Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-12
YES WINS.

Portland. Me-. Sept. u.-With I'M
official returns at hand from 505 of the
81 cities. towns and plantations III
:he State late tonight, the repeal Of
the constitutional prehibitory amend
ment was indicated by majority OF
S73 votes.
The 16 towns yet to be heard from
have normal vote of less than 400.
The vote stands: For repeal. 6O,S2S;
against $3.50. Majority for repeal s'5.
Portland. Me. Sept. H.-Unoftieial
returns tonight indicate that prohibit
ton has been voted out Of the consti-
tuition of the State of Maine by a bare
majority of 1400 votes. About p towns
had not been reported and the vote of
these, together with errors liable in
collecting returns by telephone. still
leave the exact result in some doubt
One hundred and twenty thousand
voters visited the polls and cast their
ballots on the question.
Although the repeal vote showed
majority at all times during the eve
ming as returns were coming in at no
time was there a sufficient margin to
warrant the anti Prohibitionists in
laying claim to the election or the
dry workers in admitting defeat As
had been predicted the cities were the
strongholds Of the repeal faction but
til strength had been under estimated
and instead of the margin being big
enough to make the decision sure it
was almost Offset by the country vote.
Returns received during the first
three hours after the closing of the
polls indicated that the result would
be close and it was seen that the anti
prohibitionists could not hope to win
by more than a small majority. At
o'clock a strong prohibition newspaper
issued an extra admitting probable de-
feat. As the evening wore on and re-
turns came in from the outlying dis
tricts, the prohibition vote showed a
steady increase and at one time there
was but q few hundred votes differ
ence.
Returns were received tonight from
499 of the 52l cities, towns and planta-
tions. larger number than ever be-
fore received on an election night.
These came from all sources, many of
them by telephone and until the vote
can be revised and compared with the
official figures some doubt viii remain
as to the exact situation.
LODI IN
the standing of the towns and cities
although in many instances the votes
were smaller. either one way or an
other than had been anticipated. This
was particularly true in the cities.
In the country towns a much larger
vote was cast than had been hoped
for. The harvesting season is on and
ii was feared that many of the farm
ers would not take interest enough in
the situation to go to the polls. This
fear was found to be groundless for
practically every village was normal
and in a large number more than nor
NAL. This upset the calculations of the
anti prohibitionists and narrowed the
result down.
The results on the other three ques-
lions which appeared upon the ballot,
the location of the State Capital. the
increase in the debt limit for cities of
over 10000 and the adoption of the di-
rect primaries act were not tabulated
for the State tonight, but indications
were that the first mentioned would be
defeated and the latter two adopted.
There was little interest in the aues-
tions, outside of the cities, ana many
blanks were recorded.