The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-15
New Haven Gets COP. Convention J. Henry Roraback Presides Over Meeting of State
 Central Committee Mayor Wilson Wants
 Place on State Ticket Roraback and King on Com nittee to Write State
 Platform

New Haven was the place selected today for the Republican state eonyen- ton, and the dates. Wednesday and Thursday, September and 10. The convention will meet in the Hyperion theater This was unanimously de- cided at the meeting of the Repubh- can state central committee, today, Tn the rooms of the Republican club, Tn Fairfield < avenue Although it had beer. rumored= that Bridgeport would probably bid for the convention mem bers of the committee said after the meeting that this city was not men toned. Before tsle, ,comn1irsse went ss ss- to executive session 1t was Wh1spereo about the Republican club rooms that the Bridgeport leaders had decided to let the convention go to New Haven without opposition provided the Elm City Republicans wanted it.
 This decision was made, it was said, to make the way easy for the nom1n- ation of a Bridgeport man on the state ticket, probably Mayor Wilson as lieu eutenant-governor.
 J. Henry Roraback, chairman, pre- sided and Secretary George $. Hinman took the minutes. There was only. one absentee G. Harold Gilpatric, mem Der from the Twenty eighth district. Four of the committee sent proxies They were Seymour M. Judd, proxy for Theodore H, Macdonald of the Ninth district; Louis M. U1hnan for Frederick E. Whitaker of the Tenth and Charles Kingston for Alexander L. Delaney in the Twenty-second- The other members present and the dis tricts they represented were:
 Burton L. Newton, First district.
 Walter s. Garde. Second district.
 Fred Bliss, Third district
 William c. Cheney, Fourth district
 Claude W. Stevens, Fifth district.
 Andrew J. S1oper, Sixth district.
 Frank B. Healy,, Seventh district
 John @. Ti1leon, Eighth district
 John W. Rattlesdorfer, Eleventh dis trict.
 Robert o. Eaton. Twelfth district.
 Edgar J. Doolittle, Thirteenth dis trict.
 Jacob D. Walters, Fourteenth dis
 Ulysses G. church, Fifteenth dis
 Martin F. Perkinson. sixteenth dis trict.
 Frederick L. Gaylord, Seventeenth district.
 trict.
 Tyler cruttenden. Nineteenth dis trict
 Fred J. Brown. Twentieth district
 john T. King, Twenty-irst district. Albert E. Lavery, Twenty-third dis trict.
 William P Bailey, Twenty-fourth district.
 Fillmore s. Banks, Twenty-hftn dis trict.
 Ernest c. Ruscoe, Twenty-aixth dis trict.
 Edward J. rupper, Twenty-aeventh district.
 Charles A. Gates, rwentyzninth' district.
 Morris c. Webster, >Thirtieth dis
 Marvin H. Tanner, Thirty-firat dis
 A. W. Mitchell, rhirty-second dis
 wilson s. Reynold. Th1rty-third dis trict.
 Eiwyn T. Clark, Thirty-fourth dis
 William H. Hall, Thirty-fifth. dis
 The convention decided that Mon day, August 1, will be the date for caucuses for delegates to the State .Congressi ona1 County, Senatorial Probate and Representative conyen- tions. Friday, Sept. 4 was named as the date to choose delegates from the senatorial districts to the State con- vention to consider the call for action on the ratification of the resolution adopted by the Republican National committee, Dec. 16, 191SS changing ncan National conventions so that the convention shall be better apportion- ed according to the Republican vote.
 It was voted to make United States Senator Frank sB. Brandegee tempor- ary chairman of the state convention in New Haven, William J. Brennan of New London. William H. Hall of Will nngton and John T. King of Bridge port were appointed a committee to
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