Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — LANDSLIDE IN MAINE. [ARTICLE]

LANDSLIDE IN MAINE.

Pine Tree State Gives a Republican Majority of Fully 37,000. Returns from tho Maine elections show that tho estimated majority of ;i7,000 for Cloavos and tho other‘Republican candidates was not exaggerated. Tho Republicans carried both branches of tho Legislature, electing a solid Senate, which two yea s ago stood thirty Republicans and one Democrat. A Washington dispatch says that tho overwhelming Republican victory was a surprise to everybody. Tho Democrats expected the State to go Republican by about 20,000, but even the Republicans did not look for such an unparalleled victory. Tho Democratic managers say, however, the effect will, in tne end, bo of groat advantage to the Democrats in the approaching eloction. It will serve to stimulate thorn to groator energy ior tho final struggle. The oariy election in the State of Maine has always had a marked effect on the general result. J awronco Gardner says: “I think that tho eloction in Maine of a Democratic Governor in 1881) defeated Hancock for President. Tho Republicans were aroused to a sense of a sense of tho danger thut confronted them, and from that day forward internal differences wore remedied, and the action of tho party was harmonious. ” The Republicans regard the result as the biggost victory they have achieved since the birth of the Ropub lican party. The total vote for Governor, which two years ago was 1.'10,000, is reduced by In,ooo or 20,00!), but Republicans claim that Cleaves’ vote will reach noarly 70,0 H). In every one of tho sixteen counties of the State tho Democracy was defeated. Tho Presidential vote of Maine for last thirty years has been: Year. Hep. Dem. Tot-1. 1864 01.HJ3 44,211 1u11,014 HAS 70,498 42,480 112,983 1872 61,422 29,087 90,610 1876. 66,800 . 49,917 116.880 1880 74,033 66.171 148.863 1464 72,203 62,140 130,462 1888 73,734 60,481 128,260 1892 62,931 48,044 116,422