New Britain herald., 1916-08-19
BIGPOL|TICAL BOUT C0MINGIN HARTFORD
Rival Republican Camps Seek Big
 Plum, Ten Delegates

Hartford, Aug. 19.-The stage is being set for a battle royal among the republicans of Hartford. The prize is the city delegation of ten to the state convention at New Haven, September and 6. The lineup will be between the forces commanded by Morgan G. Bulkeley, former governor and former United States senator, and Charles A. Goodwin, former republi- can town chairman, and former nom- 1nee of his party for governor
 There will be a fight all down the line in every ward, according to the announcement sent out in republican circles today. An attempt to get to- gether made at a conference of Bulkeley and Goodwin representatives, Friday afternoon, failed. According to the Bulkeley side the break came over the refusal of the Goodwin men to allow Mayor Frank A. Hagerty a. place on the delegation. The mayors name is second on the Bulkelev slate. their ticket being headed by the for mer governor and senator himself. The mayor is on his vacation at Block Island and so far as can be ascertained
  Is not expected that he will be back to vote at the primaries next Thurs day.
 The Bull1e1ey men say that the chief objection to the mayors name came from John F. Cosgrove of the fourth ward, a favorite Goodwin lieutenant, and candidate for as- sessor last spring, up to the time Mayor Hagerty won the nomination in the convention over Colonel Rich ard J. Goodman and Francis w. Cole. MT. Cosgrove then announced that he was no longer candidate and would not run on a ticket with Mr. Hagerty. Albert M. Simons expected to get the nomination anyway
 The Goodwin men assert that the Bull1eley conferee refused to allow Editor Charles Hopkins Clark place on the delegation. This was denied emphatically this morning by Police Board President Morgan Bulkeley Brainard. The Bulkeley men add that MT. Clark was a dele gatA to the Chicago convention, any way.
 Nine names were agreed upon amicably by the conference" said MT. Brainard. The break came on the ODJectlOn or the Goodwin men to the name of the mayor"
 The mayor lives in the ninth ward. The Goodwin contention Is that the ward itself should pick the represen- tatiVe on the state slate and not make any exception for the mayor This view was supported by all the Good win Heutenants, it was said today but particularly by Jacob Leipziger chair man of the second.
 The conference was between Charles A. Goodwin and Morgan B. Brainard and was held in MT. Good wins office Chairman James Noel H Campbell, town chairman arranged it in the hope that the threatened fight might be averted by a change of views and a compromise. All sides con- Ceded today that a split has come and there was nothing to do now but have another straight from the shoulder fight in all the wards as they did in the spring. The Bulkelcy forces won that hght Tn the light of the nomi- nation of their candidate for mayor The Goodwin men say the situation is more favorable to them now Tho Bulkeley men declared they were never in better shape for a contest than now when asked as to the out- look this morning.
 There is no talk of preference for any of the rival candidates for the re- publican nomination for the governor- ship. This issue in the state c0nyen- ton is apt to be lost sight of in the present llne up. Both sides assert thelr neutrality, preferring a Hartford man for the nomination. One of the startling things connected with the contest however, was an intimation that one of the contending factions might come out for Speaker Frank F. Healy for governor.
 The primaries will be held next Thursday rom to 8 o'clock Rival committees and workers will be busy every hlhu'e rom now on, lining up their supporters and preparing the ri- val delegale states. There will be great political maneuverine to get the popular men in the different wards the men with personal followers, on the rival tickets Meetings have been called TOT M Monday night of the first second, third, fourth, seventh and tenth ward committees to pick lists of delegates. The other wards will be beard from later. The tickets must be in the hands of Chairman Campbell by o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
 There will be four lists of dele gates Selected ana thus far the only contest in view are over the rival state slatos, Tor the state delegation ard for the senatorial nominee in the second district, where former Alder man Ferdinand D'Fsopo is running against Senator Thomas J. MollOv for a renomnation. There is to be no con- test for congressional or probate del- egates. The Hartford republicans are to support Congressman P. Davis Oakley for a renomination and will in dorse Loren P. Waldo Marvin, the present democratic judge of probate, the proper action to take.