Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-12
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

Pending the counting Of the votes the | members of the State Central Committee 1 were announced as fcllows 1 STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. Dist.
 1 l. Judge Arthur F Eggleston. 1 g. Joseph N. Allen, Enfield l g. Lucius T. Goodrich, Simsbury. l 5 |. l. Munson, Waterbury l G. Edward F. Jones, Branford ] T. Alfred H. ChappeIl, New London. 1 g. H. H. Osgood, Norwich.
 1 10 wm E. Disbrow Bridgeport.
 IL Il David Day id,9, P; Nichols Nichols PanbuEy Pa1d 13. Eugene s. Boss Windham. II. Col Sabin L. sayles Killingy | 15. RolIin H. Cooke, Wnsted. 1 16. N. Taylor Baldwin. Plymouth. IT. Vim. P Rudd, Salisbury. 1a. Fred. E. Camp, Middletown. | 19. Vim. C. Hough, Essex.
 20. Wm M. Corbin, Union.
 1 21. S. o. Vinton, Mansfield. The appointment of the committee is for 1 two years The informal ballot resulted as follows:
 THE INFORMAL BALLOT. Whole number of votes cast .407 Hobart B. Bigelow, New Haven .. .. i55 Charles B. Andrews, Litchfeld. .113 William H. Bulkeley, Hartford. .113 Dexter R. Wright New Haven-.-... Oliver Hoyt, Stamford. ....-...-...-.- Augustus Brandegee New London --.---.. Henry c. Robinson, Hartford. Jeremiah Halsey Norwich ch-..---- Il Amos S. Treat, Bridgeport -....-..-..-... Ex-Governor Minor moved a recess for one hour Colonel Amos J. Beers of New Ha- ven, amended that the head of the ticket be decided upon, and that the convention pro- ceed to it's formal ballot for a candidate for Governor. Ex-Governor Minor wished to amend Colonel Beers amendment that pre-
 sentation of names be in order It was de- cidsd to present names. SPEECH OF MIR. wATRoUs. MT. Watrous, of New Haven, addressing the convention, said:
 My candidate has got q head on him. Ap-
 plause He has reached the hearts of this
 convention sooner than my voice. Ap-
 plause.1 I rise to second the voice of the convention in giving the priority to New Ha- ven. I knew Hobart B. Bigelow was known outside of New Haven, but did not know,
 as now so well know, how well he is known
 outside of New Haven. MT. Bigelow- a young man, a sef-made man-ls one of the most promising among the young and self made men of the State. I was struck, as I listened to MT. Brandegee, with the close parallel between James A.
 Garfield Tapplause] in his antecedents, in his struggle which has led him to the high emi- hence he now occupies before the United States and all the world, and that gentleman
 whose name have just pronounced Hobart
 B. Bigelow. Applause. MT. Bigelow has shown fitness to be Governor of the State
 by having done what he has. He has shown
 ability to manage public affairs by astonishing
 success in managing his own affairs Mir.
 Bigelow Is a man of sterling character, con-
 scientious, Christian man-I hope it is no
 reproach to use that word-and he is man
 we love to honor. He has, hardly know
 what else to call it, fascinations which bind
 men to him in a way which it is the for
 tune of but few to equal. Our town is
 not largely in the interest of the
 Republican party. We do the best
 we can, but we generally get pretty badly
 whipped in spite of the best we can do.
 frny1, Jc fOr,J 1arc lv
 with a majority on a straight party contest,
 straight heat I might say, of from 1000 to
 2,5OO, yet I want to mention this fact show
 ing the personal power of Mayor Bigelow in
 drawing votes. Two years ago he was the
 Republican candidate for Mayor in that Dem-
 ocratic city, and with a Democratic majority
 ranging, as I have already indicated, as high
 as ?, 800 votes Hobart B. Bigelow was elected
 Mayor by-I think am right, 300 majori-
 ty. Am right A voice-Yes. I am right
 my memory has not betrayed me. He won that triumph. Now in corroboration of the
 wisdom this informal ballot has indicated, if you want man who, as a candidate for Gov ernor, will help elect Garfield, don't know where in our midst, or your midst, or the State of Connecticut, you can go to find man who evidences the ability to render such aid as Hobart B. Bigelow Applause. 1 Without further detaining the convention I | present to this convention, as candidate for 1 Governor, Hobart B. Bigelow, now Mayor of l New Haven. [Great applause. MT A. P. Bradstreet of Thomaston, pre- 1 sented the name of Gov. Andrews. The l name was received with applause He said l the name of Governor Andrews was not un- | known in 8 Republican convention. Two l years ago he had accepted the place of stan | dard bearer of the Republican party. It was | a time when Republicans of distinguished | services hesitated to accept of the nomina- | tion. MT. Andrews had carried the party | through that crisis and was elected. His ad- | ministration fairly entitled him to the nomi- 1 nation. No name in the homes of the peo- | pie was thought more of, elicited more of ap- proyal, than that of Governor Andrews. l that his administration had been so efficient, it would seem for the best inter ests of the party that he should again be | made it's standard bearer.
 MT. William c. Case, of Simsbury, in a spirited speech presented the name of Gen eral William H. Bulkeley, of Hartford, for the nomination. He said the purpose of the of the State was to nominate a man who should win the victory. It was not his purpose to discuss the merits of They were all good men,