Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-06
POLITICAL POINTERS
Congressional Convention Is Being
 Held h This City To-day.

Lo uciAocTullc county convention was held in this city today and at tracted considerable attention, espec- ially among delegates from New Ha- ven who had two aspirants for the nomination in the field, George M. Wallace, prominent lawyer, and Charles J. Anderson, a well known real estate man. Most of the dele gates from down the road came in early and immediately got busy in the interest of the man of their choice. The champions of MT Wal lace lost no time in seeking out men in touch with the Waterbury delega- tion and if they didn't accomplish something it was no fault of theirs. Greene kendrick. former mayor of Waterbury, and now of West Haven was also mentioned in connection with the nomination, but the men whose names were heard most fire. quently were the real estate man and lawyer from the Elm city. Mir Wal lace met many of the delegates in the forenoon and appeared to impress them very fayorably. He was cha peroned by Henry O'Sullivan, former ly local newspaper man, and prob ably this had something to do with the cordial reception rendered to him wherever he called.
 At l o'clock the rain drove the delegates and their friends off the sidewalks into the lobby of the City hall building, where they met many of the local democrats, including Mayor Thoms, Senator Phelan, F. P. Guilfoile, William Kennedy, Sheriff Smith and score or more others.
 While it would appear on the sur- face that the full delegation from Waterbury was in favor of Wallace, this was by no means the fact, quite a number of them when questioned on the matter making no bones of stating that they were for Anderson.
 The local delegates were: c. Gar rity, J. Kennedy, D. E. Fitzpatrick, E. B. Hardie, Chris Dunphy, Timothy Moriarty, w. J. Rafferty, James Dowl- ing, J. J. Shea, Patrick Thompson, J. F. Hogan. William Bowe. Dr T. J. Kilmartin.
 The convention was called to order at 2:15 by James c. Roach of Wal iingford. H. T. Smith was appoint ed chairman of the convention and Dr T. F. Kilmartin of this city was selected as secretary.
 A move was then made to have a recess of twenty minutes to caucus for the purpose of forming a com n,i ttn1g n caused much discussion. It was finally decided to have the creden- tial committee consist of the chair man of each town delegation.
 The following congressional com- mittee was chosen: James c. Roach, Wallingford; D. E. Fitzgerald, New Haven; Glover Cables, Oxford, i, Charles Kaschube, Meriden; Daniel w. Prior. Middletown; Thomas c. Colter, Essex.
 About four-fifths of the delegates. or eighty in number, were at the con- vention. Although the Wallace men were rather confident of winning, they were on the anxious seat be- cause of the canvass which they claimed was made by Candidate An. derson. MT Wallace seemed to think he had a hard fight, much more so at the convention, he said, than he would have at the election. "I an, confident can defeat Con- gressman Sperry. I have plat form. as it were, on which to stand. and if the convention will have me I will deliver 1t. I stand for pure democracy, and I think the party will rally round me if am fortunate enough to win out"
 The local delegation did not have much to say. The delegates are di- vided and few of them were work ing hard for Anderson.
 Jim" Sullivan of New Haven, who placed Wallace's name before the convention, spoke highly of his man. That man Wallace is one of the strongest members of his party in the state and the democrats could place no better man on the ticket. His whole heart and soul is tied with his party and his stand on democratic matters stand on democratic matters has never been questioned.
 "uiie ule ueieedteS were C1lklng about credentials. Delegate William Bowes asked Chairman smith how many credentials Charles J. Ander- son of New Haven had. adding that two persons had already stated that Mir Anderson represented them. The chair replied that he was not able to answer that question and suggested that the delegate ask Mir Anderson.
 At this junction n recess of five minutes was ordered to allow tine chairman of each senatorial district to select committee on resolutions. The following were named:
 w. C. Robinson. Miidletown: AL bert Harris. New Haven: ]. !. Ken ne-ly. New Haven. Thomas C. Houii- han. Ansonia: Martin MesIahon. Mer- klen: ]. W. Hut. New Haven: John IT. Benton. Naugatuck: R. F. Thayer. Haidam: Frank H. Daly. Prospect: John Reyes. New Haven.