| Show REPUBLICANS fP G CARRIED R MAI MAINE But GOY Gov Cobb Failed to Carry Rockland His Home City AUGUSTA GOES DEMOCRATIC Won Wil IA li I I Out of Ir U 0 Cities THO lit u 0 Year N r Agn tg 11 u I iii ii Had Hadl I mid l in IH Out tt If f Tell nl Ms I S pt 11 t I Th re me remit stilt mit lul of oC time the diction In thin lila yes yea e eleno leno evening when imen the tho plurality for Cor governor which usually u approximates approximate WAS w reduced to about aboul while at ot the lame fame time tm the tho h lol vote vot 01 ns 01 greatly I re t Increased over tho the figures of or four years 11 ego Is I attributed by b leaders of or both parties to 10 popular feeling over the operation of or tim prohibitory liquor laws Al Although ih 1 though thc the Republicans reelected 00 Cobb and all al tho UI four Cour men and amid will wi have hae a working control J of time the legislature the time pluralities were lre to so generally reduced a as to te cause cn USe stir sur surprise Sil prise Got Cobb and a d Congressman ran ell In iii whoso district the thu most vigorous battle of the campaign was Wil waged and whose ho e majority was wa re me reduced from coin that of or four years eara ago by 1 several thousand are of ot the opinion that the law providing for Cor the tho enforcement of oC the Ihl existing prohibitory tory lor law by h tate state liquor deputies was the leading factor In Iii the time Tho ho Democrats made mad of or the tho liquor prohibitory amendment to the people A part hart of oC platform while time the Republicans stood 1001 squarely for or en Il of or the prohibitory plank and Its strict enforcement The Th city I of oC Lewiston was sas wal one of r the mot I Important factors In reducing plurality for it gave ae to a 0 vote 01 ute of or iio in excess of that given ghen gl n to Iou Four years ears earl ago Igo divided votes vote evenly with lila his hl Democratic opponent Of ot a more mort startling nature aa 1 the vote for Cor governor Mr Ir Cobb failed fald to carry carzy his hil home horl elt city Davis Dal received a plurality of oC 17 1 Au u the capital of oC the 1111 wont went Democratic by L a I small email Elal margin Six Sixteen Sixteen teen out of I the 20 O cities In the time tate Mate went vent Democratic Hallowed Gardiner Eastport and amid Gahl Galal being the time only one ones to 10 remain l Two years yeats ago Igo when time the 11 candidates for tor governor were the time name lam an as 1 lh title Ihl year Cobb Colb car carried ar tied ried IS 18 of oC the CO 0 tile I 1 the home Immite hOle of o DaI nd be being beIn being ing column In time the only cities In II time the Democratic |
