The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-26
Democratic  .Highlights
By staR Reporterl

(By Stan Reporter)
 New Haven, Aug. 26.-Women of the Waterbury delegation were among the several hundred who staged wild demonstration at the Arena late Saturday to demand the nomination of Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, of New London, for sec retary of state. The demonstration began after reports came from high quarters that it had been decided to nominate man for the post. P. s. When the demonstration end- ed, the leaders were only too willing to concede Mrs. Woodhcuse the nomination.
 Ex-Town Chairman Joe Mulville was beaming when the Hurley nom- ination became certain during the rolI-call. "This is a big moment for me-" he said.
 Mulville had opposed the organ izati0n, which favored Cross for the nomination, by backing Hurley.
 By the time the roll call vote for the gubernatorial nomination had reached Waterbury, Hurley's vote was well beyond the majority, but Mayor Scully, the delegation chair man, said firmly: "Waterbury casts Al votes for Wilbur L. Cross" Even the Hurley packers joined in the cheer that followed.
 The motion that Hurley's nomi- nation be made unanimous was made by J. Francis Smith, who yielded the convention chairmanship momentariIy to his successor as state chairman, John T. Mccarthy. The motion for a unanimous vote, said MT. Smith, was being made "as part of a great Democratic tradi- ton in Connecticut"
 Senator George T. Culhane, a leading Hurley supporter in Water bury, spent several minutes at the platform before the voting started. He was elated at Hurley's victory.
 The name of City Clerk Anthony w. Telesca of Torrington was not offered from the floor, though he had won the endorsement of Litch- field County for the nomination for state controller. Also unmentiOned was the name of w. Harry Byrnes, of Watertown, who had also an- nounced his candidacy for the con- troller nomination.
 Among the most enthusiastic of the women delegates from Water bury was Mrs. Anna Shea. It was Mrs. Shea who carried the Water bury delegations seat section mark CT in the parade of women to the platform just prior to the nomina- ton of Mrs. Chase Going Wood- house for Secretary of State. All the Waterbury women participated in this procession as well as the united stand made against the ef- forts of "Davy" FitzGerald and other Hurley leaders to keep wo- man of the state ticket.
 Claims that Democratic leaders from Waterbury put pressure on the delegates to keep them in line for Cross were far from the truth Mayor Vincent A. Scully told this writer that from the time he threw his support to Wilbur L. Cross until after the informal caucus at the Hotel Taft Saturday morning he never sought to find out from one single delegate whom they favored or whom they intended to vote for.
 Chairman Maurice F. Tangney of the Democratic Town Committee of Waterbury was on hand n New Ha- ven both Friday night and from Saturday noon on, although his brother was married Saturday morning and the popular chairman attended both the ceremony and the breakfast afterwards.
 Women Democrats of Waterbury, members of two local political clubs, were completely united on the nom- ination of Mrs. Chase Going Wood house.
 New Britain, with fairly large vote and one of the first large com- munities to be called in the Cross Hurley poll, passed in the roll-can. When called at the end of the roll, with Hurley already nominated, it voted for Hurley under the unit rule and got lot of booing for so doing.
 Congressman J. Joseph Smith,
 of Waterbury, who will be a candi-
 date for renomination and reelec-
 ti0n this fall, won tribute from
 x-C0ngressman William Eitz- gerald, of Norwich, during the lat
 ter's speech seconding the nom-
 ination of Wilbur L. Cross at New
 Haven Saturday.
 'sThe President needs Joe Smith
 down in Washington" said Fitz-
 gerald, who is now Mayor of Nor
 wich, land it's up to the Demo-
 crats to send him back there."
 Congressman Smith and his sec
 retary, Joseph ' Donahue, were
 convention spectators Friday and