Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-06
TOWN CONVENTION.

TOWN CONVENTION. Messrs. Benton, Manson, Bell and l
 Greeley the Republican Delegates |
 Selected-Genera1 Merwin the Next |
 Governor of the State-A Spirited
 Address by Judge Harrison-Cam-
 pa1gn Issues.
 The republican town convention to elect four delegates to the republican state con vention met last evening in the rooms of the Young Mems Republican club in the insurance building. There were present sixty-eight delegates. The meeting was called to order promptly at o'clock by Mir. James A. Bishop, clerk of the city court and chairman of the republican town committee, and immediately proceeded to the election of officers. Judge Lynde Harrison and J. Birney Futile were elected by exclamation to the offices of chairman and secretary respectively. A motion was made and carried that the chairman should appoint committee on credentials and MT. Harri- son appointed the following gentlemen: MT. F. c. Bushnell, Mr. S. J. Fox and MT. Carlos Smith. During the interim, while the committee were looking into the cre- dentials of the various delegates, motion was made that Judge Harrison give the delegation present the benefit of few in formal remarks upon political subjects in view of his recent return from abroad. MT. Harrison gracefully acquiesced to the request of the convention and made @ short address, the main points of which were to the effect that the campaign about to be entered upon must and would be fought on both national and state issues and that General Samuel D. Merwin would undoubtedly be the nominee of the repub lican party, and as assuredly the next governor of the state. [Applause]. MT. Harrison said that it had been for the past fourteen years an unwritten law of the conventions not to nominate the same candidate for office for second term, and it was, therefore, highly improper for a governor of the state to say whether he would or would not be candidate for re- election. In this connection the office seeks the man and not the man the office. The speaker then spoke in the highest terms of Governor Bulkeley's administra- tion and said that undoubtedly all pres ent believed that the present governor had in all things conducted the affairs of the office in accordance with the manner which he believed to be right. MT. Harrison also stated that he had been in Hartford within the past week and had been in converse tion with some of Governor Bulkeley's most intimate friends and supporters in that city and that they had told him that Governor Bulkeley had no intention nor thought of being a candidate for renomi- nation. Governor Bulkeley himself had also said to him (Mr. Harrison) that he would Loyalty and gladly support the next bearer of the republican party for the gubernatorial chair without ref erence as to whom he might be. MT. Harrison also touched upon the reel procity plan of the Hon. James G. Blaine. During the course of his remarks he said that on his voyage outward he had met with on the same vessel republicans from nearly every state in the union who were his fellow passengers. There were among this number MT. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis flour manufacturer, and sev- eral eminent journalists from California, and they one and all agreed that the Hon. James G. Blaine was the one statesman of the American republic and that it was ab- solutely safe to follow where he might lead. MT. Harrison stated further that he had seen and conversed with Consul John A. Tibbitts of Bradford, England, and with the Hon. Wallace Bruce in Edinburgh and they both en- dorsed MT. Blaine's reciprocity scheme and pronounced his views upon the subject right and correct in every particular. "Our friends of the other party, Mir. liar rison said, "claim that Blaine is free trader and that the whole party was going to follow him, but in both instances they were very much mistaken. In laying a tariff the tax should be laid so as to equal ize the conditions, and this was the main idea of Blaine's reciprocity plan" He stated that Mr. Pillsbury of Minnesota said that Minnesota and all the other west ern and northwestern states were in favor of and emphatically endorsed the reciproc- ity plan and would cast their electoral votes for James G. .Blainey should he be the candidate for president, and that he would undoubtedly be elected. At the conclusion of MT. Harrison's remarks, which were frequently warmly applauded, the committee on credentials made their report and the same was approved. The roll of delegates was then called and sixty eight out of seventy-five answered to their names. The nomination of candidates for election as delegates to the state conven- tion was next in order. Mir. F. c. Bush- nell placed the name of Herbert E. Benton in nomination and made motion to the effect that the secretary be instructed to cast the ballot. The motion, however, was lost and the convention proceeded to take formal ballot, the result of which was as follows:
 Herbert E. Benton. ......................... GA scattering. .............i............ Whole number of votes cast. 6s necessary to a choice. ........................ 3o
 Mr. Benton was therefore elected first delegate.
 Judge Studley nominated General E. S. Greeley for second delegate. Mr. F. L.. Averill of the Fourth ward placed John T. Manson in nomination. The ballot re- suited as follows:
 John T. Manson. ..............,............ 37 r. '. NrSeiey. <. Scrattering. .......................... Total number of votes cast 65
 Necessary to choice B
 MT. Manson was thereupon declared elected.
 Henry Bell, was placed in nomination by
 Mir. c. w. Pickett seconded by Mir. Edward Randolph and ballot taken which resulted as follows:
 T.. Q. ofeeiey os
 Number of votes cast 6f
 Necessary to choice 3a
 The secretary declared that MT. Bell
 was the choice of the convention for third delegate. MT. Bell is a colored man, and
 a member of Admiral Foote post. The fourth ballot resulted:
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