The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-21
The Republican Ticket

For Mayor-Henry Lee.
 For City Clerk-Loren Del
 For Town CIerk-Bernard F.
 Cooney.
 For Tax Collector-Frank c.
 Allen.
 For, City Treasurer-John IL.
 Vessels.
 For Board of Education-Wi1-
 liam H. Marigold, and Elmer HI. z Hayens.
 For SeIectmen = Ferdinand
 Leiss, Frank Braithwaite. Will
 liam Ainley.
 For Sheriffs-Richard Brown,
 Thomas J. Cunningham and Jo-
 seph Kalafus.
 Mayor Henry Lee was renominated for Mayor on the first ballot in the Republican convention last night. He had 21 votes. Harbor Master Charles H. Morris received g votes, senator Thomas Arnold, Jr., received five votes, and one ballot was cast blank.
 A heartsick and discouraged lot were the anti-Lee delegates, after the con yention was over. Tricked in prlvate and sandbagged in public, they real ized what it means to buck the ma chine.
 Representing almost half of the He- publican party of the city, they were treated with contempt and their ideas of party policy were brushed aside without more consideration than an able bodied COW gives to a cluster of flies
 ? Early in the evening the insurgent delegates had admitted the nomination of Lee. They had seen man after man promised to their cause alienated by means that were sometimes myster- ious but which sometimes were noth- ing more subtle than pressure exerted by some employer, for this has Tor many years been a favorite machine method in controlling recalcitrant dele gates.
 But the insurgents had expected, and had indeed publicly said that their contest lad been so far successful that the machine" would be obliged to em- body in the party platform certain principles from which much was hoped in the future.
 A plank which especially concerned the Morris delegates was the one in their resolution calling for direct nom- nations.
 But the plank about which they were really most concerned related to the harbor and it's future protection from aggression by private interests, in which term the voters were supposed to understand ''the New Haven Rail- road Company"
 The trickery came while the conven- ton was in executive session. The Morris men announced that they would not be bound by any action not taken in public. motion was made and adopted that the proceedings of the executive session be informal. Upon this understanding the Morris dele gates participated. z
 But when the informal proceedings had been concluded Lee delegates ln- troduced a motion making the infor- mai action formal Thus esnared the insurgents were debarred from a dis play of their strength when the con- vention went into l.ublic session.
 But the Morris delegates were entire. ly unprepared for the highhanded and absolutely unprecedented violation o' parliamentary procedure by whlcf they were debarred from a discussion of party policy.
 The convention, having completed ir ifcs-o oIoo n9ndI. dates, opened it's doors. A committee on resolutions was ap rointed in the usual way. Eugene I. Meyer, the representative of the Morris forces in the convention offered resolution embodying th' platform principles advocated by thu Republicans of the Eleventh ant Twelfth districts.
 This resolution was properly referred to the committee.
 It was received by Judge Henry c Stevenson, who had nominated Mayo Lee. Stevenson put the resolution in to his pocket.
 Whether he read it or not, seems tt be a debatable question. The twt other members of the committee repre- Sented that IL was Hol fedu Dy lHeiiI. At any rate, Judge Stevenson speak ing in the name of the committee, re fused to report the resolution upon thu ground that it twas not in order an6 not proper to be received by the con vention.''
 After making this truly remarkable statement, and in the face of a de man6 by Delegate Meyer, that the res olution be read, he refused to comply and the Morris delegates, representing one-fourth of the power of the conven ton. found themselves unable to pre- sent their views relative to Republican policy to the other delegates, and thi after they had virtually permitted th' nomination of Mayor Lee to be mad' unanimous, because. although they hat