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The Daily Morning Journal And Courier
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Hartford's April 3 off-year city election saw Republicans retain control of the common council with majorities, carrying seven wards and most town officers amid low 35% turnout. Voters rejected school consolidation but approved license and $44,000 in appropriations for jail and bridge. Voting machines sped results; observed by out-of-town visitors.
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Retain Their Hold in the Court of Common Council.
Hartford, April 3.—The republicans carried the day in the "off-year" city election to-day, retaining their hold in the court of common council by good majorities in the aldermanic and councilmanic boards. Only 35 per cent. of the voters of the city appeared at the polls and there was little, if any, excitement. Aside from carrying seven of the ten wards, the republicans elected the majority of the town officers. The question of school consolidation was defeated by a large vote, as was expected, and the vote on license naturally was overwhelmingly "yes." The citizens were also asked to vote on the question of granting an appropriation of $20,000 for new steel cells in the local jail and for $24,000 for the new bridge over the railroad tracks on Albany avenue. They voted in favor of both appropriations.
Thanks to the voting machines, which were used in all the wards, the citizens were able to express their political sentiments on an average of ten seconds, and in half an hour after the polls closed the results were known in every ward. Members of the legislature interested in the machines and citizens from New Haven and Waterbury, where they may be installed, visited this city to-day and watched the workings of the mechanical vote tabulators.
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Hartford
Event Date
April 3.
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republicans retained hold in the court of common council by good majorities in the aldermanic and councilmanic boards; carried seven of the ten wards; elected the majority of the town officers; school consolidation defeated by a large vote; vote on license overwhelmingly yes; appropriations of $20,000 for new steel cells in the local jail and $24,000 for the new bridge over the railroad tracks on albany avenue approved.
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The republicans carried the day in the off-year city election; only 35 per cent. of the voters appeared at the polls with little excitement; voting machines used in all wards allowed expression of sentiments in ten seconds on average and results known in half an hour; members of the legislature and citizens from New Haven and Waterbury visited to watch the mechanical vote tabulators.