The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-14

of Republicans will walk out of the convention tonight with all confidence of Republican victory shattered.
 The scrap started with the discov- cry that two delegates at large from the 34th senatorial district had been left off the preliminary roll prepared by the committee on credentials.
 When this information was convey ed to Chairman Hill, after consul tation between the tellers, he aq- nounced that the teIlers had asked for a ruling. He ordered the names added to the roll notwit thstanding the fact that the ballots had all been cast and Hill had already declared the vote closed, and even then the count was nearly completed.
 Then. like a bullet from a noiseless gun the whisper shot across the crowded hall that illegal balIoting had been discovered Intensely dra- matic was the scene as with bated awaited. As the telIers kept count ing the ballots over and over there came a second sensation.
 picioiis nlanner fi1ss.- tally was found correct. Tho extra ballot had dis appeared.
 was brought to the floor of the con vention- The fact that the count was in favor of Goodwin was not con cealed but a few seconds after the tellers had an opportunity to get the result of the first ballots which was unomeially reported to be. Goodwin,
 
 The delegates on the roll numbered 5S0 and the total vote was 581. Should the Goodwin men be able to have the ballot declared correct, then it was fthe extra ballot left the total vote correct as to the number, and howl arose from the Lake men as they began ito suspect.
 They made no bones of shouting out accusations that the Goodwin men had got rid of the extra ballot. The Lake 41111 T., Charles Moves of New London Coun- ty shouted out, Here it is'' as he snatched from the floor, not far from one of the Goodwin tel1ers, a ballot that was hidden beneath the table. The TOW began with redoubled vio- 1ence.
 was correct that the ballot found up- on the floor could not be included in the official dount.\
 Alfred c. Baldwin of Huntington. former clerk of both the House and the Senate, and an authority on party rules and parliamentary practice, shouted out that the count was illegal and that according to the party rules a new ballot must be taken.
 From the floor of the convention the fight spread to the Lake and Goodwin tellers. Fists were brandished across the tables as the dispute reached a degree of heat bordering on physical violence.
 Hill had thus far succeeded in pre- | But when the teHers broke out, he lost control. Desperate and determined to control the gathering, Hill ordered the platform cleared. He chased even the newspaper men off the stage and be- came the sole target for abuse, pre- senting a picturesque figure as he tile yet firm fight for the control of the mobilize gathering.
 The futile wrangle was progressing wildly. The stolen ballot would not down. Then came the Th 0f the dispute. Cramer of Portland clerk of the 34th senatorial conven- that Hall and riley selected as dele, gates at large had not voted, because their names had been omitted.
 Hill ruled they must be added.
 The Lake men made their position clear that they were not opposed to the voting of the two men but they added to the roll until the vote had been officially declared. The wrang- ling. oyer the ballot however, had ballot and the chairman found him self in a quandary. The Lake men insisted that the tellers must report their count to the chairman and the chairman must report to the conven. ton before business of any sort could be done.
 Hill ruled otherwise.
 Delegate after delegate Jumped LID and demanded recognition The con vention got away from Hill entirely States Attorney Judson inquired if it were not so that the count of the bal lots showed frregularity. ~ Hill declar-- ed him out of order. Similar(fate awaited others who ventured to raise the same issue.
 Increasing confusion prevailed when MT. Baldwin of Huntington stated the Irregularities whichf the tellers had mo- ticed. and moved that in order to de- tern1ine rightfuIly and legally under the party rules just who was and was not entitled to vote, all the delegates entitled to vote should do so by roll call.
 'sOut of order.' shouted the chair man.
 ..In order came back a thunder of insurgent yel1s.