The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-17

portant national position and endorses the senator for reelection by the Con necticut legislature in 190S
 The platform also includes a trust plank in line with the speech delivered by Senator Platt.
 The platform also includes a labor plank It is to the effect that inas- much as the republican party had al- ways fathered legislation for the pro lection of wage earners it will continue to do so.
 With regard to constitutional amend ments in Connecticut the platform will include plank to the effect that it is the sense of the convention that the in- terests of the cities should be recogniz- ed, but also that the convention believes this can be effected and should be done by constitutional amendment, and that the convention believes in the prehis- toric doctrine of the rights of the towns. The platform will also include spe- cific endorsement of the administration of Governor George P. Mclean.
 The platform will contain other blanks of minor and local import. COUNTY CAUCUS HELD. The caucus of the New Haven county delegates to the convention was called to order in the grill room of the Hotel Heublein at 6:S0 o'clock and nearly all of the delegates were present. The caucus was called to order by Frederick A. Betts of this city, who stated that | it was for the purpose of endorsing any of the candidates that have been men, tioned. Mir. Betts was only tempo rary chairman. He called for nOmina- tions for chairman and Judge L. M. Hubbard of Wallingford was the choice of the caucus. Colonel L. F. Burpee of | Waterbury was elected secretary and the business of the caucus was opened.
 Judge George H. Cowell of Waterbury | took the floor and after a brief address moved that the caucus unanimously en- dorse the name of MT. Lilley for con- gressman-at-large. Judge Cowell said that he believed no better choice could be made and he hoped the caucus would pass on the motion.
 Mir. Perry of Oxford said that the mo- ton of Judge Cowell only meant the | formation of a wedge to run the ticket and believed that the caucus should not declare itself for any one, especially as there were two candidates in the field. | Harry Averill of Branford said that he hoped the caucus would adopt the motion of Judge Cowell and that it would be unanimous. He spoke in praise of MT. Lilley, saying that the state would be well represented if he should be elected.
 The question was called for, and the motion to endorse the Waterbury man was carried unanimously.
 After that the caucus adjourned at l6:45 The other county caucuses were held before and after the convention.
 NEW HAVENERS THERE.
 A partial list of the New Haven peo- pie attending the convention is as fol- lows: Frederick A. Betts, Colonel l. M. Ullman, John Whitaker, Victor NJ. Ty- Ter, A. McC. Mathewson,, Frederick L.. Averill, General Phelps Montgomery, Robert O. Eaton, Sheriff Durham, C.. B. Matthewman, General E. s. Greeley, John M. Crampton, James T. Moran, Judge Harry W. Doolittle, William P. Niles, Theodore H. Macdonald, Judge Cable. Colonel Charles W. Pickett, Charles Elliott Pickett, Samuel Punder- son, Leo R. Hammond, R. J. Woodruff, Benjamin Smith, William Schappa, L.. E. Jacobs, Henry G. Newton, William Taylor, F. L. Clark, N. B. Hoyt, r. B. Street, Samuel E. Hoyt, John Y. Mo- Dermott, George R. Booth, William C.. Lotze, Frederick R. Haight, L. Besser, R. W. Kirke, William Hartung, Henry Hillman, Lewis s. Welch, c. H. Ryder, John o. Shares, Edward D. Monroe, Prentice w Chase, Nehemiah Candee, Rev. Alexander F. Irvine, Ashley Will lis, Myron W. CNrtiss. H. H. Bates, J, H. Mansfield, S. H. Street, w. W. Bron- son, Thomas Rourke and Rev. MT. Clarke, of Whitneyville.