The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-12
BULKELEY FOR SENATOR
 BY A LARGE MAJORITY
EVERY INDICATION THAT HE
 WILL BE VICTORIOUS.
Belief That He Will he Elected on the First BaIIOt-Only Uncertain Factor Last Night the Size of the Independ- cnt Vote-COnference at Hartford Mans Headquarters With Andrew F. Gates and Others.

Hartford, Jan. n.-There was much 1 excitement, politically speaking, in this city tonight, the interest being in the great battle which will be fought in the i secret caucus of the republican mem
 bers ot the general assembly tomorrow afternoon for the nomination of a Unit. ed States senator to succeed Senator Joseph R. Hawley. All day legislators came into town, and tonight the club houses and hotel corridors were as well nlled as on the eve of a state conven
 ton. There was only one topic of dis cusslon and that was the caucus ftseR
 on the surface of things there seemed
 to be every indication that former Gov ernor Morgan G. Bulkeley will win the nomination by a very large majority on the first ballot over Senator Samuel
 tessenden, and the field. Below the surface there seemed to be enough un- certainty as to the size of Governor Bulkeley's margin as to, make many of the wiser politicians look worried. The uncertain factor tonight appeared to be the size of the independent vote
 the field including the names of Repre- sentative E. J. Hill of Norwalk, Repre- sentative Frank B. Brandegee of New London and ex-Governor George F. Mo Lean of Simsbury, each of whom un- l doubtedly will receive votes. sl 1 Governor Bulkeley's headquarters to.
 night were at the Hartford club, where, during the afternoon, a conference was l held hu thn 1.,;tt, sioner Andrew F. Gates, Senators Lake and McGovern of Hartford and Repre-, sentatives Clark and Smith of Hartford and Alcorn of Suffield. It was decided
 that everything that could be done to promote Governor Bulkeley's interest
 had been done and the sole resource l now is parliamentary strategy to check l mate any and all moves which will be made by the supporters of Senator in
 the caucus. It was claimed after this conference that the independent vote in
 the caucus would not be factor in the outcome, that MT. Fessenden cannot possibly poll more than eighty-four l votes of the 124 necessary to a choice, and the remainder Mir, Bulkeley will have, 150. This estimate places thirteen
 votes with the independents, or those who want some other candidate. It was practically decided at the Bulkeiey con- 1 ference that should nominating speech es be made the name of Mir, Bulkeley should be presented by Representative
 William H. Clark of this city and it should be seconded by Allan W. Paige. of Bridgeport, the significance of the
 latter's participation being to show that the Fairfield county delegation
 was not unit for MT. Fessenden. The conference, however, was inclined to fa- vor the elimination of nominating speeches, and it was also inclined to favor roll call instead of secret
 ballot, as has been the custom hereto- fore. No definite action, however, was
 taken on this matter, 1t being thought
 best to have the caucus decide 1t.
 Mr Fessenden's headquarters at Heu-
 blein's was busy place from noon un' til midnight. Representatives Kenealy
 and Banks were in charge and were in constant conference with the Fessen- den supporters. The most startling re- port which came from these confer
 ences was that in case MT. Fessenden should find that he did not have votes enough to win, he would have them all cast for former Governor Mclean, hop | ing that the independent vote, which the Fessenden men looked upon as of larger numbers than the Bulkeley men, \ would join in this sudden change and choose MT. Mclean over Governor Bulkeley MT. Fessendens name will be
 presented by Representative Banks of l- 1Cnntinned on rhird Page