The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-21
PICK CHENEY AS 6. 0. P. CHAIRMAN Report of Tentative Offer, to Senator To Fill Rora-
 backs Boots. LATTER WILLING TO QUIT Out To Win, State Republicans. Seek To Keep Baldwin From Senatorial Nom
 inatiOn.
LATTER WILLING TO QUIT

New Haven Oct 21.-The RepubIf-
 cans of the state have already started 1 their campaign for the recapture of
 in order to facilitate matters in that l direction J. Henry Roraback. chair
 man of the Republican state commit l tee, has signihed his willingness to resign in order that any possible break l in the party caused by his election in ] 1912 may be forgotten The resigna- 1 tion will not come, probably, until the
 meeting of the state committee some 1 time next summer, but it has been an-
 nounced that Chairman Roraback has said that he is ready to turn the reins
 over to some one else
 The fight for the control of the Re- l publican state central committee a year ago last spring is still remem- l bered by all Republicans At that 1 time Michael Kenealy of Stamford
 was chairman and the Roraback forces lined up and beat him for the place. 1 Kenealy didn't. want it, but those op- posed to Roraback, including Col T. M Ullman of New Haven. forced him to remain in the fight Roraback won out but the breach between the two factions which dated back to the 1ake-Goodwin and Bulke1ey- Mclean fights was not healed and has not yet been fully healed.
 1H0 pIaCe or cna1rman or the state committee has already been tenta tive 1y offered to Senator w.. S. Cheney of Manchester. It is said that very thorough search of the state was made
 before Senator Cheney was picked The Republicans are trying to get men in the front rank against whom noth- ing can be said so as to satisfy the voters that the defeat of last year has chastened them and they are willing to show that they can deserve victory again.
 Senator Cheney has said, it is re- ported, that if the time comes when
 Chairman Roraback decides that he
 wants to attend to his other business he may consider the offer The fact that Senator Cheney did not turn the offer down at once because of his bus mess interests has pleased the RepJ1b- licans immensely, because they remem- bered that he gave up the office of county commissioner of Hartford coun- ty because the duties took him away from his business to too great an ex- tent.
 Of course the big stake next year will be the United States senatorship. For the first time in the history of the state the people will elect the senator by a direct vote. It looks at present as though Senator Brandegee would be the Republican nominee for the office, though ESbenezer J. Hill of Nor
 
 Republicans are not now concerned so much about their ovNh nominee as they are about the Democratic nomi- nee. They are afraid of Governor Baldwin's candidacy and their whole endeavoz- will be to see that he doesn't get the Democratic nomination. That may sound strange, but no stranger than the fact that the Republicans are confident today that Governor Bald win cannot get the nomination for senator. TT 2
 The Republicans reason that if they can eliminate Governor Baldwin from the Democratic ticket they can win without any trouble The governor has already said that he was not a candidate for renomination for the governorehip. The Republicans, there fore, are now bending all their ener- gies to keeping him away from the nomination for United States senator. This they think they can accomplish. If they are able to do that they be- lieve they can carry the state both for senator and for all the state offices. of the possible candidacy of Mayor Rice for governor is interesting. The fact that he has carried New Haven three times appeals rather strongly to the men who are seeking victory next fall and it is probable that, Mayor Rice will be one of the men consid- cred for the nomination at the state +ir7a