Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1884 — THE NEWS FROM MAINE. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS FROM MAINE.

The State Went for Robie as She Did for Gov. Kent Many Years Ago, - And Piled Up a Republican Ma- | jority of Over Seventeen Thousand. Congressman Boutelle telegraphs to the Chi- : cago 2'ribune, from Bangor, the result of the j glorious victory in Maine: The returns for Monday's election continue j to show astonishing Republican gains until the i aggregates now indicate 17,000 to 18,ovo majority in the State. The full significance of these figures will be found by recalling the facts that prior to the last electio’n the .Republicans were in a minority in Maine at the election for Governor in 1880, 1879, and 1878, the opposition majority against Gov. Connor tor this latter year reaching more than 13,000. In 1877 the Republican majority was but 5,000. In the Presidential election of 1876 it was about 15,000, in 1875 only 4,000. and_4n 1874 Gov. Dingley had but 7,000. In 1873 lie had 10.000. Gov. Perham had 16J100 in 1872, 10,000 in 1871, a little over 8,000 in I 1870, and Gov. Chamberlain’s last majority in ! 1879 was only 7-,500. The majority this year : is therefore the largest since 1868, and i the Republican vote is the largest ever cast in the State. Another phenomenal feature is the carrying of every one ot the sixteen counties bv the Republicans, sq that the State Senate will be unanimously Republican, and only a handful of Democrats will find seats in the other branch of the Legislature. For the Democrats to seek to disparage or break the force of this remarkable uprising ot the people of Mr. Blaine’s . State in his behalf will be as idle as trying to check Niagara with a feather. The voice of Maine has not found such earnest expression before since the djjys of Abraham Lincoln, and 1 it gives an impetus anti energy tcPthe national campaign that will be inestimable. * * * The Maine victory cannot fail to have a deci- I sive effect upon the national campaign, and if i Ohio and West Virginia respond in fair proper- ■ tion in October the ballot ot 1884 will be practi- ! caily over; the Cleveland campaign will utterly break down and the November States will elect Blaine and Logan by an overwhelming majority of the electoral votes. C. A. Boutelle. —Congressman Dingley, from Lewiston, sends _■ the following dispatch: ■ • ■ The majority for the Republican ticket in , Maine is 3,000 to 5,000 larger than was exp cted, 1 Considering that tour years ago the Democrats and Greenbackers carried the State, and that two years ago4he Republican majority was only 6,700 on a very large vote, the doubling of that majority now shows the great popularity of Blaine in Maine, for it is the prestige of his name that has increased our majority. AAiery large number of men who have not recently voted the Republican ticket supported our candidate for Governor in order to help Mr, Blaine, A very large proportion of the Irish vote and a majority of the workingmen are with us in the campaign. The phenomenal majority of the Republican ticket in Blaine’s own city and county indicates the great respect in-which he is held by those who know him best. There is much indignation among Mr. Blaine's friends, without distinction of party, at the unjust charges that have been. made against him, and this feeling has aided in increasing the Republican vote. The campaign just closed has not been as exciting as many which have preceded it, but the discussion of the pending issues, particularly the tariff question, has been unusually thorough. A very small amount of money has been used in the campaign, nothing having been contributed by the National Committee or by outsiders. Indeed, the people have been so intent m furthering the cause of Blaine and Logan that the campaign has largely run itself. There is .the utmost confidence in Blaine’s triumphant election in November. Nelson Dingley, Jr.