Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-24
WANT SULLIVAN
Labor Men Want Hartford's
 Mayor to go Against Lilley.
FOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.

The Name of Melbert Cary Mentioned
 For Governor-New Haven People in
 This City vouch for the Information
 --ls a Neighbor and Friend of Ex-
 Governor Lounsbury.
 The article in yesterdays Democrat regarding George l.. Lilleys candidacy Tor congressman at large on the re- publican ticket has occasioned a whole lot of talk of one kind and another, some claiming it helped him and oth- CTS declaring that it knocked the bot tom out of his boom. It appears to be pretty generally admitted, however, that MT Lilley is slated for the posi- ton and the machine politicians of Waterbury and other places have gone 10 work with view to hofsting him into the berth whether the people want him or not Meanwhile the democrats are not idle and many of the wise heads in that party think they see in MT Lilley man who is likely to make good run and in order to head him 'off they propose to Dit a candidate against him who commands a larger share of public confidence among the voters of the state than the Hon MT Lilley does. Among such men the name of Mayor Sullivan of Hartford is receiving considerable attention in Waterbury and if the Hartford boys trot him out the chances are that all will soon want him and if entered in the race MT Lilley's friends might like to withdraw their man and let some ODn p1Sn talya Mauoy C,,1I;xo,,,. x1..sA The talk that Prosecutor Durant and few other nabobs of the republican party can carry this city for Lilley or any other candidate upon whom they might decide to concentrate their forces is all bosh and those who think diff ferently will wonder where they are at after the ballots are counted on next election day.
 some New Haven, politicians came to town to-day with the Meriden police Iorce ball team and with them came the news that Melbert B. Gary of Ridgefield is candidate for governor. Why this important information. if true, has not appeared in the New Ha- ven papers the New Haven men would, not say, but they insisted nevertheless that it was so. And if it is so 1t is im- portant, for MT Cary is the first one to have so declared himself.
 MT Cary is. neighbor of ex-Gov- ernor Lounsbury, a millionaire and a lifelong democrat. He went into rel tirement in 1896 when the silver cam paign forced men of prominence out who had been in the public light for years. He was chairman of the mem ofable convention held in Hartford in 1896 when almost every delegate that was elected thereto represented this state in the Chicago convention start ed for the west under a gold banner and came home converted to silver and Bryan That may be said to have been MT Cary's last official public appear ance. Nevertheless he has been stanch to the principles of the party of which he was SO long chairman of it's state central committee. He went down surrounded in the glory of de- feat that has since enveIoped many in gloom, confusion and futile explana- ton. MT Cary ought to make a strong candidate. He is the author of the Connecticut Constitutions a book which was prominently quoted during the debate on the advisability of hold ing convention and which was con- spicuously prominent in bringing about that convention.