New Britain herald., 1918-11-06
DEFEAT OF QUIGLEY
 ELECTION SURPRISE Even Democrats Expected Him to
 Win Majority at Home OTHER REPUBLICANS WIN

Than For Hin,-K1ett-Lande Fight Kept Interest at High Pitch
 Hall and Covert In.
 1 Official election figures available to-
 day at the office of the city clerk re- veal that Mayor George A. QuigIey, 1 republican candidate for congress,
 was defeated in this city by Congress- 1 man Lonergan, democrat, by a major
 ity of 230. Without doubt, this was l the biggest surprise of the campaign l as even the democrats expected the
 republican candidate to go out of { New Britain with a lead of between l 800 and 1000 and, it is said, the re- publicans anticipated even a larger 1 margin than that.
 1 Analysis of the figures shows that Mayor Qugley ran behind l other republican candidates in every l ward in the city although the reason 1 is not plain unless President Wilson's appeal for support can be held re- sponsible for this condition Mayor Qugley failed to awaken party re- , sponse even in republican wards, and in the fourth ward, which is usually counted upon to give the G. o. P. nomination a fragrant bou- quet he barely escaped defeat A large number of Swedish voters live
 in the fourth ward and it was ! whispered long before election day that they were working to win the , election for Congressman Lonergan. It was really the sixth ward that turned what appeared to be a slight for ! victory. In this ward, the Jewish voters were almost solid for Mr. Lon ergan and they rallied to his support at the polls in such manner that political forecasts were reversed. The sixth ward is strongly democratic, but , seldom has it made such an impress sion on the city result MT. Loner-
 gans majority in the district was 4162.
 klett Defeats Landers by "A. Second only In importance to the Lonergan- -Quigley battle was the race between Senator George W. Klett, re- publican, and George M. Landers democrat for state senator, which was won by MT. Klett by a majority of "A. Early unofficial returns not in- cluding the soldier vote. indicated MT.
 Ianders had won by 69, but the shoe
 was on the other foot, as the official , report shows. It was estimated a few days ago that MT. Klett's majority would be in the hundreds and the fact that MT. LanderS was able to reduce it to less than 100 is considered by the democrats as a feather in their cap as
 MT. Klett is a man of no little political prestige in the city.
 Governor Holcomb captured the city by a majority of 67, a narrow squeak Addition of the figures cast by all parties and for all candidates again st Governor Holcomb show that he did not have a majority of all votes cast.
 His poll was 2855 and the number of votes cast against him was 3139 Thomas Egan won a majority of 156 against his democratic opponent for sheriff.
 Edward F. Hall and Richard Covert defeated Abra ham Gorback and
 Charles F.. Hart for representatives,
 by small margins.
 Complete official returns of the
 city's vote will be found on page 6.
 Justices Of the Peace.
 The vote on justices of the peace
 was as follows:
 Benjamin W. Alling, rep. .....2,773
 George w. Andrews, rep. .2,767
 Mortimer H. Camp, rep. ......2,768 Antoni Ciezynslzi, rep. ....t....2, 2,764
 James F. Cooper, rep. ......2,769 Emil J. Danberg, rep. .....2,771
 Louis Falletti, rep. .2,76S
 William Greenstein, rep. .......2,768 Frederick Bungerford, rep. ....2,769
 George w. Klett, rep. ........2,766
 James T. Meskifl, rep. ......2,776 Charles Fl. Mitchell, rep. ....2,770 Irving H. Rachlin, rep. ........2,768 Morris D. Sake, rep. .........2,766 Joseph c. Woods, rep. ......t.. .2,774 EWard F. filling, dem. ........2,7 701 Alexander BrzozOwy, dem. ....2,705 David L. Dunn, dem. .,......2,704 E. F. Gaffney, dem. ........J. ,708 George Levitt, dem. ..,...,..,2,704 Wm. F. Mangan, dem. ........2,703
 F. F. McDonough, dem. ~......2,704 Daniel O'keefe, dem. .........2,70 704 Thomas F. Riley dem. ........2,704 Elias T. Ringrose, dem- .2,704 Henry P. Roche, dem. 700
 Richard O. Schaefer, dem. ,...2, TOP Ralph E. Wainwright, dem. ....2,704
 James I. Watson, dem. 2,705
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