Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1916 — Republicans Carry Maine Election by 8,000 to 10,000. [ARTICLE]

Republicans Carry Maine Election by 8,000 to 10,000.

After one of the warmest campaigns of recent years, the state election in Maine Monday resulted in the Republicans carrying the state by a plurality of from 8,000 to 16,000, electing the governor, auditor, two United States senators, four congressmen and a majority of the state legislators. While Maine is normally Republican, the division in the ranks of that party has enabled the Deniocrats to carry the state in the last two elections previous. In 1912 Wilson carried the state by 2,620, while Roosevelt received 48,4 93 votes to 26,545 votes for Taft. Monday’s election has very little national significance and the Democrats will probably carry the state in the national election when national instead of state and local, is-, sues are to the fore.