The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1933-11-08

the ticket backed -pyk MS 1u8iOn
party upset Tammany's long DOM
nance of New York city govern
ment. In Philadelphia the Ware
machine could elect only one can
Many cities, including Cleveland.
Detroit, and Boston elected mayors.
Virginia elected a democratic gov
ernor and senator. Pennsylvania
elected a democratic member Of
the house of representatives.
Civic Revolution
New York, Nov 8-(UP)-A CIV
ic revolution, reaping the whirl-
wind of James j. Walkers seven
lush years in city hall, today found
the Tammany Hall political ma
chine shattered and reform group
headed by Major Fiorello II. La
Csuardia In complete domination Of
the next municipal administration.
LaGuardia, fiery, Independent
leader of a coalition of republicans
end anti-Tammany democrats,
overwhelmed both Tammany's cam
didate, Mayor John p. O'Brien, and
q second major opponent, Joseph
v. Mckee, recovery party" candi-
date and protegee of Postmaster
General James A. Farley, by q
plurality OF more than 100000.
The complete vote was:
LaGuardia-858,651.
McKec-604.055.
: O'Brien-586,100.
With LaGuardia were swept into
office the Fusion party's candidates
for comptroller, president of the
board Of aldermen, and the bor-
ough presidents Of, Brooklyn,
Queens and Richmond, to give the
party 10 out of the 16 votes on
the board Of estimate and control,
which is the dominant agency of
this municipal government.
While a thousand street cleaners
swept UP the flood of debris in mid
town New York, the residue from
the widest, most abandoned polit-
ical celebration known to the his
tory OF Father Knickerbocker, the
Tammany tiger retired to inspect
its wounds and count the few pol
itical offices salvaged from the cy-
clone of ballots.
Tammany Had One Comfort
Tammany was not without one
piece Of political comfort. Out Of the
battle 1t had saved one Of the most
coveted posts in the administration.
1t had elected William c. Dodge
district attorney, not only over Flu
sion's aristocratic Jacob Gould
Schurman, Jr, whose ancestral his
tory goes far back into New York's
own, but also over Ferdinand Pc
cora, recovery party candidate Of
recent national fame for his conduct
OF tho United States senate's inves-
tigation Of Wall Street.
Tammany also chung to the Dor.
ough presidency of Manhattan, re-
turning Samuel Levy to office by q
narrow margin over Fusion's can
didate, Langdon w. Post.
Among other names known to
OF New Workers. was
that Of another defeated candidate
Stratus, Jr, of O long line
OF merchant princes, who lost the
nldermanjc presidency to LaGuar-
dia's running mate, Bernard s.
Deutsch.
Tammany also emerged with
numerous aldermen, the vestigial
remnants of q municipal board
which LaGuardia himself threat
ems to abolish once he Is firmly In
the chair at city hall.
The victory Of fusion, arising out
of two major circumstances-th
revelations of Samuel Seabury's
Legislative investigation into NUM-
cipal corruption, and the desperate
financial situation resulting from
years Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COM
plete and convincing.
After Twenty Years
It marked the first time in 20
years that control Of city hall had
been wrcsted from the Columbian
order or the society of st Tam
many. It marked the second time
In two generations that the citizen-
~, aroused by revelations Of q pur-
ported liaison between politics and
crime, had been sufficiently aroused
10 vote down this powerful political
system. -
More than 2,0oo.0 900 voters, as
had been predicted, participated in
tho uprising, the largest number
to go to the polls in the history OF
the city with one exception, and
that was in the year OF Franklin
D. Rooscvelt's landslide.
Fiorello LaGuardia. the mayor.