The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-14
Latest Returns From Maine
Only Add to Sweep Made by
Former Minority.
DEMOCRATS WILL CONTROL
THE NEXT LEGISLATURE
Will Be Shakeup in Official
Circles When New Governor
Makes Appointments.

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 13-Complete
returns of the vote for senators and
representatives in the state election
yesterday give the Democrats substan-
tial malorities in both branches Of the
Maine legislature, which at the begin
ming of the new year will elect Unit
ed States senator to succeed Eugene
Hale, a secretary of state. state treas
urer, attorney general and q commits
sioner Of agriculture.
The new LEGISLATURE probably will be
called upon to carry out the declaration
of the Democratic party platforms of
recent years and re-submlt to the peo
pie the liquor prohIbitory amendment
to the constitution and to repeal the
Sturgis liquor law enforcement act
According TO the unofficial complete
returns the legislature will have a Dem.
ocratic majority Of thIrtysiX on joint
ballot. The senate will consist of twen-
ty-one Democrats and ten Republicans,
while the house Will have eighty eight
Democrats and siXty-three Republicans.
Radical Change
The last legislature consisted Of 122
Republicans and sixty Democrats, the
Republicans having majority Of 6f-
lcen III tHS ScHitc ana lOTIE seven III
the house.
Practically complete returns tonight
on the vote of the state for governor
give Colonel Frederick w Plaisted.
Democrat, 1854. and Governor Bert
NJ. fernald. Republican, Cd ,9l2, a plu.
rality for Plaisted Of 1872, as against
plurality Of S064 for Governor Will
liam r. Cobb, Republican, four years
ago. The total vote of the two leading
parties yesterday was 1896 -Four
years ago it was 100.
Doubt still exists tonight regarding
the result in the Fourth congressional
district, Congressman Frank f.. Gucrn-
sey. of Dover, Republican candidate,
and George NJ. Hansen, of Calais. Dem
ocrat, each claiming victory by a small
plurality.
In the First district. Asher c. Kinds,
Republican, is elected by plurality of
about 300 over William IT, Pennell
Democrat, and viii occupy the scat IN
congress once held bv Thomas b, Reed.
The Second and Third districts will
have Democratic congressman, as was
shown by the returns last night, d. j..
McGillicuddy OF Lewiston succeeding
Congressman John p. Swasey, Rcpub.
lican, in the district which Nelson Ding
ley. of Dingley law fame, formerly rep.
resented. whic Samuel w, Gould Of
Skowhegan will be the successor to Con-
9ressman Edwin G.. Burleigh, Rcpub-
lican, who has represented the Third
district for the last eighteen years.
Fernald Far Behind.
Governor Fernald carried but three of
the twenty cities in tho state. With
twenty-one out of thirty-one state sem
ators and cighty-six out of l5l repre-
sentatives, the Democrats control both
branches of the legislature and are
within fifteen votes of twotblrds ma
iority in Joint convention, The Re.
publicans have elected sixty-threc rep
rcsentatives. -Four districts remain to
be heard from,
Control Of the legislature is Of more
Importance than in some of the other
states, because under the constitution
a number of the highest state officers
are appointed bv that body. These are
treasurer. attorney general, secretary
and commissioner of agriculture.
Prospective Appointments.
Among the appointments which rest
with the new governor are; A Judge of
the Kennebec superior court; a state
commissioner of state industrial and la
Dor statistics. Il state commissioner OF
highways, and warden of the state
prison. All these Offices are now filed
by Republicans.
The Democratic victory Of yesterday
extends even TO minor state offices. To
dav S figures show that tho Republicans
elected the shrievalty candidates in
Aroostook, Franklin and Washington
counties only. In five of the counties
Democratic sheriifs were reelected; in
eight other counties the Democrats
gained the Office,