Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-17
A CHEAT VICTORY FOR REFORM

The AvlG-Adler-HOWar HeioH"
 Ticket 10 Decislvely Approved by sne
 voice of the Pcople-Intcnse Interest
 in che EIection-Fusilo Efforts of she
 machine Crowd of Politicians to De-
 fsas sAvis-Howarth Leads His Ticket
 by over one Hundred Ballots-zun-
 der Runs Five Hundred Votes Ahead
 of His Ticket-The voto Nearly Two to one in Favor of she Reform
 Ticket.
 One of the most intense and exciting school elections ever held in New Haven was that which yesterday resulted in an overwhelming victory for the ticket which embodied the growing demand for reform in the manage ment of school affairs and which bore the names of Samuel R. Avis, Max Adler and James A. Howarth.
 The total number of votes cast in the wards throughout the school district was about s,1O0. The average vote which the Avis Adler Howarth reform ticket received was 5,249. The average vote which the ticket containing the names of Maier Zunder, Joel A. Sperry and Frederick Botsford received
 was 2,S15. This gives an average majority of 2,434 votes for the reform ticket. It is interesting to note the individual re. suits of the vote. James A. Howarth led the victorious ticket with $500 ballots. Adler came next with 5,397 votes, and Avis re- ceived 4,843 votes. By this 1t is seen that Howarth ran ahead of Adler 112 votes and ahead of Avis by 666 votes. The falling off in Avis vote was due to the sharp fig ght which his political enemies, headed by O,Keefe and Sullivan, made against him. In spite of the prodigious amount of their work, however, he made fine run, as will be seen by the full returns from the wards. The figures of the returns upon the anti reform ticket are also worthy of study. Maier Zunder led the ticket with 3, ,176 votes. Joel A. Sperry received 2,662, and Frederick Botsford received 2,80S. This gives Zunder lead of 514 votes over Sperry and 588 votes over Botsford.
 It was thought by the opponents of Avis that zunder might slip in ahead of him and thus break up the solid front of the reform ticket. As a result of their work Zunder's vote was increased till it led the snti-reform
 ticket, and Avis vote was diminished till 1t Jagged way behind the victorious reform ticket. But, nevertheless, Avis majority over Zunder amounted to 1867 votee. Howsrth's vote, which led the victorious reform ticket, gave majority of 2,333 over Zunder, the leader of the opposing ticket; and of 2,0o1 votes over the tail ot the same ticket, Frederick Botsford.
 The balloting for treasurer, clerk and au- ditors was uneventful, each receiving nearly the full vote. Charles E. Graves was elected treasurer, Benjamin R. English clerk, and Richard F. Lyons and Francis G. Anthony, auditors.
 The fight was lively one. Split tickets were everywhere plentiful. The opponents of Avis were hard at work about nearly all of the polling-places. They busily distrib- uted tickets bearing the names of Zunder, Adler and Howarth but they were not used in many of the wards. It was only in the Sixth and Seventh wards that their work proved any way effective. In the Seventh ward especially large number of these split ballots were cast. Zunder received 327 votes in this ward while the votes for his fellow candidates upon the anti-reform ticket stood at 184 and 177. Avis vote was cut down to 600 while Howarth received 732 and Adler received TIA.
 In the Sixth ward Zunders vote was rais- ed to BIO, while Sperry & Botsford received 134 and 132 respectively. Avis vote in this ward was decreased to 39S, while Howarth and Adler each received 4S6 votes.
 This same kind of guerilla skirmishipg in. creased Zunder's vote and decreased Avis vote by about 20 ballots in the First ward, 10 in the Second ward, 30 in the Fourth ward, 40 in the Fifth ward and 10 in the Eighth ward.
 The only ward in which Howarth ran no.
 ticeably behind his ticket was the Third. In this ward he was severely scratched, and yunder proftted so much by 1t that his vote amounted to nearly double that of the others upon his ticket. Howarth received 63S votes, while the vote for Adler and Avis respectively was 702 and 713. Zun- der received 35S votes, while the vote for Sperry and Botsford respectively was 1s9 and 166.
 A noticeable fact was that the friends of the German representatives of the two tick cts, Adler and Zunder, were not in the least aggressive in their support of either. Both ran comparatively even with their ticket in respect to each other, and neither was scratched for the benefit of the other. Through the whole course of the contest, where Avis was not scratched for Zunder, ! the straight ticket was usually voted except | in the Third ward. Here Howarth obvious
 ly met opponents who made telling on- | slaught upon his vote in favor of Maier Zun. | der.
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