The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
Results Of To-day
 In Connecticut Are
 Hard To Conjecture

vtes to the independents and others.
 The democrats hoped to capi- talize the advantage gained by the election in 1890 of governor-the first democrat to head the state government in about 15 years. A bitter row between the 'old guardn and new guard" factions of the party, enhanced by the Smith-. Roosevelt rivalry for the presiden- tial nomination, was believed to have hurt the party badly. How ever, Alfred E. Smiths speeches Tn behalf of Governor Roosevelt late in the campaign apparently helped the democratic chances in> this state.
 Seventy-year old Governor Cross campaigned widely, urging the electorate to return him for a sec- ond term with a democratic ma- jority in the legislature. He was the same interesting campaign figure as in his first campaign, when he urged the farmers to "boot the old settin' hen off the nest" Trumbull Campaign Weak The republican gubernatorial Gah0AudtCs 4I ulIOuAs 4Ild0G UuL 4CNx speeches. He had accepted the the demands of his business as a ances. He disliked speech making on his record as an administrator during two terms at Hartford.
 The injection of the, independ- IF Q n n hIinoS1 o,.tu SnfA trI,t otherwise have been an-uneveilt- full, ordinary republican democrat contest, placed the result in ex- treme doubt. The actual voting strength controlled by the dry of the election. The democrats made little or no effort to com ment on the Independents, appar- ently being content to profit by the dissention in the g. o. p. ranks. Leaders of the -insurgent party pointed to its apparent strength m rural sections as an indication 1t would make great inroads upon republican power, which has long derived its chief support in the small towns.
 Independents Most Active
 The independents were the most active campuigners of any of the partisans. With crusading zeal, they organized groups in most of the 169 towns of the state and held several rallies a day during the closing weeks of the campaign. Being composed in large measure of persons associated with the churches and the temperance or ganizatoins, they held the begin- nings of political machinery Tn most communities and were able to make unusual progress in assem- bling statewide political entity despite the fact they were estab- lished as a party only few months before election.
 In order to carry out their plan to support the Hoover-Curtis ticket nationally and their own dry can- didates for state offices, the inde- 'pendents nominated as presidential electors the same set of individu- als who had been chose for that functoin by the regular republi- cans this very nearly was their complete undoing. The republi- can Hoover electors informed the secretary of state they would not run on any ticket except their own. The secretary of state crossed the electors names off the independ- ent ticket and the new party went to court in an effort to win the right to use the Hoover electors.
 Tn the closely-fought legal bat tie before Superior Court Judge Edwin c. Dickenson at New Haven counsel for the electors and for the secretary of state raised the question of legality of the entire independent conventoin. However. tfis issue was waived when the judge found for the secretary of state and held the electors were entitled to refuse to accept nomina- tion. His decision quoted Calvin Coolidge's Do not chose to run'' declaration. There were only two similar cases in the legal history of the world on which he would base his judgment.
 Six Parties Represented
 Six parties were on the ballot the republicans, democrats, so-
 cialists, communists, socialist-la- borites and independent republi- cans. The last three gained bal lot listing by presenting petitions to the secretary of stsate carrying 5000 or more signatures.