number of | state organizations iand is a Past l Grand Commander of the Knights l Templar. His business is that of a | D11bliSher- of weekly nanar