Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-16
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Roosevelt Will Have 336 and Ju -ge
 Parker l4O Vo.es.

Roosevelt Will Have 336 and Ju -ge
 Parker l40 VI .es.
 The result of the election in Mary
 land is now apparently so we'll deter. mined that we may regard the divi- sion of the electoral vote as 336 for
 Theodore Roosevelt and 14O for Alton
 B. Parker.
 ] At New Haven, Eli Whitney, re publican, elected senator, certified that his election expenses were $743. His salary is $500 for the session of the legislature. Alexander Troup, who headed the democratic representative
 ticket, makes a return of four ciphers. /, Burton Mansfield, democratic candi- ] date for senator, spent $241.
 Governor elect William L. Douglas of Massachusetts has filed with the secretary of state a statement of his election expenses. The statement cer- tifies that on September B last MT Douglas gave to the democratic state central committee $34,3OO for the pur- pose of conducting his campaign. MT Douglas adds that he had no other ex- penses.
 
 Some time ago the state police ob- tained evidence against some liquor sellers in Derby and Ansonia. For some reason the arrests were not made until after election. The Ansonia Sen 1 tinel, republican paper, and one not given to general lt-finding, remarks that there may. have been no politics 1n the matter, but 1t gives the impress sion that this is hard to believe.- Hartford Times.
 Putnam elected a democratic mem- Sber of the legislature an Tuesday for the first time in twenty-one years. The fortunate candidate, John O. Fox, is locally very popular and he defeated E. M. Wheaton, who is quite large employer of labor and is understood to have had some trouble with his men. The other representative elect ed, George A. Hammond, republican, is an extensive silk manufacturer
 Governor-elect Douglas of Massa-- chusetts, in his pithy speech in Faneuil hall on Saturday evening, made public plan which he had con- ceived for initiating tariff reform. He is going to endeavor ''to have a com mission appointed to investigate the tariff question. and the question of reciprocity with Canada, that market on the north which belongs to ''f
 natural right (applause); this commis- sion to be made up of business men, of manufacturers, of farmers, and this commission to make a report to the legislature, and then the legislature to refer this question by referendum to z Mv IoS n h. duce a legislature overwhelmingly re- publican to do what is here suggested he will prove himself very capable politician as well as wise leader. The republican machine workers, un- l der home market club influence, will do all in their power to prevent such thorough investigation of the tarllI nroblem as is here outlined. Tie votes for representatives record ed in four towns at the election on NO yember 8 were voted off yesterday, the result being miniature landslide for the democrats, who gained three members in the house, by the means. They were prevented from securing fourth, in the town of Goshen, owing to the fact that the tie in that town was between two republicans, leaving tie democrats without candidate As one of the republican candidates work ed for his rival, the election in Goshen was devoid of interest.
 In Bridgewater, Christopher c. Shan non. the democratic candidate, defeat ed William B. Kinney, republican, Shannon receiingv 68 votes against 56 for Kinney. At the first election each received 65 votes. The total number of envelopes used on November 8 was IA, against 124 yesterday.
 At Kent, where Egbert A. More house, a democrat, tied last week with John R. Judd, republican, each having 134 votes, Morehouse easily defeated Judd, getting 40 votes against Judas 1O9 An effort was made by the town committees of each party to get out the full vote. One man was challenged owing to the fact that. he had moved from the town more than six months ago.
 Tn Goshen the contest was between l.. IT. Apley and F. w. Lucas, both re publicans. who got S3 votes each last week, while Horatio Adams, a demo- crat, received 1O9. Yesterday, Mir Lu- cas, who under the law could not with draw, worked for MT Apley. who got 1O1 votes against 20 for his helper.
 III the town of North Stonington the tie was between Horace G. Lewis, re publican, and Latham Hull, demo- crat. both getting 161 votes last week, although Roosevelt had plurality Of 95 over Parker. Yesterday Hull was elected, getting 1Ss votes against 104 for Mir Lewis.
 The democrats were able to poll their party votes and were re-euforced by considerable number of republi- cans.