Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-02
RESULTS OF ELECTION.

The Democrats Make An Excellent show
 Ing Under Most Unfavorabls Conditions
 -selectman Pinney Routed-The Re-
 publIcans Elect a Town Clerk.
 The election contest is over for the present year. and while there is some cause for rejoicing there is also some req son for regret. The democrats have not held all that belonged to them and it is extremely doubtful if they succeeded in getting what they won by an honest vote at the polls. The counting on the city ticket in the third ward was very unsatis. factory and the electors of the ward will never be satisfied with the result. When Mayor kilduff called the attention of Mir Wells to the fact that the ballots should be left in charge of the moderator instead of being slowed away in his pocket the ex- citement was intense. but it reached the climax when Registrar Hynes contested MT Wells right to continue to count any further. but Town Attorney Kellogg held that the men had been sworn to count the city ticket and that it should be done by them. At the first count it was Rn- nounced that D. J. Gregory was elected alderman by a small majority. This was doubted and another count and still ano- ther kept bringing down Mir Gregory's vote until the fourthI ballot when it was announced that Mir Mabaney had won by one vote. the result being: Mahaney 55S. Gregory 557. At this time the excitement was so intense that it looked as though it would come to blows. Finally the re- count commenced with Mayor Kilduff and MT Kellogg as spotters. This time the receiving 570 MT Mahaney 56S. Then another count followed with the same result. Registrar Blair was about to declare the count closed when P. E. Ramon said that he had not been cred ited on the tally sheet with as many votes as had been cast for him in that ward. A recount of the ballot showed that Messrs Bannop, Grady and Cassin had not been credited with over forty pasters cast for them in the third ward.
 Then tte fight ou the part of the repub- lican counters to put in ballots belonging in ether wards caused considerable dis satisfaction. TT ere seems to be too much of n hobby made of "the intention of the voter" man either did or did not vote for a candidate, and if a ticket does not belong in a certain ward, or a mans name happens to get onto the ticket different to whf it ought U b., why the only thing to do with such ballots is to throw them out. To judge by the way some people talk it would seem .hat if a man remained home and then said he intended to vote but for got to do so, it would be accepted. When the returns had been read by Moderator James W. Fitzpatrick, James Horigan ,one of the democratic nominees, protested against the count. Mayor KilIduff read the returns at midnight.
 The surprise of the day was the small vote in the fourth ward .sonly 1.524 votes having been cast for first selectmen against 1,644 last year. At least l 500 votes ought to have been boiled in the fourth This would have meant a demo- cratic clean sweep.
 The DEMOCRATS forecast of the result yesterday was close to the mark. It pre- dicted Morris election by POO plurality, and the official count made it l79. The full vote of the populists was placed at 15O; it was 170. It was announced that Belden was making the race hot for Nc Mahon. He finished a winner.
 The majority of the democratic candi- dates on the school ticket was not quite as large as last year. principally owing to the falling of in the fourth ward vote. Tn )mas J. Moran, the DC pular school clerk, was honored with the largest plu. rality of the day. 547. All things con. sidered he can we'll feel proud of such a run. It speaks volumes for MT Noran's popularity and efficiency.
 l.. A. Platt was declared elected a mem. Der of the board of education, instead oi Dr HincklCy. as published, owing to the error in the latter's name on the republi. | can ticket.
 The vote in detail is as follows: