The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-12-02
FARNSVOR7HI \
Victor in ut the Mayora|ty
Contest.
HEWITT, SECOND ; BRADLEY, THIRD.
FarlsVOrth'S Plurality is
l39.
HUGO is ELECTED town AGENT.
Court Of Common Council
Largely Republican.
A REMARKkRl cInSE GnNTEST
Result Not Positively Known
lIp1;I tho Morpip0 Hours,
a REMARKABLY CLOSE CONTEST.
Result Not Positively Known
Until the Morning Hours.
AT FIVE O'CLOCK THIS MORN
ING MODERATOR lyman DE-
CLARED PHILIP HUGO ELECTED
TOWN AGENT.

Yesterdays town and city election
had for its chief result the election of
Frederick B. Farnsworth, the republi-
can mayoralty candidate and the gen.
eral success of the republican nominees
for the various town and city Offices
The decision was in doubt for sew
eral hours after the polls closed, and
current report-based on meagre ana
incomplete returns from various voting
recincts-successively had 1t that
Bradley, Hewitt and Farnsworth had
been elected to the municipal chief
magistracy. Singularly, too owing to
the unprecedented independent voting
and the consequent Scratching these
reports were readily accepted as cor
rect Thus it was that many conflict-
ing claims were borne hither and thith-
er
IT was common belief that the con-
test for the mayoralty was between the
republican candidate and General Brad
lev, the nominee of the gold democrats.
Consequently it was a complete sur
nrjse, even to veteran campaigners,
when it was learned that Hewitt,
rather than Bradley, was the man
whose candidacy was likely to imperil
the success of the head of the republl-
can ticket.
For several hours, as the returns
came in with irritating slowness, the
pencils Of candidates and their sup
porters and satellites, were kept busy
tabulating results, to change them with
a frequency that after a while re-
strained them from making any def
mite claims SO unprecedently close was
the contest.
Among the reports which gained cur
rency and credence early in the even
ing, and in fact, until nearly midnight,
was that which proclaimed the defeat
of the entire republican town ticket.
Late official returns, however, exploded
this report, and assured the success of
the republican nominees by safe plural
tiles.
The court of common council will
have a substantial republican major
ity in both the upper and lower
branches.
The board of selectmen will be repub-
lican in its political complexion.
In brief, the city and town affairs for
the ensuing two years will be admins
tered by republican officials.
1t is impossible to make any analysis
of the result. The causes that led to it
are differently viewed from different
standpoints.
The tabulated result is appended.
The interest which was manifested
in the campaign preceding the city and
town election, which was held yester-
day, did not abate until the last ward
had made it's official return this morn
ing.
Almost as early as the polls closed
there was an expectant crowd of spec
tators at 81 Crown street, where the
vote of the various wards was counted
The count was necessarily slow be-
cause of the great number of pastors
used. The rumor that had been sent
out by the gold democrats late in the
afternoon spread over the city like
magic, and there was a large number
of the adherents of the national democ-
racy entertaining the hope that their
ticket had been elected until the vote
of the wards began to be announced
and then the sentiment changed to
Hewitt
The gold democrats said when the re-
ports from the Fifth and Sixth wards
came in, I'VE are out of it," One of
che leaders turned to Mr.. Hewitt, who
was waiting with the crowd to hear
the story of the victory and exclaimed:
You are the next mayor"
Hewitt, with his characteristic mod
esty, would have none of this, however,
and stoutly claimed Farnsworth's cleo
tion. The gold men gave up the hope
of electing Bradley before the arrival
of the Fifth ward count, which was the
first to come in. 1t arrived at 10:15
o'clock. The ward gave Hewitt SIS plu-
rality. The Sixth ward, with its a
plurality, gave the silver men more
hope, and the republicans did not give
up, notwithstanding the rumors that
the republican wards had failed to roll
up their accustomed majorities, and
that Farnsworth had in addition to this
been most numerically slaughtered,
receiving in the Tenth ward 29O
scratches.