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Show . I Signal Victory For the Reunit-5 Reunit-5 ed Forces Curtis Defeat- ed For Re-Election i ' ; Portland, Me., Sept. 11. Maine Re-' Re-' publicans, reinforced by returning i Progressives, won a signal victory at the election today. They elected a governor, an auditor, two United Stntes senators and four representatives representa-tives in congress, wresting considerable consider-able of the state representatives from ! the Democrats and will be on a joint vote of the legislature to elect the j other state officers not chosen by pop-(l pop-(l ular vote. Carl E. Milllken led his ticket, de- fcating Governor Oakley C. Curtis, , , who sought re-election, by a plurality of approximately 13,000. ! Tho Republican drift extended to county officers, the greater number of ; counties choosing Republican county t attorneys and sheriffs. These offices are Important locally because the holders are charged with enforcing the prohibition law. The vote was heavy, as had been ov- pected, for the campaign had been ' waged with a determination not seen in recent years. The country was ? searched out for speakers of national i prominence and the greater number of these battled on national Issues, i The fight was particularly hot for tho two United States senatorships and the four places held by Maine in tho i lower house at Washington. National defense, the tariff and the eight-hour law for railroad men loomed largo in 1 the speeches. 1 Hale Sends Telegram. United States Senator-elect Frederick Fred-erick Hale tonight sent a telegram to Charles E. Hughes, who had shared in the campaign, claiming that the vote was an endorsement of Hughes' candidacy for the presidency. Governor Curtis Issued a statement 1 asserting that anything less than a j pluralitv of 15,000 would Indicate that :f the people of Maine wished to uphold ) tho president. The closest firght yas of congress from the Second distrrct, whoso representative repre-sentative Daniel J. McGlllicuddy, was defeated by Wallace H. White, Jr., by 500 plurality. United States Senator Charles F. Johnson, whose wide personal popularity popu-larity had given the Democrats tvrcht hopes of his return, was defeated by Frederick Hale, son of the ex-senator, by approximately 9500 votes. For tho short term seat in the nenate, former for-mer Governor Bert M. Fomald defeated de-feated Kenneth C. M. Sills, dean of Bowdoln college, by 12.000. L. B. Goodall won' from L. A. Stevens Ste-vens in the First congvession.il district dis-trict by 3000. Congressman John A. Peters retained his seal, defeating John E. Bunker in Third district by 4000. Ira G. Heraey defeated Leonard A. Pierce in tho Fourth district by 5000. At midnight returns for the state legislature were Incomplete. The figures fig-ures then stood: flenare, 1? Republicans; Repub-licans; no Democrats; 19 scats missing. miss-ing. House, 61 Repubiicans; 27 Democrats; Dem-ocrats; 04 missing. First Time -n 20 Years. The town of Gray elected a Republican Repub-lican to the state houso of representatives represen-tatives for the first time m twenty years. With 4 precincts out of a oLu of 635 missing, representing towns and a fow precin;;s in this city, tho vote for governor late tonight stood: Millikon, 77,045; Curtis. 61.S97. This was a lead tor the Republican candidate of 12.14S. The result in the 16 counties tor local offices was: Fourteen Republican county attorneys, attor-neys, one Democrat, one missing; sheriffs, 13 Republican?, 1 Democrat, ! l in doubt, 1 missing. I nn- |