The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-04
MULLINS CONFIDENT
 OF STRONG VOTE
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 1,028 voters in the First district had registered their choice on the ma chimes. In this district it was charged that a number of Democrats were openly cutting the ticket and swap ping votes for the minor places on the ticket in favor of Wilson. The poll ing place and vicinity in the First dis trict is usually alive with men on election day but this year there were few to be seen. Despite the cutting the Democratic committee estimated that the Democrats were holding not only their own in this district but they had a little the better of their opponents in the number of votes cast.
 In the Second district, another lively place on election day, unusual quiet prevailed. The voters came out all right, 500 casting their votes before l o'clock. It was claimed that many Re publicans in this district were voting l for the Progressive candidate for al- I derman. The Democrats predict that Mullins and the rest of the ticket will carry the district by a handsome ma | jority.
 Democrats in the Third district are confident of a good majority there for the entire Democratic ticket. They also predicted that John H. Cassidy the Democratic candidate for alder
 
 the vote of the district, 450 had been registered at noon.
 l Although predictions were being made that Wilson would run strong in the Fourth, Democratic workers were sanguine of a good majority for Null ! lins in the district and they openly asserted that Town Clerk Thomas and Alderman Walker would be returned by the vote from this district. At 'o'c clock 762, more than half the voters of the district had been checked as voting.
 In the fifth district 1900 votes had been cast at 2 o'clock which was con 1 sidered a. small vote at that hour. In fact in the early morning hours the vote was so small as to dishearten Re were crowded and those working in the district cheered up materially. Mullins men are confident that he will poll a larger vote than amp other Democratic candidate has in that sec tion- The Progressive vote was prac- | tically unknown but all testified that Ethe Socialists would not run up any alarming figures. The afternoon vote was below normal at press hour and the voters were being, sought by lead CTS and their henehmen.
 In the 9th district at o'clock when close to 1000 votes had been cast it was estimated that Mullins led by a substantial majority of at least 200. ) The Socialists were depressed and were said to have boiled practically nothing.
 Tn the 7th district .8e5 votes had been cast at 1 o'clock which was slightly in excess of the vote last year, slightly off in the early morning but recovering around the noon hour. EDemocrats claimed that Mullins was l running away ahead and inside re- I ports from the Republican side show | VI at that hour. There was a strong tendency to blame conditions to the threatening weather. The Socialist vote was estimated at about the same figure as two wears ago while the 1 Progressives were credited with prac- ] tical1y nothing in the district. 1 In the Eighth district half the vote had been boiled at noon time and the workers there said that the district would give Mullins and his mates on l the ticket one of the old time Demo | cratic majorities for which this dis 1 trict is famous.
 In the ninth, Mullins own district, the workers reported that he was 1 making fine run. This is also the l home district of George w. Cough 1 lin, Democratic candidate for city 1 clerk. An idea of the interest taken in the election in this district may be had from the fact that at noon 1,- I O84 votes had been cast, about 200 more than were registered at the same l tiIneI ast year. Although this Is nor mally a Republican district the work 1 CTS claim they will cut down the Re- l publican majority to as mall figure if Mullins and CoughIin do not carry the district.
 I Tn the 10th district a vote of but 1 $50 had been cast up to noon which was a little below one-ha1f of the en- tire vote. There was much disap- 1ir7fTz "A 1H -I1Is can voters and workers and the Dem ocrats rejoiced proportionately. Ac- | tive work was being shown in bringing the votes to the polls and both parties were inclined to claim ultimate vic | tory. The Progressive and Socialist vote was practically unknown and lit tie feared.
 In the 11th district an unusually
 early vote was cast, there being be-
 tween 75 and 100 votes above the
 preceding year at 2 o'clock. About
 $50 votes had been cast at noon time and both sides were confident of lead ing with much jubi1ation upon the
 part of Mullins adherents. It was said that the Progressive vote to noon.
 as far as could be estima ated, was
 about 50 and that the Socialists were
 not casting in large numbers. Watch
 CTS declared that the time taken in
 booths indicated that a straight ticket i was being voted on each side
 In the 12th district (hrst precincD
 the gloomy weather conditions which usually dwarf the vote did not stop the l outpouring of voters who came to the
 polls early. At noon time a. vote of
 700 had been cast, which is a little less
 than two-thirds of the total. Republi-
 can leaders claimed that Wilson was
 in the lead while the utmost buoyancy was noted among the Mullins adher-
 ents. All disclaimed that either So-
 cia1ists or Progressives would have a look in.
 In the 18th district (Second Pre-
 cinct) about the same conditions pre-
 vailed, with an early and heavy cast
 vote, the balloting falling off after ] noon time when about 900 had been