Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-19
POLITICAL POINTERS.

POLITICAL POINTERS.
 l Although his friends claim that the nomination for the senatorship
 in the fifteenth district is a sinecure for Irving H. Chase. secretary and treasurer of the Waterbury clock fac
 tory, there are many republicans
 who are not backward in making the
 assertion that MT Chase will have to l do some hustling to land the place.
 A few of the delegates to the sena- torial convention were heard dis | cussing the situation recently and
 Judging from the conversation there
 are several looking for MT Chase's
 scalp. In the first place they claim
 the candidate is too much of demo-
 crat to be given the nomination,
 which is tantamount to an election.
 Moreover, they make the assertion
 that MT Chase worked tooth and nail to defeat the republican candidate
 in the last election. A we'll known
 member of the g. o. p. party to-day ! said that 1t would not be surprise to him if Prosecuting Attorney Meigs should defeat MT Chase when 1t came | to show down. There are numer-
 ous disgruntled ones in our ranks,
 disgruntled, mean, because they i'm agine MT Chase will receive the nom-
 ination. They are of the opinion that he Is as much of democrat as a republican and state that the re- publicans should agree on another
 man." MT Chase's followers are still
 confident of landing their man, how ever, for when they were asked how the outlook was they replied that 1t could not be better. The old party is certainly having It's troubles and the newly elected chairman, Attorney Church, will have his hands full en- deavoring to keep peace in the camp, as there are several outbreaks brew ing. Help the good work along. John F. Shanley was renominated
 for senator for the eleventh district at the democratic senatorial convention
 in Franklin hall, New Haven, last
 night. Everything went off smoothly
 and Senator Shanley was enthusiastic cally greeted when in response to a
 call for speech, he declared that, if elected again to the state senate, he
 would show no color for man or cor
 poratiOn and would support every measure beneficial to labor. Shanley
 is the man Editor Troup tried to de-
 feat.
 The delegates to the republican state convention which opens in New
 Haven this evening are Henry H.
 Peck, Louis Odell. Joseph M. Baril.
 William M. Lathrop, Thomas 5. Wal ker, Louis E. Fitzsimons, William H. Sandland and Martin H. Parkinson.
 Most of the delegates left for New Haven this forenoon. Delegate H. H.
 Peck left in B. H. Blanchard's auto mobile with Congressman G. l.. Lil-
 ley, Judge F. M. Peasley and w. M. Lathrop. It seems to be generally understood that MT Lilley will be nominated for congressman-at. large.
 Attorney Charles W .Comstock of
 Montville and Norwich, was unani- mously named for chairman of the democratic state central committee.
 He succeeds the Hon John J. Walsh of Norwalk. Right after the selection of Chairman Comstock came the mo- ton for the election of secretary of the committee. There was but one name mentioned and that was the name of the present secretary. Edwin S. Thomas of West Haven. who has filled this position for a number of years with apparent satisfaction to the members of the committee as we'll as to the chairman thereof. The mo- tion nominating Mir Thomas for sec retary was unanimously carried.
 The republican state convention meets this evening at 8 o'clock at the Hyperion theater. New Haven. Con- gressman Lilley of Waterbury will de liver the opening address. The usual formalities of selecting committees will be gone through with and pre- sumably the resolution committee will adopt the platform to be offered the next day. There Is not little curios- ity to see how the resolutions meet the situation as presented by the dem ocrats. Everybody assumes and req sonably that Theodore Roosevelt will be the strongest plank In the structure. The real fight of the convention will be between Lake and Weeks. for the second place on the ticket. and if promises to be . list
 Talking about assessments In po- litical parties this afternoon. a re- publican who knows a thing or two about the business said that every person in his party from the man at the top to the fellow at the bottom Is a contributor. and Is also expected to work for the success of the party not only on election day. but the whole year round. If a stranger goes into the neighborhod or a man moves out. republicans are expected to put the registrar wise. and SO on- He said he often wondered how the democrats managed to keep house. for so far as he knew the sinevs Of var had to be squeezed from caldi- 1 dates for ofice and q few of the faithful. many of whom never got any party recognition He didn't know anything regarding the talk over the alleged rov in the demo cratic camp about money matters. but he vas free to state that they l never experienced any trouble from | that source in his party. He had a notion that 1t vas neu fo many dem l Dcrats to help keep the ship Of state | In running order and that after tkey i got used fo that sort of thing t gouldnt bother then any nors tha1 i. |t aou thofr nnfnhhnn