The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-29
HARTFORD NEWS NOTES.
OPENING OFRfPUBLICANSTATE
 HEADQUARTERS.

Second Week in OctOber-PrOfessor
 Becgwith, Yale '8s, Retires and Settles
 in the Capital-The Late Lieutenant
 Governor Sumner.
 Hartford, Sept. 28.-The republican headquarters for the campaign have been opened at the Allyn House. Chairman Kenealy of Stamford and Secretary Hinman of Willimantic will put in lots of hard work between now and the first of November In conduct ing the issues of the party. MT. Ke- nealy manoeuvered the republican forces in the state two years ago with masterly skill and proved himself to be a campaigner of splendid equip ment. The same sort of work is expec- ted of him in the present campaign. The state ticket, which has been placed before the people by the repub- Hcans. has not been surpassed in capa- bility or strength for a generation, The fitness of men like Lieutenant Cover nor Woodruff, Senator Everett J. Lake, Senator Thomas Dudley Bradstreet and Speaker Marcus M. Holcomb for public office is approved without question. Senator Bradstreet Is the only veteran of the civil war on the state ticket and is held in the highest personal regard by the old soldiers of the state of Con- nectieut. The senate during the past four years has been the scene of Mir. Bradstreets legislative victories The list is long one and could not have been won except by a man of sturdy independence and character. Freeman w. Patton of Stafford is really the only new man on the ticket. He has ample qualifications for the office of treasur- er. He is an able business man and gentleman of interesting personality, courteous, cordial and cultivated. He ts somewhat older than Senator Lake, who is only thirty-fve years of age, but is still a young man, chasing with Theodore Bodenwein in that respect The New London newspaper manager and proprietor, who holds the office of secretary of state and is in the state ticket for reelection, Is under forty three.
 The senatorial district conventions will not be called until the second week an October. In Hartford county these conventions will be lively political functions. Senator McGovern of the Second district says that he will be unanimously renominated notwith- standing the handsome canvas that Representative Emor A. Smith is nlak- ing for the place Tn the Fourth dis trict Senator Senator Franklin H.. Mayberry of East Hartford is a candi- date for renomination. His contestant is Samuel Williams of Glastonbury, who is a member of the manufacturing firm of J. B. Williams & Sons. The two men will not be far from tiled" in the convention at the start. The Fifth district, which was represented in the session of 1905 by the Farington mill lionaire, D. Newton Barney, is a storm center at the present time. Mir Barney : is 8 director In the Consolidated road and liberal benefactor ol the taNli of Pennington, He is a man of great re- ticence, keeping his own counsel and not giving a snap of his fingers for outside opinions, It is more than prob able that he will be a candidate for the reronlination. The candidates in the district who are hoping to down Mir, Barney are George H. Hall of Bristol, A. H. Condell of Plainville Charles H. Clark of Southington and ex-Senator Frank L. Wilcox of Berlin Mr. Wil- COX will have in the delegates from hls town President Charles M. Jarvis and First Selectman William H. Gibney, two able managers. The support of men like Jarvts and Gibney in a con- test for senatorial supremacy is of great value to candidate. Ex-Sena- tor Wilcox Is a man widely known and tinored in the district. He is a gradu- ate of Trinity college and was presi- dent of the Alumni association last year. He was president of the Con- necticut commission at the St. I4ousis fair two years ago and has had wide experience in public affairs. Mir Clark was in the house from Southingtoa Inst session, and was engaged in secur- ing Legislation in behalf of the Milldale and Waterbury trolley project. He is not sanguine of success, however in carrying the convention in his own be- half. It remains to be seen where his four delegates will centralize. Natu- rally they would go to the Plainville candidate, MT. Candee. In the Seventh district Senator Pattison will not be a candidate for renon1ination. He was chairman of the senate committee on appropriations at the last session and safe guarded the treasury with deter mination. Senator Barney was with him on the committee, which was com pelled to cpallene great many private interests that wanted help from the state funds. Senator Pattison deserves great credit for the worg which he did in the session of 1905. Howard A. Mid dleton of East Windsor will be nonina- ted in the Seventh, succeeding Senator Pattison. He is young and popular and will bring ample qualifications to the senate for wor and legislation. The Middietons are family connections of Edward W. Dewey of Granby, who is to be the republican candidate for county sheriff
 Professor I, T. Becgwith, who has held chair in the General Theological seminary in New Yorg city for a num- Der of years, has given up his duties ir that institution and has settled in Hartford. Professor Becgwith gradua- ted from Yale in 1868, being a class mate of Bishop Chauncey B. Brewster and of Judge John Gates of the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford county He was professor in Trinity college twenty years or more before accepting the professorship in the General Theo-