The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-14
NO SENATOR SINCE '66
THE TOWN OF EAST WINDSOR
 WANTS ONE NEXT TIME.

Nome Political "Reminiscences = Old
 "FOFty-Niners,'M 'Manchester Has Two
 of the Veterans in Hon. John S,
 Cheney and James E. OIcOtt, the Well
 Known Scholar Other Personal
 Notes of Interest.
 Hartford, July 19.-The town of East Windsor, which has not had man In the state senate since 1866, will be a competitor for the place this year. By the last reorganization of the senato- rial districts the town was placed in the Seventh, which takes in eleven towns. These include Enfield, Suf1ield, Simsbury, Granby and Windsor Locks. Each has had the senatorship time and again during the last forty years, being represented in that body by John H. Houston of Enfield, I. Luther Spencer of Sufield ex-Governor George P. Mclean of SimsIbury, T. M. Maltbie of Granby and T. c. Coogan of Windsor Locks. The present incum- bent from the Seventh district is Alex ander T. Pattison of Simsbury, who was chairman of the committee on ap- propriations during the session of 1905. There is a natural feeling that the candidate this year should be from one of the smaller towns, East Windsor being the selection. Prior to 1866 that town had such men in the senate as Benjamin Hamilton, 1850; John Olm- stead, Jr,, 1853; Henry Pease, Jr., 1858, and Lemuel Stoughton for two terms, 165 and 1866 The candidate now talked of most of all in the district for the senatorship is Howard A. Middle ton of Broad Brook, who was a mem- ber of the constitutional convention of 1901. The current has set strongly in favor of MT. Middleton. He is thor oughly competent for the position and Is man of high qualifications in bus iness life His home is in Broad Brook, where he conducts an eXten- sive mercantile trade. His father, eX- Representative John Middleton, has been member of the general assem- bly twice from the town of Enfield and has a large place in the community where he resides. The son of this old time leader is deserving in every way of the nomination for senator Sena- tor McGovern of Hartford, openly states that he is a candidate for re- election. He represented the Second district in an able and satisfactory manner in the senate of 1905. It was through the instrumentality of Senator McGovern and the Hon. Allan w. Paige, of Bridgeport, that the obnox- aous ''Personal Tax Bill' received its death knell during the last hours of the session. Senator McGovern told the advocates of the measure that "Connecticut taxes money, not men, 7 and refused to budge one inch from the opposition, which he directed. Senator McGovern, with the consent and knowledge of the senate leader, Senator Paige, informed the friends of the bill that he would adjourn the sen ate for the lack of a quorum if the at tempt to pass the measure was perse- Nered in. Its passage would have cost the republican party thousands of votes and might have carried it to de- feat this fall. The two senators, who threw themselves in the way of its passage, rendered the party in Con- necticut great service from the politi- cal point of view, not to speak of the abstract injustice of the bill itself The constituents of Senator McGovern will take great satisfaction in his re- election.
 The old "Forty-niners," when went from Connecticut to the gold regions an California fifty-seven years ago have passed away for the most part only one here and there remaining By singular good fate the town of Manchester has two of the survivors oI its muster roll. They are leading citi- zens of the town, representing its fore most interests. One of them, the Hon John s. Cheney, has served with dis tinction in the state senate and was a national guardsman back in the time of the Centennial at Philadelphia commanding the Manchester company of the First regiment. His associate James B. Olcott, is worldwide au. thority commanding grasses in thi; and European countries, as well as 1T the Orient. The two men reached Cal ifornia about the same time, taking the route around South America. MT Cheney was a passenger on the Pacific and MT. Olcott sailed on the Henry -