Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-06
Republicans in
State Convention
WARM CONTEST FOR THE
GUBERNATORlAL NOMINATION
A FULL ATTENDANCE
Relative Strength of Governor Marcus
RI. HoIcomb, Dennis A. Blakeslee
and Frank E. HeaIy is Said to Be
Nearly Equal.

New Haven, Conn, Sept. 5.-The re-,
publican convention which will to-
morrow place in the field a state tick
ct and rame a candidate for United
States senator, held its first session in
Shubert's theatre tonight. Aside from
the Keynote speech by Senator Frank
3. Brandegee, tho interest was cen
tered upon the GoVernorship. This abb
sorbed the attention Of delegates be-
fort they listened TO the senior sena-
tors address and afterwards. Well
into the night groups of men stood in
hotel lobbies o. in the headquarters
Of the rive! candidates and discussed
the outlook.
Candidates for Governor.
Everything pointed to a convtntion
in which there would be no absentee
tomorrow and much excitement over
the balloting. On every hand the Opin-
ion was held that the relative strength
of Governor Marcus H. Ho1comb for
denomination contrary to precedent,
Dennis a. Blakeslee and Frank E.
Healy, was nearly equal. with a good
ly number Of votes to go to Lieutenant
Governor Wilson Of Bridgeport and
Comptroller Webster of Harwinton.
The general prediction was that the
candidate to win would benefit by a
break in the lineup about the third
ballot.
No Picture of Hughes.
The conventions opening was
quiet one. The theatre floor and first
balcony seats were about all filed. In
the latter were many equal suffrage
advocates. The atmosphere was cool
and delegates found y easy to listen
to the Keynote speech which took Mr..
Brandegee an hour and q quarter to
deliver. The decorative effects in the
theatre were portraits Of Former Pres
idents Grant, Lincoln, Mckinley and
Roosevelt and Senator Mclean, each
f1anked with flags, while on the stage
setting at the rear was a likeness Of
Former President Taft. No picture Of
Mr.. Hughes was seen.
It was about $40 when State Chair
man j. Henry Roraback presented
Senator Brandegee as temporary
chairman and the latter. as a fore
word, said that he had presided at
three conventions wherein the candi-
date heading the ticket was triumph
antly elected I" s---zs.
The speech ended. ]. H. King OF
Bridgeport offered a resolution where
by Sabin s. Russell was made secre-
tary of the convention and John Buck
ley and w. A. Countryman, all legis-
lative clerks, were made assistants.
The committees, made up of a mem
Der from each senatorial district were
read and meeting places appointed.
Resolutions Committee.
The resolutions committee which
took up the task of writing a plat
form, and giving ear to a delegation
of women who wanted suffra ge
plank, was as follows: F. A. Hagerty,
Morgan G. Bulzeley and Arson T. Nc
| Cook Of Hartford; e. H. Fem, Weth-
ersfeld: S. N. Dunning, West Hart
ford; E. w. Schultz, New Britain; H.
NJ. Alcorn, Sufeld: I. NJ. Ullman, S.
E. Hoyt, w. F. Clarke and J. V. Rat
t1pdOTFfDT- NaIyT IJhXrn0.
son, East Haven; Montague Hamm,
Meriden; NJ. w. Hall, Cheshire; w. D.
Makepeace, Waterbury; NJ. F. Perllin-
son, Waterbury; A. c. Baldwin, Der
by; T. Q. Cronin, New London; w. I.
Allyn, Ledyard; H. A. Stable, Stoning-
ton: J. T. King. F. A. Bartlett and H.
D. Chandler, of Bridgeport; J. r.
Booth, Danbury: z. S. Banks, Fair
field; c. II. DiiWorth, Norwalk; J. T.
Walsh, Greenwich; E. L. Darbie,
Charles Bragg, P5ainfeld; w. S. Rog~
ers, Litchfeld; D. T. Warner, Sails
bury; r. V. Magee, Watertown F. a.
Coles, Middletown; A. n. Shepard
Portland; John Buckley, Union.
Actual Work Begins Today.
After the convention adjourned un-
til 10 a. M. tomorrow, when the actual
work of putting the ticket into the
running will begin, the several com
mittees met. The permanent organi-
| zation will be the same as the tenn
| porary one; the rules committee had
no business and the credentials COM
| nnittee accepted the temporary roll
| The resolutions committee took Room
! III, the Yale football coaches quar-
! ters, for their meeting place and
| heard various ones who had sugges-
tions to make.
| The convtntion work tonight clears
| the way for proceeding with the nomi-
| nations at the outset tomorrow an6
! the question of making nominating
and seconding speeches was to be
| threshed out. Many delegates thought
| the speeches could be eliminated ir
| view of the active canvass which has
| been waged for months past. Aside
! from the governorship, opinion in
clined to the belief that all other state
| officers will be re-nGYaina ton as viii
| Senator Mclean and that the platform
| will praise the administration of Gov
ernor Holcomb and point out the
| achievements of the republican legis-
! lature. There will be affirmation
| of national platform principles.