Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-04-25
LABOR PARTY OFF IciALS.

ranks of Woodworking laborers. San
Hartford. Conn, and |
Conn, are now being gov
erned by 'abor mayors. San Fran.
cisco finds no serious fault with its
fiddler mayor; Hartford has yet to
learn what its clerk mayor will do, |
Jut there is no panic over his lack OF
ability. while Bridgeport thus far has
never been better satisfied than with
ita stoker mayor.
Mayor Dennis Mulvihill Of Bridge,
port is undoubtedly the most attract.
I've character of the lot. He was most
maliCiOusly attacked during his cam.
paigh and was elected by the largest
vote. Mulvihill came 20 the country
poor Irish Immigrant. He is by pro.
fession a stOker, a hard.fisted, strong
armed. Woodworking coal stoker in
the furnace rooms Of the Wheeler 4
Wilson Sewing Machine Company.
Dennis Mulvihiil was never a poll
tiCian or an agitator. He voted and
read his newspaper, AMI when he
came to own property he took an in
tcrest in the affairs of his city-the
same sort of interest that every tax.
payer should take.
Finally. it occurred to some Of his
friends that Dennis would make
good candidate for alderman. He did
rot seek the nomination, but he &C.
c, pied II. and he was elected. When
re got into the council Dennis began
tn stir things up. His whole life had
been along simple lines based on hon.
tsty and frugality, so he tried to steer
the affairs OF the city according to his
own compass An honest, outspoken
man can raise trouble in almost any
city council People called Mulvihill
a crank because he fought for econ.
omy: but he knew what he was doing.
He well represented the honest work.
ingmen OF his ward, and he was doing
Just what they wanted him to do. When
h" stood for reelection the politicians
made a desperate effort to kill him
Ufl"-but he was too strong for them.
Rugged Honesty" the people called
him. and they returned him to the
council in triumph.
He worked along with his shovel all
the time he was a councilman. He did
rot fall into the ways of the small pol.
itician and talk politics over the bar
of the corner saloon. A man of fam.
lily and of property, no man in Con
nccticut was more eminently respect.
able than Alderman Mulvihill. and he
bore himself with that quiet dignity
which always comes of selfrespect.
The politicians didn't Ike him and
attempted to discourage him by ridi.
Guile; but It Is hard to laugh down a
nan like him, and the jibes hurled at
him all proved boomerangs. Finally,
some one suggested that Alderman
| Mulvihill would make a good mayor
al d the idea took like wildfre. lie
was nominated, and there was great
campaign. The politicians were
against him. but the people were with
him Wealthy men, who believed In
him and wished to help him. sent him
money for campaign expenses. HC
returned their checks and went OF
shoveling coal.
His opponents asked him why It wal
that If he was a man smart enough
10 be mayor, he had worked at on,
piece so long without promotion. AM
tie stoker answered by placing hi
hand upon the shoulder of his warm
est friend, the old engineer who ha,
worked with him all those long year
and whose place he would have takel
had he been promoted.
Mulvihill is making the same sor
Of a record as mayor that he gained a
J stoler and as alderman. RE is hor
/ est and his Honesty is not of the negG
tive type retained by doing nothing
He moves forward. Though not ell
20. ing social or educational standing
! he knows men, knows what Is RICH
and just, and deals with all men wit
. steadfast, common.sense integrity.
: Dennis Mulvihill realizes that hi
I associates in the stoke-room have tn
r same right to consideration in publ
administration as the corporation h
works for. He believes in the hom
o the rights of wealth. but not in III
4 dCmineering dictation of wealth.
t These evidences OF the increasln
}. power of the socalled labor elemel
8 arc among the most promising sigr
/. Of the times. 1t means that the pc
n pei are still determined that roc
n ribbed, commonsense honesty sha
hold sway, a return to first principle
which recognizes the workingman