Connecticut western news., 1909-11-04

20OOO. George T. roesch,, for city ,ourt judge, was defeated by more
 ;,ln 30,000
 he mayor elect heard the result ill
 .s hone ill BrCUklyn and said:
 'I'u begin my term as mayor with ny back to the wall if it be true that the fusion men on the board of eSti- mate are to fight me. 1 pass no Opin- ion upon what they may do, but l ex- 1 ress my conviction that the power of public sentiment is the thing that all honest men must obtain to win results ill public Cftice, aid 1 hope to so do things as mayor that 1 shall have with
 he not only those who supported me, but great majority of those who Op- posed me. l do not fear for the city il the board of estimate"
 The strength of Judge GaynOr was Il complete surprise to- the Republican politicians. Polls that they made as- Sured them that Hearst would get more than 13O,OO0 votes, and they be- lieved that so per cent of that would bG DemOcratic They had expected that Hearst would divide the radical v0te and t@ey had believed that Ban nard could win by getting so per cent of the Republican vote and the con Scrvarive Democrats. In Chairman WOOdruff's home district, where there ought to have been POGO plurality fer Barnard. according to his expectations, he led Gaynor by little more than 300.
 Gayncr In Republican Districts.
 Parsons, who promised 3,OOO for Barnard ill his own district, saved it by about TOO votes from GaynOr. The result was similar everywhere in the city. GaynOr proved to be the real flu sion candidate of the people. In that Republican Gibraltar of Brooklyn, the Seventeenth district. usually good for 4,OO0 Republican, majority, Barnard led GaynOr by less than 2,000. In the Fifth district of Brooklyn, to which Republicans turn out every election night with the hope of sweeping ma jority, the plurality for Barnard over GaynOr was less than TOO.
 The Twenty-second district of Brook lyn, where 1000 majority has been boiled for the Republicans in hard fought battles, went entirely to pieces. There Barnard defeated GaynOr for fewer than 6J0 votes. Perhaps the crowning defeat of Woodruff in the city of Brooklyn was in the First as sembly district. known as the Brook lyn Heights section, where more mil liOnaires live than in any other part of the borough. The 2,O00 plurality for Taft disappeared. The great ma jority for Roosevelt was wiped out, and GaynOr carried this Republican by more than 450 plurality over Barnard.
 keen disappointment to the Hearst gathered at the headquar- terS of the Civic alliance at the Her mitage, FOrty-secOnd street and Sev- enth avenue. The leaders of the par ty did not seem to be surprised. In fact, Charles E. Gehring did not ar rive at the headquarters to hear the early returns. But the rank and file were confident that Hearst would sweep everything before him, and when the returns came in they could hardly realize the situation. ..
 How the Candidates Voted. |
 Otto T. Barnard was the first of the leading candidates for mayor to cast his vote. He was up early and reach el the polling place, d booth in the middle of West Fifty-eighth street be- tween Fifth and Sixth avenues, at S:4S a. m. 'I
 Three cheers for Barnard, our next mayOr!" was the cry as the clerk handed him ballot No. 61. He was in the booth just ninety seconds.
 MT. Barnard came near having to wait until a new polling place was prepared. A few minutes before he ar rived heavy wagon was driven into the little shanty in the middle of the street. It was dragged several feet and almost turned over. Several boards were ripped off the sides. The driver was arrested, but was discharg- ed in court.
 Judge GaynOr was in no hurry to vote. Apparently he had no fear that