The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-12
BULKELEY FOR SENATOR
 BY LARGE MiJORITE
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 Fairfield and seconded by Representa-
 tive Kenealy of Stamford. The names
 of Congressman Hill and Brandegee
 will also be brought forward, but the
 names of the members who will pre-
 sent them are not known. It is not be-.
 lieved that ex-Governor Mclean will
 receive any formal presentation.
 | The caucus, which will be a secret
 one, will be called to order in the house chamber promptly at 2:30 o'clock by 1 Senator Bradstreet of Thomaston, the
 chairman of the caucus committee. Mir. Bradstreet is a Bulkeley man, while
 the three Representatives on it. are
 Fessenden men. The galleries will be
 closed to outsiders. Following the GUS
 tom which has prevailed for a long pe-
 riod of time. Speaker Marcus H. Hol- ] comb of the house will preside over the
 caucus. If the nominating speeches are eliminated the caucus will proceed to | either a ballot or a roll call, undoubt!; edly the former. This will bring the caucus to an end in about three-quar- | ters of an hour if the. contest is decid-,
 ed on the first ballot. Both branches of
 the legislature will go into the first reg
 uiar session at 4 o'clock, and it is ex-' 1 pected that Speaker Holconnb will read the list of committees. The senate will proceed to business and receive a mum,
 Der of measures, and several coinmunf- cations from Governor Roberts. s Withss the claims of the Bulkeley camp known to those in the hotels to- night there was much speculation as to the size of the vote claimed by Mir.
 Fessenden. The latter will not be here
 until tomorrow noon, and in his ab-. sence Representative Kerealy will give no figures. It is well known that they have claimed right along 105 votes, with about thirty s scattering, leaving MT.
 Bulkeley about thirteen votes behind the number necessary to nominate. In dependent. estimates tonight, while
 giving Bulkeley good chance to win
 on the first ballot, split up the vote a
 little differently tonight than was the
 case a week ago. This estimate gave
 Fessenden ninety votes, and the scat
 tering thirty, of which fifteen are pledg,
 ed to Representative Hill. The inde-
 pendent estimate was to the effect that
 of the fifteen Hill votes nine were cred ited to Litchfield county, and two to one town in Hartford county. It Is claimed that thirty men in all have promised to vote for Mir. Hill but of these only fifteen made definite pledges. There is
 some belief that MT. Brandegee will get two or three votes from Windham coun, ty. One representative from New Ha. ven county is anxious to vote for Mir.
 Mclean. This independent estimate, therefore, would give Mir. Bulkeley the
 nomination by a margin of three votes, feven if all the scattered votes went to Mr. Fessenden. Politicians who will not participate in the caucus, but who
 were close to the situation tonight were agreed that all indications pointed to MT Bulkeleys nomination.fIn the event of his failure to win on the first ballot, they predicted that the nomination would go to MT. Mclean rather than to Fessenden or Hill. This contingency, however, received little consideration from them. The same politicians in sup
 port of their position claimed that the contest was actually settled in town caucuses last fall when the representa- r tive nominations were made, and that to-morrow's caucus will be simply an. alignment of the two factions in the re- publican party, which have been strug- gling for the mastery since that famous senatorial caucus six years ago in which both MT. Fessenden and MT. Bulkeley were candidates, and in which the for mer turned his strength over and se-
 cured the renomination of Senator Flaw ley.