The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-03
Jubilant
 At Election Returns
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| That means that II Dewey IS draft- ed next year, he can turn the state over to a Republican instead of a Democratic lieutenant governor-a very important factor in his favor.
 Haskell had President Roosevelts formal endorsement plus the sup port of conservative Democrats, the American Labor party, the Com munists and other left wingers.
 The Kentucky gubernatorial cleo ton contest promised when ballot counting was suspended before dawn to be the closest in that state since 1915. Kentucky elected Q Democrat last time by fat margin of l60,000 votes. When ballot count CTS went to bed Democratic candi- date J. Lyther Donaldson had a lead of only 1l,l22 votes of the 2l0, ,236 then counted over Simeon s. Willis, Republican. Returns were from 2,200 of the states 4,291 pre- cincts.
 Loyalty Gesture
 Politicians conceded Willis chance to overcome the Democratic lead. That would give the Repub- lican party It's 26th state governor and an enormous prestige in the border state area. Willis strong race despite Democratic control of federal and state patronage since 1892 and pleas by the party's cam- paigners that Donaldson be elected as a gesture of loyalty and support of the Roosevelt administration.
 If Kentucky kept the state ad- ministration Democratic by any thing less than 25000 votes. the party will have little about which to cheer and Republicans will mark It down as moral victory for the COP.
 Pennsylvania kept in step in an obscure statewide contest for supe- rior court judge in which Claude T. Reno, Republican incumbent, had 6 big and growing majority over Judge Curtis Box, of Phil- adelphia's common pleas court, the Democratic candidate.
 Control Retained
 The Republican party retained control of the Philadelphia city government by fairly substan- tial mi ajority.- Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel, Republican, was elected over William 0. Bullitt, Democratic. Philadelphia has not had a Democratic mayor since 1884. But Bullitt was MT. Roose- velt's ambassador to Russia and to France and was presented to the voters as the presidents candidate although he had no open endorse ment.
 Bullitt had labor support In what amounted to New Deal-Demo- cratic coalition contest with the Republicans. But he was opposed bitterly by the Communist party on charges of being hostile to the Soviet Union.
 Hartford, Conn., the states larg- est city, elected Republican mayor for the first time since the New Deal sweep of 1882, putting State Senator William II. Mortensen In office by @ close margin of 2,3o0 votes.
 Democrats and organized labor backed Frank Fitzgerald for mayor of Detroit, and lost. Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr., whose handling of the city's race riot was assailed and became major campaign issue, had | 1888 votes to l66,256 for Fitzger- aid with all but 57 of l,057 pre- cincts reported. The campaign was remarkably bitter along racial lines, The election was non-partisan but a win for Fitzgerald would have been interpreted as a strong indica- ton that Michigan would be favor ably inclined toward Democratic candidates next year.
 Significant Contest Although the anti-Democratic trend generally was unmistakable, the voting was light compared with presidential polls. New York's was the most significant contest not only because the state casts the greatest number of presidential year elec- toral votes but because of the pos slble effect of Hanley's victory upon Dewey's chances to head the l044 Republican ticket.
 Hanley also was supported by Willkie, who is actively campaign ing for renomination for president. Willkie feels that Dewey eliminated himself from consideration next year by announcing that he would not seek nomination to another of- flee during his gubernatorial term. But Dewey's admirers contend that failure Of next years Republican national convention to agree on Q candidate after four or five ballots would warrant a draft-Dewey move- ment and they believe 1t would be successful. A spurt of Dewey talk, especially in the midwest, is ex- pected to follow yesterdays election returns.
 United Front
 Here as in New Jersey, the New Deal- Democratic coalition formed a united front. American Federation of Labor leaders had endorsed Han- ley, but the American Labor party, the CIO and the Communists actively campaigned for Haskell. Breakdown of the returns left the American Laborites smiling even though Haskell lost. The returns show that the Democrats are de- pendent as of now on the ALP for anything like c margin of votes in New York city to overcome the al- ways heavy Republican bulge up- state. The ALP boiled Sie,00c votes