Evening star., 1937-11-03
NEW YORK'S VOTES
BURY TAMMANY;
: c. |. 0. LOSES TEST
La Guardia and Dewey
Sweep Whole Ticket In.
Reading Detroit Mayor.
JERSEY GOVERNORSHIP
CAPTURED BY MOORE
Bruce Barton Unseats Democrat
in Congress Race-Gotham
Ballot Sets Record.
As the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Mounting returns emphasized today
the defeats absorbed by Tammany
Hall and the Committee for Industrial
Organization in two of yesterdays
principal elections.
Old Tammany took its second sue
cessive beating when New York voters
reelected Mayor Fiorello La Guardia
by a record-breaking total and select
ed racket-smashing Thomas E. Dewey
for district attorney of New York
County.
The c. I. O.. in its first major bid
Tor direct political power, lost the
Detroit mayoralty to Richard w.
Reading, an unaffiliated candidate
with American Federation of Labor
support. Patrick H. O'Brien was the
c. I. o. candidate.
Because of the dominance of local
issues, party leaders found few clues
TO national political trends in the
scattered off-year elections. Late re-
hulllS SliOWeQ UOQdy LldC.
Senator A. Harry Moore of New
Jersey won back for the Democrats
the governorship he has held twice.
leaving the Republicans with only 6
Governors out of 48.
Barton Is Elected.
Bruce Barton, advertising execu-
five ord oil -
House from New York's silk stock
Ing" district, replacing a Democrat
and increasing Republican strength
IN that branch of Congress by one.
Three other congressional elections to
fill vacancies developed no party
switches.
Former Gov. James NJ Curley of
Massachusetts, lost his political come
back race for Mayor of Boston to
Maurice j. Tobin. 26, in a non-par-
tisan f1ve-man contest
Scully Wins In Pittsburgh.
Cornelius D. Scully, Democrat, won
reelection as Mayor of Pittsburgh.
James H. Price, Democrat, was cas-
lily elected Governor Of Virginia.
Cleveland reelected Republican
Mayor Harold H. Burton.
Foremost in general interest was
La Guardia's striking victory in New
York. He was the first reform" can
didate ever to beat Tammany twice
In row and carried with him many
candidates on his ticket.
Thu cfnrku
received 1,344,016 votes-a margin Of
454,425 over jeremiah T. Mahoney,
Democrat, who polled 889,59l. Both
nominees are supporters of President
Roosevelt's policies.
Running with La Guardia. Dewey
seized from Tammany by a similarly
striking margin the most important
office it had saved at the time of the
Fusion victory four years ago. Dewey
beat Tammany's candidate-Harold
E. Hastings-in the organization's
stronghold, Manhattan, by 108, 1928
votes. The totals were: Dewey,
325,747; Hastings, 216,924.
Labor Party's Vote.
Their victories projected both La
Guardia and Dewey into speculation
over national politics of the future.
They had American Labor party as
well as Republican support. The
Labor party registered 482,459 votes
Tor La Guardia. The Republican total
for the Mayor was 672,823.
Despite an apparently complete de-
feat in Detroit, c. 1. o. chieftains
found some cheer in having partici-
pated in the New York and Pittsburgh
mayoral victories.
But the labor organization found
the political going rough in Canton
and Akron, Ohio, where it actively
participated in city elections. Both
reelected Republican Mayors opposed
by c. I. O.-supported Democrats.
swept into Office with Mayor La
Guardia, who ran on a Republican.
Fusion, American Labor party ticket.
were La Guardia candidates for con-
troller, president of the City Council
and all but one of the city's five
borough presidents, giving the Mayor
control OF the Board of Estimate, the
city's home rule upper house. Con-
troll of the newly chartered CITY
Council will not be apparent for some
time owing to delay in tabulating
p. r." ballots for that body.
Successful Candidates.
Successful candidates who ran with
La Guardia's approval were: Joseph D.
McGoldrick, controller, plurality. 225,-
800; Newbold Morris, president City
Council, plurality, 223,005; Raymond
v. Ingersoll, borough president of
Brooklyn, plurality, 124,478; Stanley
M. Isaacs, borough president Man
haitian, plurality, 40,591; George U.
Harvey, borough president of Queens
plurality, 1870; Joseph A. Palma,
borough president Of Richmond, plu-
sslity, 1913.
In the Bronx, James j. Lyons, a
regular Democrat, hostile to the
Mayors policies. was reelected.
The sweep gives La Guardia Is of
!. the Is Board of Estimate votes.
The total vote was the highest ever
cast in purely local election-2,233,-
607-and La Guardia's vote was the
largest ever given a moyoral candidate