Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-12
NEW LONDON POLITICAL AFFAIRS
Thomas E. Donohue and F. Z Hankey Considering General Assembly Nominations = More Interest Than Ever m the Contests This Year.

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 Thomas E. Donohue, ex-alderman, | and the present efficient sealer Of | weights and measures. with full real | iZation that the pay is only $500 for | six months service, and with no free transportation, has announced his | willingness to accept the republican nomination to represent New London, l in part. at the next session of the leg islature. He has not only declared his willingness to accept, but added on the side that, if necessary. he will make a fight for the nomination The ex-alderman has been after several political position of honor or emolu- ment, or both, and it is said of him that he usually gets all he goes after, and just little bit more.
 Just at the present time MT. Dono-1 hue is the biggest Elk in this reserY2C ton, getting an office in the grahd lodge through his characteristic per- sistency. He wanted the position and went to the convention out west and got it. He wants the republican nom ination for the legislature, and he says he is going out right here in hls home town and get it. Guess he will, at that Mir. Donohue and Richard F. Freeman, who seeks the republican nomination for congress, have not been | always the closest of political friends. although they belong to the same lodge But if it is to their mutual ad-
  be friends, it could readily be ar ranged that the lion and the lamb lie down together, provided MT. Donohue | be conceded to be the lion.
 Mir. Donohue is not particular as to | his running mate in the Legislative race, as he would not do any team
 work. but see to it that he was first
 under the wire. Should MT. Donohue be one of the nominees it is quite probable that Attorney Philip Z., Han key will be the other, as MT. .Hankey | has long had ambition to sit in the | legislative hall in Hartford as mem | Der. from New London. He is pecu- | Iiarly well fitted by education and legal qualifications for the place and would | take pride in the position that would carry with it work for the best in- sented. Should republican New Lon don go republican in the next state election, it is reasonable to suppose that Hankey and Donohue will be the I representatives.
 In the last legislature New London was represented by two democrats, Abel P. Tanner and James R. May, and the city was surely well repre-
 sented, as good as could possibly be
 expected from democrats. But that
 was two years ago. nearly, and there has been, it is believed. a decided po- litical change since then- The Bull
 Moose were power, but that power has waned and probably to the bene-
 fit of the republican party. If that be
 the case in New London, of course the
 democrats will be defeated. But just
 at this moment this question has not
 been satisfactorily solved, and there
 are democrats who hope for demo-
 cratic success in the city and who
 actually believe that their hope will be realized.
 There is a new factor in local poli- tics in this year of our Lord that may
 have effect on the election here. As
 the legislature is not to elect a United
 States senator. the whip of the repub lican party cannot be ,wielded with the usual effective vigor in the mat
 ter of electing representatives by l sticking closely to the party nominees l and therefore there will be indepen. , dent voting in both parties, for there : always has been, and there probably l always will be. In a naturally repub t, lican city this independent voting vii } aid the democratic nominees more thai 3 it will the republicans. There is be ] lief that MT. Tanner will not be { I candidate for renomination, as he i f tiring of active politics, and advocates ], like did the democratic war horses O : the Burr and Bishop stripe. long ago : If'Old men for council and young mel l for war"
 y James R. May, the other represents ] tive from New, London, successful l real estate and insurance agent, is S 3 | fixed with the things that are earthl,
 that he can afford to represent, il : part, his native city in the legislatur 7 of the state. To MT. Mays credit b 2 it said, he proved himself competen 3 legislator. Upright and honest, an, : with the real interest of town an r state at heart. he took intense interes f in his legislative duties. He did no s take up the time of the legislativ s body with idle talk, or with talk o p self aggrandizement but was a req t legislative worker, one of the bes
 known members, and with inf1uenc