Connecticut western news., 1912-08-15
J. HENRY TALKS POLITICS Chairman Republican State Committee Says State is
 Safe for Taft.

MT. J. Henry Roraback. chairman of the republican state committee. was fol- lowed into his Canaan office by The News man, a few days ago, and cross examined, an ordeal in which he fairly held his own.
 "Whos going to be nominated for governor ?' he was asked.
 That's just what I'd like to know" said he. Will you take the nomiua- tion, along with your quadruple candi- dacy ?''
 The scribe gave a non-committal an- swer and held the witness to the main subject, with this general result, produo- ed through straightforward interroga- tories.
 It is too early yet, MT. Roraback said, to predict the outcome of the boom for pr. G. H. Knight, of Salisbury New Haven county seems committed to either Blakcslee or Studley, and it is difficult to say what attitude that county would take with regard to the Knight oaudi- dacy.
 The democrats will unquestionably re- nominate Governor Baldwin, but they will not be able to re.clect him. Coh. necticut is safely republican, and Taft will carry it again, easily and by a good majority.
 With regard to the bull moose party. MT. Roraback would make no specific forecast as to the probable strength 1t would develop in the state Many nf the doubtful have waited to see what the third party convention would do, and the platform it would promulgate, before deciding about joining the bull moose movement. It is not expected that Roosevelt will do much damage to the republican party, in the final result, as he will draw his force fully as largely from the democrats and socialists, as from the republicans. The money plank in the Roosevelt platform simply revives and recalls the old grecnback heresy. The woman suffrage plank will notavail much, as it is too plainly adopted as a suhterfuge to gain votes in the suffrage states, and it is we'll known that Roose- welt was never friendly to the equal suffrage idea when-he was loolEinF-for popular issues in his previous campaigns
 Referring to Candidate Wilson's speech of acceptance, MT. Roraback said MT. Wilson seems to have done after his convention what MT. Roosevelt did be- fore his-that is, make the platform phe principles enunciated iu the acoept- ance speech are very different from thoss adopted at the Baltimore convention. The difference might be considered i'm portant in some places, and in others not so important, There is, in tho ardent believers in a tariff for revenue only.
 Asked if Senator C. W. Barnum is likely to be the nominee of the new Fifth district, for Congress, MT. Roraback sad he didn't know that Senator Barnum wanted it, but if he really cares for tho nomination 1t seems reasonable to be- lieve he can have it. However, thero other candidates-for instance. Ansonia is strong for Mayor Alton Farrell of that place ; Senator Chase, of Waterbury, is also supposed to be in the race for tie congressional nomination, and Senator A. L. Clark, of Winsted, is mentioned as a possibility. The congressional con ventions will be held after the state con vention, which is called for September 10 and II, at Hartford
 MT. Roraback will establish head quarters, as state chairman, in his old quarters at the Allyn House, rooms A and 45, and says the campaign will be an active and aggressive one, from start to finish,