Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-03
THREE IN THIS RACE
Republicans Nov Have a Ihree Con-
 erod Senatorial Race on Hand.

There is another republican candi- date in the field for the senatorship of the fifteenth district. Senator Hem ry H. Peck. It Is said but for the . interference of Congressman George L. Lilley MT Peck would not have | been mentioned in this matter. at least at the present time. This makes ] three candidates, Peck, Meigs and Chase, and the race Is not yet well started. Mir Chase is said to have gone into 1t with the understanding that MT Peck would not be a candi- date. Against any other member of his party he would be willing to take his chances. So he was given to understand that MT Peck had glory enough, too, in the last general as- sembly when he represented the if teenth district in the senate, and was willing to give some other man a chance. It seems that Mir Lilley was not aware of this arrangement, for he went to Mir Peck, the story goes, and asked him if he was going to run hgain and he is reported to have said Ahat he would If the boys" wanted Nm to.
 0lAnyone who knows politics at all
 iews what such an answer means.
 s round about way for saying
 0 George, I'm in the game for
 kps."
 MT Lilley is then said to have un- strdened himself to one of MT ase's friends to the effect that 1t
 lght be as well for him to restrain His ambition for year or two in faver of Mr Peck and he would get the nomination. two years hence. But meanwhile MT Chase's ambition had been whetted. His friends, and he has Q whole lot of them, had been electioneering for him and he saw a very good prospect of getting the nomination against the field. The entrance of Mir Meigs in the race a week ago only served to brace them up and work the harder. But MT ,Lilley, 1t seems was not aware or this and his bringing MT Peck into the field stirred up the clements Of f a good old political row. Every \ voter in the clock shop seems to faver MT Chase. Democrats as well as re- publicans are hustling for him. MT Chase himself is one of the most 2 democratic men in the city and If this race for the senatorship was to be determined by popular choice in- stead of the primary voting lists, there is no question that he would be placed at the head of the count. What MT Meigs is doing does not appear on the surface. There IS ] report out that he is doing a good deal and there is another report to the effect that his friends who placed him in the field desired him to leave tho contest between MT Chase and MI Peck and hustle for the chairmanshir of the republican city committee That Is the office where he could cut n swath. wield more influence than as a senator or any other office and make a whole lot of wilful republi' cans toe the mark.
 It is rumored among the lawyers that attorney John P. Kellogg's pur' pose in resigning the chairmanshiI is to clear the way to an appointment as fudge of the superior court. A few years ago when 1t was firs' talked of increasing the number ol superior court judges MT Kellogg wal very favorably mentioned by the ap pointing powers and even at present he is held in considerable esteem b! the entire bar of New Haven county There is not smirch on his repu tation either as lawyer, citizen ol chairman of the local committee O his party and there are local lawyer who would wager their bank ac counts that if there is to be more ap pointments to the superior cour bench by the next general assembl. MT Kellogg will be considered.
 Whoever succeeds him as chair | man of his party will have an ex ample to follow that may keep hin awake nights to keep up with.