Powers Is Elected

Portland, Me., Sept. 15.- The returns from the small tovvns and plantations in distant parts of the state are, as usual, coming In very slowly. The vote from cities and towns which poll more than two-thirds of the entire vote of the state, indícate, however, that the Republican plurality will be between 48,000 and 50,000, the largest in the history of the state. In every county in the state the Republican ticket was successful, and almost every town showed a Republican gain. The Democratie vote is about 40 per cent. less than in 1892 about 20 per cent. of this has gone to the Republican ticket and the stay-at-homes are responsible for the other half. The vote of the Populists and Prohibitionists throughout the stae shows a loss from '92 of about 25 per cent. Total Vote Estimated at 124,000. The vote from 300 out of 519 cities, towns and plantations, is 66,921 for Powers and 27,143 for Frank. In the last election, in 1894, when Cleaves was elected by the then unprecedented majority of 40,000, these towns gave the Republican ticket 56,400 and the Democrats 24,230, a Republican gain in plurality of 2,913 this year. Considering the vote of the missing towns two years ago, if this proportion of gain is kept up.the total vote is estimated at 124,000 in round numbers; Republican, 83,160; Democrats, 34,340; scattering, 6,500; Republican plurality, 48,820. Anything more than a rough estimate of the plurality based on the figures of last year in missing towns is impossible. In the First congressional district Reed's plurality is 10,566; Dingley about 11,000 plurality in the Second district, and Milliken near 12,000 in the Third. Boutelle's Plnrality 15,000. There are more missing towns in the Fourth district than in any other, but from the figures at hand it is estimated that Boutelle's plurality will be almost 15,000. In the representative districts heard from the election of but five Democrats in the house is shown, and in one of these there is doubt. All of the thirty-one senators are Repub■iicans. Following is the ticket elected: Governor, Llewellyn Powers; congress, First district, Thomas B. Reed; Second, Nelson Dingley; Third, Seth L. Milliken; Fourth, Charles A. Boutelle. The city of Bath, the home of Arthur Sewall, candidate for vice president of the United States on the silver Democratie ticket, gave a plurality of 782 for Powers, which is the largest Republican plurality ever given there. Congressman Dingley gained 254 over his 1892 plurality in the same city.