The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-22
Spellacy Easily Defeats LOnergan for Senator w h ile FitzGerald Runs Away With ThOms Boom for Gov ernOrship - w e t Plank in Party Plat form.

Thomas J. Spellacy of Hart
 ford, Mayor David E. FitzGerald
 of New Haven. Mayor Angelic
 M. Paeonessa of New Britain,
 three good friends of Organized
 Labor and the workingman gen.
 orally were nominated for three
 of the most important places on
 the democratic state ticket at the
 convention held in Hartford on
 Wednesday and Thursday of this
 week. MT. Spellacy is nominee
 for the United States Senate
 against Senator George P. Me-
 Lean, Mayor FitzGerald is the
 nominee for governor against Charles A. Templeton of Water
 bury. while Mayor Paeonessa is
 nominee for secretary of state
 against Judge PalIotti of Hart
 ford. The other candidates nom-
 mated are also fair minded men and while they have not as yet
 ben placed in positions where
 they can show their sentiment to- wards Labor on the whole the ticket as nominated appears to be
 a very fair one. The other nom
 inees are Frank M. Chapin of
 New Hartford for lieuetnant gov
 ernor, Robert D. Goddard of
 Bridgeport for state treasurer,
 Fred P. Holt of Hartford for comptroller, and Attorney Ben
 jamin Slade of New Haven for attorney general. There was but
 one real contest for the conven-
 ton that being for the United States senatorship in which Au- gustine Lonergan of Hartford ran
 against MT. Spellacy and Chair man Homer s. \Cummings of Stamford was interjected by a corps of enthusiastic friends but
 it went only to one ballot. MT. Spellacy winning out handily by a majority of two to one over MT. Lonergan. Former Mayor w. s. Thoms of Waterbury was nominated against Mayor Fitz- Gerald for the governorship but
 the convention made such a dem
 onstration for Mayor SitzGerald
 that the Waterbury contingent conceded his nomination without
 a ballot, asking on1y the privil-
 ege of being. recorded as voting as unit for MT. Thoms as they were instructed.
 The convention was the largest and unquestionably the most enthus- astic held by the democratic party in years. Foot Guard Armory was packed to the ceiling and the huge throng was immediately put into good humor by the preface to his formal speech made by Chairman Cummings. It again broke into up- roars of applause on Thursday morn ing when the platform was being read and the secretary came to the plank calling for a modification of the Vol stead act. This plank and the small bomb thrown into the convention when Ro1lin U. Tyler of Haddam, nominee for governor two years ago, refused to accept the nomination for generalship created the only discord of the day The wet plank | caused heated hght within the com l mittee on resolutions, the entire com nqittee almost being in favor of some such move but split on just how far the convention should go. After an all night argument it agreed that the | declaration should be for a revision | without stipulating to what degree.N Organized La bor members and ex- service men made up practically one thirI 0F Lo ond fn0afh had they desired and combined. How ever nothing to disturb the serenity | of either occurred and both expressed | with the platform adopt ed and the candidates named. The platform put it right up to the re- publican administration for the long period of unemployment and business lenres Sinn and declared the nrnnnSed