Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-05
DEMOCRATS AT HARTFORD
Every Train Bringing Them in Toe
 Day--Hos Contest Expected.

vention at the Auditorium tonight ] and tomorrow democrats from every
 part of Connecticut poured into Hart ford today taking possession of hotels
 and thronging the headquarters of the state central committee at the Allyn
 house, and of Alexander Troup, the l state leader of the movement in favor
 of the nomination of William Ran
 dolph Hearst for the presidency.
 l The convention will choose two state delegates t-large, four district
 delegates and eight county delegates i to the St Louis convention. Whether l they will be for MT Hearst or for some other candidate, presumably for Judge Parker of New York. can only be de- i termined by the convention itself as 1 the party leaders admit that they are ! unable to accurately anaIyze the re- i turns of town caucuses which named
 the delegates to to-night's convention. Figures have been put out by both sides only to be revised later, and con | servative democrats incline to the l opinion that MT Hearst's strength will l have to be shown by test vote of the convention. Mir Troup has announced l that he will make the test at the very 1 outset by an effort to reject Judge 1 R. E. De Forest of Bridgeport as tenn 1 porary chairman. The convention will be called to order at o'clock ! by Chairman J. J. Walsh of the state l~central committee, and he will intro dI1ce Judge De Forest, who was invit-
 ed to. serve as chairman by the state
 committee. MT Troup has announced that he does not want Mir De Forest
 on three grounds Namely, that he is not delegate having been defeated
 at the Bridgeport convention and that l he is not a democrat. MT Walsh has replied that MT De Forest was select ed by majority of the committee and that he will have seat in the convention on a proxy. Moreover, MT Walsh says, to ensure the regularity of the invitation to Mr DeForest to
 preside, he will call the state commit
 tee into session to reinvite MT De Forest to take the chair. Tn connec- t1on with MT De Forests credentials 1t is pointed out that the Bridgeport delegation has voted the unit rule in fayor of MT Hearst, and made this binding on alternates MT De Forest
 has declared himself in favor of MT
 Parker.
 In event of the rejection of Judge
 Parker, which would indicate that the Hearst delegates have a majority MT
 Troup will name the presiding officer.
 and he says he will give the conven-
 ton surprise. He declines to name
 his choice for chairman. After the set tlement of this matter the convention will take two hours recess to permit the holding of thirty-fve senatorial district caucuSes, each to form a dis iiH1 ifar1 oT1xa4 ] Der Of the state central committee. a
 member each of the committees on ere
 dentials,f permanent organization and
 resolutions. Under a new law the
 state Is divided into thirty-five sena- torlal districts in place of twenty four,
 and this is the time selected to effect a
 reorganization of the party admins trat1on. Aside from the uncertainty
 over the factionaI complexion Of the I state convention the greatest activity l is over the selection of state central committee and the choice of a national
 committeeman to succeed Homer $.
 Cummings of Stamford, who four years
 ago 4oleated Mir Troup. So many
 local issues were brought to the front ] in the town caucus that until few days ago the contention between the
 Parker and Hearst forces was almost
 lost sight of. Now everything tn the l way of an unsettled local contest is to
 be straightened out if possible before
 the convention gets down to actual l business tomorrow The existing rules are said to need changing over to
 meet new conditions, and the leaders admit that conditions are chaotic No one appears to be favored as chairman of the committee on resolutions, and as
 MT Troup says that he will fight any 1 attempt to have one presented, 1t may
 happen that this item of business will be dispensed with. Chairman Walsh
 has provided for such commfttee in
 his order of business, indicating that
 he believes the Parker delegates will control and will lavor a platform This will be written in such case over
 night. If senatorial caucvsing is com. pleted at 10 D. m. the convention will
 resume business and effect what w1Il
 be equivalent to a permanent Orgaiiza- tion Recess will then be taken un 10 o'clock Friday morning. Tn t4e
 meantime county and congressional
 districts caucuses are, to be held and each is to report to the convention the choice of county and district delegates I to the national convention. More con 1 troversy is expected as there is a u4t. ference of opinion as to whether the | SeleCIIOHS Ildu0 DV Iue CduCuSoS are l subject to confirmation by the conven-
 tion The Hearst men undoubtedly
 control several of the county delega. tions and have adopted the unit rule New Haven county has endorsed MT
 Troup as delegate at large against MT l Cummings and will try to have the I convention endorse him. Mr Troup
 also wants to defeat MT Cummings as 1 national committeeman.
 All the places for national delegates i will be contested
 For the second delegate at large May
 or Bryan F. Mahan of New London is against N. H. Phillips of Killingly, who has the same endorsement as MT 1 Troup. In the first congressional
 district ex-Mayor Ignatius Sullivan of 1 Hartford, Parker man, is against l William O'Neil of the same city. Tn 1 the second district w. E Thoms of Waterbury Parker), is running
 against James M. Sullivan of New Ha- \ TNs- q d.. T