Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-11
ED KILDUFF AND JIM GEDDES l
Our Two We'll Known Towns
 men Much Talked About.

Other for Shrievalry Honors-lf Dun
 ham Can Be Pushed Out of the Way
 Colonel Geddes Will Probably Get
 the Republican Nomination-Mayor
 Kilduf Gan Have the Democratic
 Nomination for the Asking
 Local republicans have begun to bother themselves as 10 the propabie course or hoDert c. Eaton, candidate LOT the nomlnatlon for county snerln OH tue repupncan ticket. They are anxlous because they would like to dennlrely know where Colonel "Jim" Geudes chances tor the nomination. begin and end, or if it would be advisa- ble for him to enter the field at all. With Eaton and Durham on deck it is admitted here that Colonel Jim would have little show for the nomination. un- less matters became so internally hot that either of the others might get burned and have to go to the field hos pital for repairs. And ill such an event the probability is that before he would be able to get out again the nomina- tiOn would have gone to either Colonel Jim or the other fellow. There is no longer any doubt of the colonePs as- pirations. He is anxious to get in on the field, to get into the thick of the action. as they say in the Military club in New Haven when talking of old times; but the question is hinged on the possibility of either Durham or Eaton getting off it first. With either l of them out of the race it is held that l Colonel Jim would make a strong op- ponent for the nomination with every probability in his favor of winning out l For Dunham is no longer popular. In l his own party even he is looked upon l as very doubtful man. It is certain that he has not friend beyond his own party lines in Waterbury, while down the valley he is very strongly disliked. His action in the machinists' strike in Ansonia will never be forgot ten and if will be linked with the for tunes of the republican party as long as Sheriff Dunham is identified with that party. It is said down the valley that it was the action of corporation that holds considerable sway in the councils of the republican party that l brought Sheriff Dunham to the city. l What Charles NJ. Brooker, president of the Coe Brass Go in Torrington and the l Farrel Foundry and Machine Go in An sonia, says to the republican party comes pretty near becoming a fact, And it is held that it was upon the ad- vice and suggestion of MT Brooker that Sheriff Durham and his deputies came to Ansonia But Sheriff Dunham is his own master if he cares to be and he need not have responded to the beck and call of MT Brokers corporations had he cared. But he saw fit to do so and he will be called upon to explain
 why he did so during the campaign. The Military club in New Haven will cut good deal of a figure in the ante convention campaign for county sher- iff This organization is not a politica!
 body but nevertheless it will have a
 word or two to say about this matter.
 The president. Colonel Burpee, is a par
 ticular friend of Colonel Jim Geddes
 There are few men in the county who
 say as little about politics who have as
 much influence as Colonel Burpee. In
 his seemingly unobsarving way he
 takes in everything as he goes along
 and his trips to New Haven of late
 have convinced him that Sheriff Dun,
 ham is the. wrong man to nominate for
 county sheriff This IS what Colonel
 Burpee is said to have told his friends
 wLxther he said it to influence public
 or party opinion for his friend Colonel
 Jim is a question, but those who know
 Colonel Burpee know that he always
 puts his party first in all things, SC
 that the presumption is that he said
 what he meant, providing he did say it, when he spoke of Colonel Geddes as a stronger candidate than Sheriff Dun
 ham. Speculation ends about this
 point, hoping that Colonel Jim he
 is called in the military, will l. .ht
 next candidate for county sheriff o1
 the republican ticket.
 There is perhaps one man in the city who would not like to see Colonel Jin
 the nominee; that is Mayor Kilduff
 For notwithstanding the many years
 he has been before the public, there i 5 a side to his epidermis that has no l been tanned enough to conceal his feel ? ings for a personal friend. Mayor Xii f duff will in all probability be the demo ? cratic candidate for county sheriff, ant he would prefer to have his victim come from some out-of-town communi 2 ty. He would prefer his victim to b. v stranger rather than a friend. Bu , political conventions do not regulat . these affairs to the candidates liking < and if local expectations are realizes the candidates for county sheriff vii
 both come from Waterbury this fall
 and the successful one will be the dem
 ocrat.
 No matter who the candidates ma l. be, it is generally admitted that tn . successful one will be the democrat e Sheriff Durham has tied up his officia n actions during the strike in Ansoni f with the actions of the republica l. party The party has since felt tn s blow, but there is another one du e them and it will be dealt in the electio n for county sheriff. That is why every g where up and down i'll New Have r county there is a feeling that the nex
 county sheriff will be a democrat.
 The labor element. it is said. ma
 put a candidate in the field, but the
 also, it is said. admit their weaknes: Il and without assistance from either C e the other parties they would be defea IS ed. Recent developments in labor cil 2, cles throughoutthe state, if the Fec 1T homie league is considered a labor elt e ment in the political field. show tha 1t things are not harmonious there. Thi Is only tends to show that the democrati 'e party Is still as firm as ever. That
 still the party of the workingman an
 he should stand by it next fall.
 Brakeman Instantly Killed