Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — OVER 37,000 MAJORITY. [ARTICLE]

OVER 37,000 MAJORITY.

Maine Republicans Have It All Their Own Way, he gig lat ure Republican by 12 5 Ma j ori ty— Every County Carried. An Augusta, Me., special to the Indianipolis Journal, Sept. 10, says: It has been igood day for Republicans and a correipondlngly bad one for Democrats, but the •esult of the State election was not altogether unforeseen. To rain and general ipathy is due the light vote, and though the Democrats admit defeat they do not show a symptom of discouragement. The Prohibitionists and Populists are not largely in evidence, so far as returns inditate, Returns have been received by the Associated Press from oyer one hundred cities and towns and these indicate that the State has re-elected Governor Cleaves, Republican, over Charles F. Johnson, Democrat, by a majority which will exceed 37,000, the largest in the history of the party. The Republicans have carried every county in the State, and at 11 o’clock it is estimated that the Legislature will have a working Republican majority of 125, which means the re-election of Senior William P. Frye. -= .Thomas B. Reed has been elected to Congress by a plurality estimated at 1,000. Nelson Dingley, Seth H. Milligan and H. Boutelle are also re-elected to Congress by majoritie s ranging from six to nine thousand; The total vote wilL probably exceed 110,000.