Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-13
HARTFORD IS ALIVE
 WITH REPUBLICANS
States Being Prepared and Schemes Dscussed-Three Candidates for the Head of the Ticket-C [. LilIey Will be Fitted Against Attorney Kennedy and An Interesting Race is Promised

workers for some particular candidate, poured into this city to-day in antici- patton of the republican state conyen-
 ton which will open at the auditori-
 um tonight to nominate state ticket. Most of the business will be transacted
 tomorrow, the delegates gathering to- night to listen to an address by United
 States Senator o. H. Platt, as tempo
 rary chairman, and to caucus by sena- torlal districts for members of the
 committees on credentials, permanent
 organization and resolutions. Not for
 many years has there Seen so much party interest over a state convention
 as now attends the gathering here of
 hundreds of members of the party. l Hotels are turning away applicants
 for rooms, and accommodations are in
 great demand. Nearly every candi, l date for place on the state ticket has
 his own headquarters. and each is a hive of industry. Caucuses through
 out the state for convention delegates
 ended last Saturday and since then
 prophets have been kicking the ticket.
 The convention will name a gov
 ernor, Heutenant-governor. secretary
 of state, comptroller, state treasurer, I ongressmen-at-large and seven presi- dential electors, and adopt a platform.
 For first place the candidates are I Governor Abiram Chamberlain. Lieu I tenant-Governor Roberts. Judge I4iv- Ingston w. Cleaveland of New Haven and Hon Charles H. Pine of Derby At the outset Mir Roberts goes into the
 convention with a very large number of pledged delegates, and for this req son his nomination seems assured on l the first ballot. If the other three Ic9nfIi6afpS pGr diviHa ornnuu tbo1,o-
 selves and hold them in line all the other candidates, it is probable sec ond Or more ballots will be needed I But Governor Chamberlain's weakness is the deep seated prejudice in this ltstate against giving a state executive a second term, a feeling which some times extends towards other state of fees. Mir Roberts is a Hartford man. and in the fight he has waged in eau cuses there has crept in not little of another issue in which republicans I seem to be deeply interested. that is the successor to United States Senator Hawley, who will be elected by the next legislature, whether Morgan G.
 Bulkeley of Hartford or Samuel Fes. senden of Stamford. Everything dole 1 in the state convention will be gov Ierned not a little by the fight over the Isenatorship. Judge Cleaveland and Mir Pine are believed to be minor fac tors in the gubernatorial contest. The former is not expected to repeat his performance of two years ago when as the eleventh hour candidate and I backed with band he almost swept the convention off it's feet against the plans of the state committee. It was
 only discipline that wolk the day for MT Chamberlain then and in like emergency this time it is freely stated T that the state committee would swing I the Chamberlain votes into MT Rob- erts's column if needed The vote for
 MT Pine will be of a complimentary
 nature from his home and neighbOring towns in the Naugatuck valley. His name also, his friends say would be l acceptable for a compromise. But MT I Roberts seemed this noon to have the situation we'll i'll hand His name will
 be presented by Mayor Henney, and
 those who heard him carry the last I convention for MT Robinson for na- I tionaI delegate may well expect an eloquent tribute to the candidate. Ex- Speaker Light of Norwalk will name
 Judge Cleaveland, Representative l Bicknell will so honor Governor Cham l berlain and MT Gaylord is likely to
 present Mir Pines name.
 For lieutenant-governor, Colonel I Rollin S. Woodruff of New Haven will be named. he having almost a clear l field Fairfield county out of courtesy I to one of it's citizens may present the
 name of Senator James IF. Walsh oe
 Greenwich for a complimentary vote.
 Contests are impending over the sec.
 retary of state, state treasurer and comptroller places on the ticket,
 Messrs yinal of Middletown, Gallup of Norwich and Seeley of Bridgeport, 1 the present incumbe ents respectively of
 these places, wanting each another l term. For secretaryship Editor Thec-
 dore Bonewein of the New London
 Day has the situation well in hand with many pledged delegates. Besides
 MT Vinal the other candidate is Judge l William Colt. also of New London. If change Is madeRthe state treasurer ship will probably go to Fairfield county man whose name has not yet been mentioned. As Treasurer Gallup comes from Norwich the convention Is
 scarcely likely to favor another can-a l didate for another office from the same l immediate locality. For the same req son in the contest for comptrollersh1p l Adrian J. Muzzy of Bristol may lose to one of his other rivals, either Comp 1 trol1er SeeIey,. Charles Bissell of Suf- l field or Francis T. Maxwell of Vernon, as the convention may not deem it to be wise to give three places respective 1 " to Hartford, New Haven and Brls- l tol
 Congressman George L. Lilley of l Waterbury will be renominated, the speech placing his name before the convention to be made by Congressman Brandagee. As the democratic nom- 1 inee for the same office, William Ken nedy of Naugatuck, is almost a neigh Dor, the fight will be an interesting one.
 While there is enough ma terial in hand for very lively
 convention much of the business as
 usual will be arranged in conference
 and it seems probable that the con-
 vention will move along with that
 mechanical smoothness which has
 always marked the party gatherings
 It will be in the hotel Hobbies and
 candidates headquarters that the
 political games will be played with masterfuI skill. and the results may