Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-27
County

Immediately following the announcing of the result of the Informal ballot Mayor E. Frank Morgan of New London stood up and moved that the ballot be made formal and Congressman Freeman b5 unanimously declared nominated. His motion. however, was not in order as John Buckley of Union, had the floor ann moved that since the first ballot was an informal one, formal ballot now be talk en to decide the nomination of the dele gates. Mir. Morgan questioned this right, claiming his motion had been made first, but Fayette L. Wright of Pomfret. chair man of the convention ruled that Mir. Buckley had the floor as he had rec ognised this previous to Mir. Morgan s arising The motion of Mir Buckley was | finally put to vote and was lost by vote of yes s6. no s7. This ballot was a ris- ing vote the aye and nay vote failing to decide the. motion MT. Morgan again took the floor asking for attention. but when Mr. Keeney arose and told him to sit down and "let me do it for you. i the motion as put by Mir. Keeney went | through and Mfr. Freeman was declared unanimously elected. Hearty applause followed Mir. Keeney's declaration in fa- vor of Mir. Freeman.
 The balloting was done by counties and | from the first the vote showed a trend | to the present encumbent Holland came | first giving Mir. Freeman 12 of her forty four votes. Windham, followed, being al most solid for her native son, Mir. Bug bee, of Putnam. Mir. Freeman, however | getting one vote New London count came out ffty-nine strong for its can didate, the one odd vote going to Will jam A. King of Willimantic When Mid dlesex came to vote Mir. Freeman needed l twenty-five of her votes for the office l Delegates from Chester were first callet and upon voting for MT. Freeman brough down great applause. By the time Ol, Saybrook had been reached NIT. Freemal had been. given twenty-five votes iron Middlesex county. Eight more votes re mained to be counted and as the mum Der of delegates totaled 196 when all ar present most delegates were of tn opinion that MT. Freeman needed tw more votes. Portland voted for Mi Haxen. Then remained Westbrook wit
 her two delegates to be heard from an
 when the first was called Freeman, gc a vote and the last delegate gave his vot
 to the Few London county candidate tn
 total being just ss. the number neces
 sary for nomination if all delegates ar present The announcement by the cha
 that 97 were necessary for choice an that Congressman Freeman had 99 vote
 
 cheer from his supporters. Several deit
 gates from other towns then requeste
 that their vote be changed in favor f Mir. Freeman, but that not being in orde , the vote remained as first announced Congressman Freeman Accepts. : The chair appointed R. J. Keeney
 Somers and E. Frank Morgan of Ne
 London to wait upon Congressman Ere
 man to inform him of his renominatio
 Congressman Freeman came forward ar stepping to the stage thanked the del : gates for their support. stating that l n was certain the republicans would win l. November and that they deserved to wi h Mir. Wilson. he said. went out to u E people in 1916 telling them that he wou - keep them out of fewar and all the tin c he knew he was going into the war. th s he must go in to protect American inte e ests. We went Into the war. and can s out victors but we have not yet got peac s Such condition never existed in a cou l. try before. Mir. Wilson went to Fran v and brought home a treaty that sa,
 the United States must furnish militia
 and naval power to the nations in t i. league without the consent of congres 1 The belief of the country in his principa ' was shown in 1918 when he asked for ' democratic house and senate and t {. country returned republicans to these ( z fees. Since then. the republicans ha T T haved the country three billions of dt 2 lars through sane legislation.
 Hc then informed the delegates tn
 a spread was awaiting them in the roor
 below and after pledging himself to wo
 for the good of the county. and state en '- ed his brief speech and returned to t '. audience
 The meeting was called to order L. 1z.o7 o'clock by Charles A Gates, chai
 man of the Republican Second Congre
 sicnal District committee, who called f
 nominations for chairman Fayette q Wright of Somers. was nominated uaar le nousiy for this position. After a bri s, speech in which he expressed his than k to the convention for the support for t
 office he stated that the democratic par 2 had failed 10 reduce the cost of livil : and that the president of the Unit
 States had kept this country in DO.
 ton of war with foreign countries g
 though victory had been won This VI
 because he would not treat with the b