The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-15
THE DAY AFTER Aftermath of Yesterdays Repub-
 Iiean Pow Wow at
 Hartford Warning Factions HOpelessly Di- vided and Little Chance
 For Ticket
Ry United Press1

By United Press)
 Hartford, Sept. 15.-Republican Con- nectfcut took inventory today of the events of the last A hours, during the yesterday convention here amid scenes of uproar unprecedented in the history of politics in the Nutmeg State. This ticket headed by Chas. A. Goodwin for Governor, a young lawyer who acted as executive sec retary to Conpecticut's last two chief publicans the party's greatest asset. The d1saffection of the adherents to Everett J. Lake, defeated candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, whose friendly tellers yesterday, by announcing stuffed" voteI on the result of the first ballot by counties, precipitated the convention riots, was considered the party's largest Habil-
 Weighing both sides today political oraeles prophesied that Connecticut, of over 40,00O, was ripe to follow Maine's lead and to provide similar revolution at the November elections. Also yesterdays result was inter preted to mean that, United States Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley would be defeated for reelection at the 1911 session of the General Assembly. Ex- Governor George P. Mclean, Bu1ke- ley's opponent for the place, was Goodwin's backer in the g1bernatoria1 race The executive secret ary's vic
 
 can electorate would elect state leg islature friendly to Mclean.
 But the sole topic everywhere today was the charge of alleged crookedness on the first ballot which was original ly announced 296 for Goodwin and 285 for Lake and later changed in the tel 1er's majority report to 295 for Good win nd 285 for Lake.
 There were tellers and delegates who testified to the ballot stuffing as there were delegates and telIers who vehemently denied the discrepancy between the total number of votes cast and the total number of accred- ited delegates
 Republican leaders feared today that !. the moral influence on the electorate Of the mix-up would swell the Demo- cratic vote this fall.
 The point raised by the supporters of Lake that 580 votes were two more votes than the number of accredited Delegates was met by the ruling of Chairman (Congressman) B. J.. Hill, admitting the votes of two delegates whose credentials had been delayed in transmission through the mails to the ! secretary of the convention On roll call the delegates sustained Hills rul- ing by a vote of BIO to 195. This test vote took the heart out of the Good win opposition and forecasted an ul- tinnate Goodwin victory.
 The point that the second and de- cfding ballot by roll call which, gave Goodwin the nomination, 318asto 25S, disclosed the absence of three dele7. S raised by the Goodwin majority. Fol lowers of Lake claimed that more delegates were in the convention hall for the second ballot than when the first was taken. Yet the first ballot totaHed three more than the second
 Again, the leading issue and. what convu1sed the conVention-the charge that at least one vote too many was cast and counted on the first balIot+7 was side-tracked by ordering a second ballot.
 The order for a second ballot came as result of a favorable viva voce vote after a unanimous recommends tion from the eighteen tellers for a second ballot by roll call had been read They had previously voted in majority and minority report on the result of the first ballot favorIng recommendation for second ballot pointed the way out of the parliament tary quicksands into which the chair man and factionaI leaders were fast slipping and saved the contention from a threatened split that promised two Republican conventions with two rival tickets.
 No description can do justice to the uproar that continuously disrupted the convention from the moment the tell CTS started wrangling over the result, of the first ballot and the final an nouncement that Goodwin was the fnajority'S choice on the second ballot. Confusion created it's masterpiece. The mutual repression of friendly contest
 
 which in the. nominating speeches had been loudly applauded, were forgotten in the tumult. The still waters of the gubernatoria1 contest of the sum mer ran deep and broke into a rag ing flood when the rivals were facing victory or defeat9yesterday. Old po1i- ticaI debts were paid and new ones incurred. The convention floor was overrun with non-de1egates who ex- citedIy buttonholed their friends in the interests of candidates. Chairman FTTs N.06 f71n of E3 outsiders but in vain.
 Charges were openly made that money was used to influenceS delegates on the second ballot.
 With sense of party responsibility several leaders delivered powerful pleas for harmony. Goodwin follow CTS took the lead in this move fearing injury to their candidate in the cam paign and election from divided Re- publican constituencies. That the harmony lotion had entirely soothed the wounds of defeat in both camps was doubted today.