Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-19

ters. Among the matters brought up was the establishmbent of press bu- reau and the distribution of the funds which will be sent for the comanfttee,s
 use 1n the campaign. The increased
 number of the senatorial districts has
 made a new system imperative. One
 or me nrst duties of the new press
 bureau will be. to announce the names
 or Ihe finance and advisory committee. or which Mayor Thayer of Norwich will be chairman.
 The Sweiish-A,merican Republican
 state League of Connecticut, whose
 annuai convention was postponed rom September IA on account of the republican state convention baino held on that date, will meet in Mid. ,dietoWn next Wednesday.
 Not this year. some other year ,, said Alexander Troup to reporter
 last evening, when asked about the re- port that he had become a receptive candidate for the democratic nomina-
 tIon for congress, to run against NJ n Sperry in this district. "There,s notb.
 Ing doing so far as I am concerned ,i
 MT Troup added.
 Greene Kendrick of New Haven formerly of this city, was renewing
 acqua1ntances in town to-day. The
 former mayor is reported as being a
 candidate for the democratic nomina
 tlon for congressman in the second
 district and that his visit here to-day
 was to see how Waterbury favored
 his candidacy. 9s l | Attorney Phelan, the. democratic nominee for senator in the sixteenth
 district is not yet out of the woods
 The republicans are talking of pit
 ting D. O.. Commerford against him
 and 1f they do the primary at which
 MT Phalen won over Attorney Holo-
 han was tame affair compared with
 what he has yet to go through before
 he is sure of the position.
 State Committeeman F'itzpatrick and Rigney are in Hartford to-day attending a meeting of the committee
 and making arrangements for the
 rally which will be heN here Thurs day, when the new democratic ban
 ner will be flung to the breeze. It has not wet been decided who the speaker will be, but an effort is be- ing made to secure Bourke Cochran,
 of New York, and the committee in
 charge will try hard to get him; if not now at some future gathering be- fore the November election.
 The committee appointed to revise the rules governing democratic pri-
 maries will hold a couple of meetings this week for the purpose of talking over such changes as ought to be l made, Some of them think very fa-
 vorably of the direct primary so far
 as such thing Is practicable and
 thus do away with the confusion
 caused by electing delegates to choose
 delegates by voting for the delegates
 at the booths. It is quite likely that the committee will recommend the adoption of the direct primary for senator in the sixteenth district It is understood that Congressman Sperry who has been nominated to succeed himself, will soon pay a visit to Waterbury with a view to l meeting some of his old friends. One of MT Sperry's packers told a reporter 1 to-day that no date has been fixed for | Sperry's coming, but when he comes 1t will be no secret and that after he
 goes the canvass will begin in earnest
 and will be kept up right along until the polls close. He added that he was pleased to hear that Judge Bron- son had refused to run against MT Sperry. He knew he would take a few votes from him in Waterbury,
 and while he thought his man could afford a slight gash here and there
 in Waterbury, he didn't want to see
 him get it.
 About 400 persons gathered in the Gem opera house, Naugatuck, yester- day afternoon to listen to an address on the issues of the present cam paign by Benjamin Hanford of New York, the candidate for yice-president
 on the socialist ticket. Mir Hanford, who is an interesting and entertain
 ing speaker. gave brief outline of the socialistic party. In regard to the socialists being able to govern the country, he said that II the party was in power and it tried its worst it could do no worse than has been done in the postoffice department during the past few years. The speaker had
 some interesting remarks to make about trusts and trust leaders, such as J. Pierpont Morgan and Rockefel- Ter. MT Hanford's address was inter-
 rupted number of times by applause
 from the audience
 There is talk of nominating R. K.
 Brown on the democratic ticket to try conclusions with Fl. H. Peck, the
 republican nominee for the senator ship in the fifteenth district. Just what chance MT Brown would stand against MT Peck in a republican
 stronghold it would be hard to say, but 1t is certain that if he could be
 prevailed upon to enter the lists he would keep Peck on the anxious seat and in the opinion of many would de
 prive him of chair in the senate at
 the next session of the general as-
 'sembly. It Is not likely that MT
 Brown could be coaxed into accepting n nomination for any office, high or low, and 1t is too bad that this is so. He would make first class congress