The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-28
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AndCdllSFOr King
Cannot Garry the State
w t h ut Fairfield
County and Can't Get
Fairfield County With
out King Republican
Committee Very Much
Worried Over Brande-
gees Chances.

Signals of distress are being flown
by the Republican State Central Com
mittee and the upstate leaders have
sent S. o. S. signals to John T. King
to hurry back to Conn ecticut and help
save Brandegee from the defeat which
the leaders see he is bound to receive
in the present muddled state of Re-
publican politics in this state.
1t is even rumored that King re-.
ceived the message several days ago
and is now somewhere in the state
arranging terms with the Roraback
crowd
1t is believed that before the meet
ing of the Fairfield County RepubIi-
can Association at The Stratfield next
Saturday tthe arnistice between the
hostile armies of Roraback and King
will be signed.
With the cessa ton of war between
these two tribes there looms up
another internicine strife in which it
is understood that Charles Hopkins
Clark Of the Courant and ex-senator
Morgan Belkeley of Hartford have
served notice on the State Committe
that Governor Marcus Holcomb must
be renominated or the usual financial
aid which the Republicans have been
accustomed to receive from insurance
and other financial institutions Will
not be forthcoming this year
It said that Roraback rather than
accede to the demand for the nom
ination of Governor Holconb would
be prepared to make peace with King
and accept Mayor Wilson as the can
didate for Governor.
This rumored attitude of Rora back
towards Wilson has aroused the
friends of James F. Walsh of Green
wich and he and his friends have as
serted that they intend to make Ror-
aIback stick to his repeated promises
or they will cause more of a riot in
the party than Mayor Wilson did by
attacking Roraback in the last State
convention.
Kings friends in this city only give
the knowing smile when questioned
as to John It's location politically or
geographically and intimate that John
is not dead yet
The Republican convention last
night endorsed the men named by
the caucus the night before and
everything was harmonious until
Judge Wilder offered a resolution in
appreciation of the work done in the
past by City Clerk J. A. H. Robinson
whose resignation as chairman of the
Town Committee was accepted.
Fred D. Ives opposed the adoption
of the resolution and made an attack
on Robinson until shut off by friends
of Robinson. The resolution was
then passed.
The delegates to the state conven-
ton are:
At large-Elmer H. Havens, John
A. Leonard, Charles C. Blackham and
John M. OConne1l.
Twenty First district, George S.
Hill, Howard F. Smith; Twenty Sec
ond Observation-Disclosures L. Delaney
P. j. Reilly; Twenty Third district
Dennis Kelly, Samuel Dave.
Today City Clerk Robinson stated
that he was deeply moved by the res
olution passed by the convention.
GAS for Fred Ives, who opposed the
adoption of the resolution, we who
know him, are never surprised at
what he does. It is, however, in
conceivable that SO small "a man
should be disguised in so large a sta
ture. I don't know what the trouble
is with him.
Freddie is all right but we don't
mind him"