Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-28
POLITICAL BE IS A BUZZ|NG
Local Politicians Laying Wires
 For the Fall Campaign.

The Race Again-The Republicans Have a Bunch of Candidates-Some Democrats Are Sad To Be Talking About Collector W. E, Thoms As The Democratic Candidate.
 It may seem rather early i'll the sea. son to be talking politics, but judging by what representative Of this pa per heard last night both parties arc at the business hard and fast and ill ! all probability the fall election in | Waterbury will be the hottest in the i history of the town. The republicans are split up into half a dozen different factions, each headed by il leader that is determined to have his own 1 way and if this condition of things | continue until the caucuseS are held 1 we'll all have lots Of fun that is. as | many of Us as will be spared to take part in the rumpuseS. There is strong element behind John P. Eel- l logs, whose hope of capturing the | caucusses lies in the passage of the bill now before the legislature regard ing the method of conducting primar- | ieS. With this law in opera tion they expect to be able to keep out people who have no ri"ht to vote and in this way slr-ceed in electinc delegates who will nominate mon of their choice. It 1 :ilingS work all right in tn direction l Mr Kellogg will Lave full swin. in his own party next fall and the demo- crats will nave to hustle to gr, a cad l If him. for the"e is no use denying the i fact that JoSn Kellogg is clever tactician and his party has ely been beaten when things were lett to his management.
 The principal bone of contention is the mayCralty. It is understood that the Kellogg men are out for George | l.. .Lilley, but in case the opposition to MT Lilley should be greater than they care to face they will, it is said. l take up k. x. Blakeslee or w. l.. Hall instead. Ex-Mayor Barlow is asso- ciated with the Kellogg wing of the party. and while he has not yet been | mentioned as q candidate for the office, i it is understood thai he has aspirations | to serve another term. and, if the Op- portunity offers. there is more than one man in the game prepared to push him to the front.
 Then there is the ChesSon faction. made up principally of men who are looked upon with q certain kind of political suspicion, simply because they are said to have refused to be governed by the ring, who consider it q kind of sacrilege for any one to put q hand on the machine until he has first made a solemn promise not to make q move before or after his cleo tion without the knowledge and ap- proval of the town committee. MT Chesson is said to have a larger per Sonal following than any other man in the field and on this account the movements of the men behind him are watched as closely by the other fellows as Chief Egan and his body guard notes the abiding places of the fractiOuS elements of the community, and the slightest whimper that comes from the Chesson camp is reported promptly at headquarters. Mean while the Chesson backcrS are at
 work and make no bones of the state ment that they can land their candi- date if he only says the word him. self.
 Another matter that is worrying the machine politicians is how to placate H. R. Durant They all recognize that are anxious to treat with him. but just how to do it is something that puzzles the wiSeSt heads in the party. They treated Harry shamefuily last fall and while he is issuing no threats, the men who knifed him are not fools enough to believe that the prosecutor and his friends have decided to bury 1 Iie axe WIlHOuL uttN lllclI revenge or some atonement. Durant has a crowd of workers that neither faction
 in his party can afford to ignore and
 many believe that he will be in the
 race for the nomination for the office
 for mayor, and if this happens il
 would take q Solomon to tell in ad
 vance who'll come in ahead. In order
 to avoid a clash with Durant, all ele ments are making overtures to him I, r,%, ,,.1f 1f,,,r } the whole of them and appears to bt } in a fighting attitude towards th' 7 whole shooting match and it is hart l | to see how any one can blame him.
 Alderman Cross of the second wart , | is also talked of as a probable candi : date for mayor. His chances depen' I upon how things will go with tin
 Lilley-BlakesleeH Hall aggregation. H
 has been pronounced ''sound' by tn
 machine operators and if he should
 come to the front he would make tn
 other fellow hustle. John B. Dohert. and g few others have friends, Wh t are pushing their claims for recoG nition but it is thought that they ar
 too few in numbers to carry thei
 point, though it is admitted that step
 will have to be taken to affect com
 promise with them in some way o
 other Some of the friends of Alder
 men White would like to enter hin r in the list, but the statement has beel T. made that MT White does not desir T. recognition of this kind at present. H IL is a strong man, but has certain rC
 belliouS tendencies which render hir r q trif1e off color with certain of hi e colleagues. Alderman GosS is als . talked of ill connection with the offic r. of mayor, and while it may b s nothing more than idle rumnr it woul l. not surprise the public to learn tha j. his party had selected him as thei
 standard bearer. Personally, so ia = as the reporter knows, anyway. an
 he is well acquainted with the whol
 of them, these gentlemen are all right
 but politically and otherwise, many o " them have so many enemies that would be ? Godsend to the democrat
 to see one of them nominated for tn
 mayoralty. In this connection it migll
 not be amiss to state that every publi y man has hosts of personal enemies an
 the fact that he does his duty to tn best of his ability is no safeguar I