New-York tribune., 1907-12-11

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fought election contest which Boston has known
for many years. the city went Republican to-
| day by about two thousand votes. Postmaster
/ George A Hibbard defeating Mayor John +.
/ Fitzgerald who was a candidate for reelection
The revised returns show the following vote cast
! for the mayoraIty candidates:
! JOHN F. FITZGERALD. Democrat SO os4
The city voted to license the sale of liquor by
a large majority, somewhat smaller than in pre-
/ vious years, however. due to a hard campaign
on the part of the clergy and others in an en-
/ deavor to keep the saloons out of the suburbs.
Two features contributed notably the
/ turn of Republican Mayor after six years of
/ Democratic administration. one being the heavy
! vote given the Independence League candidate
/ by Democrats and the other the thorough IN
vestigation made by finance commission into
| the affairs at City Hall in which evidence mas
been brought forth alleging irregularities In the
| purchasing department and in the granting oi
| contracts through which. it asserted the
| CITY had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars
While the independent vote proved sufficient
! n transfer the power from one of the leading
| parties to the other. 1t did not, however, come
| anywhere near the strength expected by those
! who based their estimates on the vote IN 'he
/ recent state campaign, when the Independence
| League poIled a vote larger than the Democratic
! party.
Coulthurst who formerly secretary OF the
/ Democratic State Committee. Is e1ceeoihsiS
! popular among the younger Democracy anu IL
! was from this source that he drew mucn OF MS
! strength and contributed to the defeat OF filN-
gerald
| Tho caunaign was strenuous throughout
Navor FITZGERALD delivering several hundred
| speeches in every part of the city CLOSING
| his labors a late hour only last night
! Postmaster Hibbard and Mr.. Coulthurst were
| hardly less active and addressed the voters day
! and night in all the wards
/ Mr. Hibbard ran platform OF civic reform
| and a promise of a clean city government He
made his whole fight on that. Mayor Fitzgerald
! contented himself with answering the attacks
and stood on his promises to take care of his
| friends in the North Erd
| SCHOOL COMMITTEE CONTEST WARM
The returns indicate that the council will be
! Democratic The contest for two places on
| the school committee has aroused almost as
much interest as the Mayoralty fight, ii being
| maintained that an endeavor was being made
! to force the school committee into politics
The Republican candidates. James B. Magenis
/ and DIR. D. D. Scannell, were elected TO the
/ school committee by a comfortable lead, defeat
! ing Mrs Julia Duff. a former member OF the
| board. and John f. Potts, the DeHio0ia'i ~
| didate
7, rho fight for the Street Commissionership,
over which there was a spirited contest, Salem
| d. Charles Democrat, over the Repup-
| lfcan candidate. c. NJ. Draper, by vote OF :
IN / The returns Of the aldermanic vote show
! that the board will be Democratic. 8 to D.
Mavor Fitzgerald tonight issued this state
ment:
| Under the unofficial returns, Mr.. Iibbard is
elected Mayor by plurality OF l9'o over ,ne
| vote which l received tender MIN my per
! sonal congratulations. and L trust that his dd-
j ministration will accomplish the best OF results
for the city of Boston. :, -,
The closeness of the vote, in view of all the
| conditions seems to me almost as much or an
| Endorsement as a condemnation OF my aullllI- @
/ istration. l am not directly defeated by Mayor
! Hibbard in a straight contest. nor is the Demo
/ cratic party beaten by the Republican party
the result is due TO the fact that the Indepen-
! dence League has come into this contest. as II
| did into the state contest. as new poftiCal
factor and has upset normal pohtical cohdi-
| tions
| Mayor-eleCt George A. Hibbard tonight said
Az Aravor shall give to Boston an eco
nomical non-partisan administration of the city
for the next two years. I shall ask and expect
| ~ receive tha co-operatun of all lovers of good
government to enable me to carry out my
pledges made in this campaign
RESULTS IN OTHER CITIES.
The swinging of Worcester. the second largest
city in the state into the no-license column for
| the first time In sixteen years similar change
| of attitude by the voters in Lynn after eleven
years of liquor selling, and in Woburn. and Sub
stantial gains to the temperance sentiment IN
many other places. but complete turn in the
other direction the part Of Chelsea voters.
were the most surprising of the general features
in the municipal elections held in eighteen cities
! OF the state, exclusive of Boston, to-day
| The choice in Salem of the we'll known radical
! ToJr,, Iu~la ~ MAYORS
| chair which he occupied in 1901 and 1907: the
success in Maiden of George Howard Fall.
/ Boston University instructor, after four annual
defeats; the sweeping victory of James Logan.
Republican, over Mayor Duggan. Democrat, in
Worcester, and the reelection of Mayor Walter
| c. Wardwell. of Cambridge. by a close margin.
were some of the most conspicuous results of the
several mayoralty contests.
AS against to-day's gain of Worcester Lynn
and Woburn and that of Haverhill last week.
the temperance workers have only the loss of
Chelsea in to-day's balloting and Of Fftchburg
last week The changes in Lynn. Haverhill and
Worcester are regarded by the temperance ad-
vocates as the greatest victories in this state
since the local option law has been in effect
The movement is generally believed to be due
in part to the influence of prohibition sentiment
which has been expressed recently in other
strength against liquor selling have been the
immediate causes of the revolution.
In addition to the cities named there
eral places where the opposition to license was
materially increased.
FLORIDA PLEDGED TO ROOSEVELT.