The Connecticut labor news., 1921-09-23

The Cahill men, almost to a man agreed that they were satisfied with their victory III the. primaries and Cahill men nominated and elected Doughan and An drew r. Allen for registrar of vital sta- t1St1cs again and cemented the party as 1t was never cemented before. The action or the convention completely upset the republicans who were meeting in conyen- ton the same night and nominated Fred Ford and an entire new ticket thinking they had the democrats hopelessly split and that any old Lind of a ticket would go through
 he republican convention was a gem ot its kind. It was openly touted be- torehand that 1t was to be a free for all affair and believing that packers of Sen ator Jarnes H. Macdonald and Former Senator Homan placed their names in the lists for mayor. It was a free for all so far as allowing names to go in was concerned, but when the delegates were rolled up 1t was found that |. NJ. Ullman and his brother Louis ( who by the way, IS now being credited with lead ersh1p of the party), had the votes all up their sleeve and on the first formal ballot the Ullman slate went through. Of course. It cannot be said that the conyen- ton was packed but 1t looked suspicious ly like It to the supporters of the other candidates and many of them are now openly resenting 1t.
 Aside from the mayora1ty an entire new ticket practically was named. Some ot tj.e old guard like Frederick E. Whit aker, who for years has led the ticket in elections, even two years ago running ahead of the ticket by about 800 votes, and Edmund L. Babcock tax collector. who followed closely behind Whitaker m popularity, were given a trimming III the convention. The reason is that they didn't go to Olive Street" when sum moned and do the genu1ection act and therefore were incontinently dropped. In Whitakers place was nominated Former Senator Luzerne Ludington, who made such record in the legislature that he was repudiated by the voters in his own district and that district given over to the democrats for the first time in its history. For Tax Collector Augustus L. L1lliams, a former assessor drop ped when the democrats came into power. ,, was named in place of Babcock and thus two ot the strongest men on the repub- lican side were dropped because they wouldn't go to Olive Street for their orders. Robert E. Lee, another strong candidate in years passed, was also given the gate for the office of registrar of sta- tistics, and Mrs. Charlottee w. Rice, widow of the former Mayor Rice, was nominated in his stead. The rumpus kicked up by Walter G. Maltby for reg lstrar of voters, was nipped in the bud and the colonel's private lieutenant in that office. Louis Knollmeyer, who Is en- ployed in the colonel's corset factory, l renominated and that means elected. Maltby now charges Charles C. Merri- man, nominee for city clerk, with double crossing him and declares he will go out 1 to beat Merriman for the latter's action in going to the Colonel and spilling all the plans the Maltby adherents had to capture the nomination, all of which makes merry the rumpus within the party of peace" that thought it had the democrats all split to pieces.
 | The campaign opened up slowly and will be fought on the record of Mayor FitzGerald and his administration during the past four years and that of Ford and
 his republican colleagues in the recent
 legislature when all the home rule New Haven has secured through democratic
 efforts was taken away surrepticiously
 and things put over without hearing