New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10
|IlakeN0rninated
I'm Connecticut:
Machine Beaten
Republican Bosses Record
on Suffrage Too Great a
Handicap to Overcome i'm
Battle for Governorship
Fight Continues 6 Hours
Senator Brandegee Has No
Opposition and Is Renom-
mated by Acclamation
Special Dtspatch to Tho Tribune


HARTFORD, Conn, Sept, 9.-From
10 a. m. until o'clock this afternoon
$50 delegates to the Republican State
Convention fought over the selection
Of the state ticket to run with United
States Senator Frank B. Brandegce, and
then, in dramatic climax, Everett J.
Lake, of Hartford, formerly Lieuten
ant Governor and a famous helfback
for Harvard, won the nomination for
Governor.
Senator Brandegee was renominated
by reclamation earlier in the day. lie
had no opposition for the nomination.
The state machine was badly trimmed
to-day and j. Henry Roraback. boss of
Connecticut for eight years, was nerv-
GUS and twitchy as he sat on the plat
form behind the permanent chairman,
watching the delegates over whom he
had once exercised complete cont1pl
break away and follow their own incl
nations. 1t was apparent that the or
and Buckley, of the Governors office,
had seriously overplayed the old game
notably on the blockade of the Federal
suffrage amendment.
Following the unexpected nomina-
ton of Lake there had to be o hasty
Encouragement of plans for the rest of
the ticket, with this result: For Lieu
tenant Governor, Charles A. Temple
ton, of Waterbury; Treasurer, G.. Har-
old Gilpatrick, of Putnam (renomi-
nated); Secretary Of State, Donald j.
Warner, of Salisbury; Comptroller,
Harvey P. Bissell, of Ridgeheld
National Platform Endorsed
The platform adopted subscribes to
the national Republican doctrines, Gu
logizes Harding and Coolidge, but
omits any mention Of the present Gov
ernor Marcus II. Holcomb or the lead
ing political issue Of the campaign
1t was 5 o'clock this morning when
series of conferences between party
leaders was concluded. All efforts
of Roraback, Joseph Buckley, secretary
to Governor Holcomb, and others to
force the withdrawal from the Gov
ernorship contest of Speaker James F.
Walsh, of Greenwich, were in vain,
chiefly because Attorney General Frank
+. Hea!ey, elected two years ago TO-:
q four-year term, insisted that his
own and other leaders pledges be made
good.
Shortly before the convention as
sembled this afternoon it was learned
that Walsh himself realized the futility
or encounterlng the story OF woman SUI
fragc opposition being aimed at him
and had passed the word to his big
block of delegates to vote for ILealey
The Attorney General got 213 votes on
the first roll call, whereas Walsh got
but one, with Lieutenant Governor Cliff
ford b. Wilson of Bridgeport scoring
1902, Colonel William H. Hall, 100, and
others scattering. During the second
roll call delegates who believed that
Hcaley had little more chance of elec-
ton in November than had Walsh. and
for about the same causes, organized
under Robert Scoville, of Salisbury,
who preached to Lake the proposition
that he permit his name to be entered,
and that coalition OF the Wilson and
Hall forces be Unanswered. Ten years
ago in the same hall Lake lost the
nomination for Governor over night and
later, his winning competitor lost the
election.
Lake agreed to stand if the Wilson
and Hall supporters desired, and pan
demonium broke loose among tho dele
gates when Colonel Hall arose to re-
lease his delegates and to cast his
own vote for Lake. When Lieutenant
Governor Clifford B. Wilson tried to
speak, Healey's floor manager, Colonel
Isaac M. Ullman, of New Haven, made