The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-17

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 All sorts of stories have been told about the reason for postponing or ganization of the new Democratic State Central Committee, elected at the recent convention held in New Haven. Under party laws this task should have been completed within one week from election of the com mittee. However on motion of Public Works Com. John M. Golden of New Haven the committee postponed election of chairman, vice-chalrman, etc, to the mid summer convention in Hartford. The reason offered, and its valid enough; was that the state ticket should be decided before com mittee officers were named who might not be acceptable to the heads of the ticket. It also has been point ed cut that State Chairman John M, Dove is anxious to go on the state ticket and he probably would mt want to have his chances curbed by getting himself reelected as party head, which certainly might put a damper on the former aspiration. Another story was to the effect that ex-chairman John T. Mccarthy, present able Motor Vehicle Depart Iaent head, pointed out that his term expires on June l, l94S, and he was particularly anxious to know 1T a Democratic candidate for govern or, favorable to his reappointment, would be named. The reasoning for this story isn't too clear, however
 Republicans are ready and anx-
 ions for the Chicago convention to
 get underway. While there isn't
 much doubt In the minds of the
 Connecticut delegates that Gov.
 Thomas E. Dewey will be the cam
 didate, there are other factors to
 Ae determined and decided. At one
 time the Connecticut delegation
 might have attempted favorite-
 son boom for Gov. Raymond E.
 Baldwin as the vice-presidential
 candidate. but that's hardly feas-
 ible with New York and COnnec-
 ticut nestling side by side. There
 has been talk that if Gov. Dewey
 were nominated he would want
 Gov. Baldwin to direct his cam
 paign, which might mean the
 stepping aside of National Chair
 man Harrison Spangler of Iowa.
 Mir. Spangler's resignation as
 chairman has been increasingly
 rumored of recent weeks.
 Nominating sessions by the Demo- crats will swing into action locally again next week. Two senatorial and one town convention are scheduled for "wednesday night. Nominees are pretty much determined in all in- stances. It will be Edward P. Egan in the 18th and Patrick J. Wallace in the 18th senatorial districts. Reps. Daniel J. Mahaney and John A. Membrino are assured of renomina- tion, likewise. Fifteen delegates and one alternate are eligible to sit at the senatorial meetings, while there win be 34 at the town. At the form CT the State Central Committeeman and woman preside, while the Town Chairman opens the Town Conven- tion. That means busy night for Maurice F. Tangney, who is both Town Chairman and Committee man from the 18th district He hopes to run the conventions off as effectively as were those in April When these conventions are over all Democrats have left are the probate, congressional, and state meetings.
 Former Judge Max Spelke of
 Stamford was the first DemOcra-
 tic delegate to the national con-
 vention to appoint his alternate,
 naming A. J. Donahue, also of
 Stamford. J. Francis Smith of this
 city this week designated Judge
 Charles Mah0ney of Windsor as
 his alternate. Mayor John s. Mon
 agan and Mrs. Nellie Hayden have
 not as yet indicated their choices sOthers slated to 60 as alternates
 arc Statute Revision Com. John
 M, Bailey of Hartford, Frank Mad den, party treasurer, and Senator
 Albert L. Coles of Bridgeport. As
 all three gre on the committee ar-
 ranging for the Chicago trip 1t
 would look kind of odd not to make them alternates.
 Twenty-Five years ago Wednesday, June IA, Homer s. Cummings was chairman of the Democratic Na- tionai Committee Clare Boothe A. A. Id