The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-10
BUMP 6, Q. p.
 IN BEDDING
All of Mackenzie Candi- dates And Rest of Repub- hcan Ticket Repulsed At Polls.

Bedding, Nov. 10.-To gently re- buke the erring is one thing and to slam the everlasting daylights out of him is another. The latter style of 1 treatment was administered to the Republican ticket here on Tuesday by | the Democrats and many other voters. The carnage or debacle (the case seems to warrant the use of cruel and unusual language) was consequence | Of the intrusion into local politics of Harry Mackenzie, member of Rora- backs S state committee and prohibi- tion enforcement agent for Connecti- cut, who came here on recent Sun day and made up a ticket for adop- tion by the Republican caucus on the 1 following evening. At his solicita- Ition and behest Attorney s. c. Shaw consented to run for probate judge against J. B. Sanford, Dem ocrat who had been chosen to the office for sue cessive terms as the nominee of both parties. In return for accepting a nomination he did not desire MT Shaw was promised a state senator ship two years hence. A. G. Barnett, until then considered a sure winner of one of the representative nomina- tions, refused the proffer of later nomination and an ad interim ap- pointment from the party patronage bag and as a punishment for his re- calcitrancy was cast into the discard by the caucus to make way for Fred H. Judd, chairman of the town com mittee and vehement advocate of strict regularity in the make up of party tickets. These and the other selections of MT Mackenzie were all ratified by the caucus.
 When the news got out there en- sued a humming and seething. It should be known, declared the popu- lace, that we can stage a properly contentious political scrap without outside advice or attempted domina- tion and if anyone doubts our sensi- tiveness or capa bi1ity in these re- SDSctS observe T on election day.
 The observation can now be made and is instructive. All of the Mac kenzie candidates and the rest of the Republican ticket as well suffered de- feat by a majority slightly exceeding one hundred, a reversal of normal conditions without precedent in the towns political history. Of the 500 ballots cast 150 were mixed and five hours were occupiedGin the counting. Four of the counters were women. Judge Sanford heads the winning list with a majority of 109 and Michael Connery, representative, comes next with two votes less. MT. Judd, who credited with the Mackenzie in vasion, is last on the representative vote, and near the bottom of his
 The following lines are supposed to indicate the situation from the viewpoint of the Victors:
 Go sound the clashing cymbals and
 let the red fires glow
 We didn't do thing to them ex-
 cept to lay them low
 And castigate, and pulverize, and
 press them in the clay
 As outcome of the ending of a high
 ly perfect day.
 Great loquacity is needed our joy.
 fitness to show,
 And the same of dirge like nature
 to express the losers woe;
 The fine old town of Bedding shines
 like a beacon star
 With a blaze of civic glory which should penetrate afar.
 The Fates are frisky creatures who
 mock us and who bless,
 We never know what's coming-a
 blow or a. careSS;
 As the rightness of the ending is
 the testing of the tale
 May the rightness which now cheers
 us in our politics prevail