The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-09
HOW THE ELECTION WENT
JUDGE CLE1 VELAND RECEIVED A
 PLURALITY OF THREE.

cratic Majorities-Parade in Honor of
 New Haven Republicans Elected and
 the Republican Victory In the State.
 The election in New Haven yesterday resulted in majorlties for all the demo- cratic candidates on both the local and state tickets with the exception of T. F. Callahan, candidate for probate judge, who was beaten in this city by Judge L. W. Cleaveland, the republican candidate, by plurality of three. The majorities received in the city by the other democrats varied from 125 to 900, as will be seen in the tabulated result published in another column
 Despite the seeming apathy which has pervaded the campaign this fall and the predictions that light vote would be polled, the vote in this city yesterday was one of the heaviest cast in a so-called off year in many years. years. By i o'clock in the afternoon fully quarters of the total vote cast had been boiled and although car-
 riages had been kept running all the forenoon bringing in voters to the poll ing places in the various wards, the energy of the election workers was re- doubled in the afternoon and every car riage in the service was rushed through
 the streets with all possible speed to pick up the citizens taIdy in exercising
 their rights of franchise. This was kept up to the very second of the time
 for closing the polls. In some of the
 wards carriage loads of voters were drawn up to the polling places by gal loping teams with precipitation stream
 ing from the horses Hanks only for
 the lieutenant in charge of the crowd to find that he was just little too late.
 Just a few seconds before o'clock a team galloped up to the Sixth ward voting place and as soon as it was stopped one of the horses sank to the ground in exhaustion, having been kept going at a killing pace all day
 Early last evening large crowds be- ] gan gathering in front of the various bulletin boards in the central part of | the city and as the returns were shown | each piece of news was greeted with cheers as it was favorable for one party or the other. The crowds were enthu- | siastic and stayed about the bulletins | until late hour As usual, the returns | from all the wards were received at the 1 polling place of the First ward in the | Grand Opera house on Crown street. 1 The room was filled with political work | CTS all the evening and pencils were
 kept going figuring out majorities for
 whatever candidates the figurer desired l to win. This was not possible long, | however, as the returns from the va | rious wards came in with unusual 1 promptness and it soon became evident
 that the city was going democratic and after 9:30 the only question was as to what the democratic majoritIes in the | city would be. Particular attention l was paid to the returns of the vote for | local candidates and it early became | apparent that Judge Cleaveand was
 running ahead of the ticket and would 1 probably be elected. Before the Third
 and Fourth wards were heard from, he
 was far in the lead of his opponent, | but the returns from these wards
 brought his plurality over T. F. Cal
 lahan down to only three, he being the
 only candidate on the republican ticket
 who received a plurality in the city. | Cta 1ao ot rd tn J.a r1 fpaoo
 the Fourth The returns from this l ward were received at headquarters
 few minutes after eleven, much ear 1 Her than it had been expected that all | the city returns would be in, as it was
 thought that the large number of split
 tickets would greatly delay the count | There was an unusually large amount
 of pasting probably only about one half of the ballots cast being so-called straight tickets"
 | As soon as the election of the entire i republican state ticket and the re-elec-
 tion of Hon. N. D. Sperry was assured 1 last night, several hundred republicans participated in a rousing celebration. i The parade formed at the Young Mems
 Republican club and after marching to
 the Republican League where about
 100 marchers fell in line, the celebrat-
 ors proceeded down Chapel street to i Orange, out to the home of Congress- | man Sperry. There was an aboun-
 dance of red fire and roman candles. i The lawn in front fthe Sperry resi-
 dence was illuminated and a large
 number of friends were in the house
 and on the porch. The crowd called
 for MT. Sperry, and his appearance 1 was the signal for thunderous cheering. ! He was introduced by Corporation
 Counsel William H. Ely MT. Sperry
 thanked one and all for their efforts in
 his behalf and assured his hearers that
 he would continue to look after the in-
 terests of the commonwealth in the
 same manner as he had in former i years. He spoke in glowing terms of | President Mckinley and his admins ! tration, and the crowd cheerd Justify
 Corporation Counsel Ely and Judge
 Hubbard of Wallingford also spoke
 Each one highly commended the work
 done by MT Sperry while in Washing l ton, saying that he had been more en-
 ergetic in his efforts for the common
 wealth than anyone who ever repre-