Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — MAINE VOTES NEXT MONTH. [ARTICLE]

MAINE VOTES NEXT MONTH.

— i Outcome May Give * Chance for Vlg* uring on the Heaul p in November. ' An important political event is the election in Maine next. month, the outcom* of which, many politicians will,take as am indication of the.result in November. Th* usual Republican majority is somethin* like 30,000, and to overturn, this will require a tidal wave of huge dlmensfaroa. When during the three presidential elections the Republican majority In 'M*i** has fallen less than 20,000, the rest of the country has given a Democratic majority. The result of the election in Main* will be a straw in the direction of the November outcome. The following table showing the vote in the various States Ift 1894 is of interest: States. Rep. Dem. Pop. Alabama 110,865 83Jg Arkansas 20.088 74.800 mg California 110,788 111*44 SljS Colorado 90,848 9,834 76.48? Connecticut 84.288 68,816 2.000 Delaware 19,882 18,667 „ Florida 21.608 4.480 Georgia. t.. 121,048 MM Idaho 10,208 7.067 7.121 Illinois 465.886 822,488 68.798 Indiana 283,606 238.732 28.888 lowa 229.376 148,980 34.907 Kansas ?. .148,007 28,709 118.828 H-lne ... 69,589 30,621 8.821 Massacnuietts 188,307 128.900 9.08 T Minnesota 147,944 43,578 87,981 i Missouri T.T..229,641 *20,647 22.468 Montana . •.*iv •»V meo “10.866 15,361 Nebraska 94.613 ' 6.966,97,016 New York 678.818 617.710 110.496 North Carolina 68.935 126.586 81.8ttOhio .418,982 278.838 49.381 *' Oregon 41.126 19.001 26JM Pennsylvania 574,841 333.404 IOAOk South Carolina 89.607 17J2T§ South Dakota 40.401 8.756 26.508 Tennessee 106,134 104.380 23,082 Texas 133.396 190.486 108.84 b . Vermont ... ...:,. 42.668 14.142 74$ Washington .. ’68.242 28.242 49.46$ West Virginia 100,408 76,146 3.MS Wls-onsln 196.462 142.146 25.618. Wyoming 10,149 6,966 2.1 W