Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-09

The Surface-Last Nights Caucus i'm
 Allyn Raall-The County Caucuses-
 A Hartford Man For Second Place
 Under Certain Contingencies.
 Especial to the JOURNAL CoURIER-1
 HARTFORD, Sept. S.-Never in the history of the eve of the Republican State conven- tions, in the State of Connecticut, was it so entirely out of the question to decide who will be the nominees of the convention to- morrow, as at this writing. The Lounsbury men will tell you that their candidate is sure to receive handsome majority of the votes of the convention on the first ballot. Then hold buttonhole conference with Bu1keley delegate and he is ready to bet his bottom dollar that his favorite is going to walk away with the convention sure. The Tibbits men say, ''Well, you wait and see we don't expect our candidate is going to get 8 majority on the first ballot, but somebody will be surprised when the votes are counted and don't you forget it'' The corridors of the Allyn House tonight are simply packed with delegates and the friends of the candidates for gubernatorialI honors. Every nook and corner is filled with anxious men talking over the probabilities
 of the morrow. A friend of Mayor Bulke- ley, cool headed and blessed with good deal of discretion, said to the COURIER rep; resentative, ''We expect to poll two hundred and thirty votes for MT. Bulkeley on the first ballot" Continuing he said: "Tibbits
 will get about forty votes and Lounsbury will get the remainder of the four hundred and ninety eight; so that MT. Lounsbury will not, as his friends predict, come within sev- eral of a majority on the first ballot'' Be this as it may, it is quite evident that Hart ford's Mayor has large following and they are here to ''stick" One thing is certain, and that is that some one is going to get wonderfully mistaken to- morrow and who it is, must be left for the convention to decide. Who are the gentlemen who will make up the balance of the ticket if MT. Lounsbury is nominated for Governorl was the inquiry made of 8 prominent member of the State Central con- mittee. "Well, " said he, 'I think the Lieuten- ant Governor will be selected from Hartford and as it looks to me Francis B. Cooley will be the man: for Secretary of State have no doubt but that L. NJ. Hubbard of Walling- ford will be the nominee, in the event have mentioned, but for Treasurer and Comp troller I am in considerable doubt; in fact, there are so many candidates in the field for these places that iG is hard to determine who will carry away the honors."
 As matters appear on the surface it would seem that majority of the delegates are in favor of MT. Lounsbury's nomination.; but the friends of Bulkeley, though not so bois- terous in their manner, show an air of conf dence that betokens good results for to- nor row. They are working quietly, but every move they make tells, and the followers of MT. Lounsbury may experience a surprise party when the votes are counted in conven- tion. Said an eX-Senator: "Why, they have got the whole of Fairfield county up here to- night, and they blow and buster about Lounsbury in manner that would lead one to think that he was going to get every vote in the convention on the first ballot but I tell you somebody is going to get fooled, and in my opinion it won't be Bulkeley; just wait and see." This is the way the talk was carried on until the hour for the general cau- GUS, which was called for eight o'clock in Allyn Hall. At S:15 the hall was well filled with delegates when Lynde Harrison, chair man of the State central committee, went upon the platform and called for the nomin- ation of a chairman. Colonel H. W. R. Hoyt, of Greenwich, was promptly nomin- ated and took his position. William s. Downs of Derby and Austin Brainard of Haddam were nominated for secretaries. The first business in order was the nomination of committee on credentials, consisting of one from each senatorial district. They as follows: Tohn R. Hill of Hartford, Marc s. Chapman of Manchester, George P Mclean of Simsbury, J. A. Pick cit of New Britain, P. B. Futile of Nauga- tuck, William H. Newton of Wallingford, James Graham of Orange, George D. Wat rous of New Haven, William H. Saxton of New London, Jabez s. Lathrop of Norwich, Stamford, Charles Olmstead of Nor port, Joseph W. Johnson of Easton, George H. Nichols of Thompson, John NJ. Hall of Willimantic, Fred A. Lucas of Goshen, A. T. Roorback of North Canaan, To Pr1rD bop Of Potter of Saybrook, G. B. Cleveland of Port land, Sumner Payne of Coventry, Joseph B. Root of Holland.
 After the appointment of the committee and the announcement of county caueuses. Lynde Harrison submitted some changes i'll the rules governing the election of delegates to State conventions and the management of the conventions when they assem- ble. MT. Harrison stated to the eau GUS that the rules would be sub mitted to the convention for their action to- morrow, and they were only presented at this time for the purpose of giving the eau GUS an opportunity to make any suggestion that they saw fit. The new rules among other things provided that hereafter, beside the ap pointment of the committee credentials at the caucus preceding the convention, the committee on permanent organization and the committees on resolutions shall also be appointed so that they may be ready to re- port at the opening or the convention on the following morning. Another rule provides that if towns fail to elect delegations they cannot authorize delegates from other towns to act for them in convention. There were some other minor alterations proposed which seemed to meet with the approval of the convention.
 The general caucus adjourned about 9:15 and the county caucuses met immediately after. New Haven county voted to support L. NJ. Hubbard, of Wallingford, for Seereta ry of State and Middlesex county decided that John NJ. Douglass, of Middletown, was the proper person to hold the position of comptroller.
 It was fully agreed that Senator o. H. Platt should be both temporary and perma- nent chairman of the convention, and it would seem as though the entire organiza- tion of the convention would be in the inter-