The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-01
ELECTIONS HAVE
 SIGNIFICANCE
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Democratic organization.
 New Deal Divided


 The La Guardia -Mahoney contest has divided the New Deal organiza- ton. National and State Demo- cratic Chairman James A. Farley spoke for Mahoney in New York city, although he avoided any condemna- ton of La Guardia who is regarded as more or less of 8 New Dealer. President Roosevelt has taken no part in the campaign.
 Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes on two occasions has boosted La Guardia's candidacy, once in a public works administration speech in New York ana, again, in posing for a March of Time news reel which made something of a hero of New York's mayor.
 Would Reawaken Tammany
 Election of Mahoney would give him power in Q reawakened Tam many Hall and a backlog of down. state city votes if his candidacy materializes. La Guardia's election would bring Tammany close to de- struction and possibly permit Farley to take 1t over by default, if he so desired, although its political poe tency would be debatable.
 Teamed with La Guardia IS Thomas F. Dewey, in his mid-thir- ties, who is candidate for district attorney of New York county, Tam many's own bailiwick. Dewey won coast-to-coast fame as a special rackets prosecutor in New York city.
 Harold w. Hastings, Democrat, opposes Dewey for a job as vital to Tammany as the naayoralty. Control of the New York county district at- torney's office is rated the minimum which Tammany must have to sur- vive as 8 political force.
 Lewis Endorses La Guardia John L. Lewis had endorsed La- Guardia in New York but labor is a comparatively minor factor in New York city compared to Detroit where the American Federation of Labor and Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization support rival mayoralty candidates. The CIO Is backing Patrick O'Brien, former Michigan attorney general. The A. F. of |. supports City Clerk Richard w. Reading. Some bolting A. F. of L. support has shifted to OBrien, but the issue is fairly clearly drawn in & contest between the two disputing wings of organized labor. A win for OBrien would raise Lewis to first rank political influence in the rla- tion's fourth city.
 Lewis and the CIO also have five candidates for Detroit's city council, one more than 8 majority if all are elected.
 Boston Election
 Municipal contests in Philadel- phia, Cleveland and Boston are of local significance, although the ef- fort of former Governor James Curley to come back in politics as democratic candidate for mayor of Boston may lead Massachusetts original Roosevelt for President" man back to national prominence.
 Sen. A. Harry Moore, who came to the senate only because he could not lawfully succeed himself as gov- ernor of New Jersey, again is the democratic nominee for governor. His republican opponent Is State Sen. Lester H. Clee.
 Moore if elected tomorrow will be New Jerseys choice for democratic presidential nomination in 1940, as- suming MT. Roosevelt Is not @ can- didate, and perhaps regardless of MT. Roosevelt.
 In an earlier Congressional by. election in @ Massachusetts indus trial constituency, New Deal pres. tige was maintained by election of . New Dealer to i'll the vacancy caused by the death of Rep. Will liam P. Connery, who had been loyal to the New Deal.
 Boston All Mixed Up
 Boston, Nov. 1-(UP)-An all-tirne record vote was forecast today in Boston's six-sided rnayoral election tomorrow.
 With interest famed by pre-elec. ton scandal inquiries, Q greater number of voters than the 249, ,108 who balloted in 1883 were expected to visit the polls. Some observers believed 280000 of the 344,023 regis tered voters-perhaps even more with favorable weather-would par- ticipate in the election.
 fifteen other Massachusetts cities, including Springfield, Worcester and Cambridge, also will elect mayors to- morrow.
 Boston Candidates
 Maurice J. Tobin, 35, democratic school committeeman and youngest of the aspirants, who has the sup- port of both the Independent -Dem- would agree to withdrawal.
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