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balloting that Lonergan was not to be
stopped.
Both Republican and Democratic
conventions have left their sore spots.
The rejection of the organization cam
didate, Butler, by the Democrats has
not tended to cement an organiza ton
already torn with internal dissention.
Many delegates, however, claim that
Lonergan will make a stronger race for
the Senate than Butler, had he been
nominated
Pallotti Left Out
The Republicans left off their ticket
this year Francis A. Pallotti Cath
Ollie and of Italian descent. Mr.. Pal
lotti was a candidate for lieutenant
governor. But the organization, headed
by K. Henry Roraback, decrecd the
nomination should go to Ernest E.
Rogers of New London. The Demo-
Gratis insist this was a tactical error
by the Republicans and feel that it
will lose the G. o. P. many Italian
voters. who, it is said, number 10000
or more in Connecticut.
Mr.. Pallotti, had he been nominated
and elected acknowledgement. would
have been in line for nomination for
governor two years hence, this the Re-
publican organization objected to, 1t is
said, and Pallotti was turned down
although he has served with credit as
secretary of State. Rogers, his sue
ceSsful opponent, is State treasurer.
The Republicans in their State plat
form declare for law enforcement" al
though their keynote speaker at the
State convention, Representative Schuy-
Ter Merritt, boldly announced ne re-
GREETED the stand taken by Mr.. Hoover
in opposition to the repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment.
The Democrats put through really
wet plank in their platform. although
they declared, too, for enforcement OF
the laws. The State platform measures
up to the ideas of Gov. Smith. on the
liquor question.
- See Fighting Chance.
Some Democratic leaders here fol
| the State convention, which completed
its Iabors today, frankly admit thai
they have little better than a f1ghtne
| chance to carry the State: that the odoS
| today are really against them. Bu
| they are taking their fighting chance
| in both hands and are moving to make
| the best of 1t, relying on the enthusi'
asm for Gov. Smith to Offset what they
lack in the matter of organization.
Most impartial observers here take
the view that the Republicans, witt
| their more perfect organization anC
| the voters on the tariff issue, have the
best of the race They say that the
4 Republican majority will be consider
| ably reduced this year. and that 1t viii
not run higher than $4,000. Some ol
| them put it as low at 10000. But In
the main they see Republican victory
! for various reasons.
/ Connecticut has been in the Repub
! lican column in national elections fol
years. President Coolidge had leae
over his Democratic opponent, John w
! Davis, in 1924, of approximately 1000
| votes. and over the combined Davis anc
Lafolette vote. of $4,000 votes. Presi'
| dent Harding four years earlier ran VI
! a lead of l09 900 votes over Cox, Demo
cratic nominee. Charles Evans Hughe;
carried the State against Presiden
Wilson in 1916 despite the "he kept u
out of war" slogan of the Democrats
by 1000 votes. Wilson won the Stat
in 1912, but by a much less vote thar
the combined vote of Taft and Roose
welt. the leaders of the Republican fac
tons that year Grover Cleveland II
1892 was the last Democrat to carry thu
State in a presidential election, and MI
Cleveland carried Connecticut in 1881
and in 1884 by very narrow margins
| Since Cleveland's day, the tariff iSsu'
of the Republicans has become increas
ingly more potent in Connecticut cleo
tions. for Connecticut. with its man.
manufacturing interests, has been es
| oo,otia1l1, hiUn tariff State
So strong has been the Republican
hold on the State that the State le-Es