The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-19
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
HILL OPEN AT HYPERION
 THEATER TONIGHT.

Four New Haven Districts Hold Cau-
 cuses and Name Vice-Presidents-
 Stated AuthOritativeIy That Colonel
 UlIman Will Make Speech Nominating
 WOodruH-LocaI Politicians Do. Not
 Heed "Younger Set" Platform on Ma
 tiOnaI Basis.
 The state convention of the republic an party will open at 8 o'clock this evening at the Hyperion theater to nominate state officers for the next two years. The convention will be called to order by Chairman Micael Kenealy of the state central committee The temporary chairman will be Congress- at-Large George L. Lilley of Wa terbury.
 The district caucuses will all be held before tonight and the names of the vice presidents will be ready for pres entation to the convention. After Con- gressman I4illey's address and the ap~ pointment of the committees on reso- lutions, credentials and permanent or ganzation, the convention will adjourn until tomorrow morning at o'clock.
 The caucuses of the four New Haven senatorial districts were held last night, and the following named as vice pres idents of the general convention: From the Eighth district, Senator Eli Whitney; Ninth district Col T. H. Macdonald; Tenth district, Frederick L, Lehr, Eleventh district, Colonel I. M. Ullman. For the state central com- mittee Judge A. McC Matthewson was nominated from the Eighth district, Colonel T. H. Macdonald from the Ninth, Frederick D. Whitaker from the Tenth, and Colonel I. M. Ullman from the Eleventh.
 In spite of the statement to the con- trary published in one of the evening papers last night, Colonel Ullman will make the speech in nomination of Col R. s. Woodruff for governor. He will undoubtedly be unanimously nominat- ed. The New Haven politicians are paying little attention to the rumors that the so-ca1led younger set" will try to sheve Colonel Woodruff in fla vor of Senator Lake. It is conceded that Lake has a chance for second place. There is no contest over the re- mainder of the ticket
 The local hotels have been taken up generally for the convention. New Ha- Ven county and city delegations will Vote for Frank B. Weeks, of Middle town, for lieutenant governor, as has been stated right along in spite of re- cent Authoritative statements to the contrary by Paige organs. The New Haven organization will not make that place on the ticket a matter of dispute and there will probably be, no effort to bring the county into solid line, but the present indication is that the coun- ty as a whole will follow New Haven and that New Haven, with possibly one exception, will register its vote against Senator Paige.
 No definite information could be ob- tained as to the platform to be drafted It Is in sections yet under considera. ton. It has been thoroughly gone over since last Saturday Chairman Kenealy will have an active part in It's prepara- ton. It will, as general proposition, contne itself to national issues, It will praise President Roosevelt and his ad- ministration as the issue" in the state election, and call on the voters to strengthen the arm of the most popu- lar national administration yet known in Connecticut by re-electing the five congressmen and returning the party to power at Hartford It will offer the re- form laws of the national congress and the part Connecticut played in passing them as good and sufficient reason for a continuance of republican domh.e- ton in this state. On the points to be brought out in this connection the re- publican national legislators from this state have been, or will be, consulted.