The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-14
ATE CONVENTION
 OPENS IN HARTFORD
rRRING ADDRESS BY TEMPO.
 RARK CHAIRMAN PLATT.

scations Last Night That Roberts ouId be Nominated on First Ballot The Rest of the sIate-woodrufR pr Lieutenant Goyernor-CIaims of ae pposition-President Electors nd Committees Chosen-The Plat ,rm-The Temporary oaicers Are ade Permanent.
 artford, Sept. 1S.-In a vigorous de- ] se of the republican, administration, ted States Senator orville H. Platt, temporary chairman, awakened eh enthusiasm at the opening of the ublican state convention in the Au- rium tonight, the delegate body ering repeatedly the name of Theo- Roosevelt. The hall which was with color was crowded to the
 rs, the spectators being fully as en- siastic as were the delegates them S res. Besides the address of Senator 1t the convention was temporarily $ anized by the selection in senatorial s cuses of the members of the various # lmittees.
 he indications tonight are that S utenant Governor Henry Roberts 5 be nominated for governor on the S ballot, in spite of the havd work of managers of the other three can- $ ates to capture the unpledged dele- # es. In second place Colonel Rollin g Woodruff will be named. The other z ces on the ticket probably will go * follows: For secretady of state, The s re Bodenwein of New London; for s lptroller, .Asel A. Mitchell, of Wood & y; A. J. Muzzy of Bristol, or Charles # sell of Suffield; for treasurer William E Seeley of Bridgeport, the present # lptroller; congressman-at t-large; Geo. M Lilley of Waterbury.
 * he entire fight centers on the head q the ticket, and the prediction was z Ely made that if Roberts does not % on the first ballot he will surely 5, as delegates will go to one or ther of the other candidates, $ he platform, which was written, 1t
 understood by Judge Lynde Harri-
 of New Haven, will endorse the # ional platform, praise the adminis- 5 lion of Theodore Roosevelt, and & nt to the prosperity of the country
 twenty-five years as the best an *@ sr to the claims of the democratic & ty. Nothing is said about state mat 5, it is understood.
 S alI the afternoon the drift seemed to away from Roberts, starting with a ] i'm of 375 delegates out of 5S0. The berts men tonight were content, to
 m S25. Judge Cleayeland said that
 In this figure was too high because
 knew of towns claimed by Roberts
 ch were not going that way. At
 time tonight Roberts men claimed
 t the Chamberlain men were cir
 ating the report that Col. Wood
 Frs name would be presented for first
 Fee, but Judge Lynde Harrison states
 refutation that the New Haven dele- z ion had met and unanimously voted
 support Roberts, and to have Col. h man present the name of Col. Wood
 Sor second place.
 or state treasurer no names were hntioned uni night when members the state committee declared ss mselves L r of Comptroller EIeIey for the treasurership in order to h ognize the western part of the state. a,E. Bodenwein being practically unop- #3zSed for secretary of state. The con- 7lt for comptroller is close and as ob- Hilton is being made to having two HKrtford county men on the ticket, zesal w. Mitchell, of Woodbury, has ziene to the front against Muzzy, of saIstol, and Bissell, of Sufffeld St was 8:15 p. m., at the close of the
 atorial caucauses, that Chairman
 ehael Kenealy trapped to order and
 scented to the convention as tenn ary chairman, Senator Orville H. |a4tt, who, he said, needed no intro- |Rction to a Connecticut audience. Ap- .ek use greeted the Senator until finally |a entire delegate body stood upon it's
 
 q1 handkerchiefs being waved by la IS in the galleries. Senator Platt then |ssIivered his speech as temporary lirman. (The speech will be found E full on page of this paper.)
 Repeatedly Senator Platt had to stop atil applause died away following
 sphasis he placed on some point and
 Secially after references to President
 sosevelt or members of his cabinet. he closed with the words, Forward srch,a the delegates rose to their z t and cheered. Cheers for individu-
 were called for from different parts =, the hall, including one from the gall M for MT. Bulkeley, "Your next col 5s9gue." These calls provoked merri- X mt.
 The business of organizing the con- ltion was begun. George D. Hinman snng chosen secretary, and Alfred P. ngldwin, of Derby, and John H. Staf- md, of Bridgeport, as assistant secre- s ries. The names of the committee on 1redentials, rules, permanent organiza- akn and resolutions were read from the vtturns' of the senatorial caucauses 1hAey are as follows: Resolutions. ".'u ,s1--W William F. Henney, Hartford. k George H. Gilman. Hartford. l. Dwight, Hartford, $. Chapman, Manchester. A. Peck, Bristol
 Tan,ee Ir Cooner New RritaiY, 5