New Britain herald., 1921-11-08
NEW WORKERS VOTE
 IN CITY ELECTION
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plunglng the city into debt and caus- Ing a Reorganization and deterora- ton of it's transit facilities.
 Fighting Finish.
 Mr. Curran made his final appeal to the voters last night by wireless speaking into radio mouthpiece at the Highbridge Wireless station. which flashed his words to 15,O0O stations in and about New York. Mayor Hylan was forced to cancel three eleventh hour speaking engage ments because of throat affection.
 Socialist leaders admitted their mayoralty candidate, Magistrate Ja- cob Pankin, had no chance to be elected, but they were claiming six aldermanic seats six seats in the state assembly from the greater city and one Bronx county office.
 Other Principal Candidates.
 Other principal candidates are: charles C. Lockwood republican, and Charles l.. Craig democrat; for comp troller and Vincent Gilroy, republican and Murray Hubert, democrat, for president of the board of aldermen. Five borough presidents also are to be elected, one of the candidates for the presidency of the borough of Manhattan being Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, communist candidate.
 Chief interest so far as women are concerned ccnters in the contest for register of New York county in which all the principal candidates are women. They are. Helen VaricI Boswell republican; Annie Mathews, democrat; Olga Long, socialist, and Grace Scribner, farmer-labor.
 This being an off year in state and national politics, municipal contests feature the annual fall elctions being held throughout the country today.
 Virginia Picks Governor.
 Only one state, Virginia, is elect ing governor, the rival candidates being State Senator F. Lee Trinkle democrat and Henry D. Anderson, re- publican. Trinkle's supporters pre- dict his election by plurality of 5O,- 900, while .Anderson's headquarters claim victory by 25,O00 A heavy vote is expected.
 Several states are eleCting new leg islatures in whole or in part. Ken lucky elects 20 senators and 100 rep rescntatives in addition to circuit judges and complete county tickets The house is republican now by a small majority while the democrats have a majority of one in the state senate. A bitter fight has been waged for control of the state legis- latiVe body with the vote hinging on the result in four doubtful districts. | Louisville elects a complete city ticket with five, parties offering candidates for nearly all offices. These include the recently organized negro party | the Lincoln Independents.
 New Jersey Elections.
 New Jersey elects new assembly | and'six state senators. The campaign | there was based on wet and dry" issue, the republicans favoring a strict | of the Van Ness state | prohibition act, while the democrats | favored it's modification or repeal. The democrats cannot pos sibly get control of the state senate | as il of the 15 holdover senators are republicans--a majority of the full | house of 21. They expect, however, | to get a majority in the lower house | and to elect enough candidates to the senate to give them a majority on joint ballots which would enable | them to elect q democrat as state | reasurer./
 New York chooses a new assembly | .wo state senators and an associate | judge of the court of appeals in ad- lition to voting on seven COnstitu- | tional amendments one of the most | bitterly contested being that which | gives world war veterans preference | in civil service appointments. Mayor | llty elections also will be held in more than 40 cities of the state.
 The principal city elections are in New York city, Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Albany Buffalo. Troy, Schen- nctady, Rochester and Syracuse. Cleveland has seven candidates for mayor and Cincinnati four. In AL bany which has been under republi-