The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-23
CHANGES IN CONGRESS.
THOSE IN COKNECTICUTgS DELE
 CATION UNPRECEDENTED.

Faces of BuIkeley and Brandegee to
 Grace the Senate Instead Of Those of
 PIatt and HawIey-HartfOrd RepubIi-
 cans Taking Active Interest in Cam
 vas of Candidates for Governor.
 Hartford, Nov. 21.-The opening of l Congress two weeks from now will show an unprecedented change in the
 faces of the Connecticut delegation.
 In the senate the places of General l Hawley and Senator Platt will be 1 taken by President Morgan G. Bulke- l ley of the Aetna Life Insurance Conn.,
 pany, and the Hon. Frank B. Brande- l gee Of, New London, who has been ad-
 vanced from the lower to the upper house within 8 few months. Senator Brandegee's place in the House of Representatives will be occupied by l Edwin w. Higgins of Norwich, who l was elected from the Third distrct this month. All of these changes have taken place since the reassembling ot Congress last December. The old and tried men in the delegation from the state are the Hon. N. D. Sperry of New Haven, the Hon. E. Stevens Henry of Rockville, and the Hon. E. J.
 Hill of Norwalk. The places of Con
 gressmen Henry and Sperry will not be contested for. the present giving the
 state the benefit of experience and tact in congressional surroundings. There is a good story of the noted Hartford divine, the Rev. James Hughes, of St, Patrick's church, whose life was a strenuous one in the diocese, that may have an apt bearing on the careers of the Congressman from the
 First and Second districts. Towards the end of his life the Rev. Father Hughes was going over his work in the church and wondering what would become of the fold after his shepherd
 ship should be concluded. One of the clergymen who was present ventured the remark that God in His goodness would raise up some one who could
 take the place of the pastor of St.
 Patriek's. He can't do it. sir. He
 can't do it." retorted the aged priest. In the case of Congressmen Henry and Sperry it is the constituents of the two men who are confident that no one can
 be raised up to take their places Each of these men will receive the most gratifying support in the Congression- al contests of year hence. Said 8 distinguished republican leader in Hartford within a week, "The First district has not man who can be pit ted against the Congressman from
 Rockville. He always votes right in Congress and his work in behalf of Connecticut can be relied upon under
 all circumstances. The people of Con- through Congressman Henry's instru-
 mentality, while neswa state treasur- CT, that the state tax was suspended, and has not since been revived. The remark of the old Hartford politician
 is phenomenally true There is not a man in the First district who can be thought of this year for Congressman Henry's place.
 Hartford republicans are taking an acuve interest in the canvas of candi-
 dates for the republican nomination for governor. No one this side Of the Meriden mountains takes the slightest stock in the stories that Hartfor1 is not in favor, actively in favor, of the selection of Governor
 Woodruff of New Haven for the gover-
 norship. General Henry c. Dwight, who is equally prominent in business
 and political circles, all ;: "tuy- day, while watching, the sturns from the Yale football field, that Hartford is committed to the candidacy of Lieuten- ant-Governor Woodruff. No question exists concerning the popularity of the lieutenant-governor in Hartford. In the state election one year ago he ran 3,454 votes ahead of the ticket in the county. Only in two towns, Hartford and Marlborough, was the state ticket neck and neck with him. In the city of Hartford he led the ticket by 1,559 votes and in New Britain by 1,152. The man who talks of Hartford county as stand- ing in the way of Lieutenant Governor Woodruff's nomination must be wholly unfamiliar with the facts in the case. w OUuEuI WILL have the backing of Windham county. Senator John w Atwood, of Plainfield, who is one of the foremost republicans in that section of the state, has es- poused the cause of the New Haven leader holding him to be the ideal bus mess mans candidate. The competitor of Governor Woodruff for the nomina- tion, Senator Paige, of Bridgeport, will not dispute the results of a fair con- test. It will be of chivalric character on both sides. Ex-Senator L. J. Nick erson, of Cornwall, while in the city g. few days ago, stood up by the way to be counted in support of an administra- tion to be headed by Governor Allan w. Paige. The senator from Bridge port, who is in the Fourth Congression- al district, would cut into Litchfielo county more or less decisively, repub1i- cans of independent views like Senator Nickerson taking up his cause against the Fyler domination that has pre- vailed in that county so long.
 Surgeon-General Charles I. Fox, of the staff of Governor George F. Louns- bury, who has removed to Hartford from WiIlimantic, Is lover of ancient medical lore. He has collected some old medical works that would be quo ted at high figures were they in the book market