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Show SAME ,AS VERMONT. MAINE G1VCS 33,000 flAJORlTY FOR THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. Away Above the Average Vote Abobt " 78,000 Republicans to 32,000 Democrats Demo-crats This Year Majority Beats All Records But Two, and is 8,000 More than In lSOSl There are twj lessons for Republicans In the election figures in Maine: 1. Wherever the expansion issu was emphasized, em-phasized, as in Allen and Littlefield's districts, the Republican vote was increased. in-creased. 2. The increase in the Democratic Dem-ocratic vote for governor over that in 1890 shows that the party is better organized than it was four years ago, but comparison with 1892 shows that It has not reached its normal strength of eight years jago. The total votp for President in 1892 was 116,414, Harrison receiving 62,923 votes and Cleveland 48,044; Republican plurality, 14.879. In the tidal wave year of 1844 ths Democratic vote went down to 30,621 and the Republican up to 69,599. In a total vote of 108,271' the Republicans had a plurality of 38.-978. 38.-978. In 1896 the total vote for governor gov-ernor was 123,748, the largest in' the history of the state. The Republican vote was 82,70, and the Democratic 34.387; Republican plurality, 48,377. In 1898, the total vote went down to 87,-475, 87,-475, the Republicans having a plurality of 24,709. This year the-$otl vote is larger by 30,000 than in 1898, and sninlfcr by about 8,000 thai that for governor in 1S96. There is on the figure as re- . ported an increase of 18,0oo in,.ye Republican Re-publican vote as compared with 1898, and of 13,000 in the Democratic vote. There fs an increase of 3,000 in the Republican vote as compared with 1894, and an increase of 12,000 in the Democratic vote. There is a decrease in the Republican vote of about 10.-000 10.-000 as compared with 1896, and an increase in-crease in the Democratic vote of about 8,000. There is an increase in the Re-'. publican vote of tabout 10,000 as com- pared with 1892, and a decrease In the Democratic vote of about. 6,000. The inference is that many gold Democrats who voted with the Republicans In 1896 voted for the Democratic candidate candi-date for governor this year, and that several thousand Democrats who voted vot-ed for Cleveland in 1892 did" not vote the Democratic ticket this .vear. Senator Frye is one of the !c-t earr- v est and most conspicuous 01 the expansionists ex-pansionists in the Senate. The Democrats Dem-ocrats made a fight against him on this issue in all the legislative districts. The result is a Legislature overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly Republican as was that of 1898. elected in the year of war. Mr. Allen, who succeeded Mr. Reed in the First Congressional district, and Mr. Little-field, Little-field, wh succeeded Mr. Diugiey in the Second district, were violently assailed as-sailed by the Democrats and anfl-liu-perialists because of their course m the ' House. Mr. Allen increased his ma- -jority by 2,000. Mr. Littlefield ran ahead of his ticket in cities where local issues were prominent This shows that on. the paramount issue of the campaign the Republicans are alert and enthusiastic. -All the anrt-expan-sion literature circulated in Maine by the Boston anti-imperinlistfc bureau had no effect on Republican majorities majori-ties for niembers"tf the Legislature and for Congressmen. N |
