The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-16
PLANNING FOR
GOVERNORSHIP
Belief that Lieut.. Governor
Blakeslee Is Building
Fences Already for that
Step.

New Haven. Feb. 16.-There is a.
plenty doing in this town and county
in a political way, enough in fact to
keep the rest of the state, especially
the Republicans, watching the moves
in this locality, says the New Haven
correspondent Of the Hartford Times.
For instance, some one let drive the
statement that Northumberland
Blakeslee was already putting up a
fence here and there for the guberna-
torial nomination next time, even if
the state campaign was a few miles
off. Incidentally it was remarked that
at the same time he was starting
to get his political framework in Or
der he was trying to drive a nail
here and there to fasten down Colonel
would not be able to play hob with the
New Havener's gubernatorial plans
locally.
You may say what you have a mind
to, the politician is always on his job,
even if the object sought is away in
the distance. Ullman is put down as
the Republican political boss in this
region, that is, in this city. The
Republican politicians who INDUCED
in little thrashing Of the colonel,
in the recent senatorial contest may
think they have the colonel down and
out, but there they are very much
m :staken. He is in the game yet.
with bells on, and if any Of the Repub-
leans, more or less responsible for
that recent walloping they gave the
colonel because he would stand by
Senator Buckley, should undertake to
question his supremacy politically in
this bailiwick, they will run up
against Ullman and his agents.
There is an agreeable smile worn
by County Commissioners Walter and
his associate, Colonel Geddes, because
Of their triumph over some Republic
cans in this territory. They won't
say so, but they think all the same
that Colonel Ullman had hand in
the game that was put up to put them
and the conclusion is based on the
ground that the principal supporters
of the two county commiss: oners were
also numbered in the ranks Of the
present bosses.
There isn't any doubt that the coun-
ty machine is out to pulverize Colonel
Ullman. But can it be accomplish
test Of the two machines-that is. the
faction that is favorable to U1lman
and the faction that is tied up to
Walter and Geddes before many days,
when the appointments to the New
Haven city court judgeships come up
for consideration in the general as
sembly. Ullman is a strong partisan
Of the present judges of that court,
Mathewson and Tyner, at least that is
the general opinion among those who
have been following this struggle in
local politics.
And here Is where the contest takes
on gubernatorial feature. It is
not particularly keen to have these
two judges re-appointed. That is
just where he will rub against Ull-
man. 1t is known that efforts have
been made to prevail upon Ullman to
keep quiet and watch the procession
go by without joining in it for the
support of Mathewson and Tyner. Then
it was said that something in the ma
ture Of a threat would come to him
if he still persisted in vigorous sup
port of the two men. That didn't
feaze him in the slightest, and then
came the resolution to the general as
sembly, great surprise, too. to many
Of the Republicans in this city, nam
ing Messrs. Webb and Moyle as sue
cessors to Mathewson and Tyner.
The political theorists down this
way declare that the Introduction of
the two new candidates for judgeships
at eleventh hour, was part Of a plan
to send Colonel Ullman up tree
and keep him there until he would
agree to put no obstacles in the path
way of Lieutenant-Govern Blakes-
lee in his quest for the governorship
nomination. Coupled with the scheme
to keep the colonel up that tree was
the further plan that when he prom
ised to be agreeable to the elevation
of his fellow Republican of New Haven
to the governors chair, he would be
allowed to come down and all oppo-
sition to his two men for judges
would be withdrawn, and Mathewson
and Tyner would get the necessary
legislative Endorsement without any
further fear from Webb and Moy1e.