Evening star., 1921-11-09
Democrats SWEEP
NEW YORK ELECTION
Hylan Defeats Curran by Un-
precedented Plurality
of 417,986.
95 PER CENT CAST VOTES
Coalition Candidates Go Down Un-
der Avalanche of Oppos-
ing Ballots.
95 PER CENT CAST VOTES
Dy the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 9.-Demo-
cratic candidates, headed by Mayor
John F. Hylan, made a clean sweep
of, the principal city and county offices
in yesterdays municipal election, the
mayor receiving the Unprecedented
plurality Of 417,9ss.
The complete vote in the city's
2,079 election districts was: Hylan,
1854; Henry II. Curran. republican.
running on a coalition ticket. 336.SSs,
and Jacob Panken, socialist, S3,20s.
Mayor Hylans plurality is the larg-
est ever received by a democratic
and is comparable only with Presi-
dent Harding's plurality in the ;resi-
DENTAL election last year The high
est previous democratic plurality was
that of former Gov. Alfred +. Smith.
who carried the city over Gov. Miller
by S1s,929 in last years election.
Heavy Vote Cast.
approximately 95 per cent OF the
city's 1,263.e40 registered voters.
which included 447,Ol5 women, went
to the polls. John r. Voorhis, veteran
commissioner of elections, declared
it was one of the quietest elections in
his career. No serious disturbances
were reported.
In every borough. the coalition
candidates went down under an ava
lanche of democratic votes, the may
or's plurality in each case exceeding
the Bronx he led by more than three
20 one. Mayor Hylan ran away ahead
of his ticket, leading Dock Commits
sioner Murray Hubert, successful
democratic candidate for president of
the board of aldermen, his nearest
Senator Charles c. Lockwood. repub-
Iican candidate for controller. lead
the coalition ticket, receiving ap.
proximately $4,000 votes more thar
Mr.. Curran, but nearly 250,00o less
than his successful democratic rival
The ticket elected was:
Mayor, John F.. Hylan.
Controller, Charles L. Craig.
President of the board of aldermen.
Murray Hubert.
President borough Of Manhattan
Julius Miller.
President borough Of Brooklyn. Ed.
ward F. Reigelmann.
President borough of Bronx, Henry
Bruckner.
President borough Of Queens
Maurice E. Connolly.
President borough Of Richmond
Matthew ]. Cahill.
Big Democratic Triumph.
The smashing democratic triumph
gives the party all the votes on the
important board of estimate and ap-
portionment, which consists of mayor,
controller, president of the board of
aldermen and the five borough presi-
dents. The democrats also are as
sured Of heavy majority in the
board Of aldermen.
In the statewide contest for asso-
ciate judge of the court Of appeals.
Townsend Scudder, democrat, carried
the city by plurality of 261,975 over
William s. Andrews, republican. The
complete vote was: Scudder, 629,9SS;
andrews. 36S,010. and Hazekiah Will
cox. socialist. 102,254.
There was heavy slump in the So
cialist vote. Jacob Panken polled ap-
proximately $4,000 less for mayor
than the vote cast for Morris Hillquit
four years ago. Socialists elected
Louis Weitz as assemblyman in the
fourth Bronx district and August
Claessens, in the seventeenth New
York district Louis P. Goldberg,
their candidate in the twenty third
Kings district, was leading Joseph
Ricca, republican and democratic
candidate. by 219 votes, with fifteen
election districts still to be heard
from.
Women Fare Poorly.
Woman candidates for municipal
and county offices, with the exception
Of Miss Annie Mathews, successful
democratic candidate for register of
Manhattan county, did not fare well
in the results. Miss Mathew defeated
her republican opponent. Miss Helen
Varick Boswell, by a vote of approxi-
mate1y two to one.
The vote in this city on the consti-
tutional amendments, based on very
incomplete returns. showed large
InaJorities against the soldier civil
service preferment amendment and
the amendment providing for in
creased salaries for legislators and a
substantial majority in favor of the
]iteracy test for voters.
g. o. p. GETS 81 MAYORS.