New-York tribune., 1906-07-30
DEMOCRATS At ODDS.
OsWEGO STORM CENTRE.
Judge Bulgcr and Er-Mayor Mans
field Differ OUer Hearst.

ogwego. y Y July 5s-oswero COUNTY g -o,rr-
20 have the finest kind OF political r,,n,n,,s ana,
fail and Judge Charles n. Bulger. OF oswero Is
going 10 he in IT, Judge Bulger. for years a mem
her % the Democratic State COMMITTEES tbe nor
anal friend and counsellor OF David Fennet4 wan
and an orator and after-dnner speaker OF the nrst
vank always is a figure OF consequence in ever1,
nernocratic situation in Osuego County. while ha
sax not announced himself either for or against
William r. Hearst e Is perfectly safe 20 D,,t bIr,
down IN the anti-Hearst column. for he and ex-
Governor Hill think alike on state politics.
The Hearst men are Just organizing in the citv
az Oswecc- Ex-senator William F. Wackev oP
Buffalo. has been here once or twice 10 Gee av
Mayor Mansfield and Frank Cullen, the anti-Bulger
Democrats II is asserted fn Democratic circles that
Mackey has offered to put up sloaO to finance The
Hearst campaign in ozweEo. with the further prom
ise 10 make il $1,000 IL Mansfield and Cullen will
get IN and beat Bulger at the primaries. Oswego
viii have six delegates TO the Democratic State
Convention and the Hearst men are particularly
anxious 70 get the delegation. because there is a
good chance that If Buger wins he will be the newt
Democratic State Chairman. His friends are work.
ing earnestly toward this end at the present time
Msckey viii be aere before the meeting of the
Hearst State Committee. and II Is expected thar
Mansfield and Cullen viii assume the contract Of
putting Buger out OF business. Judge Bulger and
his friends say that the Hearst shouters will not
qualify under the contract
Both Bulger and Mansfield are worth more than
a institution in OS-
Wego. Natertown has fits beautiful white marble
Flower Memorial Library and magnificent mark a
view from which is worth going miles to experience
but Oswego has Charlie Bulger. The library and
the park al NatertowH are inanimate; they do not
respond Bulger is a living and moving PROPOSE
ton. and responds. For eighteen years he was re-
corder in the city of Oswego, and generally the city
e,e-ted Democratic city ticket. His elouuence as
E speaker. his companionableness. his reasonable
COMPASSION toward the Oswego bum" and hobo
as city magistrate and his all around goodfeIlow-
ship haze made him institution in Oswego At
Democratic state conventions the delegates stop
shutting their feet and talking when Bulger takes
TIE aoor. Four years ago he started tanning estab-
lishment in The State convention Senator Thomas
F. Grady. Of New York, furnished the hide that was
tanned in interesting manner. Oswego
County Democrats had got into the habit Of doing
s1st about as Judge Bulger said His way was good
enough for them. Things usually turned out about
right when Bulger had the seasoning of the con-
son-ne. and al the other courses the Demo-
cratic hill OF fare had a comfortable and palatabe
taste after receiving the approval of the Judge.
MANSFIELD SKATERS BUIGER's DREAM
picturesque change in this idyllic situation took
place two years ago. Judge Bulger nominated for
Mayor Z strapping young Irish doctor one Mans
fed Mansfield is handsome. pleasing, and a good
mixer with he common people He Is built
TammaUy lines. One Of these days like as not,
Re VIII drift down 10 New York hang out his
Of the Tammany Hall General Committee in some
Assembly district. he VIII be q friend Of Jim
Frawley and Big Tim Sullivan and big Tom
Foley and other men of weight in the Tammany
Society. for he thinks they think and he likes
what they like. In his Office are various pictures
Of prizeTing favorites. His side partner is Frank
Cullen. silver tongued orator. DR.. Mansfield saws
that Cullen has BIlger faded Bulger put Mans
field al the head Of the city ticket. and Mansfield
was elected Bulger counted on implicit obedience
from his political ward. but that is exactly where
his political dream rudely shattered. Bulger
wanted certain appointed to Office. The young
Irish doctor. without consultation with his boss.
vent ahead and appointed somebody else What
followed is a long story. one of the interesting
chapters Of which is the fact that Mansfield is
Mayor and Bulger IS ex-recorder. When the Trib-
une correspondent called on Dr. Mansfield tonight
he anxious TO know whether Mansfield
for or against Hearst. and he asked him the ques-
tion buntly. The doctor started in to talk about
Bulger. showing very plainly that his mind
not so much Hearst as IT was on Bulger.
4 haven't made up my mind yet" said the doc
tor. who I for. Things haven't got along far
enough yet I know am against bosses. don't
believe in having the boss fix up the slate without
consultation with others. That was the trouble
between Bulger and me. Bulger had been giving
out al the offices in this city in the last eighteen
years 10 about three or four families. II got to be
q close corporation After ! was elected Mayor l
had some ideas of my that wanted to carry
out Buger wanted certain men appointed TO of1ce,
but ] didn't wan: them l went ahead and ap-
pointed the men wanted. Here the doctor paused
Tor minute looked darkly out into the night and
then resumed as follows: "As soon as the break
came between US he sent one OF his lieutenants to
with this message:
" The bride Of the year makes beautlfuI
corpse' Now what DO you think OF that" said
Dr. Mansfield Wasn't that fine thing for tae
leader Of the organization 10 say to the Mayor OF
Oswego who differed with him in performing his
sworn duties The bride Of the year makes a
beautiful corpse That is what he said 70 me-
Il didn't take philosopher or a fortune teller 10
help you understand what Bulger meant by that
continued the doctor He meant that he was out
ne Well, il came along TO last fall, and he
rubbed my name of the slate, but ran indepen-
corder. and Bulger is out OF 9oo; we are o4eh 2
sitting the curb watching Gne fepuDIleSdn ere
stoVelI the Republican bosses. are in the process;
sion behind the elephant and they nave got an
Judge Buyers countenance was as calm as a
sumner ipend when the os Sr o seanst
Hearst?" was the question asked the judge. Judge
SIDE n the osweeo River lighted fresh cigar and
discoursed follows:
REPUBLICANS PRESERVE THE OFFICES
Ny friend. you're too soon; you're too previous
with your question. It's a long long time yet be-
fore the Democratic State Convention and whole
l0t n things can happen between now and then
You see" he continued, I'VE are different from
our Republican friends here IN Oswego. We do
not our politics by the early closing method
It were The Republicans hold their primaries
IL dandeion time, their nominating conventions in
Strawberry time and then. with the nominations
made they lock az poor Democrats with a most
superior cir and they say, You can ali 90 10
hades. We have nominated our ticket: ana II .
al over but Tho shouting, any way We Demo-
Gratis until the buckWheat period oefQre We
&c our nominating. We try 70 preserve the sem EN-
9!ance of Democratic simplicity ana logic INC
Republicans preserve the offices. 81,
The trouble with the Democratic party In tbs