Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1901 — DEMOCRATS CARRY BOSTON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEMOCRATS CARRY BOSTON

Sellin* Elected by tbe Larjeirt Plurality in Twenty-Five Year*. Boston. Dec. 11. —The Democrats completely overwhelmed the Republicans in tbe city election yesterday, General Patrick A. Colligg being elect-

P. A. COLLINS

ed over Mayor Thomas N. Hart by the largest plurality in a quarter of a century—lß,ooo. The Democrats likewise obtained control of both branches of the city government, elected their street commlsdsoner—Salem D. Charles —-and practically all their candidates for the school commission. As usual the city voted strongly in favor of license. Republicans in Massachusetts were not quite as successful in the eighteen City elections held yesterday as they were in the fourteen held last week, for although they carried eleven to the Democrats four, the other three being son-partisan contests, three Republican mayors were defeated, while the party suffered almost a rout in this city. In Worcester Mayor O’Connell, a Democrat, was defeated.