Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-07
HOW IT ALL HAPPENED.
Waterbury Goes Republican "y H'e MaIprHy-oniy Judge Low" Saved Pr 'm the GsueraI Wreck.

MsJorny-oniy Judge Lowe Saved Pr 'm tn. General Wreck.
 The election returns of yesterday do not contain much that is encouraging for the democrats of Waterbury. Sill it is only | a brave democracy that could stand such' a crushing defeat and vet live. Many things contributed to the defeat of the damocratic ticket and perhaps the most | Dntent of all these was the constant crv of hard times which tha rnnnhlicans claimed their opponents had forced on the counirv. and as a natural consequence the working | peopla we've easily led tn believe that no one cnnld he responsible for the had times | nf the last two years excRpt the party that hanpenef to he in power. There is no | usa in discnssinG the fallacy of that suh- | feet now It vas raised as a campaicn crv | at the commencement and was kent m tn | the eve oE the battle IL was used while | thn voter stood with his ballot in his hand deliherating within himself what he had better do and in the face of tho fact that business has not been better in wate-hnrv | in good many years than it is at this
 time The republicans cNntenied that all
 this was due to the anticipated victory of
 their party and that the result of yester-
 day s election would determine how long
 the present improved condition of the in
 du>trial market would remain as it k. In
 any case the other fellows had tbe most
 votes and the counters saw nothirG to do
 but make their returns accordingly. All
 the democrats saved from the local wreck
 Is the indge of probate and few justices. Among the democrats every ward had !, a few disgruntled fellows who worked
 with n vrnGeHnce against som' ot the
 nominees. In most Ises it was matte If p-rsoral spite and in other instances
 tn. rr was something substantial in it.
 lSUt We think the party suffered most fir, m
 n few men whom the town committee had in its employ and were in n better position to assist the enemy than those who had tC
 use their ammunition from outside the
 h eastw"rss The mayor was assalled fOI almost every thing that has occurred in the
 city that did not ,ppen to suit everybody no matter who was tn blame for it Hack
 men voted against him because their We
 hiclrs were not engaged TtamSttr
 fought against him because they dId no
 get ns much work from the city as the!
 th"uI' they We're entitled to WorkmeI held him responsible for the contracts
 awarded by the committee on additionn } water supply. Another man thought h, was not allowed to crate long enough n nn- of the board meetings and in fac , almost every other man had been disap s pointed i'll some way or another and wa looking fer satisfaction and l'e found 1t.
 Others did not like one uf the reprrsen
 tHtIN,S htcauSr he Was accused of putting up scheme to elect himself at the ex pense of hIS Iu' ming mat, and the latte . WAS not looked upoI. with much favor by horde of fellows wbo have been brough . before Judge Root during the past feV years ''Hr put my boys name in the pa ' P'r~ because he was uuf"rtunnt- enough L , get into II t e trouble. said a man as h
 asked f n pas'er. And sn the Gesc ntrt
 srrInrd tn be rIiirml' aLd 1t k safe tn sa that the drmncr"ts lied to do their dut
 in every ward in the city.
 The party did not strm to haze the usua . number "t workers on hand Not so wit their "ppou-tts. hey had a man st,tinu <. ,d ti every corner a' d a visit to the R, !. .uhIIchu club on North Main street. r, ! vetied m"tely crowd. many of thrr
 from the nlm >houSr. all snltius '',p
 -rcn." Tn" scratchIng wts not genrr.
 .I- on former occ t>I"nS Many dem"crai
 seemed tn have swA lnNtr' the rrpublicn
 uckrt ir ItS rLiIrety >o ihst there Was Il, much trouble making the count
 | ILv nUmIntr~ n the state tIcstt met th c -,iu.c fate a~ tue lctI candidates. \ [ | Stot d III yesterdays I~>ur. the pnpulI.
 tud socialist lthor tIrktt- did not nmour '. [" luucu and it l. tLe prevailing upini .
 int the republicans who hrlnnC tn th,s
 pnIt'~ wrnt h'ck tn t-.rir urI-Indl cam ' aud voted with the republicans. But l, y th'. story.