New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-14
Even Victors
AstOnished
~"eA
By: Triumph
Every County i'm State Is
Believed To Be Carried:
Four Representatives
and State Ticket Safe
Battle Was Fought
On League Issue
Failure of Democrats To-
Prepare for Suffrage
Proved a Fatal Bluude,


PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. 10
Maine has gone Republican on the
eve of a Presidential election, by a
majority SO astounding that even
Republican leaders are staggered by
its significance.
Returns from more than half Of
the state, tabulated at midnight.
showed that Frederick H. Parkhurst.
OF Bangor, Republican, has been
elected Governor over Bertrand G.
Mcintyre, of Norway, Democrat, by
a majority Of from 65 900 to 10000.
Never before in history has the Re-
publican lead exceeded $4,000, and
only once has it approached that
figure. In 1896, the first Bryan year,
Maine gave Republican majority
of $4,000 in September, a surprise
which stiffened Republican back
bones and played large part in the
victory which followed in November.
November Victory Forecast
Republican leaders tonight de-
clared that the outcome forecasts a
Republican landslide in November,
and insisted that it admitted of no
other Interpretation than a singing
rebuke to President Wilson's for
eign policies, as represented by the
League of Nations covenant.
So great is the Republican sweep
that hardly Democrat in the en-
tire state has been successful. The
Republicans have carried the four
Congressional districts by record
breaking majorities.
The state Senate is solidly Republi-
can and the Republicans elected every
county attorney and every county
sheriff. Twelve Democrats were elected
to the state House of Representatives.
The Republican victory is not con-
fined to the farming districts, but is
even more emphatic in the cities.
Portland, which two years ago gave
Mcintyre majority of 1000. has gone
Republican by perhaps $500. Bangor,
Democratic by 1900 in 1918, gave the
Republican candidate of its own city
majority Of almost the same size.
Bath and Rockland also overturned
Democratic ma or;t;es.
Returns from 592 Precincts
Returns from 592 precincts out of
632 in the state give for Governor:
Parkhurst (R.), 1887; Mcintyre
Cd, 69,249.
The same precincts in 1916 gave for
Governor:
Milliken (R.), sO,o14; Curtis Cd,
66,652.
These returns include the city Of
Augusta. OF five cities reported, three
changed slight Democratic majortes
ties to-day, and two which went Re-
publican in 1916 showed a greatly in
creased Republican majority to-day.
One town, Castle Hill, in Aroostook
County, gave Parkhurst an even 100
votes to one for Mcintyre In 1915 its
vote was 46 to in favor of the Re.
publican nominee.
Calais, the first city to report, 9aye
Republican majority Of 573 as agssnss
AZ in 1916. The City of Rockiand fnrned
a Democratic majority of 90 ia 1915
into Republican majority Of 4s2 10.
day.
The town Of Cushing in Knox County,
cast 81 votes each for Parkhurst and d.
Mcintyre. In 1916, the last Presidential
year, the vote for Governor was: Mil
liken, Republican, As; Curtis, Demo
crat, ~.
Four Representatives Elected
Representatives Wallace H. White
jr. in the I'd District, John A. Peters
in the Sd and Ira G. Jersey in the 4th
were reelected by large majorities.
Carroll L. Beedy. Republican, was
elected to Congress from the LIST Dis
trict, where Representative Louis B.
Goodell was not a candidate for re-
Returns from seventy-fve precincts
out of nincty-one in the LIST Congress
sional District gave Beedy (R.1, 19.O27:
Frank H. Haskell CD, 1888.
In the I'd District 140 out OF l45 pre-
cincts gave Wallace S. White {R.1.
3A.39o; Willard N. Price CD, 2f,55s.
In the Sd District 102 out Of 223 pre-
eincts gave Peters (R.), 1851; Archie
c. Towle CD. 8.S15.
precincts gave Leon G. Jersey (R.l,
$500; Brown CD, 10,047.
Roy l.. wardweIi, Republican. was
elected State Auditor by . large ms
Iority over James ]. Mellon, Democrat.
The Legislature will be strongly Re-
publican.
Majority q Record Breaker
The Parkhuret majority is record
breaking In les proportions. Never be-
fore has the Republican lead exceeded
90 900, and only once has 1t approached.
That agure. In 1885, the year Of
Bryan's first candidacy, Maine rave a
Republican majority Of $4,000 in Sem
TENDER. n surprise which ssiffened Re-
publican baekb9nes and perhaps played