The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-20
Candidate for Congress Turn.
ed 10000 Republican vot.
ers to His Cause
PERSONALITY Of THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE WAS An element
Was Connected With the Insurance
Scandals Unearthed at Albany by
Governor Hughes-Low Tariff Also
Figured !, ss12ssratic Victory.

democratic column. yesterday
elected the first Democratic congress-
man that has represented the Thirty
second district in twenty years. James
5. Havens, Democrat, running on q
tarfn reform platform, defeated Geo,
w. Aldr1dge, for score of years the
ruler of the county Republican or
ganization, by $500 votes.
Monroe county, which comprises
the Thirty-second congressional dis
trict, Is normally Republican by about
5000. James Breck Perkins, whose
death in the middle of his third con-
gressional term necessitated a spe-
cial election yesterday, carried the
district in 1908 by 1O.167 votes.
Havens had arrayed against him
one of the strongest political organi-
cations in the state. Yet in a cam
patgn lasting but seventeen days and
with a hastily constructed machine,
he accomplished one of the most re-
markable oyerturns in political his
tory. The result of yesterdays elec-
tion takes its place beside the DEM
ocratic victory In the Seventh-fourth
Massachusetts district, where Eugene
N. Foss was sent to congress from q
district supposed to be as rockribbed
nepuOllcan CnlS one.
Rochester is a city of both homes
and factories. Monroe county is one
of the states garden spots, crowded
with productive farms. Rochester has
q reputation rs q manufacturer of
mems clothing, shoes, Photographic
supplies, buttons and various small
wares that require skilled labor.
Mr.. Havens rode to victory on q
platform. advocating tariff reform in
the interests of the consumer, q re-
vision of the duties on woolsand wool
en- goods; a. removal Of the tax on
hides and lumber, removal of the
tariff on iron ore, and an income tax;
and, finally, advocating independence
Of all political bosses of any party.
Mr. Aldrich, his opponent, content
ed himself with general proclamations
lican administration. On the, tariff
proposition he was regarded as a
'standpatter"
Personal Element
Both candidates declared for reci-
procity with Canada, an employees
compensation act, a parcels post and
q postal savings bank. The DEM
ocrats acknowledged that one of the
many factors in yesterdays political
sentiment was personal issue raised
by Mr.. Aldrich's record as a party
boss and evidence presented at the
recent fire insurance investigation.
Mr.. Aldrich acknowledged that he re-
ceived $1,000 check from Elijah
Kennedy, an agent of the fire insur-
ance companies, but denied that he
benefited personally by the transfer.
He declared that he turned the money
into the treasury of the Republican
organization.
This so-called moral issue was TAX
en- up by the churches and no. less
than twenty clergymen announced
themselves in Havens' favor.
Mr.. Aldridge's defense was that his
record stood for itself. He sum-
moned. to his aid several thousand of
Monroe county voters, who were, un-
der obligation to him for political
favors. and the polling places were
thronged with workers wearing his
dark blue badge. Outside Of the dis
trict he received little, If any assist
ance. Mr.. Havens, on the other hand,
was helped by the Democratic ma
tional committee which sent here such
speakers as Charles H. Hamlin Of
Massachusetts, former assistant Sec
retary of the treasury under Presi-
dent Cleveland. and Eugene N. Foss.
the newly elected congressman from
the same state.
In spite of the excitement of the
campaign the election passed OF
quietly. Notwithstanding Democratic
charges of illegal registration there
were no arrests.
Voting machines were used In this
city and in a majority oethe nineteen
towns of the county and the result of
the balloting was apparent within a
half hour after the polls closed. At
6 o'clock Mr.. Aldridge's managers
acknowledged his defeat by about
5000 plurality. A few minutes later
complete tabulation of the city
showed that Havens' plurality In the
city alone beat these figures. The
towns joined the procession with SINH
lar results.
The overturn in the city was from
a Republican plurality Of 6,215 in the
last congressional election Of 1908. to
a plurality for Havens of 3.746. The
towns, which in 1908. went Republt-
can by 30,992, gave Havens a plural
ity of 2,154. The most remarkable
Republican reverses occurred In some
of the residence wards.
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