The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-24
Brooker and Kenealy Meet the Chairman in Boston to Con- slider the Situation in
 This Section.
VERMONT AND MAINE UP
Connecticut Committeeman in Secret Session With Leaders--No Hint of Question
 Discussed.

Boston, Aug. 2S.--Republican polit- teal activity in New England will cen ter in thls city during the next rev days when Frank M. Hitchcock. chair man of the republican national com mittee, will confer with the party leaders of the six New England states in regard to the aspects of the presl- dentlal campaign and especially m reference to the coming elections m Vermont and Maine.
 Chairman Hitchcock Is expected to arrive in Boston tomorrow rom pal- ton. accompanied by United States Senator w. Murray Crane, whose guest lie has been, to-day, al the sena- tors home in the Berkshire hills It has been arranged that during his stay here Mir. Hitchcock will meet Colonel George H. Doty and Charles S. Groves, chairman and secretary of the Massachusetts republican state committed The Maine members Of the national committee, former Cover nor John F. Hill. will also attend the conference, attended by Seth H, Car ter. chairman of the Maine republican state committed Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, who Is both q member Of the national committee and chairman of the state committee will come from New Hampshire; Vermont will send James w. Brock of the National committee, and Colonel T. M. Chap man, chairman of the state commit tee. National Committeeman Charles R. Brayton and G. R. Lawton, chair man of the state committee, will rep resent Rhode Island. and from Con- necticut will come Charles F. Brooker of Ansona and Michael Kenealy of Stamford, the latter being the chair man of the state committee.
 The gathering in Boston is part the general plan by which Chai. man Hitchcock expects 10 place him. self in touch with the party workers In all sections He has already seen those of the west and the middle east. II is also to be inferred that beyond learning how things political are drifting in New England, there will be questions asked as to what can be done in the way of helping the cam paign financially. It has been an nounced that the plan this year, more than ever before. is to get the state committees to do their work in unison with the chairman of the national committee and his executive body up on the burden of whom the nationa campaign is always placed.
 It. is expected. however that thu preEelecton situation in Vermont anC Maine will form the main topic O discussion. The Vermont election will be held on September 1, less thai ten days away. and while the cam ( paign has been a quiet one and ha developed less bitterness than for sev eral years, national issues have beel brought forward. The democrat have been very frank in commendinl the administrations of Presiden Roosevelt and Governor Proctor, bu have claimed that the new candidate are not likely to live up to their cam paign promises. The republican have based their campaign on stat issues, principally good roads.
 In Maine the campaign has hardl utEuH, Uul illtIt ID tNFiN llul'dblpl of warm contest, especially in tn second congressional district wher Representative Charles F. Littefiel is retiring and where two years az the labor leaders made a strong ef fort to elect the democratic candi date.
 The leaders from the two states ar fully conversant with the respectiv situations, and 1t is expected tha Chairman Hitchcock will pursue hi Investigations as bearing on the coun try as whole.
 Mir Hitchcock's present visit wi probably be his only one in this sec ton during the campaign.
 MT Hitchcock and Senator Gran held q conference at the Hotel Aspin wall here late in the day with Attor ney-General Charles J Bonapartt Wade Ellis attorney-general of Ohic and Charles r. Brooker of Ansonit Conn, member of the national com Inittee. The five men were togethe about an hour, but when they cam out they refused to say anythin about the subject of their conference