Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-03
THE CONNECTICUT CONTEST.
ON Candidate BuIkcley's Pri-
waite Character Which it Is Thought
Will Helm Him.


Special Dispatch to TIE EVENING STAR
NEW HAVEN CoxN., Nov. 3.-Mr. Bulkeley.
the republican candidate for governor, expects
to run largely ahead OF his ticket in his own
city, Hartford. The democrats there believe
that Cleveland win go out of the city with 900
plurality Mr. Bulkeloy. while admitting that
the city is democratic. is of the opinion that he
can carry il for himself as he has done on three
successive occasions when running for mayor.
This opinion is not shared by Mr.. Patrick shoe-
dy, his old political friend but now his most
bitter enemy, who has expressed his willing
ness to drink Mud River a small stream
flowing alongside of the capital. If Bulkeley is
not defeated in his own town by SOC
majority. Mr.. Sheedy is the gentleman
who managed John l.. Sulliyans financial af-
fairs when the Bostonian journeyed about the
country giving exhibitions. and has achieved
notoriety many times at the gambling table,
having, according ts the newspapers, made half
a dozen fortunes at faro and broken banks" IN
Chicago. New York and elsewhere. Mr.. Sheedy
formerly made Hartford his home. and Bulke
ley. as president of the Charter Oak Driving
Association. gave him the ''wheel" and book
making" privileges at the park during Grand
Circuit week. These privileges, a source of
great profit, Sheedy retained until about two
years ago, when Bulkeley gave them 30 some
one else Since then the relations between the
two gentlemen have not been cordial. and VIXEN
Mr.. Bulkeley's nomination announced Mr.
Sheedy came ON from New York and served no.
tice on friends and foes that his business in
Connecticut was
TO SEE THAT DCIKELEY WAS Nor ELECTED.
He first aided in the re-estab,ishment of the
Hartford telegram. This was the paper con-
Quoted by Judge" ID. c. Birdsall. who has
been prominent in Connecticut politics for five
or six years. The Judge" gained a statewide
reputation during the administration as gov
ernor OF Consul General Waller. The Judge
went into the governors room in the capitol.
and, SO the governor said, threatened to
..show him up in the newspapers" if he
did not pursue certain line of con-
duct agreeable to Birdsall in the matter
of the appointment of q railroad commissioner
The governors response TO his demand WAS
TO call upon his executive secretary TO eject his
caller from the capitol, and elected he was.
When Waller ran for governor the next year.
1884, Brdsall retaliated by engineering the
campaign of a Butler candidate for governor
Votes enough were given the third party can
didate to throw the election into the hands of
the Legislature and Waller was defeated, al
though he had received a plurality at the
polls.
A striking feature of the conduct of Zoe Tesa-
gram was its savage attacks upon Mayor Bulke-
ley. now the republican candidate for governor
Not only were his methods of manipulating the
voters of democratic wards in Hartford by
the use of money discussed in the COL
umns Of the paper, but his private
character assailed day after day Mr.
Bulkeley did nothing until the Telegram al
legged gross mismanagement in the affairs of
| the Etna Life Insurance Co., of which he is
president The company brought civil and
criminal suits for libel. praying for heavy
damages, and a sheriff swooped down upon the
newspaper Office and carried off books. type.
presses and all, refusing 20 accept bail i'm anv
amount. The Telegram, did not come out the
next day, nor did il appear again until a week
or SO subsequent 10 Bulkeley's nomination
MIR. Sheedy furnished some of the money TO
| put il on its feet again. and some assistance
was rendered by the national democratic COM
| mittee, which has paid for several thousand
copies to be distribusaA sdailE 4hnoauha00ns
| state.
The Hartford Coudnt. republican. printed
| this week the fac simile Of letter signed by
Birdsall, in which he states that the national
| democratic committee put in $1,000" and
| that Vim. II. Barnum. Robert J. Vance. demo-
| cratic candidate for Congress; Henry A.
| Bishop, candidate for secretary of state, and
Chairman Davis. of the state democratic COM
mittee, were among the contributors toward
| the fund raised for the re-establishment of the
| Telegram, the object of the CourGa being TO
show that the democratic leaders were re-
| sponsible for the attacks upon Bulkeley and
the Etna Life, and TO blame for the character
| of the warfare waged by Birdsall and Sheedy
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| letter have been sent broadcast over the state.
and some of the democratic leaders
fear that the result will inure to
Bulkeley's benefit with the element wherein
| at the opening of the campaign he wes weak
est. With the temperance wing Of the repub-
lican party Bulkeley's nomination was not pop
ular. He had always been identified with the
saloon element in politics, and when running
for mayor of Hartford was always refused the
votes OF many republicans, more than making
up the loss in democraiic strongholds. how
ever. Morris. the democratic candidate for
governor, is an unexceptional candidate with
all classes, and Hiram Camp, the prohibition
candidate, stands equally high. Until this
Telegram episode there was good reason TO be-
lieve that Bulkeley would lose many hundred
votes in his own party, enough TO defeat him.
they being divided between Morris
and Camp. But if it is ques-
ton between Bulkeley, on the one side.
and the Telegram with Birdsall and Sheedy
back of il on the other. those who might other
wise scratch the first name on the republican
ticket for the sake of a principle. will vote
straight, and even democrats who detost the
practices of the Telegram Office will feel in
clined to vote for Bulkeley rather than see
Birdsall and Sheedy triumph.
Apparently the democratic leaders who re-
viyed the Telegram blundered even to the ex-
tent of jeopardizing the success of the national
ticket in Connecticut.