New Britain herald., 1915-11-03
M'CALL WINS | MASS. REPUBLI
Net Gain of Seven L|
 Seats Made in Bay {
NO RECALL OF BOSTON
Ex-Congressman Polls Seed gest Vote Tn History Of : Gov. waIsh-Prohibiion
 cures Large Number of !

cures bdES1 NutpNA WE
 Boston, Nov. 3.-The R party regained control of t tive department of the statd ment yesterday, after an in five years, when Samuel w a former congressman wa governor by a plurality of 6 Governor David l. Walsh,
 The remainder of the republi ticket was elected by stl pluralities and the republics a net gain of 2 seats in the le
 The proposed amendment constitution granting the rigf frage to women was defeatt majority of 132,0S3. Partial indicated probable adoption stitutional amendments em i the legislature to enact laws ing for different rates of tax various classes of property
 thorizing the purchase by the land for homesteading purp
 Statistics of Vote. A revision today of last nj turns showed the complete the state for governor and lii governor and on the suffrageI ment to be as follows
 For governor: Samuel w. (republican) 235,918 David Il (democrat) 229,312; WilIia1 (prohibition) 19,624; Nela Clark (progressive) 7,034.
 For lieutenant governor: Coolidge Republican, 250,9I ward P. Barry (democrat) Suffrage: Yes. 163, ,4O6; no,
 The remainder of the stat elected, all republicans, is:
 Secretary of state. Albert T try. .l.a'
 Treasurer, Charles l.. Buri Auditor, Alonzo B. Cook.
 Attorney general Henry C. New Legislature.
 The make of the new leg is: senate, republicans, 34, del 6, a net gain of one republican republicans 166, democrats 73, ist 1, a net gain of 6 republical gives the republicans a major 120 on a joint ballot.
 One of the features of the was the dwindling of the proL vote to a figure which depriv, party of legal standing in tn, Three years ago Charles s. Bir progressive candidate for go boiled 126,10 votes and in Il increased this to 127,655, Il ahead of the republican nomine year only 32,145 votes were q progressives for governor an| terday the party, so far as Mas setts is concerned, collapsed. ing the campaign both BifI Joseph Walker, last years progi nominee for chief executive their active support to McCal the result showed that they ( back with them into the repu camp the larger part of their f CTS.
 Prohibition Vote.
 The prohibition party, on the hand for the first time in this with one anomalous exception tained the status of a legal pal polling more than the required per cent. of the total vote. TT ception was in 1906, when Jo running for governor on the democratic and prohibition t boiled 25,634 otes in the prohi column. In recent years the bition vote has ranged between and $500 that of last year beii 264.
 Shaw, the party nominee fori nor, who is general secretary o Christian Endeavor society ma active stumping campaign throu the state and made an especial 10 attract the vote of former DIT sives.
 Mccall Had Large Vote
 The vote cast for Mccall wa argest, with one exception, boiled by candidate for goverr his state, and the total vote was some ten thousand behind the r, last year Walsh defeated McCs , plurality of 11,S15. Yesterday made a substantial rease over their vote of 1914, bu lump of the progressives and tn rease in the total vote gave M he advantage Walsh carried ity of Boston by 22,644 votes, his was a falling off in plurali , ,369 from last year.
 Issues confused.
 The issues upon which the va made their campaigns confused. Mccall, harging democratic eXtrayagan he state and criticising appointr nade by Governor Walsh, directs nereies chiefly to attacking the Ional administration. In this ht arnestly supported on the stuml Bird and by republican leaders utside the state. Walsh declin ake up the gage on behalf of ! en Wilson, asserting that duestio ational policy had no part in ampaign, and devoted himself tContinued on Thirteenth Paa