The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-12

nell Memorial. There were few re- criminations, few criticisms, and none at all of the verbal fireworks that might have been expected.
 MT. Pape might we'll have been thinking back to 1888, when he would have been the gubernatOrial nominee but for the lack of . proficient campaign organization. The nomination that year went to Raymond E. Baldwin of Strat- ford, who was elected few weeks later, defeated in 194O by Gov. Robert A. Hurley and was nOmi- mated for third time yesterday.
 Yesterday MT. Pape had the Or- ganization, but he just didn't have the votes. The bosses wanted none of him on the ticket and they made sure that he didn't get on.
 It was two weeks ago today that this column pointed out that the publisher was just being led on the slaughter. That's a bald way ot phrasing 1t, but that's just what it was.
 The easy promises, the smiling handshakeS that presumably meant convention votes were all forgotten yesterday when the party leader ship made it plain that it wanted no part of Brother Pape. Forgotten, too, were many of the favors that i had been done, pushed back into the background of memory with re- marks like "This is politics"
 It has been not too often that this pillar and its writer agreed with MT. Pape and his political views Gin fact, we still don't, but even his most caustic critic must I admit that he took his beating yesterday like 8 gentleman. In 1 stead of hearing 'T told you sO," he should be congratulated for be- ing able to take bitter dose with q smile. It certainly l couldn't have been very easy.
 The Republican convention was one of the most active in years, with hustle and hustle almost every l minute, but when it came to 8 showdown the majority of delegates just followed their instructions. Roraback may be gone but the leadership still pulls the strings. The party is just about back 1 where it was when it was "reorgan- ized" some years ago.
 Some convention recOllectiOns A weII-knOwn strategist greaning "There goes 10000 votes" when Clare BOothe Luce, the key noter, referred to ex-GOv. Bald- win as ''that good Yankee" To party stalwarts the word "Yankee" is one to be used only privately. Mrs. Luce trying to give the reporter an interview, only to be called away for conferences every few minutes The exuberant gentleman who, at dawn this morning, appointed himself phOne-answerer at the private cab company phone outside the Bond and thereafter informed all and sundry who called for taxiS that "This is war. It won't hurt you to walk" The usual convention uractice of trying to jam 30 or 40 people into 8 tiny cubbybOle of a room identified as somebody's srheaduuarters." The New York reporters falling to under stand why their Connecticut brethren weren't almost swOon- ing over Mrs. Luce's every word. N (Their copy, by the way, is lnak- ing Clare's campaign one Of na- tionaI interest.)
 The little guy running from room Co room, announcing Down with everyone. Me for governor" The elevator girls obviously wishing that 'the convention would enc soon. The fog that blanketec the road to Waterbury in the wee hours of yesterday morning, vir' .tually eliminating visibility. The stony stareS which some of the women delegates gave to Mrs. Luce s, A Litchfield county leader ex- plaining in frank and succinc phrases just why he doesn't lik' State Chairman Ken Bradley, ther repeating his monologue for eact new arrival in the room. .. Mayor Quigley of New Britain giving brilliant Seconding speech for MT Pape. The silence with which fellow delegates from LitchfielC county accepted the vote by young Judge Ebert Manchester of Win sted for Hadden.
 The surprise with which some ruraI delegates learned that a re- porter for a newspaper with Democratic editorial leanings doesn't necessarily have horns. The statement by Ken Brad ley that he was maintaining a hands off" policy in the contest ! for Ileutenant-gOvernOr. The early morning news that 1t was sfn the bag" for Hadden, some thing the Pape camp refused to believe. The request by At- tOrney- General Frank PaIiotti to be remembered to his friends in Waterbury. The anti-climax in the nominating speech for Mir. Baldwin when the perspiring orator, after . big bulld-up. an- nounced that he was offering the ex-goyerneF in nomination in the name of the home town. the state, the country, the Republican party, and lf0F the awful let' d0wnl the Minute Men. tThe Minute Men gre . group Of cock hatlad OId-line Republicans whe like pmFades,l ... The postponed luncheon s'recess" that almost pus .Jee Talbot on the spot
 The statement 10 candidate Pap AS the ball0slng started, sit's all ee tor Madden" and hls TelolndeF, "t'n