Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-15
THE STATE CONVENTION.

Gathering of Republicans In New Aa.
 ven To-Night-The Preliminary Mass
 Convention at she Hyperion To.Nlght
 -To-MorroW's Convention-The Dis.
 triet Conventions TO.MorroV.
 Tonight the chief hotels of New Haven will be alive with delegates to the Repub- lican State convention. The conven- ton will select four delegates-at-large to represent Connecticut Republicans at the national Republican convention to be held at Chicago June 19. It will assemble at the Hyperion at 10 o'clock tomorrow for the purpose. There will also be mass conven- tion at the Hyperion this evening, at which the committee on credentials, the committee on permanent organization and the com mittee on resolutions for the convention to- morrow morning will be chosen. Thus considerable part of the work of the conven- tion will be accomplished tonight. This is quite departure from the old methods. To- morrow after the State convention adjourns, which it is expected will be at 12 o'clock noon, the district conventions will meet. These are the congressional district conven- tions. These conventions will select the re- mainder of the delegates to the Chicago con- vention, each district convention selecting two delegates and two alternates.
 By the rules adopted at the last State con- vention no delegate to the national conven- tion, or member of the State central com mittee, can be appointed nor platform adopted before 10 o'clock tomorrow.
 It is also quite probable that the mass meeting tonight will not adjourn until some of the war horses have had chance to air little oratory. Among those to attend the convention are President Dewell of the Chamber of Commerce, ex-Collector A U of tho Mems Republican club and Alderman Dick erman of this city, ex-Senater James Graham of West Haven, County Commissioner Bur leigh, Capt. s. P. Crafts, William F. Downsr and J. B. Andrews of Orange, Hon. Wm. J. Clark of Southington, J. M. Leach and Perry Douglass, George M. Southmayd, J. J. Hub bard and c. P. Bonfvey of ;Middletown, P. H. Goodrich and M. T. Hollister of Glaston- bury, Dr. Newton of Sufield, Hon. Erastus s. Day of Colchester; and from Norwalk: State, Asa B. Woodward, E. J. Hill, John district, Charles w. Bell, E. E. Grove, c. B. Coolidge and E. o. Keeler. Meriden sends Levi E. Coe, E. J. Doolittle, Robert H. Cur tiss and c. E. Stockder, jr. North Haven sends Lawyer E. L. Linsley, R. O. Easton, D. l.. Clinton and Henry Patton.
 The Hartford Courant advises as follows:
 The delegates should be representative men, who can go to Chicago with the desire to calmly con slider the whole situation and to nominate ticket that can call to it's support every who is be- lever in the principles of the Republican party. Cool judgment in the selection of candidates and proper recognition of the opportunities that are before the party day will insure a Republican victory next November. The State should send an unpledged and an unhampered delegation to the national convention. It is in the position of of the pivotal States, and comes early in the list in the call of States. Its representatives may have opportunity to exert an influence in the conven- tion beyond what the small number of votes they carry can give. Men should be selected who will recognize the idea that duty to the Republican par ty and the country should govern their action, ual preferences. Connecticut's delegates should be in position to have free and full counsel with the best informed, and to act with the wsest and best men who will gather at Chicago in June