The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-25

Meeting ofCentraI Committee and Eco.
 Change in the Outlook for the Nomi.
 nation of Governor-semtiment of Delegates Seemed to Swerve from Mr.
 Cary to Mir. Thayer-Great Enihusi-
 asm Marked the Entire Evening-Re-
 suits of County and Senatorial District
 Caucuses-New State Central Commit
 tee.
 The delegates to the democratic state convention transacted business last night preparatory to the opening of the convention in the Hyperion this morn- ing, and as is the case in most nights preceding the convention, the night was lively one. Nearly all of the delegates to the convention are in New Haven and every caucus and district meeting last night was bubbling over with en- thusiasm. They were all noisy and good natured, even the New London county caucus which ended up in a sparring match by three well known delegates from that county. This was all forgotten in few minutes and the participants in the mix-up were soon shaking hands with each other.
 AS was announced by calls the dele gates from the different counties held their caucuses at o'clock in the fol- lowing places: New Haven, Turn hall; Middlesex, at the Davenport hotel and Hartford, Holland, New London, Litch- field, Windham, and Fairfield counties in Music hall. After the senatorial district ~eaucuses, which followed the county caucuses, it seemed as though the tide of the convention had turned and that landslide for Thayer had taken place. On top of the general out burst of enthusiasm for the Norwich candidate came the report that B. Kent Hubbard, jr., of Middletown, the young candidate for the nomination of lieuten- ant governor, had declared himself for Mayor Thayer and that he would refuse the nomination if the convention went for Mr. Cary. This rumor circulated through the Tontine hotel like fire and it was on the tongue of every delegate in the building in few minutes. MT. Hubbard several days ago was the choice of the Cary men and it apparent yly made no difference to him which way the convention went. MT. Hubbard was seen by several newspaper men and he would neither deny nor affirm the re- port He was in the Thayer quarters and surrounded by delegations from each of the camps.
 Mayor Thayer was a conspicuous fig . ure in the Tontine, and he did lot of work that is expected to tell in the con- vention this morning His workers were out in force and so were the cohorts from the Cary camp, but the former outnumbered the latter almost two to one, no matter where one went. From an unbiased point of view it looked as if the Cary nomination was not such sure thing as had been predicted, but on the other hand Mayor Thayer's chances seemed brighter than the changes of the Ridgefield candidate. Anyway, every body said last night that the contest would be on of the closest, if not the most exciting in the history of demo- cratic politics in the state. The work of winning over delegates continued until an early hour this morning and will proceed to continue up to the time 
 order at 10 o'clock this morning.
 Two important meetings of the state central committee were held last night, the first at o'clock and the other at 1O:30 o'clock, At the first one it is ex- pected that two district delegations from Stonington and Prospect would put in an appearance and make claim to be recognized by the committee. There had been a rumor to this effect for several days and the matter was left to the state central committee to decide. Each of the two delegations from those towns were supposed to be in the right, at least they claimed they were, and lively hearing was expected to take place. Only one faction attend- ed the meeting and not man from the other showed up, whether it was the right side or the wrong side.
 After the question: was settled the special committee from the Economic league, comprising C. A. Rich and Philip Daily, appointed at the state convention of the league in this city a few days ago appeared before the committe and made several requests. The first one was request that the state central commit tee use it's influence in getting the nom- ination of Mayor Charters for sheriff, the members of the league stating that the candidacy Of MT. Tomlinson was ob- tectionable to some of the leagues of the state They also suggested that the candidacy of George M. Wallace for ,congfessman-at-large be furthered by the committee.
 A platform was mentioned by the Economic league committee to the state central committee, several of the blanks being as follows: The abolition of the rotten borough system" direct prima- ries, a secret ballot, county caucuses by the people, and the adoption of the vot- ing machine in the presidential vote. These were only some of the blanks mentioned after the meeting was over, and MT. Rich said that the blanks would be referred to the committee on rules, which will report to-day. All of the twenty-four members of the state central committee attended the meeting and it came to conclusion shortly be- fore midnight.
 Another meeting in which there was . considerable local interest was the ses- sion of the New Haven delegates to the convention, which was called to order at S:30 by Colonel N. G. Osborn, the 6rct 0f fha nonoo,it+ao Tbis