The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-21
BRANDEGEE NOT
 OPPOSING THOMAS Senator Denies Any Intention To Attempt to Block Him
 For Judgeship. HOPES FOR CONFIRMATION Belief Now That Name Will Go Through With Probably
 No OppOsitiOn.
HOPES FOR CONFIRMATION

New Haven, Oct. 21.-United States Senator Frank B. Brandegee said last night that the report published in Hartford and other places that he iH- tended to oppose the nomination of Edwin s. Thomas for United States district judge was false. As a matter of fact he has already told President Wilson that he would not oppose the nomination.
 Senator Brandegee when seen stated that if any such report or rumor was in existence it was entirely without his authority. The senator said that the nomination of MT. Thomas came into the senate on Thursday of last week; that the judiciary committee met yesterday when, under the rule. the nomination of MT. Thomas was referred to a subcommittee. The subcommittee would report later to the entire committee and thereupon the entire committee would act upon the nomination.
 Senator Brandegee said that he had no intention whatsoever of opposing the nomination. of MT. Thomas, but on the contrary he was a friend of MT Thomas and hoped to see his nomina- ton confirmed. The senator declared that when he was speaker of the Con necticut house in the session of 1899. MT. Thomas was a member of the house from the town of Orange. Sen ator Brandegee further said that while he had not met MT. Thomas frequently in recent years, he had always retained an agreeable impres- sion of him and knew of no reason why his nomination should not be promptly and favorably acted upon The senator stated that before the president sent the nomination to the senate he had advised the president in reply to the presidents inquiry, he n nhiR1fiOn to the ination.
 Before this statement was made hY Senator Brandegee assurances had been received in this city that there would be no opposition to the nGn1- nation from him.
 An attempt has been made and is now being made to stir up Senator OGorman of New York, who is also a member of the senate judiciary committee, to oppose the Thomas peal is that Attorney General McReN holds is reported to have said that he could not appoint man of the name of Noone or Walsh to the judgeship. The strange part of this proceeding is that the objection upon that ground comes not from the friends of Noone or walsh but from Republican sources. which hope to start a feud among the Connecticut Democrats. The latest report from washington is that there will in all probability be no opposition to the nomination of Thomas in the Judiciary committee.
 Much surprise was occasioned among the friends of Major Louis B. Stoddard at the publication here yes terday of @ dispatch from Washington to the effect that a MT. Stoddard, of New Haven" had written to Attor- ey-Genera1 MeReynolds protesting against Thomas nomination. They were greatly surprised that the name of Major Stoddard should have been connected in the publication with such a story.
 Major Stoddard himself thought the matter so altogether small yesterday that he was hardly willing to make a denial of it. He finally did say, how ever, that there was absolutely noth- ing to the story so far as L. E. Stod- dard was concerned.