Connecticut western news., 1912-08-22
STATESMEN IN A FROLIC
Political and Bald-H lead Rooms Inflated at Legislative
 Reunion,

The legislative reunion at Savin Rock, New Haven, last Wednesday was red letter day for the statesmen and poli- ticians. There were about 800 of them fry, and inasmuch as the invitations contained the explicit assurance that the discussion of politics would not be barred, it is presumed that there was some politics discussed. Naturally the republicans were in big majority, and all the various candidates for all the various places on the state ticket were discussed, sized up and compared. The gentlemen most prominently mentioned for Governor naturally came in for the most attention. Dr. George H. Knight, Of Salisbury, who has been a member of the House for three successive terms, and Lieutenant Governor Blakeslee, of New Haven, both of whom are being boomed for the nomination, were present and were kept busy shaking hands and assuring anxious Inquirers as to the state of their health. Judge John P. Studley, of New Haven, another leading candi- date, was represented at the feast by Postmaster Fred l.. Gay lord, of Ansonia, who distributed Studley buttons and boomed the StudIey stock enthusiasti cally and unceasingly, and stoutly main tained that the Judge is "a winner and the only republican who can be elected this year."
 There were amusing incidents galore, and winds which showed which way the straw was blowing. Colonel W. H. Hall, the probable nominee for comptroller, created diversion during the feast, by leaving his seat at the festive board, go- ing to the head of the table, where Lieutenant Governor Blakeslee was seat ed, and pinning upon the latter's coat a Studley button, which the rival candi- date permitted to remain there, es- pecially on discovering that it had been pinned on upside down.
 Colonel "Ike'' Ullman, who arrived late, strolled down through the whole length of the spaclous dining Oolonnade, shaking hands vita guests on both sides of the double row of tables until he came to otate Committee Chairman J. Henry Roraback. whom he skipped and who was too busy exploring the inner recesses Of a luscious lobster claw to notice that he had been overlooked in the otherwise impartial bestowal of per sonal recognition.
 Fred Orr, secretary Of the Conn. Brewers Association. after slyly de. posting a lemon in the side pocket of Fred Gaylord, Judge Studley's chief boomer, among the stock of photo buttons of the Judge. which Gaylord was generously distributing. suddenly discovered his pet antagonist, Brother Spooner, chief legislative agent of the Connecticut Temperance Association, approaching. Quick as a flash Orr grabbed the beer bottle that had been standing near his own plate and set it down next to the plate of his left-hand uelSnDOr, WHO udppeueu tO oS IdUluAy fanatical teetotaler and abominates the flowing bowl even more than Spooner himself, and who nearly falnted away beneath the frown of Brother Spooner.
 The recruiting delegate of the Bald Head Club made numerous additions to the membership list, at the reunion. Among them were pr. Knight, himself :; Town Clerk Fred Whitaker, of New Haven, whose dome shines like beacon ; Judge Tingier, democratic leader of the last House, who is likely to be the demo- cratic nominee for lieutenant-goyernor ; Col. W. H. Hall, who has spent most of his life, up to date, in the halls of legis- lation, and is likely to spend most of the rest of it there Fred Gaylord, of An sonia, the most strenuous and uncom- promising of Judge Studley's champlons, and Souvenir" Taylor, of Hartford the Santa Claus of legislatures for a whole generation.