The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-17
APPOINTEES BY
 JUDGE BALDWIN
Hartford Names Probable Mem- berS on Staff of New Demo- cratic Governor.
LOUIS STODDARD MENTIONED
TalcOtt Russell as Insurance Head With Civil Engineer For Highway Commissioner

Hartford, Nov. 17-As time goes
 along bringing near the date when
 Judge Baldwin's appointments will be
 announced, reports grow more and
 more serious as to the appointees who will be selected. There is consider able talk heard whether Judge Bald
 win will do away with his military staff, says the Hartford Times. No. ] one thinks he will. He isn't likely
 to smash all precedents in this respect. some joker in New Haven has sug- gested by way of a compromise be- ] tween the extremists who want the Governors staff eliminated entirely and those who hope to see it in all its glitter, that the un forms of the
 staff be cut out altogether and each member appear in the plainest of civil
 Han dress. That same joker also sug- geSted that if Governor-elect Baldwin
 wanted 10 make hit with some of
 his would-be staff appointees who do
 not like the idea of appearing on
 horseback on all State occasions, he
 would issue an announcement declar-
 ing in effect that his military staff
 will ride in carriages instead of on
 horseback. There have been a good
 many staff men who would much pre-
 fer the carriage to the horses back.
 It can be set down as a fact that
 the Governor-elect will not meddle with the existing custom and that his
 staff will be found in the saddle in-
 stead of in the carriage seat. Judge
 Baldwin will select hs own staff.
 There is one name already mentioned
 for staff position and that is the
 name of Louis E. Stoddard. the New
 Haven broker, and the son of the Hon.
 E. G. Stoddard, who was in his own day one of the powers in the poli- tics of the Democratic party in the State. MT. Stoddard was one of the hustlers in the campaign just closed and MT. Baldwin is aware of this fact. It is known that he took a very ac- tive interest in furthering the cam paign work at the headquarters of the Democratic State central committee and was there great deal of the time during the last few weeks of the campaign. He wouldn't have to do any practicing to learn how to ride a horse, for he is one of the acknowledged star pony polo players the country. There is one thing about MT. Stoddard and that is he will never be found seeking an ap- pointment of this character It will have to come to him entirely unsoli- cited and will be a case of the office seeking the man instead of the other way around.
 Other names prominently mention
 ed for positions on the staff of Gov
 ernor Baldwin are Frank P. Furlong of Hartford, and E.. Kent Hubbard
 of Middletown. Mr. Furlong is vet
 eran of Company K, First Infantry,
 C.. N G., and MT. Hubbard is mem
 Der of the staff of the First Company, Governors Foot. Guard.
 Place for Russell.
 You hear much talk in this town among politicians that the Hon. Tal-
 colt H. Russell. who was defeated on in1y fnr
 ney General, will have considerable
 influence with Judge Baldwin. Dur
 ing the campaign MT. Russell was an
 adviser to a large extent to Judge Baldwin and did great deal Of work in a conference way between Cover
 nor-elect Baldwin on the one side ana the chairman of the Democratic State Committed Now you hear the Demo-
 cratic politicians talking among them selves to the effect that MT. Russell is very apt to be MT. Baldwin's choice for State Insurance Commissioner when it comes time for the Governor-elect 10 make that appointment. If MT. Rus sell was named for this office it would be the case of a New Havener succeed ing a New Havener in that State de- partment. Colonel Theodore H. Mac donald. the present State Insurance Commissioner. is from that city, but his term as commissioner does not ex-
  l worked very vigorously and incessant- ly for the election of Judge Baldwin as we'll as for the election of the en- tire Democratic State ticket. An other name that has been mentioned in connection with the appointment to this office is that of Clarence Dem ing. the we'll known newspaper writer and authority on railroad questions. Mr. Deming was one of the arbitrators representing the New Haven road in the recent wage controversy between the Connecticut Company and it's em- ployes. He did a great deal of valu- able work with his pen in behalf of
 Judge Baldwin's election. He knows
 the insurance question thoroughly and is a financial writer of acknowledged
 ability.
 State Road Commissioner.
 It has come to be known within the
 last few days that the appointment as
 Highway Commissioner may go to
 Colin McCrae IngersolI, according to
 some of the reports that have gotten
 into circulation. MT. Ingersoll is a
 civil engineer of national repute was
 for a time at the head of that depart
 ment in the New Haven road, and
 then went to New York where he
 filled an important position as civil
 engineer for the, city of New York.
 He is of the well known New Haven family of Ingersolls and is relative
 to George F. Ingersoll of Ridgefield, the Democratic nominee for Congress
 man-at-large. who made such a spien-
 did run in the recent election. There is one thing about the story connect
 ing the name of MT. Ingersoll with this
 office of Highway Commissioner, and
 that is the question as to whether he
 is resident of New Haven now or
 not. He has been living in New York
 for a number of years, coming to that city frequently to visit his old home
 He is very competent in his line of
 work. but if his residence has been in
 New York for a number of years past it isn't likely, no matter how much he might feel so inclined, that Governor
 elect Baldwin would name him for Highway Commissioner.
 It is understood that Mir. Baldwin
 has determined upon having a civil
 engineer for this office, one skilled in
 road construction as we'll as being highly efficient as a civil engineer. Reid-McGregof
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