New-York tribune., 1906-03-23
CONNECTICUT
FRAUD" "SAYSSULLIVAN
Er-Mayor of Hartford Sure That
Ballot Bores We're Stuffed.

New Haven. March % (speciaD-The Demo-
cratic caucuses in Hartford Tuesday evening
have disclosed the fact that there was ballot box
stufhng, and the claim is now being advanced by
the Sullivan men that the ex-Democratic Mayor
was disseminated against in the counting.
Rather grave charges, for the first trial Of
strength Of the Thayer forces for the year, are
being made in Hartford. If reports from inside
Democratic sources are TO be credited, the mat
ter will be taken to the Democratic city conven-
tion and there may be recourse to the Corrupt
Practices act by the disgruntled parties.
The trouble in that city occurred in the 7th
Ward caucus where the Sullivan hackers ex-
pected an easy victory. Had there been no
tampering with the count, it is alleged by the
Sullivan men, the result would have been
the reverse of the final decision and Sulli-
van delegates would have been sent to the city
convention. Ex-Mayor Sullivan says emphat-
ically that there was trickery in the primaries
and that he will see the matter to the bitter end
He claims that throughout the city a game was
put up on the Sullivan voters. He says that
tickets purporting to be Sullivan tickets, with
the names of Sullivan delegates on them, were
passed out at all the caucuses by ticket pedIers
but that these tickets were Misrepresentation
and were actually for men who had no idea
whatever of voting for Sullivan in the cOnven-
were taken unawares by this method and voted
for delegates who were later to vote differently
than they had been expected to. Ex-Mayor
Sullivan is thoroughly angry over the disclosure
He says, and his friends say, that the use OF
money in the caucuses was noticeable ana thaI
money and fraudulent tickets resulted in tie
in the 4th Ward ana that stufhng Of the box
resulted in the loss Of the 7th Ward to him
Mr.. Sullivan says:
These facts tell their own story and account
for my not obtaining clear majority OF ILls Int
than the opposition that night but by trlckerys
Misrepresentation. fraud and the free use Oh
money in the 1st Ward the opposition 10 me
succeeded in dividing the delegations AS
figure the complexion Of the delegates declared
chosen. they stand as follows: For SuIiIVdH-
Sd and Sth wards and six Of the ten delesaleS
in the % Ward-26. For O'Neill-6th, 9th ana
10th vards-30 Controlled by the Fdrrell-
CamDbeU cOrnbinations-4th, 9th and 9TH wards
it is easily figured that the opposition, with the
thirty delegates elected as straight ONelll men,
control sxty-four OF the 100 delegates. In other
words, the thrty-four delegates under cohtr9i
OF Farrell and Campbell will decide the nohl-
nations Of the convention.
John J. Nagle, who was candidate on the
Sullivan ticket for chairman of the 9TH Ward
committee, gives the details OF the alleged cor
ruption in that ward and says that the officers
at the caucus were hostile to ex-MayOr Sulli-
and that the SULLIVAN IaCLlOu udu no rep
resentative at the caucus, though it was en-
titled TO one He says that he was offered
square DEAF when it was too late" and al
leges that the ballot boxes had been stuffed"
when Sullivan counters were allowed access to
the votes.
The feeling against Mayor Thayer Of Norwich
in the Democratic ranks in Hartford is said to
be the basis for the opposition to Thayer Dem
ocrats throughout the state who have been look
ing forward to a big Thayer demonstration in
Hartford say to-day that the indications there
in the caucuses show plainly that there is a
strong underlying feeling against the Norwich
man, which Will be seen later in the year in
other local situations.
The Hartford Republicans last night unani-
mously renOminated Mayor William F. Henney
as the party candidate for Mayor at the coming
city election The feeling at the convention was
decidedly harmonious, and all the city Off
cials under the Henney administration were re-
nominated with only two small contests.
There is a feeling Of entire confidence among
the Hartford Republicans that the party ticket
can be carried easily at the coming election
especially as the Democratic ranks are split
over the alleged frauds in the ward caucuses.