The weekly examiner., 1901-07-06

which Mayor Kilduf has considerably
 patched up and renovated since his de-
 feat of Mayor Barlow a couple of years
 back, would just about fit his own mii- tary and captainly form for several
 years to come and at least until he can
 run for and get something better. Just
 how Mayor Kilduff coincides with this idea has not yet transpired, though it is not presumed that he loses his natural sleep in seeking ways and means to ln- duce his own political friends to lay pipe this month for Doran as the next may or. There is still bare possibility that Mayor Kilduff once in while dreams of succeeding himself in his present po-
 sition. If so, he is not such a novice in politics as not to know about the proper
 time for him to inform his political friends of his wishes in this regard, :. But word as to Doran's reasons or
 claims for the mayoralty. He regards
 it at this time as really his own property
 by right. He has been elected six or seven times as second selectman, this fact showing his ever increasing popu-
 larity with the town voters. He con- siders that his very first selection for
 this town office was due to a desire on the part of the Democratic party to run
 some one able to get enough votes to
 elect Perry Morris, whose popularity, as
 he regards it, was then on the wane,
 elected first selectman. He considers | 41 1. Io
 again the first town official. In every
 one of the five succeeding elections,
 when Perry's popularity had shrunk to
 nothing-Doran feels that his own can
 didacy for second <selectman pulled Per ry through, when without him Perry s
 chances of election were worthless. But
 when last year Mort downed Perryhd
 got the nomination for first selecSman
 himself, he regarded his cup of popular
 favor as brimfu1 and lots to spare. He
 had now proved, to his own satisfaction
 at least, that the towspeople trusted no
 candidate for office as they trusted First
 Selectman Mort Doran. He made no account of the hundreds of Republicans who voted for him becouse of their
 venom and spite towards their own par
 ty candidate. It did not dawn on him
 that any man who wore fairly clean
 shirt and had not ahenated every friend
 in the city could easily have beaten the man opposed to him, the very weakest in every way for his party to present. one whom fully one half of those who
 nominated him would not support, and who made him their candidate only to get chance to vote against him.
 We'll, Doran, as first selectman, had
 secured the public job he had so long coveted. He had then no idea but what it was to be his for years to come. Then he could go higher senator, congress.
 Yes, as he looked at himself in the glass after a clean shave, Whats the matter, says he to himself, sswith this after a little for governor?' Three months after his inauguration into his to-be- continuous office, the legislature met in Hartford. A bill to consolidate town and city was entered Of course, with MT. Doran now at the head of our town affairs. no such infamous bill as that one could pass. Long hearings were had by committees. NIT. Doran and his payers treasury at his command, for all they were worth against it. It meant, if passed, loss personal to him of his present fat job-a job he had for years laid every pipe possible to obtain. But it passed. The official platform was thus ruth1essly knocked from under his feet. The office of town selectman lost it's luster-shorn of all it's perquisites. In fact all fat town offices had, when not abolished, been so heated with Anti substance as was the ossifed man. They were less than skeletons. They only retained in powers, duties, pay, 8 few old bones carelessly thrown together. Hence, his present eminence in office being by law but a matter of days only, the first selectman Doran now wants the mayoralty of Greater Waterbury, as, in his opinion, his just due. He will probably be kept wanting. Many, if not nearly all, of his loudest advocates at present for the nomination are thus urging his candidacy merely to get a chance to cut his throat politically.
 Mayor Kilduf does not at present ap- pear to be laying many pipes to be his own successor. It is said that he desires a renomination. His friends say that he deserves it. He never has done so much ante nomination and caucus wire pulling as he is generally credited with. worker on election day at the polls. His chances at present for renomination are an unknown nuantitv He ca1.tainlv