New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-02

near Of Connecticut labor executives taxing
rxnce In December, 1901. A month later DenlS
1duIvfhilL the stoker, became Mayor OF brlose-
-,ort The next spring Ignatius A SullVan'
-,o.b,nS salesman. became Mayor OF Hartford
and q few months later George P sullivan d
s,iurnner. was elected Mayor of Derby
An four were candidates for re-eiecton Al
though trades unionism as pohuca1 i't00
.,-.s5v was on the wane, Mayor Muivihin was
enabled, through local conditions 10 re'ein 4s
st and MAYOR Charters squeezed through Win
. .-..+,~ ra5uced majority. The reaction had
- ,a+ IN when Mayor Sullivan Of HARTFORD
.r5 Mayor Sullivan of this city came up tor
:, election and they were both decisiVely oe-
<s.tsd The tide had reached lts noou 11''
month. when Mayors Mulvihin ana Ch9E'elS'
18th bidding for a third term, went Gown IN
overwhelming defeat.
r-..-ee+ was impaired to the recent Ansonla
Ss-,natRn by the recollection OF the sIIlhe o' nc
rsrTal FOUNDRY and Machine Company plaIlt'
On the summer Of 1901, Of which CHARTERS was
e.. r4,e1asder. Charters arrested for al
LACED conspiracy and was biacKisteo oy ms
opponents company. Thus Farrell and Charters
- -.,-ssented the opposing elements grow
snr ont OF that controversy. which became OF
,,efsonsi Importance through the injunction
sEsued at that time by Judge Edwin b. eager
of the Superior Court, against the strikers.
Although Mayor Farrell is only twenty-six
,a.,z old ne has cut his eve teeth both in poll
tics and in business and has contrived to keep
many irons in the fire without any OF them wax
ing cold He was a member of Governor Cham
berlain's staff, and he served in the General AS
seulbly of 1905 As member Of the Board OF
Aldermen for the last two years he has done
much TO keep the administration from soaring
in the air after the many impractical theories
TO which II was attracted. Although a strong
Republican he has manifested his independence
4 of party machinery on more than one occasion,
especially in the caucus at Hartford last winter,
when he refused to support either Morgan G.
Buckley or Samuel Fessenden for United States
Senator. Likewise. there worthy bill or
measure before the legislature TO which he did
not lend hand.
Mayor Farrell is the stepson of Charles F.
BROKER national Republican committeeman,
and the grandson of Franklin Farrell, the head
Of the great manufacturing establishment that
bears his name. He IS a Yale graduate OF the
class Of '02. Since his graduation he has been
steadily engaged in the offices Of the Farrell
plant. He is UnaSSuInlng and somewhat telIT-
ing but far from una pproa enable. His character
and integrity are absolutely unassailable. a fact
which even his opponents attested IN the late
canvass.
Because Of the sudden illness of Mayor Charters
The oath was administered to Mayor Farrell Dy
r NJ Mccarthy, the defea ted Democratic candl-
date for City Clerk. Mayor Farrell VIII ammo
the sixty appointments he has TO make 10 the
Board Of Aldermen at the first regula. meeIlIls
next Monday. Mayor Farrell is handicapped by
the circumstance that his term is for only one
year owing to a change in the charter MADE &c
allow the city election 10 be held at the same
tjme a the State election. Although the double
term os Mayor Charters has not mad the as
astrous results that his enemies forebodea
kayor Farrell faces condition or steadiy IN
aseasinc expenses with many public improve
xnents sadly needed and it viii be we'll nigh I'M
yossible for him 10 accomplish much in his shor
term His friends predict that he viii rise TO th'
highest offices within the gift of the State