The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-04
DRAWN FIGHT
 ON LICENSE
Vets Win Five Towns and Drys Four, Making Result
 About Even
CORNWALL BY SINGLE VOTE
Won by Vets by This Small Margin
 Illustration Ballot Causes
 Trouble.


 Trouble.
 The friends of license were victor
 ious in their fight in the AS of the
 168 small town elections, yesterday,
 taking five towns from the no license column while the advocates of no li-
 cense took four towns from the list
 of last years no licensed towns
 The towns taken from the no license
 Old Saybrook, Plymouth, New Hart
 ford and Cornwall, the last town be-
 ing won by one vote: The dry element
 field and Brookfeld, from the license
 column. Aside from the general in
 terest in the outcome of the license outside of the towns themselves was
 the use of the Australian ballot in
 this state for the first time. Great difficulty seemed to be experienced by many voters as was attested bv
 the number of ballots thrown out by
 the counters as illegal. - In some of the towns the number reached over
 fifty. Most of the ballots are said to have been made void by the failure to mark a cross in the circle at the head of the several parties or in all lowing the cross to run outside the lines of the circle. Although the in 1 terest in the license question seemed | to be greater than last year and the battles fought in many of the towns were long and bitter, the total number l of votes, unofficia1ly, did not equal | those of last year. This year there
 were 27,921 votes cast and last year ! 3O,237. This year 15,543 were cast for
 license and 12,S7s for no license, last 1 year the yes vote stood 16, 405 and the | no license vote Is, 1892.
 As result of yesterdays outcome 1 of the vote on the license question at least one contest is expected. In ] last night that they will make a con l test claiming that the notice of | vote on the question was not insert 1 ed in the call required by the 1 statutes and look for the same sue cess as attended them last year when
 after the. town had voted no license, | 278 to 330, the validity of the vote l was attacked on the grounds claimed 1 this year and the courts upheld them. License was lost this year 305 to BIO. In Montville the fight was particular | 1y bitter, brought about by the out 1 come of last years vote which stood l 113 for and 112 against until one Of | the license votes was declared illegal and the town remained as it had the
 year preceding, no license. Yesterdays vote was 211 for, 276 against, one of l the largest votes cast on the license | question in the history of the town. The no-1icense elemen1 were jubi1ant last night and feel that they have won a weII-earned victory. The ex- ponents of license in Old Saybrook l are congratulating themselves on hay 1 ing returned the town to the license column after a year of dryness and 1 in which there have been several raids in places in which liquor was sold il- legally. Last year the town went a majority of three and this year it is returned to the license people by a majority of 1O- Yesterdays vote be- ing 139 for to 129 against the sale of liquor.
 The carrying of New Hartford for
 license yesterday is looked upon with satisfaction by the anti-drys after their experience of last year. The vote last year gave license 179 and
 no license 167, but the validity of the vote was questioned by the no license people on the ground that the mo-
 tice of the vote on the question was
 not properly inserted in the call and on the case being taken to the higher courts the illega1ity of the notice was sustained and the town remained dry for the coming year. In Chester, which was returned to the dry col urnn there was a large falling off in the vote for license over that of
 last year. Last year the vote for li-. cense was 215 and this year but 133 affirmative votes were cast. The no vote last year was 149 and yesterday 176. North Canaan, last year went H- cense by one vote, today went dry by fifteen votes, nearly twice many voting as the year before Last years vote IA to 113, and today's 2l6
 dry there was margin of but five votes, 101 being cast for and 106 against, last year the town went lf- cense by the same majority, 103 votes being cast for license and 98 against
 it. Here. the fight that was waged ! previous to voting yesterday was se- vere> avail. the vets carried the town by one vote, 1o6 to 105; last year the town went dry, 104 to 113.
 The no license vote in Plymouth show 1 ed a marked falling off from that 1 of last year, when the town went no
 license by majority of 104; yesterday | vets carried the day by majority l of A. In KIIingworth it will be dry 1 the coming year, the no license ele- ment having carried the town yester- | day by majority of one, 36 votes | being cast for and 37 against license. The last year no vote having been taken. In Branford which remains in | the wet column by a majority fifty per cent smaller than given last year, | the first district voted 479 for to 3O6 | against and the second district SS for and IT against.
 The loss of votes to the different parties by the failure of the voters l to properly mark the Australian bal I lot used yesterday for the first time, was much greater than has ever been l the case.
 1 Sun rises tomorrow -......-. 5:53 a. m. Sun sets today .............. 5: :31 p. m. High water II 46 a.. m.