The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-05
Warden Green And
 His Entire Ticket
 Voted Into Office
Miss Emily Sophie Brown, G. O. P. Candidate, Buried Under 433 Votes Republican Stronghold in Third Ward Reduced to Minimum

1 ponent, Miss Emily Sophie Brown. | He ran ahead of his ticket 25 votes.
 Miss Brown on the other hand ran behind her ticket about 30 votes. The democrats yesterday presented a united front and carried the day. l Warden Green taking the first and second wards and cut the former stronghold of the republicans in the third ward to a minimum. His plur- ality in the first ward which is | strongly democratic was Al, the
 second he carried by 114 and lost out in the third by 122. His vote in the first ward was 1899 to Miss
 Browns 658 in the second his vote
 was 525 to All for Miss Brown and
 in the third, Miss Brown received | 778 to Warden Greens 65S, the total
 being 2,2SO for Warden Green and 1S47 for Miss Brown. Yesterdays win puts the Jeffersonians in com-
 plete control of the borough govern
 ment, being in a position to appoint
 all of the officials, including the superintendent of charities and per- sonal tax collector. It is the first time since 1911 that the democrats have been in 8 position to name the superintendent of charities. The past administration of Warden Green in the handling of the unemploy-
 ment situation played big part in the big vote given to him yesterday. He has labored hard for many
 months on behalf of the unemployed being chairman of the projects com
 mittee along with his work as war
 den. In line with his overwhelm- ing victory the voters also decided to
 increase the warden's salary from
 $2OO to $1,000 a year.
 At the present session of the gen.
 eral assembly bill sponsored by i Rep Hugh Burns of this borough to increase the warden's salary was acted on favorably with the under
 standing that if the freemen ap- proved of the measure it would be-
 come law. The vote on the ques- tion was 894 for the increase and | 529 against. Many voters failed to vote on this question as the total
 vote was but 1,513 while over 4,1O0 votes were cast for the candidates.
 The vote was larger than was an- l ticipated and exceeded the vote of last May by over 500. At noon hour yesterday the vote was very light but in the afternoon the voters came out
 strong and the votes piled up fast.
 While it was expected that Miss
 Brown would make her strongest
 showing in the third ward, she fell far below the usual vote given to re- publican candidates in the past.
 In last falls election Judge Martin
 E. Gormley made strong inroads in this ward also when he lost 1t by only 70 votes. It begins to look as though the democrats are getting
 a footing in this ward and leaders of the party were predicting last night that it will eventually be in the democratic column.
 Charles F. Daly present tax collec- tor won over his republican oppon- ent, Edward c. Lingenheld by 37S and John Kiernan was elected treas- urer over F. Alton Clark, the repub- lican candidate by 376. There was
 very little splitting the tickets in
 the balloting outside of the candi-
 dates for warden. Louis Schiller,
 Jr, present town clerk was the only
 candidate unopposed, he was en-
 dorsed by both parties and received Ia. total of 4133 votes. The democrats
 elected Mary J. Fitzgerald and, Wi1-
 liam Fellows as selectmen and
 Charles Messner, republican was al-
 so elected a selectman. He re- ceived 12 more votes than Edna C. Fenniman the other republican can didate for selectman.
 The incoming board of warden and burgesses will be the same as
 last year with the exception of John
 Burke who was elected by the demo-
 crats from the first ward. The new
 borad will hold their organization
 meeting next Monday night and will name a borough clerk, superinten-
 dent of streets, borough attorney, borough engineer, building insp,Ator, chief and assistant chiefs of the fire superintendent Of fire alarm and fire marshal. The. new board will also have the naming or two members of the board of chari- ties, borough assessor and member of the board of relief.
 It will mark Warden Greens third term as warden being elected flrst
 to the office in 1928. In 1929 he was again a candidate but a split in the party found three tickets in
 the field and he lost out to Frank Lobdell. Last year he was again the party candidate and came through with flying colors. He is one of the best liked wardens that has served the borough.
 He was pleased with his election and when the result was announced he made the following statement:
 II thank all the citizens of the bor- ough for their splendid support, and especially the mem bers of my party. I will continue to give the borough Ia busineSs-lik administration to
 the best of my ability"
 | Miss Emily Sophie Brown, the re- l republican candidate congratulated l Warden Green in the town hall