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Show MAINE'S TARDY COUNT it Bcoms indeed ourious tbfd the re suit of the election held in Maine on September llth is but. recently announced. an-nounced. Il i- elated that the ela in thi? annoiiiieeinent in because of the peculiar laws of Maine, which require a thorough going over of .ill of the return-, and tedious delaj s in giving bearings bear-ings on OVCrj disputed point -The do-Igy do-Igy nl two months in getting at the final result is, of course, sufficient to be decisive de-cisive as to that result, the possibility of any overturning of it being exceedingly exceed-ingly remote! I'll t this recent announcement it had been Supposed lii.it Maine went " wot " by the small majority of twenty six. It now appears thai it went "dry" b a majority of 768 in a total of something over 121,000 votes. This result is hardly to be considered as n ore decisive than the -mailer majority on the other side heretofore reported; ami, in fait. Governor Plaisted of thai State does not considci ihe question settled set-tled lie h,-,s issued a message or ad-dre ad-dre - to tin people of the state on the defects in tin- election laws which have made the tediOUS ibli in ip'thnr at the true result, He announce- his pur-pose pur-pose of calling a special session of the Legislature to revise tin- election laws, so that recounts may be had more speedily, a ml the results ascertained by regular official canvassers in which ihe return?; mnv be quickly counted and correction- made without delay, At the same time the Governor urges the resubmission of the prohibition question em a new basis. The new proposal pro-posal win take the form of giving the towns prohibition, For which they have voted, and the cities lOca option, tor which they have voted, An amondmont of that kind, if carried would allow the people in t.bc different localities ol Maine to settle the liquor question for themselves according to tile prevailing sentiment of the locality, in the towns ami rural districts, prohibition would prevail as heretofore. In tin- cities there, would In lOTal option with high license ami stint regulation. That would undoubtedly save :i vast amount of wrangling, and would settle the question to 'he satisfaction of the different dif-ferent communities of tin state, each for itself. There appears to be no reason to doubt thai Ihe bootleggers and illicit dealer.- in liquor of :ill kind- voted lor prohibition at the Sgptombei election in Maui". They did this for ihe reason rea-son 'hat they wish to keep on their illicit liquor selling on the theorj that it Cheaper to stand an oeca-ional raid and tine ( which irtay be escaped) for violation of the law than il is to submit tn regulation ami pa. i high license fee The-e illicit doalers are said to lie jubilant at the recent announcement an-nouncement that prohibition has carried car-ried again in Maine, SO that they will be able to keep on in their illicit traffic, traf-fic, High license bad i " httraction for them, and least of all strict reguln.. Lion. If Uoernor Plaiated cairn - out 1ns announced purpOBC "f calling an extra session of the Legislature to deal with the election n question, ami (q prOpoxn a constitutional amendment on tin ljuj tted, fixing prohibiten in the rural districts ami local option. 111 Ihe cities, there would seem to be a probability that such amendment would Carry, and thai the liquor question would be -ei tied in Maine for a long 1 Lme to come. |