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Show THE VICTORY IN MAINE. The Republican victory in Maine on Monday is wholly satisfactory. It reaches the decisive plurality of thirty thousand. That Is good enough, especially espe-cially in view of the fact that the Republicans Re-publicans leaders stated In advance that a plurality of fifteen to twenty thousand was all that they counted on. A figure double their conservative estimate surely sure-ly marks nothing less than a memorable and brilliant success. The preliminary results In Maine at the September elections In the last two Presidential years have been phenomenally phenomen-ally large for the Republicans. The Maine men could not be got to take any stock In Bryan or his theories. They opposed op-posed him strongly, and many Democrats Demo-crats joined the Republicans in hitting him with the stuffed club of their bal lots. Thus, In 1896 the Republican plurality plu-rality In Maine at the September election elec-tion was 48,377; at the same election In 1000 their plurality was 34,003. But It was confessed that at both of these elections elec-tions tho Democratic vote was largely in evidence In support of the Republican Republi-can ticket. . Prior to the Presidential year of 1896, the votes were more normal. In 1880, the fuslonlsts carried the State by a plurality of 1S9, giving the fusion candidate candi-date for Governor 73,786 votes to 73,597 for the Republican candidate. In 1&8-1 the Republican plurality was 19,851, In 1888 It was 20,069, In 1892 "it was 12,531, and a forerunner of the disastrous triumph of Cleveland In the country at large. Taking the seven State elections In Maine In the last Presidential years (counting the present year's plurality at 30,000), the average Republican plurality has been 23,620. A plurality this year so greatly in excess of expectation and, of that average, when the anti-Bryan landslide Is counted too, must be considered con-sidered decisive, not only in Maine it-Elf, it-Elf, but counting with It the great and unexpected majority In Vermont, it must bo conceded that the figures are indicative of the staunch hold that the Republican party has upon the hearts of the people at large, and to foreshadow foreshad-ow a sweeping triumph for President Roosevelt on the eighth day of November Novem-ber next |