Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-13

GET Fl OUT OF 81 IN SENATE.
Portland, Maine, Sept. 13.-compIete
returns on the vote for state senator
show the democrats secured 21 out OF
81 seats. The last state senate was
composed of % republicans and DEM
ocrats.
NEAR TwO-THIRDS MAJORITY.
With but four districts to be COM
pIeted, the democrats have elected "a
representatives and the republicans
90. The democrats will have within IS
of a two-thirds majority in the joint
legislative convention.
Contemplate TIaeir Victory.
Portland, Me-, eSpt. 13.-Democrats
of Maine had difficulty today in con-
templatins the magnitude of their VIC
tory of yesterday. Additional revised
returns gave PIaisted, democrat. a.
plurality estimated at $500. Revised
returns show the election of Asher c.
Kinds, republican, in the First district
by 200; Dana ]. McGillicuddy, demo
crat, in the Second by 5000; Samuel
w. Gould, democrat, in the Third, by
1900, and Frank E. Guernsey, repub-
Lean, in the Fourth, by 300.
Seem to Have Legislature.
While the election of Plaisted and
two democratic congressman seemed
a great feat, interest today centered
in the makeup of the legislature. Re-
turns already in give the democrats
SO in joint convention, necessary to
control go.
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democrats claim will give them more
than enough additional to control.
No Democrat Since 1863.
A democratic legislature will choose
q successor to Senator Eugene Hale
and give Maine it's first democratic
senator since 1863 and New England
the first since the election of WrHam
D. Eaton in Connections IL the late
70's.
The new legislature will have full
charge of the redistricting of the state,
and If democratic, may also give the
people a chance for local option by re
submitting the prohibitory liquor law
Extended Down Line.
The democratic overturn yesterday
extends even to the minor state offices.
Today's figures show the democrats
elected 13 of the 16 high sheriffs in the
state. In five counties democratic
sheriffs we're reelected and in eight
other counties democrats gained the
Office.
Son Succeeds the Father.
In the face of the sweeping demo
cratic victory, the republican leaders
were overwhelmed with surprise. The
magnitude of their success astonlshed
even the democrats. 1t was the first
beating the republicans of Maine had
had in 80 years, and by coincidence
Harris NJ Plaisted, father of the pres
ent successful candidate, was Names
last democratic governor in the year
1881.
The seeming victory of the demo
Gratis in the fight for control of the leg
islature was a great surprise even TO
them The present complexion of the
legislature is: Republicans, SO repre-
sentatives and % senator's; democrats,
So representatives and senator's. The !!
democrats thought they were too heav- |
lily handicapped to hope to win.
Insurgency I'm Air.
Close political observers, however,
early heard mutterings. The "cld |
guard had to stand a lot of party criti-
cism and even the leaders we're out OF |
harmony with a new element which |
had begun to manifest itself 1nsur-
gency was in the air. The rural voter
had been absorbing ideas out, of the
state as well as in it, and this was par
ticularly manifested in the Third dis
trict when Congressman Burleigh, with
an 1S-years' record was defeated,
Democrats Write Constitution.
Phoenix, Ariz., Sept 13.-Democrats
will write the constitution of the new
state of Arizona. In the election of |