The Connecticut labor news., 1924-05-03
CUMMINGS, SPELLACY
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And somebody, from present feel ings, will say just that sort of stuff at the state meeting here next week. If they don't say that On the floor of the convention they will say that at the gatherings of the leaders.
 ! And also they will say that they want somebody who can win elections not those who can lose them in the future.
 The question of instructing the state delegation to New York for one candidate or another Is not of so great importance apparently just now as is the question of who will lead the par ty in this state during the next cleo tion. If the leaders are to be left overs from the Wilson regime there won't be a great deal of enthusiasm displayed in the state this fall. And if the cities are to be neglected i'll the big things, while they are expected to furnish the votes for the election there may not be so great enthusiasm in the cities in the campaign.
 That is the feeling of the many delegates to the state convention here next week and the contest will prob ably come on who will run the con- vention and how the campaign is to be conducted throughout the state are bristling for fight.
 Efforts have been made to draw Mayor FitzGerald into the Spel1acy- Cummings combination but thus far he has not shown his hand either way while many of his friends here and throughout the state are bristling for fight" There-the cats out of the bag. Cummings, Spellacy, Yoemans and the rest who have been leaders in the democracy for years and as evidenced in the case when Spe1lacy ran for gov ernor were not backed up by others despite which Spellacy lost to the War Governor, Holcomb, by only about 1000 votes-must go.
 To start the bali aro1ling Mayor FitzGera1d "accepted from Boss Ca hills convention and hand-picked dele gation" a place on the state central committee of which he was for years the chief. He will, according to the program, go back as a common mem Der representing the Tenth Senator ial district. But that is only the en- tering wedge and he can point with pride to the fact that MT. Spellacy was also put on the state committee as district member from Hartford some time in December so he will not lack company in defeated gubernator- ial nominees who went down to de- feat because the leaders of the party did not turn in a democratic victory. Spellacy had that experience in 1918, and FitzGera1d was state chairman at the time Hell -Roarin' Bill Palmer of Oxford really acted as state chair man at that time and rolled up such democratic vote that MT. Spellacy nearly defeated the governor in war time. Had the arrnistice come few days earlier he probably would have done it at that and MT FitzGerald gotten the credit
 1 According to the plan said to be in the works, MT. FitzGera1d does not aspire to be state chairman again but would succee dMr. Cummings as na- tional committeeman from this state. If he can do that at this coming con- vention it would be but a step to con- trol the convention in the fall and then Boss Cahi1l or some one close to the combine would be slid in as state chairman and everything would be lovely and the political goose of Cummings, Spellacy, Yoemans and the others hanging high.
 1 Mayor FitzGerald in his speech on Tuesday night referred to the citeis turning in the democratic vote but had evidently forgotten what happened in Bridgeport when MT. Spellacy was tn enominee and the democratic or ganization of that city was not only ignored but actually snubbed by the state central committee. It became necessary for MT. Spellacy to send his own representative, former Mayor Ig- natius Sullivan, to start things in the Park City. He succeeded in patching u pthe differences mad Bridgeport gave
 MT. Spellacy vote that had it been sought earlier would have been doubled and might. have actually elect ed him governor. That without any aid from the state central committee office staff and friends who were roll ing down thousands of dollars worth of dinners at headquarters in the Hotel Garde in New Haven while the small towns were rolling up the vote