The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-15
How Lakes Majority Melted Away Between
 Midnight and Morning
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 off Eairfie2d county. Goodwin would have been out of the race. King was clearly the livest wire that GoodWin had around the convention hall dnrlng the process of vote taking. J. Henry Roraback sat, outside the hall in a pig aIItornobile with friends, and ever and anon delegates would walk outside and see the big man of the interests m Inside the ,convention hall John T. King was in charge Of the Goodwin forces There is no denying this lie was head of the Goodwin teliers, dld all of the talking on the platform for the Goodwin forces, never for mo- fneat lost the ear of Congressnan n Hill, and the way he hustled things along for the man of his choice de- rnonstrated that he had the nerve and the ability to lead the host that was back of him,
 He kept the eight original Good win votes of the Bridgeport delega- ton intact for his men and the three votes that De Yer H. Warner is re puted to have offered to Lake did not materialize.
 The Farmer told yesterday of the turbulent scenes which characterized the convention. No political conven- tion in the history of Connecticut ever displayed such disorder. Hill as chairman was all used up by his eff forts and at the end he could not De It was the hardest days work in his life and, judging from its effect on him. there will be less talk, from now on, of his succeeding Cannon as Speaker.
 King succeeded in capturing a ma jority of, the Fairfield county de1e- gates for Goodwin. Men like Judge Banks of Fairfield and Judge James E. Walsh of Greenwich who had been claimed for Lake were soon placed in the Goodwin band wagon. Their de- lection from the Lake column found others showing indications of weak ness. Threats were made against Harbormaster CHI. Morris and prom ises galore if he would only break away from Lake and cast his lot with Goodwin. The harbormaster stuck to the Lake ship to the end.
 The slick young men who are on the job every legislative day in Hart ford in the interest of the railroad carried the day for Charley Goodwin. Just how they carried it may be told later by those better situated to give the facts. But it really matters little after all how the popular choice of the party was beaten by a cornpara- lively unknown young lawyer, unless it were that J. Pierpont Morgan, the young mans uncle, paved the way to do it.
 Singularly enough, it was three Fairfield county men that finally brought the delegates to their senses After the tellers had submitted their majority and and mi minority iy reports of the the box had been stuffed by some one, there being more ballots in the box when the contents were placed before the teners than there were delegates entitled to vote, George B. Chandler of Rocky Hill was for having the con vention adopt the report of the tell CTS, which favored Goodwin, without taking a legal vote.
 As he spoke he was greeted with misses and cat calls from all parts of the hall and it was some time before he was able to make himself heard.
 John T. King. recognized by Chair man Hill, told the story of the miss ing ballot. He said that after the count had been taken Charley Moves, who was selected as a teller by the Lake men although not a delegate to the convention, professed to having picked up a lone ballot on the floor He said he took no stock in the story that more votes were cast than there were delegates present and believed in proceeding by putting the matter up to the convention.
 From all parts of the hall came cries for another ballot. Confusion reigned supreme. Finally the convention lis tened to talks by Kenealy, Judson and Banks, each of whom favored an- other1 ballet, and it proceeded then to vote by roll call, with the result that a number of those who had stood by Lake on the first ballot, having seen the lead of 10 that Goodwin had,