The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-24
Politics
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Senator if efforts are to be reward Nd. No one, not even ex-Finance Commissioner Lewis Phelps (anxious Ror the gubernatorial nomination), !, Inns gone to the extremes that he has to corral delegate strength. And ne has only begun to show his strength. shortly, If he hasn't al- ready started, he will tour the state In an effort to visit all the state convention delegates and party lead- CTS. With him will probably be Homer s. Cummings. And that's iust one phase of his campaign. Last week 1t was mentioned that he had added a newspaper, the South Norwalk Sentinel, to his possessions. In newspaper circles it had been ru- nored that the Sentinel and Nor walk Hour were about to combine, but MT. McNfahon, with the aid Of A good friend in the syndicate world (so the runor still goes) step- ped in quickly and got the Senti- mel. Some of this syndicate money is reported to be interested in Con necticut radio stations, too, if this is SO then the McMahon forces will be in a strong position to carry the day at Hartford when the delegates must pick the candidates on the state and national ticket.
 | The recent retirement of Mi-
 chael Slavin as Deputy Registrar
 brought up the subject of length
 of service with the city. There
 gre many people on the city pay
 roll who have worked for the va ' rious departments for years. Some , thought Mike" was the oldest
 eKnplOye in point of service, but
 there are a few who started be-
 fore him and who still continue
 to give service. Dr. Thomas J. i COndOn. Supt. of Schools, would
 naturally be one of these, for he has been an educator since the
 beginning of the century. This
 columns guess Is that both City
 Engineer Charles A. Root and
 Plumbing Inspector James R.
 Walker both have been with the
 city for longer periods of time.
 Checking up on Democratic al- ternates to the national convention the list as presently compiled reads something like this: Senator Al Coles of Bridgeport for Connie" Mulvihill; Motor Vehicle Inspector John T. Mccarthy for Homer s, Cummings; Col. Thomas Hewes for ex-governor Wilbur L. Cross Frank Madden for ex-governor Hurley; Al Donahue for Max Spoke; Edward Kirby of Derby for Michael Sheehy; Judge Charles Mahoney for J. Francis Smith; Llewellyn Ross for Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse; John M. Bailey for Jerome Kohn of Hart ford; Maurice T, Healey for Mayor John s. Monagan; D. T, Earring ton, Jr., for Mrs. Nellie Hayden; Leonard O. Ryan, Middletown Pro- bate Judge for John Tynan; and Atty. David Richman for Dave Mo- Coy, New Haven Town Chairman. That's only about half Of the list.
 Injection of the name of Gov,
 Raymond E. Baldwin into the na-
 ti0nal limelight at the COP Chi
 cagO convention is not just bow
 1h his direction by the Connects
 cut delegates. While they are ap- parently lined up pretty strongly
 for Gov. Thomas Dewey of New
 York, there have been many rumbies of dissatisfaction with
 Gov Dewey in other sections of
 the country of recent weeks. At
 the recent conference of governors In Pennsylvania, as related by
 Drew Pearson, the New York eXe- cutive lost considerable caste by
 his criticism of the arrangements
 made for entertainment by the
 Keystone State host. So if the
 Dewey stock starts to sink and
 that of Gov. Bricker of Ohio. for
 example, starts to rise, what's to
 prevent a drive by the East for
 representation on the ticket in
 the person of Connecticut's gover-
 nor. Which may explain. in some
 part why the COP of this state
 is keeping it's finger on Congress
 man "JOe" Talbot of the Nauga-
 tuck Valley and not overlooking
 his potentialities as a guberna-
 tOrial prospect.
 The dispatch with which Demo- crats run conventions in Waterbury makes many an oldtimer shake his head sadly. Conventions today aren't what they used to be is usual- ly the stock expression. Last We'd nesday night the Democrats ran off three conventions in about thirty minutes. They were cut-and-dried, but that was to be expected in at least two instances. Where there has been primary fight for con- trol of convention delegates, the successful ticket can only go in one direction. That happened at the 18th senatorial convention, where delegates virtually pledged to Pa- trick J. Wallace met and speedily gave him formal nomination. In the case of ex-senator Edward P. Egan he was the only avowed can- didate in the 18th district so these delegates, unopposed at the prim- ary. proceeded to name him. Where There are no contests, there need be no delay or pause in carrying on fhe business of convention, which liter all is to make nominations.
 The feeling seems to be spread
 ing in Waterbury, at least, that
 J. Francis Smith will not become
 a candidate for the gubernatOrial nomination. While the local lead
 CT stiII remains silent to all queS-
 tiOns about his plans, political Ob- servers think that if he really in- tended to be an active candidate
 he would have entered the field by this time. However. there re- mains the possibility that Mir.
 Smith might be persuaded to in-
 ferpose himself between some oth-
 CT candidate and the actual nOm-
 nation In an effort to keep the
 Democratic Party of Connecticut