The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-11-09
.HYLAN Wins OVER
ALL OPPOSITION
BY BIG MAJORITY
Democrats Now Have
Full Control of New
York City = Socialist
Slump Is Pronounced
95 Per Cent cf New
York's Voters Went To
the Polls

New York, Nov. 9.-"Democratic
candidates, headed by Mayor John f.
Hylan. made clean sweep of the
principal city and county Offices in
yesterdays municipal election, the
mayor receiving the unprecedented
plurality of 417,9S6.,
"The complete vote in the city's
2,079 election districts was:
Hylan, 754,S74 Henry H. Curran.
Republican, running on coalition
ticket, 336,SSS, and Jackob Panken,
Socialist, S3.2O9.
Mayor 1ylan's plurality is the larg-
est ever received by a Democratic
candidate for anv office in this city
and is comparable only with Presi-
dent Harding's plurality in the presi-
dental election last year. The high
est previous Democratic plurality was
that of former Gov. Alfred e. Smith.
who carried the city over Governor
Miller by 319,929 in last years cleo
tion.
o5 Per Cent Voted
approximately 80 per cent of the
city's 1,2G3.940 registered voters.
which included 447,O15 women. went
to the polls. John r. Voorhis. vet.
Gran of former elections, said it was
one of the quietest in his career. No
disorders were reported. In every Dor
ough Republican candidates went
down under an avalanche of Demo.
cratic votes, the mayors plurality in
each case exceeding the total vote
cast for Curran. In the Bronx he led
by more than 8 to l. Mayor Hylan
ran away ahead of his ticket, leading
Dock Commissioner Murray Hubert,
successful Democratic candidate for
president of the board of aldermen,
his nearest rival, by about $4,000
votes. State Senator Charles C.
Lockwood, Republican candidate for
comptroller, led the coalition ticket,
receiving approximately $4,000 votes
more than Curran, but nearly 25u,-
600 less than his successful Demo-
cratic rival.
The ticket elected was: Mayor,
John F. Hylan; comptroller. Charles
l.. Craig; president of the board of
aldermen, Murray Hubert; president
of the Borough of Manhattan, julius
Miller; president of the Borough of
Brooklyn, Edward F.. Reigelmann;
president of the Borough of Bronx,
Henry Bruclner; president Borough
of Queens, Maurice +. Connolly; pres
ident Borough of Richmond, Matthew
j. Cahill.
Democrats in Control
The smashing Democratic triumph
gives the party all the votes on the
important board of estimate and ap-
portionment, which consists of the
mayor, comptroller, president of the
board of aldermen and the five Dor
ough presidents The Democrats also
are assured of a heavy majority ir
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, 629,9S0;
Andrews, 36S,010, and Hezekiah vii
cox, Socialist, 102,254
Socialist Slump
There was a heavy slump in the
Socialist vote, Jacob Panken polled
approximately $4,000 less for mayor
than the vote cast for Morris Hill
quit four years ago. Socialists elect
ed 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 Is elec-
tion districts still to be heard from.
Women candidates for municipal
and county Offices, with the exception
of Miss Annie Mathews, successful
Democratic candidate for registrar OF
Manhattan county. did not fare wei
in the results. Miss Mathews defeat
ed her Republican opponent, Miss
Helen Vareck Roswell by a vote OF
approximate 2 to l
The vote in this city on the consti
tutional amendments. based on very
incomplete returns showed large ma.