The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-19
Convention Will Be Held at
Providence, Harmony Prob
able, but There Is a Chance
for Mild Storm.
QUESTION OF SENATOR
MAY START A FIGHT
Opposition to Man Backed by
AIdrich and Some Want
Party Candidate Selected
by the Convention.
(American News Servic..s

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Providence. r. l., Oct. 19.-Extreme-
ly harmonious is the outlook for the
republican state and congressional
conventions to be held here Wednes-
day. Governor Aram ]. Pothier and
other state officers are slated for re-
nomination.
While the republicans are harmon
ious and we'll organized there are sew
eral conditions existing this year
which promise to make the campaign
one of more than ordinary interest.
In the first place the recent death of
Gen. Charles r. Brayton, the blind
| boss" removed leader upon whom
the party depended in almost every
campaign for the past thirty-five
years.
General Brayton's loss will be felt
more seriously in the event the repub-
licans control the next assembly
| which will choose the successor to
United States Senator Aldrich. 1t
now looks as if battle were in store
similar to that three years ago, when
Colonel Samuel P. Colt, whose friends
are again urging his name. was the
majority candidate against Senator
George P. Wetmore.
Colt Not Talking.
Col Colt has made no announce
ment regarding the senatorship. but
many of his friends who have been in
formed that Col. Henry F. Lipritt, the
millionaire yachtsman and cotton
manufacturer. is the choice of Senat-
ors Aldrich and Wetmore. are up in
arms. Friends of Governor Pothier
and former Governor Utter, whose
names have also been mentioned in
connection with the senatorship, are
also strongly opposed to the plan of
Senator Aldrich and his coterie to ig-
more all other candidates and select
Colonel Lippitt for the senate.
The opponents of Colonel Lippitt
will probably endeavor to have tomor-
rows state convention go on record
for a senatorial candidate, as did the
democratic party at its convention a
few weeks ago when it Endorsed Judge
Arthur L. Brown of the United States
district court for the seat of Senator
Aldrich.
The more aggressive leaders among
the democrats are more hopeful of
controlling the general assembly,
though no republican can be found in
the entire state who believes for a mo.
ment that there is any possibility of
the G. o. p. losing control of the legis-
lative body and the power to choose
the successor to Senator Aldrich. The
democrats it is pointed out. have had
q majority In the general assembly
only once in sixty years and never in
a senatorial year.
Democrats Mentioned.
On the democratic side are found
several men who would loom up con-
spicuously as aspirants for the Aid
rich toga II all predictions should go
astray and the democrats should carry
the legislature. Among these is Col.
Goddard, who twice was a candidate
and was defeated by Senator Wet
more Colonel Goddard is the head Of
a great manufacturing concern in
which the bulk Of the John Nicholas
Brown fortune is invested. He is the
father-in-law of the Marquise dan
digne and an uncle by marriage of c.
Oliver Iselin. 49,.
But the strongest man the democ-
racy could present for United States
senator probably is former Governor
James H. Higgins of Pawtucket whose
career has been the most meteoric po-
litically the state has seen since the