The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-08
AMENDMENTS ARE EASILY DEFEATED Those Proposed to the Con- stitution Showed Under
 by a Vote of
 3 to 1. RESULTS IN STATE
 BRING SURPRISES Democrats Win in Water bury Where Interest Centered-No Li-
 cense Gains.

Little town elections In Connecticut, with the combination of election of city tickets in five municipalities. yes- terday, brought more surprises to vot- CTS than any similar happening in many years In brief, the democrats swept the cities of Waterbury and New Haven, where very vigorous campaigns had been waged on local issues, especially in the former, where arguments became strongly tinctured with personalities, and they won the mayoralty in the city of South Nor walk, while the republicans won an administration aldermanic ticket in New London and the mayoralty in Norwalk. In the state at large the no-license advocates appear to have won a number of towns from the li- cense column, while the proposed adoption of revised state constitu- ton which embraced amendments providing for increase of the salary of members of the legislature from $500 to $500 and the lengthening of the terms of judges of probate from two to four years was overwhelmingly rejected.
 All eyes in the state turned to the cities of Waterbury and New Haven. In both the democratic tickets went through almost to man, according to the early returns, and by o'clock Colonel Isaac M Ullman, the republi- can leader, and Insurance Commission CT Theodore H. Macdonald, the town chairman, acknowledged that they had lost the city, the returns at that time indicating that James B. Martin, dem- ocrat, had defeated Minotte E. Chat field, republican, for mayor of New Haven by more than a thousand, with most of the party ticket going with him.
 The returns in Waterbury were early in hand owing to the use of ma- chimes and Mayor William E. Thoms was found to have been reelected by 1,136 majority over John D. Sewell, his republican opponent and the only republican who was returned was City Clerk Sandland, who had majority of IA. MT. Sewell was general man. ager of the street railway company at Waterbury during the big strike of the street car men, but he had always been popular and the republicans expected he would easily win.
 In Norwalk Charles A. Schofield, re- publican, for mayor, defeated Ferdi- nand Smith, democrat, by vote o1 622 to S52, and the entire republican city ticket was elected. In South Nor walk Dr. Francis Burnell, democrat won from Matthew Corbett, republi. can, by vote of 617 to S94. The council stands five republicans and one democrat, and the city treasurer is 8 democrat for the first time ir eight years.
 Not much attention was paid to the constitutional amendments, and in 6 majority of the towns the sentiment was adverse to their adoption and the vote was fully three to one against them The matter had not received much attention until few days ago when a New Haven lawyer sent tc each town a letter containing a plee against raising the salary of the mem. bers of the general assembly. Tht question was only slightly discussed and as the revision of the constitution with the proposed amendments hat been endorsed by several prominen men its defeat was not expected.
 Politics did not figure in the towl elections, but the license question proved to be very important one il many. Milford, which adjoine New Haven, went no license for the frs time since it was founded, in 1G39, b,