The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-01
LEAVE FOR BULL MOOSE CONVENTION
 NEXT. SATURDAY
Stoddard Expects at Least 40 of State Delegation to
 Go to Chicago

Of the 49 delegates elected Tuesday
 at the Bull Moose convention in New Haven, to represent the seven votes which Connecticut has at the National Progressive convention in Chicago next week, it is expected that all of 40 will go. Attorney Henry B. Stoddard of this city, who has been made a com mittee of one to arrange for trans
 portation of the Connecticut delega- ton, said today that he had positive
 assurances from 35 delegates. This number have drawn up checks to- cover their expenses and made all arrange .ments to attend. There are about five who have asked for another day to
 complete their arrangements and they
 are expected to lgo. Of the nine re- maining there are a few who have
 stated that they would not know whether they can attend until Satur-
 day and the rest have found it impos-
 sible to go but may send alternates whom they have the privilege of se- lecting, by vote of the convention in New Haven. Louis Napolitano, one Of the dele
 gates from this ctiy. finds. that ne will not be able. to go, but has. selected Frank Fasanelli, corner of Commercial street and Washington avenue, as bis
 alternate, Senator Joseph w. Alsop
 finds that it will be. utterly impossible for him to go to Chicago. as the week of the convention is the time to har- vest his tobacco crop, and he has something like go men to look after. Marcus M. Floyd of Tarlffv1lle. riff an other large tobacco grower of the State, is in the same fix and will not
 go to the convention. Both will send alternates MT. Alsop and President FlaveI s. Luther of Hartford, are members of a temporary national
 committee which is made up of those
 who signed the call for the. new third party. As MT. Alsop is unable to go to Chicago, he has delegated Herbert Knox Smith to go to take part in the meeting of this national committee,
 and MT. Smith, who will speak in Wa
 terbury tonight will leave immediate: 1y tomorrow morning for the city of the Big Winds. The meeting of the national committee will be held in the
 Congress Hotel, Chicago, Saturday. It will take up the matter of creden- tials and do other business prelinln-
 ary to the holding of the convention. It is thought that the business of the convention will not last longer than two days, and that the Connecticut
 delegates will be able to get home either Friday or Saturday
 week. 7r.A te |-' | Mr. stoddard has arranged. for the | Connecticut delegates to go to Chi cago by way of the Lake Shore linn
 ited, which leaves the Grand Central station in New York at 5:30 o'clock
 Saturday afternoon AS the New l York delegates will attend a State con- vention in Buffalo tomorrow they will I leave from that city, and the Connec- ticut delegation cars will be attached | to those of the New York delegates when Buffalo is reached. .tf[
 + MT Stoddard has secured headquar- 1 ters for the Connecticut delegates at the Blackstone in Chicago The rail- road fare will cost each delegate some 2 no IUh fTin N
 probably amount to $50 at the most. | On the return trip the Connecticut delegates cars will be attached to the
 same train which will bring Col.
 Roosevelt back to New York city. | It is expected that there will be gates from this State to go to the l Chicago convention. Richard Howell
 of the Herald will be among them, go-
 ing as a. newspaper man.
 | The Republican State Central Com Emittee is in meeting at the Allyn
 House, Hartford, this afternoon. John | T. King, A. L.. Delaney and A. B. | Lavery are Bridgeport members of i that committee. Because of the criti- cism of the committees chairman, J. Henry Roraback, due to his very ac- tive identification with the third house., Or lobby at Hartford, in be- half. of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and which criticism found very positive expression at the Bull Moose convention in New Haven,
 Tuesday, there is some expectation as | to what will be the outcome of the meeting. There are hints that MT. Roraback for obvious reasons may
 decide to take up the national "cud- gels and hand over, the State sinews of warfare to other and less famous hands," inasmuch as it is known that | ic n1apa on the national Re- publican committee for him. The principal business of the convention is l to consider the date and place for the State convention and the primaries. A successor to Senator Joseph w. AL SOD who has resigned to join the third party movement, will probably be chosen.