New-York tribune., 1922-08-30
Mclean Held
RenOn1inated
In Connecticut
Slow Returns Make Esfi-
mates of Complete Re.
suits of the Republican
Primaries Impossible
Fight Made ON Roraback
Effort to Gust State Chair
man Is a Leading Issue,
Will Outcome i'm Doubt
special pispatch 70 TIE rribnns

HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 90 In
most of the 1G9 towns Of Connecticut
this afternoon and evening registered
Republicans voted in primary caucuses.
or old-fashioned town meetings, for
delegates to the Republican state con-
ventlon, which meets in New Haven
September IL and ID. So slow was the
counting and so isolated are many Of
the towns that anything approximat-
ing complete returns tonight is i'm
possible.
However, United States Senator
George p. Mclean will be renominat-
ed, and as for the rest of the state
ticket, it will be headed either by
Lieutenant Governor Charles P. Tenn
pleton, Of Waterbury, or the present
executive, Everett j. Lake. of Hart
ford, and the rest of the personnel
probably will be renominees Dele
| gates were chosen tonight also for
Republican conventions to name Rep
resentatives in the FIVE districts, with
! several contests impending; sheriffs in
| bate ifl I'D districts. Next Saturday
| district conventions will be held to
! nominate Republican candidates for
| the thirty-five state Senatorial dis
| tricts.
! Ousting of Roraback Sought
| To-nlght's big issue, however, tran
| scending all the other tilts and vet SO
! far hidden beneath the surface as to
be interpreted only with difficulty,
| was the attempted ousting from the
| craftsmanship of the Republican State
| Committee of j. Henry Roraback, Of
| Canaan, national committeeman and
Republican boss of Connecticut for
| the last twelve years. The state chair
man is to be elected the afternoon of
September 10, Immediately sitter the
convention completes its ticket and
adjourns, and with all Of the thirty-five
/ new members present it will require
| eighteen votes to elect. The new COM
mitteemen. one from eachh Senatorial
district, are to be chosen by the dis
| trict's delegates to the state conven-
| tion.
In the case of Tolland County, COM
prising thirty small towns, but consti-
tuting but one district, there is only
/ one committeeman, whereas New Ha-
ven has four, Hartford and Bridgeport
three each, and Waterbury two. Re-
! turns from the scattered skirmishes
tonight failed to reveal a decisive vic
tory for Rorback or his opponents, led
| Dy attorney Genefal FRANK =. healey
No Contest in Hartford
The three committee votes from
! Hartford were not contested by Healey
when he saw that Morgan G. Bulkeley
and his forces were fraternizing with
Roraback and his local leader, Charles
A. Goodwin, cousin of j. P. Morgan
! New Haven's four votes were gathered
by Colonel Isaac M. Ullman agains
Roraback and John T. King, who played
ball with Roraback until the latter
pushed him off the national committee
arranged so that Bridgeport's three
| votes are against Roraback, Whose
days OF usefulnes in the Republican
party are over" to quote the mitdest
expression of Healey.
New London is believed to be anti
| Rorabaclk, with Meriden and New Brit!
ain doubtful, and it is generally
agreed that Roraback and the opposi
tion will go into the meeting with about
sixteen certain votes each. with the re
manning three the margin to win