The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-14
SEN. ARNOLD
 OPTIMISTIC
Will Stay Candidate for Mayor and Struggle for
 Unpledged Delegates
FULL MORRIS TICKETS
 IN SEVEN DISTRICTS
Machine Has Tickets in
 12 Districts; a Few of Their Men Favor Morris.

Most optimistic of candidates is Sen ator Thomas H. Arnold, jr. Not dis couraged by the fact that there is not a delegate ticket in any district in Bridgeport pledged to him, and not dis concerted because the only ticket in his district, the seventh, is so distinctive 1y machine that it makes a noise like a machine shop, and in spite of the fact that his nearest friends have declared that he is "out of the may orally race," Senator Arnold, though not in it, is determined to be of it, and will not withdraw. If he is nom- inated-well he will just take the nom- ination. In order to ascertain the foun- dation upon which Senator Arnold's sturdy faith is built Farmer report CT interviewed him this morning, and the following cheerful conversation ensued:
 You say you are still candidate?' ?'
 'I would accept the nomination"
 'tDo you expect to be nominated?'
 'fWellu'
 'Ts the delegation in your district pledged to you?'
 ''The delegation in my district is un- pledged."
 ''Is there a delegation in tany district pledged to you?''
 "No, but there are many unpledged delegations.''
 'Ts your expectancy that you will be nominated based on the hope that the convention may be a deadlock be- tween Morris and Lee, and that you may be found satisfactory to both factionS?'
 That question is going some.' I'll say that the delegates will decide that
 Or do you believe that you will be the choice of what is generally refer red to as the machine or Lee fac tion2"
 eff nominated and subsequently, factions and that means the whole party"
 Senator Arnold then made a state ment as follows:
 q noticed the articIn in the Farmer Wednesday evening in which it was at that office to the effect that I am not a candidate for the mayoralty. I can see nothing to change the position I have taken in regard to the nomlna- tion And any statements to the con- trary purporting to come from close friends of mine are made without my knowledge. believe the convention at which time all the delegates will be present will decide the matter sat isfactorily, and if it should be my good fortune to receive the nomination at the hands of the delegates, I would consider it an honor and a pleasure to serve."
 It will be seen however, that what the Farmer said has not been quite correctly read. The declaration was not that Senator Arnold would not continue to seek the nomination, but that he ''is out of the mayoralty race, !" scratched at the post, so to speak, be cause there will not be an Arnold tick ct in any district in the City.
 If there is a delegate in the city who is not pledged either to Morris, to Lee, or to some machine" leader for candidate acceptable to the ina chine,'' if Lee cannot be nominated, the politicians do not know his name. Unpledged delegates are a myth in this election.
 The Morris men are making contests in seven districts, including the four East Side districts and the Sixth, Eighth and Third on the West Side. They also have scattering delegates among the men named in the general interest of the machine, wherever they have been able to smuggle man in. The machine has a ticket in every district, and in the Eighth district has two tickets, one of them being espec- iaIly designed to be attractive to the Itlaian voters of the district, who it was feared might otherwise vote against the Lee ticket.