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Show DEMOCRATS ELECT : mm in Three Republicans and One Democrat Are Re-elected to Lower. House. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 1 i. Mayor Oakley C. Curtis of Portland, a Democrat, was elected governor of Maine today over Governor William T. Haines, Republican, of Waterville, who was a candidate for a second term, by a margin of 2700 votes, according to unofficial returns. All of the 521 cities, towns and plantations, planta-tions, except thirty-seven small places, whose vote Is not expected to change the result, had been tabulated. The vote was 56,179 lor Haines and 58, .977 for Curtis. Halbert P. Gardner of Patten, the Progressive Pro-gressive candidate, received 17,147 votes. The four Maine congressmen, Asher C. Hinds, John A. Peters and Frank E. Guernsey, Republicans, and Daniel J. Mc-Gillicuddy, Mc-Gillicuddy, Democrat, were re-elected, according ac-cording to the same returns. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 14. Incomplete Incom-plete returns from a majority of the counties coun-ties in Arkansas tonight indicate that Governor George W. Hays. Democratic candidate for re-election, received a majority ma-jority of approximately 30,000 votes over his Republican opponent, A. L. Kinney, in today's election. Large majorities are shown In favor of constitutional amendments to empower cities to issue improvement bonds and creating the office of lieutenant governor. The initiative acts proposing a child labor la-bor law and- wider publicity for the acts of public officials apparently have carried. |