The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-11
KING CAPTURES BEDDING FOR
 MILAN
CANS DEMONSTRATES THAT HE HAS INFLUENTIAL FOIg- LOWING OUTSIDE OF
 BRIDGEPORT.
How the Thing Was Fixed As Told By The Farmers Special Cores pOndent in Redding-B. B.
 Banks and a Certain Tel
 ephOne Conversation.
Especial to the Farmer.)

Especial to the F'armer)
 l Bedding, Oct. 10.-John T. King of 1 Bridgeport, representative of the rail- l road interests and in connection l herewith high chief 'tpersecutor'' in 1 the interests of Goodwin for Governor
 and Mclean for United States Sena tor, ] dominated the Republican caucus here l on Saturday evening as far as the 1 nominations for representatives to the 1 General Assembly were concerned. The nominees are Benjamin B. Banks of 1 Georgetown and Aaron H. Sanford of l the Ridge. MT. Banks himself was 1 the principal agent of King in direct ] ing the action of the caucus in respect to the choice of legislative candidates How much it cost to do this is to outsiders a matter of guess work but good Republican authority asserts that the job was the most expensive one of its kind in the local history of the
 party, and the use of money in eau
 GUS work is no new thing in Redding,
 although much newer than the buying
 of votes on election day. The total
 vote cast Saturday evening was be-
 tween 80 and 90 and of these Banks,
 representing King, controlled about 60.
 They came mostly from Georgetown
 although MT. Sanford contributed a
 few from the Ridge.
 What makes the dish cooked at the
 caucus the more nauseous to self-res-
 pecting Republicans is the fact that
 what he stood for and how he came
 
 King, in his arduous campaign for the
 raialroad and the men bearing the. railroad label, paid several visitss to Bedding in his auto previous to the holding of the caucus which named delegates to the Republican State convention: As a result of these visits he secured B. B. Banks and w. B. Hagen as the local leaders of the cam paign he was conducting. They man aged to obtain for Goodwin two of the four Bedding delegates and to get one dRIAQafR against Sheriff H9wIoV This was good, effective work considering the odds against them and King kept them on the job for the succeeding stages of the game, the chief of these being McLean's fight against BuIke- ley for the senatorship. To further this object it was of course essential candidates for representatives who could be relied upon to vote for Mo Lean in Hartford this winter.
 Just how King and Banks were shaping events to bring this about would not have been so well known as it is but for the overhearing, by F; A P1nkney, 5l 4f telephone & eonD@e- ote- Of this conversation at the time and i in a few days it had pretty well cir cu1ated through the town In the fix had scheduled himself for one place l on the ticket. King approved this and asked if he had in mind another man who could be surely handled for Me l Lean. Banks said he had. Who was it? asked King Aaron H. Sanford | was the reply. All right. rejoined the dorsed and made up the slate which | went through at the caucus. 1
 MT. /Pinkney did not come forward as a candidate at the caucus and L. c. | Rumsey. knowing how things had l been arranged, also kept in the back | ground. The only candidate put for l ward against the King slate was Ar thur J. Todd who is absent on a trip l to the Pacific coast. Before leaving he l had changed an earlier decision and made it known that he would accept a | Messrs. Banks and Hazen, at the same time telling them that he was for Bu1ke1ey for senator, they told | him they would not stand in the way. So that in addition to the other han dicaps of the nominees there is the | matter of broken pledges to be taken into account. No wonder that Can didate Sanford was worried at the caucus and remarked to his partner, Ben, I'm all shook up; everything has leaked out" To this Ben replied: Keep your head straight and say nothing.''
 The degree of Republican disgust over the situation corresponds to the Democratic satisfaction. Banks would be a weak candidate aside from the King slate. He was representative two years ago and incurred the re friends by voting for Brandegee for U. s. Senator, having pledged h1mself to do so in advance of his nomination and, as was generally believed as opposed to an effective Public Ut1H- ties bill, taking the ground that the corporations required no further reg Barnum bill, which was a railroad Id instead of the Chandler bill which had the support of the business matter of fact, however, he voted for the Chandler bill by reason of getting mixed up between the two measures when they came up for hnal actlon; nj He was first selectman during good part of the period when the town s business affairs were getting into so Woefully nuddled a condition although l he is not charged with compl1clty III these irregularities. He was negligent however, in the matter of placing the town clerk and the town treasurer un- der bonds in accordance with the laws requirements and when an m vestigation was proposed ranked h1m- self with the suppressionists, assuring that everything was all right and regular and that the movement for an inquiry sprung from spite and malice on the part of Deputy Sher1H ne worked hard and openly to defeat Selectman Pinkney for reelection Through wrong inforomation which ne gave his party caucus two years invalid and an entire Democratic board went in.
 Last Thursday MT. Banks and his present associate nominee were the linner guests of John T. King at Dan bury.
 Saturday evenings caucus named Attorney s. c. Shaw for Judge of Pro- pate and MT. Shaw, John H. Jennings md E. A. Pinkney for justices of the ,eace. It had been supposed that w. E Hazen would be the candidate for he probate judgeship, but his chances were completely obscured when MT. Shaw entered the lists. The latter vas. first nominated by acc1amati tion put insisted on a ballot in which he re- .eived a large majority, a few votes .oing to Attorney Herbert Barnes.