New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-10
C1NNECT{CUT.

The Connecticut Republicans hold then State
Convention for the nomination OF Presidential
Electors. Governor, Lieutenant-Goye'nOr,
Secretary of State. Treasurer and Controller,
at Hartford tomorrow. II is understood chat
Governor Andrews will not he candidate for
reelection, and it is probable that an en-
tirely new ticket will he put in nomination.
Among the names that have been mentioned for
Governor are the Hon. Hobart b. BigrlOw OF
New-IIaven, the present Mayor of that city.
Mayor Hugh H. Osgood, of Norwich, Senator
Lorenzo Blackstone, Of Norwich, Senator HCyt,
of Stamford, ard General William ii.
Bulkclc,, Of Hartford. The two Norwich
candidates though urgently pressed by their
friends, have declined to permit their names
to 90 before the CONVENTION, SO that it is quite
probable the nomination will 90 to one of The
other three, Mcssrs. Bigelow, Hoyr and
Buckley. The contest in the Convention will
be of the most friendly character, and whichever
candidate is succC ssful will receive the col dial
support of a united and harmonious party.
In none of the doubtful States is the outlook
more favorable for the Republicans than III
Connecticut. In the number and the import
ance of the offices to be filled at this election
it exceeds any election ever held in a single day
in the State In addition to the Presidential
Electors and State officers, there are members
of the lower branch OF the Legislature, one
half the Senators, members Of COngIess, and
SheliffS and the Legislature to be chosen will
elect United States Senator in place of Mr.
Eaton, whose term expires with this Congress.
The number and importance Of the Offices to
be filled will be sure 10 bring ont full vote,
and the Republicans, in addition to the adyan-
tage which they always derive from full vote,
have the satisfaction Of knowing that the very
best of feeling exists i'll the party, and that no
rivalry of factions or personal differences will
divide or weaken them. They have the adj
vantage moreover, of a registry law under
which the frauds habtually practised in that
State by the Democrats when they have the
power will be exceedingly difficult if not ALSO
lutely impossible.
The Republicans have brcn in no haste to
open the campaign, preferring to wait until
after the State ConvcntiOn-which has been
called on that account at an earlier date than
usual-had met and placed the ticket in the
field Meantime, in Ncw-Haven and one or two
other places, the Democrats have been ex-
hausting the Hancock boom " and their own
enthusiasm in ratification meetings, numerl-
cally contemplate, and made more ridiculous
by the frantic endcavOrs of ambitious young
home orators to get in front and make sure of
good places. The more experienced leaders |
have tried in vain to restrain the young fellows
and keep them from bringing the party and |
the ticket into public contempt so long before
hand but the young men are jealous Of the |
old, and dozen or of the leaders of the |
late Greenback patty, who have come out for
Hancock and are anxious TO have front seats. |
are jealous of both so among them all they |
have been frothiug away for the past three or
four weeks to no purpose whatever. Mean
time the Republicans have been by no means
idle, but have quietly taken steps toward per-
fecting their organization. aud when they do
take the field, taking it in earnest. From all
parts of the State come assurances of the most
encouraging character, and close as the State
is, the indications are that it will give in
November an old fashioned Republican
majority.