The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
Fairfield County, Holding Key to Situation, Gives Many Votes to Governor After Holding Out For Clifford B. Wilson.
Entire State Ticket is Re nominated With Excep- tion of Secretary of State Charles D. Burnes Whose Namesis Withdrawn.

Charles D. Burnes Whose ~ Namesis Withdrawn.
 New Haven, Sept. For the first
 time in recent history of the Repubii-
 can party in vthis state yesterday after noon at the convention here it re-
 nominated a governor, Hon. Marcus
 H. Holcomb. GovernortHolcomb' was practically unanimously'c chosen on the i flrth ballot, after the convention had ! balloted from about II o'clock in the
 morning until about 4 in the after
 nocn without recess, and seemed to
 be in, hopeless deadlock. There seem ! ed no,possibility of breaking the dead
 lock and rsecuring,th necessary num-
 ter for choice, 291, though IIealy. j ct the ,three candidates. led with N195 votes. Governor Holcomb followed I with 1S6, andt Blakeslee brought up i the rear with 1H6. Though no official count was made of the fifth ballot,
 Colonel Ullmantmovingfto make it un-
 animous for Holcomb before the count
 was taken. the governor would have
 gained probably 50i votes fon fifth :, ballot, bringing his vote up to 236,
 which would have brought him into
 the lead.
 Tho break in the ttense deadlock
 that existed came almost like a light ming bolt, and muchj excitement pre- { vailed at the quick turn in the tide of battlet When National Commit teeman King annoemced his vote for ! Holcomb the excitenf ent started for it ;'presaged new phase in the situation. When Colonel Ullman moved to have ' Governor Ho1combtsl nomination made
 unanimous the thunderbolt hit with {. full effect and thetsituation that en-
 sued for the nextjs few minutes was
 one seldomswitnessedsat convention < in this city. a King Stmtsl Switch.
 John T. King. leaer of Fairfield tcourry, andt Col. Isaac M. Ullman, of New Haven, tcan Stake considerable |, credit for theA dramatic coup which ' gave the choice eitol the present gover- nor. It had all along been expected
 that the decision lof Fairfield county when it swung away from it's persist
 ent choice, Clifford B. Wilson, would
 prove a crucial point lin thef baIloting, and when onsthe ffthtballot, following expectations that King would swing ! his delegates on 1 thet trourth, he per < sonally declared hiSf choice for Hol-, { comb loud applause fgreeted the an- 7. nouncemeut. Hartford county had, been solid for Hoacomb under the
 leadership of the doughty Morgan c.
 Bulkeley, andAwhen the chairman of { thetNew Haven, delegation which had
 supported Healy onl the first four bal i1otsAannounced,that he wished to have
 a second roll call of tthe New Haven delegates to register, them for Hoi- comb, several small towns in the
 countyA Madison, Orange, Milford and
 Meriden.>. immediately followed suit and registered their votes for Hol-
 comb. Then sthere was nothing to it but Holcomb. i. Mot1nn,by UImAn.
 X ThelballotanE which Began, at about lh0:s0 o'clock, proceeded without in- ferruptzon to 1.-the fifth, when decided restlessness became apparent among the delegates. fThey were coming no nearer to thes conclusion of the vote. Blakesiee was. stHl third in the race, Wilson's vote had decreased to 65 votes, Websters. strength had been thrown elsewhere. and one vote had |, bhen registeredi for Frank B. Weeks i by q delegates and to ali appearances lthe deadlock looked likely to con- 1 tinue unless Nsome sudden break ap- | peared and tAcame in the fifth from John T. King. At the conclusion of
 the roll call onfthe fifth ballot, before 1 the tellers hadSa chance to count the vote, Colonel Ulman arose and asked that, ina4rnuchnas Governor Holcomb ! was in the lead,y vote of the Nconven- I ton be cast for slim as a nominee.
 Chairman Brandegee ruled that i this vote was not in order. Labor i Commissioner Hyde, asked that un- animous consent~be given for vote on the Ullman motion. Chairman Brandegee ruled that he could not recognize anything but the roll call !, of the New Haven delegation, Colonel I Ullman said he was authorized by the New Haven delegation to cast its second ballot for Marcus H. Holcomb, striking out it's previous ballot. fi The previous roll was then recaYi- "a and the New Haven delegation
 Ahifted to the Holcomb. column In | quick order the towns fell in line, and
 after the applause engendered by the New Haven delegation's action had died down, Orange asked to register it's vote for Holcomb. Then followed in Equick order the same action by Derby, Sufneld, Pomfret, Meriden New London and Glastonbury. Then Col { onel Ullman moved that, as there was .an undoubted majority for Holcomb, | that he be made the unanimous choice of the convention. This was { done and Holcomb was officially I nominated. r
 Burnes Not Candidate.
 After the nomination of Governor jf1olcomb had been made, General H. | C. Dwight of Hartford moved that the present state officers be renom- i1nated by exclamation and the names of the present officers were placed be- fore the convention. John T. King of lBrfdgeport asked for the withdrawal lof Secretary Burnes' name, saying that Mr. Burnes was not a candidate ! for reelection. He moved that Lieu fenant-Governor Wilson be nominated l by acclamdon. At this point it was moved that a committee of two, which | subsequently was made to consist of | Charles F. Brooker, the original Hol- | comb man of Ansonfa, and Morgan G. | -Bulkeley of Hartford, the Hartford | county leader, be named to notify | Governor Holcomb of his nomination. They found him not far way, for it was said he had been on the conyen- ton floor short time before, and r Brought him to the hall