New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-06
THE HARTFORD ELECTION
THE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN TO
CULMLNATE IN ELEC-
TON TOMORROW.
CANDIDATES FOR MAYoRALTY AND
OTHER OFFICES-LABoR MEN Sc
CURE LEAD ON DEMO
CRATIC TICKET


Hartford. Conn. April CspeciaD.-The municipal
campaign in this city Is fully on, and Mon
day Will see one OF singular elections that
at has Yet witnessed IN fits local affairs The Re
publican nominee for Mayor. Major William B.
Dwight. chosen the third ballot. defeating
Mayor HARRISON for denomination, is growing
steadily in favor. and is making rafting can
lva.s. with the best business methods behind II
A.The Democrats led by the Economic Leaguers.
who had a streak Of luck the city convention,
hand secured the nomination Of 1gnatius A Sulli-
van. OF their leaders. for Mayor. This aston
isshed the conservative element Of the party. but
was the natural outcome Of the management OF the
party by Chairman James Campbell. who has been
sconsidered as one of the most unfit possible
40 be at the head Of party organization.
In the hunt for candidate for the mayoralty
lMr. Campbell unable TO secure the consent OF
any well known Democrat 10 run. ex-Mayor Pres
ton George Ulrich and others absolutely declining
The Campbell forces. however. fought the leaguers
;n the convention and first succeeded in nominal
ing ex-ileutonant Governor Ernest Cady- Mr..
Cady was out of town. but Mrs. Cady declined for
him SO positively that the convention proceeded,
after an explanation by Mr.. Campbell that II had
been impossible secure a candidate, TO name Mr.
Sullivan, after he had once been turned down by
the convention There was a stormy time In
course of the session. and for fifteen minutes the
confusion great that nothing in the line OF
actual business could be done.
The leadership Of the party. in its most critical
experience was absolutely unable TO secure the
support. OF even the good WILL Of the party as a
whole and deliberately proceeded to turn the whole
thing over to the Economic League. This has
-disgusted the conservative men. and while MI
Sullivan personally is pleasant young man and
q reformer, with Of the organized labor IDEAS
firmly fixed in his mind. there is little knowledge
OF what is behind his candidacy The meetings
of the league been behind closed doors. with
irne exception. and that merely the repetition
of the usual labor addresses that have been de-
livered in the halls in this city for the last Few
years. The league at the start protested that II
merely was endeavoring to secure representation
nn the ward tickets and get its into the Alder
mans Board and the Common Council Board. 1t
distinctly declared that it not after any OF
the executive offices OF the city.
Mr. Sullivan however. has ambitions Of his own.
pnd with thirty delegates from the wards in the
Democratic convention. and the other seventy In
hopeless state of doubt as to where 10 look for
leader things moved his way with only the in
c.dental friction of Democratic city convention,
which has friction part Of its makeup. any
way. For the rest CT the city ticket the party
Endorsed two Of the Republican candidates-Treas-
1,rer Strong and City Clerk Srnith-and made
straight Democratic nominations for all other
plsces. There is. Of course. the possibility that
',he city may Dennis Mulrihiil or Charters
in the executive chair after the pattern of Bridge
mort or Derby. 1t will take fight to decide the
question and the vote VIII probably be .arge.
nee for Mayor one OF the best of good fellows. in
the prime OF activity. thirysiK years OLD. and hav
,ne abundant drawing capacity as a vote catcher
has for some years been looked upon develop
ing sort of man. Although he has never been
in local politics in the OF being candidate
even for alderman or councilman IT is doubtful if
any man OF his years in the city has made closer
study Of conditions that have surrounded the mu
nicipal government. He is painstaking. but
prompt. and has much of the strenuous" in
of hefO he
convention on Monday night a model. and
showed TO the delegates. what few Of them knew
he possessed. gift public talker and way
Of putting things SO that they can be remembered.
His expression. II have much respect for the
ctice of chief magistrate of the city that 1 wish
TO take up the duties with a mind free and un-
BIASED, the mind Of honest magistrate" was
especially feiictous, in view Of the great amount
Of prediction dckering and trading that has been
characteristic Of some municipal campaigns.
His father Mayor of the city a few years
ago. but Major Dwight is good deal more than
'the Of his father He Is a man who does
his thinking. and that thinking is on broad
lines and Will be be for the interest Of
the city In the progress Of the preliminary cam
paign he had to meet the most peculiar situation
that has developed in Hartford politics for many
years. II Is true that Mayor Harrison elected
by the largest majority ever given candidate for
Mayor in the city. and that he carried every ward
"a the city. Republican and Democratic alike
With this prestige he apparently should have a
good chance for denomination and reelection As
the saying goes he was the logical candidate"
But. notwithstanding the heavy atorities for him
two years there has always been under
of distrrst among some of the best known
leaders of the party. and when the came the
canvass was distinctively HARRISON and anti
HARRISON lines. with The anti-Harbison forces not
united any candidate. The delegate eau
cusses did not help matters much In that direc-
zion, but they did show that Mayor HARRISON had
she convention against him II a combination could
be made quickly enough between the Dwight and
Cone This accomplished the night of
the convention. when delegates from three wards
the Third. Fourth and Ninth-agreed to move TO
this candidate having the largest vote the first
ballot other than Harrison.
Major Dwight had thirty-six. Colonel Cone had
twenty and the Mayor had forty. The Third and