The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-07
LAKE PREDICTS AWFUL TIME IF
 BULKELEY LOSES
(Waterbury-American.)

(Water erDury-Amef1Can.) At the conclusion of the caucuses which marked the organization of the Republicans in the Connecticut Sen ate and House Tuesday evening Ever cit J. Lake, former Lieutenant-GoV- ernor and twice unsuccessful candidate for gubernatorial nomination announc- ed to the war correspondents in his neighborhood:
 'If Morgan Bulkeley isn't sent back to the United States Senate next Tuesday you come around. There'll be hell of story.''
 What the story was and wherein lay it's Hades the ex-Lieutenant Gov was obtainable from the other Bulke- ley followers. Yet with everything pointing to the nomination of Mo Lean on the first ballot and the Mo- Lean forces already jubiliating in the Allyn House bar, the Bulkeley fol- lowers persisted in their stolid, un- explained assertion that the veteran would win. The man who meets an- other man on Capitol Hill always asks this:
 Whats the old man got up his sleeve now?"
 In the Mclean camp the Bulkeley claims were received with polite, but Lean managers, Senator Bulkeley has not anything up his sleeve and hasn't any chance to get anything there. A suggestion that Congressman Hill might be sprung through combina- tion of Bulkeley machination and third candidate, thereby making a choice impossible on the first ballot and perhaps enabling the Senator to get his second wind the Mclean camp repudiated with a calm smile as out of the question. It was even intimat- ed that if such proceeding was att tempted Congressman Hill would stem it in person.
 "We do not,'' said Col. Bob Eaton; talking around the corners of a big cigar in McLean's headquarters ''pro- pose to go into this caucus with our galluses busted.''
 "Mr. Mclean will win,'' said J. Henry Roraback by maybe 40, maybe 50. maybe 75 votes. The point is that he will win"
 MT. Mclean himself declined to go into prophecy. He smiled serenely and remarked that the outlook was bright in spite of the weather. Sen ator Bulkeley, who dined just before the caucuses, in apparent high good hunor with Andrew F. Gates, Stiles Judson, whom you could immediately identify as statesman because he had a frock coat, and Senator Brande- gee, whom life in Washington has endowed with a convex abdomen and double chin, was also avoiding pre- dictions. He rendered cigars to all corners and arranged future meetings within the confines of the District of Columbia. As far as the caucuses indicated l anything they indicated complete Nc Lean control of the Republicans in both House and Senate. In the House, Fred Scott of Ply mouth. the Mclean cand date for Speaker, went in by exclamation with Bulkeley man after Bulkeley man fer vently seconding his nomination. To the more hopeful Bulkeleyites this eager acceptance of the opposition's candidate was further proof that, the "old man had something up his sleeve" Mclean scoffers said it showed simply that the Bulkeley men knew they were licked and were try ing to make it appear as though they liked it.
 Inclined as gracefully as willow waud against the Allyn House bar Col. Sam Horne of Winsted, explained it..
 Both Col Hall of Wilmington and myself advised the Senator to accept Fred Scott" he said because we re- cogniZe in him a man who will be perfectly fair and impartial in all things. He will make an ideal pre- siding officer
 ."But how about those committee appointments?" Is Fred Scott going to parcel any of those out to Bulke- ley men?"
 "We hope so. We trust so,'' re- sponded the colonel with a we'll exc cuted smile of optimism. Afterward he admitted that Mclean seemed to have a mite the better show. "But that doesn't count for much,'' he add ed.
 In the upper chamber Senator Wood ruff of Orange, another Mclean man, was elected president pro tenn by the same process of exclamation, after which the Senate went into executive session. Reporters, statesmen, hack drivers, Capitol attendants, Trinity students and all hot men peered through the windows and wondered why the Senators pounded their desks so much.
 By and by Senator Marsden of Mad ison came out. "Just talking oyer routine matters, messengers ands such like" he explained.
 At Mclean headquarters it was stated with positiveness that the q Republicans in the Senate were stand. ing 12 to g for Mclean, undaunted.