Arizona republican., 1910-09-13
MAINE WENT HELL BENT Not As Once Before, for Governor Kent
  BUT FOR THE DEMOCRATS
Clean and Comprehensive Sweep of Pinetree State. Republicans Have Possi- bly, Saved a Single Candi- date For Congress

Portland, Maine, Sept. 12.-There was no uncertainty in the voice with which Maine recorded today her pre- ference for governor and her attitude on the issues of campaign. The piur- ality given Frederick M. Plaisted of Augusta, the democratic candidate for governor, was decisively large. while three of the four congressional dis tricts which are ordinarily strongly republican returned democratic candi- dates. Early returns also indicate that the legislature might be democratic and elect a democrat as a sucsessor to United States Senator Hale.
 In the face of the sweeping demo- cratic victory, the republican leaders are overwhelmed with surprise. It was the first beating the republicans of Maine had had in thirty years, and by a coincidence, Harris NJ Plaisted, father of the present successful can didate, was Maine's last democratic governor in 1881. Asher C. Kinds. of Portland, parliamentary clerk of the house of representatives, was defeated for congress in the first district while Congressman Burleigh in the third district and Congressman Swazey in the second also went down to defeat
 Colonel Plaisted. the governor elect, has a plurality larger than that given two years ago to hs defeated republi- can opponent, Governor Bert NJ. Fer nald, of Portland. Colonel Plaisted was born in Bangor in 1864 He ran for mayor of Augusta five times and won four elections.
 The republican leaders are at loss tonight to account for their over whelming defeat. The weather was perfect and they offered no excuse along the line. The issues were we'll understood and most of the speakers had confined themselves to state mat ters, scarcely mentioning national af- fairs.
 But insurgency was in air The rural voter had been absorbing ideas out of the state as well as in it. and this was particularly manifested in the third district where Congressman Burleigh, with eighteen years record at Washington, found himself tonight defeated by his old-time oponent, Samuel w. Gould. The victory of Daniel J. McGullicuddy, of Lewiston, in the second district was not SO sur prising as Congressman John H. Swazey of Canton narrowly missed defeat in his first election two years ago.
 In the first district Asher c. Hinds whose talents as a parliamentarian were discovered years ago by Thomas B. Reed and who has sat behind a half dozen speakers, including Joseph c. Cannon, was given a hard fight by former Sheriff William M. Pennell and late tonight the latter's election was conceded by Boyd, the republican state chairman.
 That insurgency has spread as far as in the fourth district and up in Aroostook county. where Congressman Frank E. Guernsey. of Dover, was op- posed by George Nj. Hansen was also disclosed by the returns and the result late tonight is in doubt.
 The election passed off without an incident in fact, it was the quietest in many years.
 LATER REPUBLICAN CLAIMS.
 The reublican leaders of the first district claim Hind's election late to- night by 200 over Pen1el. In the fourth district late returns indicate Guernsey's election over Hanson by about 400.
 Late returns for the legislature give twenty democrats and eight republi- cans out of thirty-one in the senate and fifty eight democrats and forty eight republicans out of 151 in the house.
 THE MOST REGENT FIGURES.
 Returns late tonight indicated the possibility that the next state legisla- ture will be democratic. The senate surely will have a democratic najori- ty The house complexion is in doubt Returns from but forty-eight election districts of the state showed a plura- lity for Plaisted for governor os $500.
 In the second district which was formerly represented by the late Nel- son M. Dingley, father of the Dingley law, Daniel J. McGillicuddy was elected congressman by 5000 over John P. Swazey, the incumbent and Congressman Edwin J. Burleigh. who has represented the third district since 1892, was defeated by Samuel w. Gould, democrat, by small majority.
 The result in the first and fourth districts is much in doubt late tonight, although the indications are that Asher C. Hinds, republican, has won over William H. Pennell, democrat, in the former, and that Congressman Frank E. Guernsey. reublican. has been defeated in the latter by George