Putnam patriot., 1924-09-26
Hartford. september l0.

Hartford, September i9.
 The Democratic state convention ln shis city last week did what 1t was old to do. The proceedings were an object lesson iu the autocracy Of leadership and in the submissive com. ollance of followers The head of Che ticket was selected at confer ence between four or five leaders in Bridgeport two or three days before the convention met and delegates were left nothing else Co do but ratify the selection
 There K nothing in this statement intended to imply anything deroga- tory to Mir. Morris the candidate for governor. In many respects, fl not in all respects. Mir. Morris is the best candidate who could have been chos- en. His personal character is pre- eminently respectable and his integ- rity Is too well established to be doubted. But his nomination was dictated. He wns SO little known to the delegates that Delegate Farnham of Torrington found it necessary to ask that Mir. Morris be brought to the platform "as many of the delegates had never seen him. to quote the precise language of the delegate from Torrington.
 That remark emphasized the fact that Mir. Morris was hand picked and that his nomination was not in response to the spontaneous demand of the Democrats of the state.
 The Republican organization of the state should not assume from the circumstances of his nomination Al -I.s.Ms@ s,s4fN Ha saFsauk fQFGf. date before the people. In his per sonal characteristics he has elements of strength which will make his can didacy formidable The beiittling of his possible strength may boguile the Republicans into an attitude of over confidence that would be fatal to the state ticket on election day. There is one or two weak spots in tine Re publican situation. One of them IS New Haven where there Is faction feui. The condition in New Haven should not be neslected.
 OSullivan's Keynote Speech
 In some respects the keynote speech of Congressman r E. 0Sullivan wa delightfully."- refreshing. He avoided the nlincing of words with a freedom that made some of the Democratic leaders look aghast. He had his own message to the convention and to the voters of the state to deliver and he delivered 1t without the slightest re- gard to the disturbed feelings of the bosses of the Democratic party. When he said sI am as convinced of the personal honesty of Calvin Coo idee as I am of the existence of God" he showed that the political effect of statement would not deter him from making it. If the leaders had thought that some one had furnished the elo- quent and courageous young con gressman from the Fifth District with an advance copy of the Republi- can campaign book 1t would be no surprise The leaders stared disap- l pravingIv at Mir. O'Sullivan when he thundered that the national eonven- i ton in New York had made "a colossal hlundeG" in is solution of one of the most important questions | before it.
 IL is not certain that Mir. O'Sulh. van noticed the expression of dismay on the faces of the leaders of his party but fl he did the expression did not deter him lt is doubtful if ever, in tha history of Democratic state conventions, a temporary chairman 1 has been so outspoken and SO fear lessly candid When the convention l closed some of the delegates, who had an exaggerated idea Of the political acumen of political lenders. regretted l that the manuscript of Mir. OSulli. van had not been submitted to an adept in the cautious use of the blue pencil. But MT. O'Sullivan came out i of the convention with higher | character. He did not make bid for the approval of the leaders. He did his own thinking and he spoke his own thoughts in his own way.
 Mr Bingham's Candidacy
 Lieutenant Governor Hiram Bing
 ham. the Republican candidate foi governor. made notable and effec tive speech at the big Re1n hlicau ga thering in East Hampton last Satur
 dav. He very properly ma le stat, affairs the burden of his speech. He
 discussed them with an intelligenes
 which impressed the large audience
 with sense of his nre-eminent fit.
 ness for the high office to which he aspires
 He had an unanswerahle argument in the record made by the Republican party in it's control of state affairs since 1915 when with Marcus II Hol- comb as governor it became dominant in the state. The finances of the state were disordered and the net debt was ,920.000. Today. owing to ! ths t-ro,V+b nf inc fnkinp fund the