The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-09
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
TO BE HELD AT HYPERION TO-
 MORROW AND "WEDNESDAY.

Hotels of City to be Completely 0ccu-
 pied by Politicians from All Parts of
 the state-state Central Committee
 to Meet at Noon To-morrow-Princi- pal Fight to be over a Chairman of
 That Committee-AII in Readiness for the Convention.
 The state republican convention will open at. the Hyperion theater to-mor- row evening.
 The state central committee is to hold meeting at F o'clock noon tomorrow to attend to some of the preliminaries. The convention proper will open at 8 o'clock, when committees on creden- tials, resolutions and permanent organ ization will be appointed. Congressman F. B. Brandegee will be the temporary presiding officer and the permanent chairman as we'll no doubt. The local contest between the regular delegation headed by Colonel Ullman and delegates elected at the trump con lvention, and of which Captain E. L. Is- bell is member, will probably be threshed out entirely before the com mittee on credentials.
 | It may be that the disappointed dele igation may take the matter into the convention proper, if 1t gets minority report from the committee on creden- tials, but there is the general impress sion that the committee will settle it Ieffectually and finally.
 | The convention Is to select twelve men to represent Connecticut republi- cans at the national convention, which will open in Chicago on June 2l. Six will go as delegates-at-large and six as alternates.
 | In Hartford county there is a little contest on between Andrew F. Sloper, of New Britain, and John T. Robinson, the republican town chairman of Hart ford. It is reported that a conference | is to be held by the leading republicans of the section, and including Senator Platt, before Tuesday. At that time 1t i is expected that matters will be arrang- ed satisfactorily.
 l mentioned for delegates to the conven- ton is Charles S. Mellen. president of the Consolidated road. The fact that MT. Mellen is not yet a citizen of the state of Connecticut, 1t is said may in- terfere with his choice as delegate to the convention.
 A. M. Young, whose voting residence is Branford. had been about decided on it is stated, when it was learned that | he was going to Europe before the opening of the convention. MT. Lilley has said that he does not care particu- Iarly about the honor. and months ago Colonel Ullman was asked if he would serve and declined.
 About all the rooms available in the hotels of the city have been engaged by delegates and others who are interested in the convention.
 The state central committee will have headuuarters at the New Haven house. Other representatives will go to the Ho tel Oneco the Tontine, the Garde and the Davenport.
 Congressman George L. Lilley and Waterbury delegates will be quartered at the Hotel Oneco. Boniface Sullivan has also reserved rooms in his hostelry for Sheriff Sid" Hawley and Fairfield county friends Frank E. Healey of Windsor Locks, Deputy Dairy Commis- sioner Robert o. Eaton, Labor Com missioner J. J. Linsley, of North Bran ford, ex-Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley, of Hartford, ex-Insurance Commission CT Schofield, of Stamford, and John w. Coe, of Meriden.
 I It is expected that all of the hotels of New Haven will be filled to overflow ing tomorrow night, and some of the best known republicans in the state will be present In the convention. Much of the work of the convention will be ac- complished in advance and it will prob ably be known at midnight tomorrow might whether Gates or Kenealy is to be the chairman of the state central com mittee.