Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — The Connecticut Election. [ARTICLE]

The Connecticut Election.

The result of the vote in the constitutional amendment election in Connecticut last Monday is the adoption of two amendments, which are now a part of the organic law—namely: the election of state officers by a plurality vote and the enlargement of the state senate. The first of these reforms was carried by a majority of over 20,000 and the second by over 35,000. * The main feature of interest, however, was the vote upon the proposition to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of securing reform in representation and doing away with the anomaly of a little town or village having the same power in the legislature as a city. The sectional character of constitutional reform is illustrated in the returns of the election. Of the city registered vote only 35 per cent was polled and in the country toWns 83 per cent, but the urban vote was substantially solid for the convention, as well as the vote of the larger factory towns. The seventeen cities of the state gave 30,024 majority for the convention and the rest of the state 8,867 against it Of the 168 towns forty voted for it.