The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-02
FRIENDS RESENT DEPOSITION OF
 JUDGE HENNEY
Friends of Hartford Judge Don't Like Idea of Kings
 Preferment.

the following story under a Bridge port date:
 Will John T. Kings personal am bition to be member of the national Republican committee be gratified?
 It is no secret here. that friends and admirers of Judge Henney. of Hart ford, the present member of the com mittee, do not want King on the com
 nittee, and they haven't given up hope that King may get a setback and that Judge Henney will continue to represent this state for the next four years. Delegates favorable to Henney have yet to find out definitely why there should be any change and what particular good is to come to the Connecticut Republicans from the pro- posed change, except the qualification
 of the personal ambition of Leader King.
 Up tol the present moment there have bee no allegations, even from the packers of King, that Judge Hen ney has been, negligent of his duties as national committeeman, or that he has failed to give satisfaction in that res ponsible{ office He has always been classed as a dignifed. keen, faithful member of the committee, possessing Q thorough knowledge of the manifold and important obligations that fall to the lot of an alert worker on this na-
 tiona1 committee. ItN is not denied even by the most zealous advocate of the elevation of King to the place. that Judge Henney has as comprehen- sive a grasp on the national political situations and what is necessary to be
 done to push the party back to the
 national pie counter, as the individual
 who has planned to succeed him. Kings friends say there was con- Clark as one of the big four, and for that matter, 9 leader was in evidence
 here and there who leaned to the prop osition of naming the Honorable Charles F. Brooker as delegate in
 stead, There was a very pronounced preference in some directions for MT.
 Brooker, and if any kind of cam paigh had been made in time for his advancement Q big four delegate by his friends, little doubt existed that he would have been chosen. But the movement for the Ansonia statesman and former member of the national Republican committee was a bit late in getting under way and the honor went to Hartford
 It might. be here incidentally men tioned that there is an undercurrent
 of feeling among a few of the support
 CTS of Leader King that if those op- posed to him as national committee man and who believe there is little or no show for Judge Ienney to remain on the committee could muster suf- f1cient number of votes for Mr. Brooker, they could return MT. Brooker to the committee sooner than permit that national plum to come to this city, But the King men here de- clare there is not the ghost of show |for either Judge Henney. or Mr.
 Brooker, no matter what alliances or
 combinations mayi be entered into.
 There is another member of the
 Connecticut delegation to Chicago who Sfa Iodo FTs King, so the King men hold; but they
 are under the impression that when the time comes be will be with their
 man for national Ncommitteeman. Col Isaac M- UlInan of New Haven who seems to have recently returned to politics with considerable of an inl- pression made on those who were op- tposed to him, has not committed him. l self to King or any one else up to date, so far as the King followers have been able to ascertain. He and King
 are on friendly terms, but at the same
 time it can be stated that if Judge Henney has any chance of command
 ing a sufficient number of votes to re- l tain him on the committee, Colonel l U1Iman, according to the impression of the King faction in this city, would not hesitate to cast his ballot for Judge Henney. They have been very good friends for a number of years l
 ven leader has a very high opinion of | the Hartford gentleman.
 da Up to date the admirers of King l here have been doing little mental l exercise in an endeavor to size up the l attitude of the chairman of the state committee, on the national committee
 issue. Nowhere up to this period has l Chairman Roraback given a. hint, at lleast not for publication, as to whether
 he would be a supporter of King for committeeman, or whether he would
 prefer to let well enough alone <and 1 continue Judge Henney on the na- tional committee. King and Roraback 1 have pulled off a good many political I stunts together and have been polit- l ical pals for some time. Nevertheless there is a notion in the minds of some i of Kings intimate political friends I that Roraback isn't so intimately and 1 firmly attached to the political for l tunes of their chief that he would not 1 gaze upon other stars in the political i Armament that appeared to have an 1 attraction more powerful than Bridge l ports political luninary. sRoraback 1 has been classed somewhere favor I able to Judge Henney in the past. Just l where he stands today is a guess and 1 is very apt to remain in that category till the vote has been taken by the l delegation on this exceedingly inter esting question. And even then it may never be known how the estate i chairman finally voted