New Britain herald., 1924-04-12

Republicans who have sufficient, recovered from the catacysm of las Tuesday are scratching their heads and wondering how it all happened AS they begin to check up, they art conjecturing on whether the result
 was so displeasing to ex-Mayor George A. Quigley as one not familiar witt
 local political conditions might think 1 Mir. Quigley was seen in front of his office on Main street "Wednesday morning smiling broadly and appar. 1 cntly well pleased with the world. Il
 is true that he rode around with eX- i Mayor Orson F. Curtis election day
 and created the impression that he
 was hustlng for the Grand Old Par
 ty, but the suspicion grows that he did
 not lose any sleep Tuesday night after 1 the results had come in and it was ! definitely decided that Mayor A. Nj.
 Paonessa hal been reelected.
 | When MT. Quigley ran for mayor 1 two years ago the republican organi- l lation sat by and twiddled it's thumbs. 1 When anyone reminded it that an election was. in progress, it yawned, | politely covered it's lips with its ! fingers, Winked and said Do tell" As result, Mir. Quigley went down to defeat and he was not slow about issuing a statement accusing the re- publican leaders of Intentionally let
 ting the victory go to democrat by default. And no one denied the charge.
 This year MT. Quigley dictated the
 candidate, the law partner of Judge
 George w. KIett, whom Mir. Quigley
 does not admire. After that it was
 "Hurrah, Boys" The split in the
 rarty had been healed. There was
 harmony. with Mir. Quigley swinging the baton and leading the chorus. Re publican leaders were counting on sweeping the democrats off their feet. Then the ballots were counted. The gloom in G. o. P. headquarters was so thick battle axe would have been required to chip off small pieces.
 Since that fateful day, analysts have been studying the figures. What happened in the second and fourth wards. That's the question of the hour. Mir. Quigley is a resident of the second ward, which he is supposed to hold in the hollow of his hand. He is also said to wield much influence in the fourth ward. The second gave, the republican candidate, Judge All ing, a plurality of 162, when at least .OO0 was expected. The fourth ward gave Paonessa plurality of 2i, which. in itself, was a calamity. Peo- pie are beginning to inquire into the reason for the debacle.
 It is said that Mir. Quigley feels that things are as they should be. His old enemy, Judge klett, received a beating where it would hurt most, right in his own office.
 Politics is'a funny thing.
 Rumors of what is going 10 happen to the republican town committee are being circulated freely. Members Of the committee held a Lodge of Sor- row Wednesday evening at headquar- ters, although no formal session had been called.
 It was said that someone present that the entire committee resign. Ii has since been said that the committee has resigned, but at this writing it has been impossible to confirm this story.
 The committee is said to be thor | Jughly discouraged. It had at its all the resources it could i, imagine. A fleet of automobiles larg- 1 pr than has ever been used in this 1 city before piled the streets between | dawn and dark, as it developed. car- rying Paonessa voters to the polls l The committee could have had more | if it thought they were | needed. But confidence of a rcpubli- can victory was in the air. In fact there were few democrats who expect ed Paonessa to win by such large 1T he won at all. Ii was con- reded that the republicans had the and all the money neces- sary. All straws blew in the direc- ton of republican sweep.
 But there is something else to be counted. During the war a British statesman described it is the 'iin- force that makes for victory in spite of all odes. This same force turned the tide of battle at the polls last Tuesday. The thousands or men and women who went to the machines silently determined to re- elect Paonessa, and did reelect him without making any noise about it, turned the trick.
 With the municipal election out Of the way, politicians are scanning the horizon for signs which will indicate popular sentiment in the fall when inc electors will register their prefer