The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-18
CHAMBERLAIN NOMINATED.
WINS OYER JUDGE CLEAYELAND BY VOTE OF 343 TO f5s.

Town Delegates Had a Lively Contest, the Latter Winning-voted to Favor Resolution Giving Large Towns an Increase in State COnventiOn-PIat- form Adopted-sketch of Candidates On the Ticket.
 The republican state convention came to close yesterday afternoon at $50 after one of the most interesting clos ing sessions in a state convention held by the republicans of Connecticut in years. The ticket as finally adopted by the party is as follows:
 For governor-Abiram Chamberlain of Meriden.
 For lieutenant governor-Henry Rob- erts of Hartford.
 For secretary of state-Charles G. R. ;Vinal of Middletown.
 For treasurer-Henry H. Gallup of Norwich.
 For controller-William E. seeley of Bridgeport.
 For attorney general-William A. King of Windham.
 For congressman-at-larg George L. d4illey of Waterbury.
 In the vote for governor Livingston w. Cleaveland of New Haven received 153 votes while MT. Chamberlain's vote numbered 343. MT. King received S4 votes for the nomination for attorney general and his Vernon opponent, Charles A. Phelps, the present incumb- ent of the office, was credited with 166 votes.
 The friends>of MT. Lilley completely buried those of E. c. Frisbie of Hart ford, the other candidate for nomina- tion for congressman at-large, and in the ballot MT. Lilley boiled the largest vote of the day, 381 against 97 for MT. Frisbie. The other nominees were nonl- mated by exclamation though a few votes in a viva voce vote were given General Phelps Montgomery of this city in the contest for the nomination for controller.
 The last hour of the convention yes terday afternoon was practically turned into constitutional convention and as was predicted freely Tuesday the mat ter of representation in future state conventions brought out long and somewhat animated discussion on this important matter. It resulted in vic- tory for the cities or larger towns by a majority of several votes, the smaller towns protesting and fighting for what some of the delegates called their rights. Senator Kenealy of Stamford was the delegate to put forward the resolution as passed upon by the com- mittee on rules Tuesday night, which was as follows:
 Resolved, That the representation in future republican state conventions shall be as follows, viz: Two delegates from each town for each representative in the house of representatives and two delegates from each senatorial district, for such district.
 Providing, that in towns having more than one senatorial district within their limits, the delegates from such districts shall be elected in town conventions, but such delegates shall reside in the districts respectively represented by them.
 The state central committee is direct ed to formulate rules for the purpose of carrying this resolution into effect and to insure its operation.
 Colonel l. M. Ullman of this city of fered the resolution at the meeting of the rules committee and it was he who moved that the vote on the question yesterday be by roll.
 Senator Kenealy's fervent appeal for the adoption of this set of rules was lis- tened to for half an hour and during his speech he referred to the justice of the proposed plan again and again, say ing that if the plan was adopted the small towns would be benefited in the same proportion as the larger ones. He endeavored to appease the small town delegates, but there could be no concii- ation as far as they were concerned. They were there to down the plan for larger representation in the cities and on the first look it seemed as though the matter would go their way. Senator Kenealy's words did not conciliate George M. Clark, one of the Haddam delegates, who urged indefinite post ponemerlt on the ground that the ques- ton was popped too suddenly. He said that Senator Kenealy's speech sounded all right to those who were prepared to vote on the matter but that to have it sprung on the delegates with only 8 few hours to think about it was not right. so he urged further speaking that might cause the matter to be postponed.
 After MT. Clark took his seat George Austin Bowen, of Woodstock, thrust upon the convention the real article when he moved that the whole matter be tabled Then it was that the old, old contest between the small and large towns of the state was brought up to view. On the aye and nay vote to table the resolution the chair was in doubt, and Colonel Ullman proposed vote by roll call.
 All those who favored the tabling of the resolution rose and the count was half through when some of the tellers said they were mixed in their count. Chairman Platt decided to have the delegates from the different counties counted separately and the plan turned out to be wise one. On the first vote, the one in which all those against the resolution rose. it seemed as though the small towns had things two to one