The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-01

era1 of the delegates had looked un- der the Tippacanoe chorus piano to see that no one was in hiding there the convention got down to business.
 Thomas H. Mcdonald nominated Alexander [. Delaney for town chair man and Edward L. Graves seconded the nomination
 Former Alderman Eugene Converse nominated Percy c. F.arweA and C.. E. Blackman seconded it. Delegates William Martin and Converse were secretly by ballot and when 1t was announced that F'arweu had a major ity of 6 votes it was clearly under stood by the Lake men present that they were trimmed to a whisper.
 Next the vote on the Board of Ed eucation matter was taken and the 8 votes for Telford against Challenger were boiled At least five of the 1enger were picked by an East Side politician to beat Challenger without finding out who they favored for gov ernor. The man who picked them out was an "O1d Guard supporter and the delegates turned out to be for Goodwin, although they voted for Te1ford.
 The attempt to steal the convention body, boot and brooches for Goodwin came when William B. See1ey pre- scented a blanket resolution to the effect that the delegates at large be John T.. King, William B. Seeley, Will liam R. Abercrombie and Albert E. Lavery and that the delegates from the senatorial district be Eugene Converse and A. J. Northey from the 21st; Charles c. B1ackham and Thorn. Arnold Jr. from the 22nd, and A J. Bodine and Charles H. Poland from the 23rd.
 seeley moved the adoption of this resolution and 1t was seconded by several voices. Edward L. Graves ton to the effect that it be divided so that the four delegates, named at 1arge be elected but that the sena- torial districts go into session and nominate their delegates separately.
 A vote was taken and the amend ment was lost 23 to 1S, two delegates afterward that they were nuddled up on the vote and thought they were voting direct on the resolution
 Immediately after the vote was talk An there was a howl from the Lake delegates present.
 They claimed that the action was illegal and that the party rules do not permit the convention as a whole to usurp the rights of the senatorial
 Nicholas Tesiny, from the 22nd there was talk of taking the matter to the courts. The delegates from the 22nd senatorial district declared that they would not be governed by the adoption of the blanket resolu- ton but. would meet on their own hook and name their own delegates.
 Delegate 000ley undIIy W1LnOT0W Ills resolution and the convention divided itself into senatorial districts and elected their delegates. The result remained the same as the SeeIey reso- of Thomas Arnold, Jr. and Charles Blackham were dropped and the names of Charles H. Morris and 22nd senatorial district. Morris and Tesiny are claimed as Lake delegates and are the only Lake men who came rNf I7 FaOT
 The convention next proceeded to elect delegates to the other conven- tions. There was a difference of opinion in all of these contests ex- cept that of William H. Marigold who was unanimously elected as dele gates to the congressional district
 Other delegates chosen were as fol-
 Probate convention. C. H. Britto, A: J: Dimond. M B. Beardsley, and
 Congressional district convention, Eugene Converse, William H. Mari gold, Arthur Connor, and Thomas II. Macdonald.
 County convention, William H. Brown, Charles Scinto, John s. Pull man, and Malcolmn MacFayden. adopted in which the delegates to the state convention were instructed to use their influence and vote to se- cure the nomination of Matthew H. Rogers of Bridgeport for Secretary of State.
 After it was decided that the con- vention should he convened at a lat ter date for the nomination of repre- sentatives to the General Assembly and justices of peace the doors were opened to the unsophisticated Repub- licans who were interested to the ex- tent of coming out to cheer at their party convention and who were ex- cluded like a lot of goats
 The frst< business on reconvenine was to go through the formality of
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