The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-08
POLITICAL OUTLOOK IN REPUBLICAN
 CAMP Mayoral Possibilities Morris, Arnold, Wilson ARNOLD ALLIANCE WITH MACHINE WOULD
 LAND HIM WINNER Survey of the Field by a Well Informed Republican Observer

l undercurrents of contemporary Re publican politics. said this morning
 ''It looks very much to me as if tn,
 men whom you fellows of the pres.
 call the machine have about aband 1 oned the idea of throwing Mayor Let | overheard. If this is so, there are two reasons why it is so. the first of whicf will be that every man who has beer asked to become the victim has-turn- | ed the proposal down. And the second | will be that the Mayor. who is him. self a large factor in the machine. has
 too strenuously resented the operation of being turned down.
 T must not be understood" con- t1nued the speaker, "as saying that there are not some persons who would take the nomination. collar and all, if they could get it, but these are not great enough to drag up the one. two, or three delegates that might save the machine from the most disastrous de- feat in it's history.
 "There is William E. Burnham, for instance. Bill to his friends. The machine would trade it's eyes to get him to help it out in this crisis. But Burnham. and his friends also. am told, believes that he is entitled to the honor in some year when the party is
 
 the Republican electors are not in open rebellion because of the fierce re- sentiment which they bear to the poli- cies of the last administration which, malodorous as they are, MT. Burn ham would have to carry.
 While am not well enough posted to predict, to a delegate. the situation in the next convention, am certain that the machine will have hard sled ding to control it, I doubt if the ma- chine nQnfrnI Inc out an alliance with Senator Thomas Arnold, Jr., and not then if Morris goes into it with a majority of 1dele- gates large enough on the start to losses and still be a. majority :.
 At present it looks very much as if Morris would have a solid East Side and at least two districts on the West Side of the river. Under the circum- stances perhaps he would have enough delegates scattered among other dis tricts to control the nomination
 Arnold should have three delegates in the Seventh district, his own, and may perhaps have three in the First, may get for him, and three more in the Fourth, which he would owe to John T. King. This would give him nine.
 ''I can .see plainly continued the speaker, "that Arnold may have the balance of power in the convention, and that he and Morris may control it overwhelmingly together, but I see how the machine can con- trol it unless it can form an alliance with Arnold.
 What do you think of the possibil- ity of an alliance with ArnoId?' was asked.
 .In view of the fact that Senator Arnold's friends are so openly claim ing the nomination for him, I should hot 10I I@ them and the machine is regarded at east as a. probability
 ''In view of the enmity that has hitherto existed between the machine and Senator Arnold, how could such m arrangement be perfected" was asked.
 Politics makes strange bed fellows" vas the answer. sThe hatred of he machine for Arnold is not a per 'o1al, but political hatred. They would much rather see him nominat- d, than Morris, especially if they were l ure the headlines the morning after would read Another Machine Victory The Machine knows that it's chief as- et is the superstition that it cannot ,e beaten. It would go far to save ts face. But John T. King would be | he active factor in producing such an | King is the ablest of | he younger Republican leaders. He l s diplomatic, has never, save once, | ost his head, or indulged in an inju- | icious statement, and he will be quick | o perceive and quick to use the ad- | antage that may exist in a possible | alance of power in the convention.
 "Of course both Gould and King are | tower of strength to Arnold, but they yill be a source of great weakness to | i'm if he should get the nomination. Identified with the harbor line con est, and has conducted a most inter sting personal correspondence with resident Mellen, in which he has ta- en an ingenious and I am sure, in- | ocent pleasure. But the public is a | tlte sensitive upon this subject, hanks to Morris and the newspapers, nd there are many voters to whom a etter from MT. Mellen is like a red az to bull.
 ublicly identified with Arnold. He a good friend for quiet work, but ne general belief that he is pro-rail- pad. and his known part in the de- truction of the utilities bill made it nwise for him to appear as political ookesman for Arnold. There has been so much New Ha- en Railroad in Bridgeport in the last ear or two, that little things, which rdinarily would be scarcely noticed, 'om up big. The voters have been ,ld that politics may be winter than 1ow,' but they suspect the contrary. ] may. say in passing 'diverged the oeaker.' that so far as I know this nrase is Kings first and greatest po- tical blunder.''
 Think of a campaign in which har- )r line, and car barn scandals, wa 1T scandals, electric light and other sandals are to be aired to the full l eing matched up with a candidate 1der a banner which, though so sad
 smirched, bears the queer device, l { Politics may be winter than the ! 'iven snow" as the succeeding question: Wilson" I think. was the reply "is ; ,t seriously a probability except as last resort If the convention can held for Lee, he will not be in it. :
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