The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-11
LEADS ON FIRST BALLOT WITH
 STUDLEY GOOD SECOND
Gloom Holds Sway As
 Convention Is Called
By Our Staff Corres.)

(By Our Staff Corres.) Hartford. Sept. 11-After a night of depression and gloom, conspicuous for the lack of characteristic enthusiasm, and without the emb1ance of good, i lively contest for a single State office, the Republican State convention got down to business shortly after. 10 o'clock this morning.
 The Allyn House, where the dele gates gathered through the evening,
 was filled to oyerflowing. The lobby was packed. But not a whit of en- thusiasm manifested itself
 One of the delegates made a. vain attempt to start something.
 Three cheers for William Howard Taftt he yelled at the top of his voice.
 .-Hurrah! Hur-'' he was vocifer- l tortionist in effort to shake the apathy from the gathering when he found to his chagrin and confusion that his was the only voice to take
 up the cheer He retired in haste, through path of delegates grinning at his discontinue.
 This Is merely sidelight of the gen. eraI conditions prevailing in the con- vention today. The mention of the l names of the various candidates for the State offices won't start anything. There hasn't been a first class argu-
 ment since the delega tes began to ar- rive early last evening.
 When the convention got down to
 business this morning 1t appeared that the much nnoeted fight for the Guber- natorial nomination was more or less mythical, for the reason that even the candidates themselves are irnbued with the 4aopelessness of their fight. There is no longer any doubt but that Judge Studley of New Haven is the candidate of the Roraback ma chine and that eventually he will be
 nominated, although it is not likely that he will have a plurality on the
 first ballot Dr. George H. Knight
 of L4akeville, who comes practically
 from Roraback's own bailiwick. will
 have a considerable support from the
 Litchfield county delegates, but it be-
 that his candidacy is being foisted on
 the convention merely as a, cover for
 the well made plans of the Roraback
 machine to put through the Studley
 nomination.
 One important feature of the devel-
 opnents overnight is the apparent de-
 to put one-soEer''- on Col. Isaac. M.
 Ullmang of New Haven. This is to be
 the nomination of Studley without any
 cooperation on the part of the Ull-
 been a thorn in the side of Roraback,
 who sees in the present convention an
 opportunity by which he hopes to dis credit UI1man's reputed strength If Rorab back can effect the nomination of Studley without any cooperation from 4U11man. the New Haven man is. ex- from the ranks of his legion of Elm City admirers.
 As the convention gathered this morning it was expected that Lieut.. lead on the first ballot. Judge Silas A. Robinson was looked upon as the Knigf1t po1ling a Substantial vote. and it was freely predicted that Judge Studley would receive but a. compara- tive few on the first poll. It was ex- pected that the second ballot would develop a break for Studley- The New Haven probate judge is the real candidate of the Roraback machine. and the convention is completely over shadowed by the Roraback influence
 .'It is only question of the number of ballots required for the proper stag ing of the nomination. is the way an old timer in the convention hall put it this forenoon.
 Col Matthew H. Rogers of Bridge port, Secretary of State, has made no of the delegates looking to- wards a renomination. Gustaf Carl son of Middletown is a. candidate for for the place. It is conceded that Rogers can have the place if he wants it. but Rogers, like other veterans in the political arena, is not blind to the prospects of Republican blight. His actions do not indicate a consuming desire for renomination, though he will accept the nomination if the con vention names him.
 The arrival of former Lieutenant Governor Everett J. Lake from Ca1i- fornia last evening gave the delegates e. ting him forth as Gubernarorial can didate was eagerly seized upon, promptly on the circulation of the re- port of his return. Supporters of all the various candidates so far named would be glad to vote for Lake, if he would allow his name to be used.
 But he siIenced all such plans. He said he had announced his position l before he went West, and he stood just where he had been standing all along Under no circumstances would | he permit Is name to go before the and if the convention did l nominate him, he said he would de cline to run. Lake is withcu- ques- ton the strongest man the Republi- 1 cans could name at this time, and his of his former stand east the delegates into deeper dejection than ever.
 The present comptroller, Thomas Bradstreet, is a cand1dare to succeed tirlse1f, with Senator Wright as his chief opponent. Little talk is heard of the places elsewhere on the ticket. The general feeling is that it matters little who is named-that each can 1idate fs being marked for slaugh- ter