The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-04


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 srtst' Main Issus-statistIes From
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 be Drawn-mors Politics.
 Hartford, Sept 2.-The meeting of the republican state central committee, which will take place at an early date in September, yiu be of much more consequence than appears on the sur face. ostensibly the meeting will be for the consideration of the new cor rupt practices act and the methods of operation which it will necessitate in an active campaign. The first trial will be in the Third congressional dis trict, and the machinery of the new law must soon be placed in running order. But this problem will be of minor in- portance. The chief interest of the meeting will appear in the question who is to be the successor of Governor Roberts in the executive chamber. The support of Lieutenant- Governor Wood ruff for the pjlace has not been falling off in northern Connecticut since the first of January. At the elections in November Lieutenant-Gov Wood ruff showed phenomenal strength in Hartford county, running 3,454 votes ahead of Governor Roberts. In the city of Hartford he received 8S,524 votes, be- ing 1,559 ahead of the ticket. In the city of New Britain he, received 3,6SS votes, exceeding the vote for Governor Roberts by 1,152. In every county in the state except Fairfield Lieutenant Governor Woodruff outdtstanced the head of the ticket. In Fairfield county he was 695 votes behind Governor Rob. erts. Tn the state Lieutenant-G Governor Woodruff'S total excess as compared with the head of the ticket was S,s92. In New Haven county the lieutenant governors popularity was demonstra- ted in the most satisfactory way, In the city of New Haven Governor Rob- erts rceived 11,4OS votes and Lieuten- ant Governor Woodruff 120S5. Judge A. Heaton Robertson, the democratic candidate for governor, was SAT votes behind Governor Roberts in the univer- sity city, and 1,474 behind MT. Wood ruff. Tn 1902, when the 1ieutenant- ernor was elected to the state senate from the New Haven district his vote was 9,745, being a plurality of 1882 over the democratic competitor, MT. Bree, who was elected to the senate in 1900 by democratic plurality of S6S. The Iieutenarf- f-governor's gain in the city of New Haven in the state election in Novemberas compared with the senato- rial election in 1902 was 2,290. Last3No- yenaber the city of Waterbury gave the Iieutenant- governor 5,290, and Meriden 3,549, being a total of S,SS9. The vote of Governor Roberts in the two cities was 8,61S, The election figures throughout the state for 1904 place Lieutenant Governor Woodruff in a position that can not be overlooked in adjusting the status of candidates His personal popularity was increased by his course ii1 the senate and he came out of the six months ordeal with col ors flying. Naturally he will be can didate for the nomination for governor and will have the strongest support that Hartford and New Haven counties can give Should there prove to be a competitor against him it will be in the person of Senator Paige of Bridgeport, who is concededly at the head of the republican organization in the state, having defeated the old leaders in the Brandegee- Mclean contest for the United States Senatorship. Senator Paige is unquestionably entitled to high consideration in5the republican party in Connecticut. His name was on the lips of political managers, great and small, during the last three months of the ses- sion as the Forthcoming candidate for governor. The office of chief executive of the state will fall to his lot sooner or later. It will not be by accident or the turn of circumstances, but as well earned and deserved honor. It may be that the high honor will not be thought best by himself to be accepted within the coming year and a half. The election of 1906 will be close upon the heels of the disastrous defeat which the so-called Hartford machine met with this year, giving the senator from Bridgeport supremacy in party coun- cils and management. The nomination of Senator Paige for governor in 1908, which will be a presidential year, will be higher achievement than should it ,come a year from now. By that time the reorganization and realignment of republican leadership in the state will be completed and the sore spots that now exist be healed over, making sub stantial harmony on all sides. All of these interests will afford topics of in- terest at the coming meeting of the state central committee.
 The members of the congressional committee in the Third district, which was elected at the convention in 1904 are John Hopson of New London, Rob- ert A. Gray of Groton, Charles N. Dan iels. of Willimantic and Samuel G. Johnson of Bozrah. MT. Hopson, the chairman, is also chairman of the New London town committee. Only one member, MT. Daniels, belongs in Wind ham county. The call for the conven- tion for nominating a candidate for congress, succeeding United States Sen- ator Brandegee, will be awaited with a great deal of interest. New London county men will be in control of the preliminary machinery at least Much