Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-14

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The vote by wards is even moro signiaeant
Last wear all the twenty-five wards 70 Boston
went FOR license except three. this year the
record stands sixteen YES" and nine no." H
the six wards that have changed from license 20
no license i've Are strongly democrste
and, and the sixth is aoas'fSL S,,s rss
leaders tired their beet. despite their pro,c.sa-
lions. to punish the hquor dealers for their
alleged treachery 10 Rus-sh In the late state
election. The vote l. another blow st the
police commission and part of the democratic
program TO either control that body ar remove.
II possible. one Of the chiefs prerogAsiyes--
the granting of liquor licenses.
Speaking OF the no license vote IN Boston the
Globe ldemocraticD saws edItoriaiiyi Tho rca-
sons for this falling Of In the hccnse vote of
Boston are not far 10 seek. They grow out of
the bold and INSCRIPTIONS attempt made dur
ing the recent state contest 10 terrorize demo-
,rstic liquor dealers into voting for the repub-
licsn candidate for governor. With VIM. J..
Russell IN the governors chair here VIII
be most earnest aud determined effort next
wear to remove the conditions which make the
Boston police commission such q political
power IN this city. Ii Is already well assured
| that not few honest republicans vii
Join heartily with the democrAtic Legislators m
the good work OF abolIshing a great evil and
The Herald Cind. saws: This does not rep
resent the prohibition strength. although this
turned ont in force. What i; does represent is
a Widespread and intens. want Of conhdence IN
the judiciousuess, impartiality and non-parti-
| sanship of the present board Of police commis-
! sioners. Unless 90 have each year n
recurrence Of this agitation. With increased
proba hilities Of lite attaining itr end. change
must be made in the personnel ~ the police
board 30 to establish II In public credit
No LICENSE WAVE
But, considering the matter more broadly,
there appears 20 be a no.license sweeping
over the state this wear and this undoubtedly
had its effect on the Boston vote. OF the nine
cities, including Boston. that voted yertcf-
day four Boston. Worcester, Lowell ana
Newburyport-voted for license and
iye-Caulbridge, Lynn, Salem. Medtord
twenty-one cities which held their elections
last week showed eight YES" majorities and
! thirteen mo" majoritles. This mRkss a total
OF twelve license cities aud eighteen no license
cities in the commonwealth. The tSenty-one
cities which voted last week gave an aggregate
| yes vote of 80. 252 and an aggregate no vote Il
| 47.009. The nine cities which voted yesterday
cast total OF 80 3s4 votes and IS 2s1 no votes
This gives a total YES vote in the entire h-t of
thirty cities OF ~. .636 and total of 1882 no
| votes and a ma ority OF G. eco against license.
The same thirty places last year gave sa.s1o
yes votes and 79.6S3 no votes, the majority fcr
license being 5,0il.
REDUCED DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY.
The question Of candidates was q minor one
Yesterday OF course Mayor Matthews was
elected in Boston. His plurality over Alder
man Homer Rogers trep.D wss lS.2oS. against
| Is $50 over Allen last year. the total vote this
year being 1000 greater than IN 1s3l.
| OF the thirty cities in Massachusetts twenty
three have elected republican mayors, and only
| Boston. Fall River, Marlboro, Salem and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mayors. New Bed
/ ford has prohibition mayor and IN Maiden the
peoples candidate won. Two new cities. Ned
ford and Everett. chose mayors for the first
| time yesterday and went republican. hepubii-
! cans in the state can still hold their heads up
even il Russell is governor aud Matthews mayor
| of Boston.
| RELIGION A FACTOR IN THE ELECTION.
The republicans scored big victory In Bos-
ton Yesterday in electing all their candidates.
| for school committee, though they Lost the
board of aldermen and the common council
| The new board of aldermen consists OF seven
democrats and five republican,, the same as
las, wear. The common council VIII stand, ~
democrats. 80 republicans and independents
democrats The present common council con-
sists of 4s democrats and ~ republicans.
For the first time in a number "f years
strictly partisan nominations were made Tor
school committee. The repubhenns we're re-
irforced by the women, who have right 10
vote for school committee IN thc htste anu ~no
this wear ran their registration mp 10 lO.Ooo
voters. They worked Ike beavers, too,
TO get out their vote and succeeded ad-
nirabiv. They were prompted 90 turn out
owing TO the excitement on the hcmhn Gath
olic ATTITUDE toward the public schools. The
republican ticket went through with rush,
the lowest republican member leading
The highest democratic candidate by
a vote OF about 5000. The malorities
averaged about 6.O00. The republican
menbers OF the school board are Willard ,. NJ
len. William T. Eaton. Caroline =. Hastings,
Elizabeth C. Keller, Isaac D. Paul, Fred g. let-
,egrove. Benz B. Nhittemore, J. y. 9. Win
ship ali for three years and Samuel H. VIE
one year.
The Boston Advertiser republican,. Speaker
Barre,ts paper. ha. discouraged straight
party ticket ON the school question and Says on
The result; The totally unwi-e departure rom
the former custom of nominating . non-parti-
san school board ticket may yet he found 10
have worked some injary 90 the best tntercsts
of education in this city. Al this writing ~ n
not Do.sible to estimate the success or failure
of he non-pariisan vote with perfect hceuraeys
but at all events is is evident that many citizens
very wisely declined 10 sanction thorough par
tisanship in such matters.