MAINE AND LIQUOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3351, 18 October 1911, Page 5

MAINE AND LIQUOR.

BACK IN “ WET” COLUMN

PROHIBITION IS VOTED OUT OF CONSTITUTION.

The first United' States newspaper containing particulars of the Maine liquor vote to reach us is the “Weekly Chronicle,” San Francisco, which has a telegram from Portland, dated September 11, as under: — • Unofficial returns late to-night indicated that prohibition was voted out of the Constitution of Maine to-day by a majority of about 1400 voters. About twenty-five small towns had not been reported, and the vote of these, together with errors incident to the collection of returns by telephone, still left the exact result in some doubt. One hundred and twenty towns cast ballots on the question. With the twenty-five towns missing, the vote was 60,90 S for repeal and 59,563 against a change in the Constitution. Although to-day's vote did not equal that of a year ago, when the Democrats swept the State which for years had been a Republican stronghold, the election . was an interesting contest. There was not a home in any part of the State which was not flooded with literature by both sides, while the voters were waited upon by personal worker's and harangued' at public gatherings .to cast their ballots for or against repeal. The result was that hundreds of voters who had not visited the polls for years, with the possible exception of last year, were recorded to-day. Little excitement marked the voting. Although the polls in some of the cities were crowded during much of the time, it was an orderly crowd and gave the officials little or no trouble.*