Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-06

l to the republican state convention,
 necessitating a vote on every name by
 passing in front of the chair, and as
 the meetSng closed Chairman Edwin l.. Burnap of the town committee
 spoke briefly but pointedly when he l toll tke gathering that unless the
 voters in the party stood behind the 1 town committee better than they had i in the past, the prospects were that 1 the town committee would resign in
 a boGy.
 Delegates Selected.
 The delegation which was elected l comprised Gilbert L. Hewitt. ex-Rep-
 resentative Charles P. Bushnell, H. R. Branche and John H. Powelson
 A gathering of about 200 men of the party, among which were noticed a
 number of those who hold state ap- | pointive offices, faced Chairman Bur
 nap when he called the meeting to order at S.30 o'clock. Upon nomina- l tlon of H. M. Lerou, John H. Barnes 1 was chosen chairman, taking his place
 amid applause.
 Need Harmony,
 l Tharking the meeting for the honor l that had been given him. Chairman Barnes went on to say that at the 1 present time there are in the city and | town of Norwich not more than four | republican office holders. This condi- ton of affairs is the only thing that | has rot been charged against Presi- 1 dent Taft by his opponents, since the l beginning of the campaign We, as
 republicans, are solely responsible. If l we would but pull together, and work | together and use one iota of the force and push displayed by you in your 1 efforts to get the Thermos Bottle Co. 1 to come to Norwich, we would win | everything in sight. We are going to i win and 1 will tell you why. You may 1 have noticed by the papers that the l Tammany democrats to the number | of 1000 to 2.500, who are to attend the i democratic convention to be held in | Baltimore next June, are not going l to put up at the hotels, but are to | lodge on steamboats and barges on 1 tie placid waters of Chesapeake bay. | And 1 say to you that it is sure l sign when you see democrats take to l water that they know they are licked | before they start. The people of this | country are thinking carefully and i deeply, and l am sure will vote right. | The republican convention at Chicago will do the right thing, and they will 1 be supported by the people of this | land. Let met draw a picture. In the | city of Cincinnati. O., for twenty years l man had his office in the back room
 of @ saloon. owned by German. Ten. 1 twelve. fourteen and sixteen glasses | of beer the man drank each day, but | he naVer got drunk. To him came 1 during all those twenty years, the l leading politicians of that city and | from him they took their orders. To 1 him came the most prominent busi- ness men of the city, to do his bidding, l and to him came justices of the su- | preme court. When this man placed 1 his ticket in the field in 1905, The l Times Star, the leading paper of the i city, owned by the man who had mar ried the richest heiress in the city, l Charles P. Taft, did not dare to op- 1 pose him. Nicholas LongWorth, of 1 Alice" tame. bowed low to do his
 bidding.
 1 One man. however, in a speech de- l hvered at Akron O., said that if busi-
 ness were so that he could be home in | Cincinnati on election day he would vote against the republican ticket, be- | cause that man was backing it. The 1 man who was backing the ticket was | George B. Cox. The man who made l the speech was the then Secretary of l War William Howard Taft. That | speech caused the beginning of the downfall of the corrupt machine that Boss Cox had managed and controlled i for 20 years. It strikes me that Q man l who had the moral courage to make
 that speech, when his own brother was | afraid to speak, and when Congress- man Longworth was speubound, is a safe man to be reelected president of | the United States. And he will be- if | he lives In the June election, if we all 1 pull together We will win in a walk, l and our opponents names will be 1 found the next morning at the bottom 1 of the newspaper column starred | among the also rans."
 The address of Chairman Barnes
 stiF ed up laughter and applause at l frequent intervals, and at it's close he 1 called for nominations for clerk of the
 meeting. Upon motion of George II.
 Stanton, Charles s. Holbrook was made l clerk without opposition. He read the 1 call for the meeting, specifying that 1t
 was to elect a delegation to the repub- | lican state convention in New Haven 1 April 16-17 and also to elect a town
 committee for the ensuing two years.
 L. o. Smith Mentioned.
 Gen. William A. Aiken took the floor to nominate the first delegate and
 elIcited a wave of applause as he re-
 ferred to attending the convention 52
 years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was nominated. In the coming conventions, he said, momentous issues were to be 1 decided, and one of these was whether 1 the seat of Abraham Lincoln is still to 1 be honored and adorned by William H. 1 Taft. (ApPlause.) Men tried and true, | with strong hearts and clear heads,
 must be selected to attend the state
 convention, and he was to present for Nf.NA at l ing here as long as most of us, had be- l gun life very near Norwich and had at | tended the Academy, shouldered a mus l ket for the war, borne an honorable record there, and one of the first things
 he had done to show his interest in | Norwich was through a generous gift
 he gave as one of the army of Boom
 CTS. General Aiken said he had seen much of this man, enough to make up l his mind that he was one of the most
 desirable citizens Norwich has ever
 had or will have and he would be de- lighted to vote for L. o. Smith, who
 was his nominee.
 c. L. Hewitt Presented.
 The nomination was greeted with
 applause, following which Frederic w. 1 Cary rose and said that in an i'm
 portant matter of this kind he hoped
 there would be several candidates and
 he should place ir nomination one who had the necessary qualifications, the i inclination and the experience to rep
 resent this town in the convention. He 1 has shown himself interested n the
 welfare of Norwich recently and the l speaker would take pleasure in pre- senting the name. Whatever the out
 come, MT. Cary said. he knew that his
 nominee, Gilbert L. Hewitt, would work
 for the welfare of the party.
 When the applause subsided Chair man Barres summoned the men to re- cord their vote by passing from right
 to left of the chair before the clerk.
 It took about six minutes to vote and the result was announced by Chairman Barnes as follows: Whole
 number of ballots cast 1S9; necessary