Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-04
PARTY WORKERS
 WILL NOW HUSTLE
All Hands Were Waiting for Town Elections to he Gotten Gut of the Way-From Now on the Cam paign will be Energetic Lively and a Hot Race is Looked For.

Hartford, Oct 4.-The announcement
 only in different words was made at the headquarters of the democratic and republican state central commit tees to-day as to the effect that the
 town elections of yesterday will have
 on the plans of the political campaign Both sides have been waiting to see what 'the little towns" would do and
 now that they have voted indicating less interest in town affairs than for
 many years because of absence of par
 tisan contest over the offices. indicat-
 ing little less interest than for a num-
 Der of years, the work Of covering the
 state with campaign literature and in
 a1rangling rallies will not be further
 delayed. On both sides surprise is
 expressed that the apathy of Connec-
 ticut voters was so marked. A light
 vote and few changes had been ex-
 pected, but the returns tinmdstakably
 showed that in majority of towns
 not much more than half the voters
 went to the polls. The democrats
 made net gain of single town in the
 162 which held elections Neither
 they nor the republicans have any
 comment to make. The republicans point out, however, that there was no
 drifting away of towns from the re-
 publican column as has been the case
 some years when the voters did not
 turn out we'll at the polls.
 At the democratic headquarters to-
 day Secretary Edwin s. Thomas said .
 Ut is apparent that General Apathy was in command on both sides yester- day. From now on the brass bands will begin to play and typewriters will lhum merrily. We have a lot of work planned out which will not be further
 delayed. The election may really be called the opening of political activity in the state at large" Secretary George Hfnman at reprHo- lican headquarters said: "As a matter
 of experience we have found that in a presidential year the November cleo ton overshadows the town elections
 and voters, especially farmers who are
 busy on the first Monday in October, will not take the time to go to the VOL ing places unless they have lively in- | tereSt in some issue. Nearly every voter takes n pride in voting at the presidential election and cares to go
 only once to the polls. The seeming | indifference in so many towns wester-
 day seems to bear this out. The re- publicans did not expect many changes l in the towns and so are not disap- l pointed or surprised. The political campaign on our part will begin in earnest this week and will be vigot.-
 ously followed up until election day. l Returns from all the towns in the state confirm the figures of last night which gave to tine republicans 12S towns and to the democrats 33, making f.. lY.n ~lAu. 4Mn .a.r. was brought about by the breaking or one tie of last year, a second tie of last year being offset by the town of
 Hamden, In which q ticket best termed "fusion" won out. Tn number of places the vote was so close that some l question might arise whether they went republican or democratic. but the test applied on tine registrars vote l seems to indicate that the results as given are conservative figures
 The town of Madison was placed in l the republican column last night be- l cause the moderator had declared the republican ticket to have been elected. A protest was entered against his de- cision on the ground that the republi- can ballots were invalid. The demo crats themselves had p,rt an Illegal bal lot in the field in the morning, rectffy- 1 ing the mistake at noon by having new ballots printed For this reason the democratic vote, which included only the good ballots, was very small.
 To-day it was stated that the protest probably will go by default and the republican officers elected yesterday
 would assume office. One feature cf yesterdays elections was te independ- ence of voters in many towns, party
 affiliations being lost sight of in the
 desire to continue in office selectmen
 who have done we'll In the past year. An instance of the benefit of personal popularity was shown in New Britain, where Mayor Bassett, democrat,
 was elected first seIectman over
 Charles Nelson, a republican, while all
 the rest of the ticket went republican.
 Tn Bristol also Patrick IT. Condon, first selectman, was reelected, although the republicans in most of the other offices were chosen. Bristol is claimed by the democrats, although the vote for registrar gave each of the three
 republicans from one to three in the lead.
 Tn many towns meetings were held
 by the citizens to transact the annual
 business and in most instances this was of purely routine nature