The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-03
Politics
 -M Passing

USOGHS
 m about three minutes the Dem- ocratic State Convention in session at the New Haven Arena 0 week ago today elected Q slate Of 26 delegates to attend the national convention scheduled for July in Chicago. That was the meat and substance of the New Haven gathering. But for an hour or more prior to this action the convention had been bored py a regional dispute, one involving the i2th senatorial district, It became the business of the day, so important that Permanent Chairman Homer Cummings attempted to have roll- call vote on the two diSputing states of candidates for the State Central Committed But it was SO unimport- ant to the large New Haven, Hart ford, and Bridgeport delegations, spread across the front of the con- Vention hall, that they didn't vote once on the matter, not even when a show of hands was requested on { respective candidates, Delegates who gave up two days work to be present for the convention, endured all the formallticS of such meeting, were heard to mutter as the session re- cessed, What convention! Not like the good old days!
 Waterbury participated In the
 sectional scrap to the extent ot
 voting with the small minority that favored the election of the
 incumbent State Central Commit
 tee members--Gcrald Dlnnean
 and Mrs. Nora Henebry. It was .
 case of supporting . Naugatuck
 Valley native, for Mrs. Henebry is
 n former TOrringtOnite and Is
 married to . former Waterburian. ' Incidentally, Mayor John $. Mon-
 aRan's uncle, William Monagan ot
 Hamden, was also in the Dinnean-
 Henebry camp, additional reason
 for local support, which seemed to
 be Che malnStay when show Of
 hands was requested.
 Geography continues to bedevil Democratic Party leaders in their consideration of candidates for the state ticket. It was pointed out in this column recently that State Chairman John M. Dove and House Minority Leader T. Emmett Clarie were both regarded as active candi- dates for ofiice this fall. The former is reported to be eyeing his one time job of State Comptroller, while MT. Clarie has yen to run Tor Congressman-a -large. Both, how ever, are listed as residents Of Dan- ielson Now New Britain presents Senator John L. Sullivan as a con- gressional candidate in the First District and Lucien Maciora as an aspirant for his old job Of Con- gressman- large. And by the same token Waterbury has its Congress sional candidate in Attorney Mich- Ael v. Blansfleld and gubernatorial hopeful in J. Francis Smith.
 The method of computing the Democratic delegates to the na-
 tlonal convention mentioned in ! Politics In Passing several weeks ago was adopted last Saturday. not because of what appeared here but simply because 1t was the log ical way of doing 1t. The state was given 26 delegate seats at Chicago which meant that some division Of the IS votes had to be made. What
 more simple than to give two full . votes to each of the five congress SionaI districts, leaving eight votes . to he divided among sixteen dele gates, which indicated the sim- uleSt fraction Of alone a vote apiece. Each delegate in turn will designate an alternate, who will fiIl in at all sessions the delc- gate can't attend.
 Republican delegates to the na- tional convention will hold a dress rehearsal in Hartford today. They have been invited to reception in honor of the visit to this state Of Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, one of the white hopes of the COP in the coming presidential fray. Newspaper editors have also been invited to the meeting, which is HCIlGQulCu TUT ouoAtAOh hVAAAOA Aei hall. Although there are seats for 92 delegates in the Connecticut sec ton of the COP national convention hall. Chicago, indications now are that only 75 will attend from the state. Russell L. Patterson of Tor rington is in charge of arrange ments and has scheduled departure from New York on the Commodore Vanderbilt at APO p. m. Saturday, June 24. The train pulls into Chi cago at 9:20 a. m. the following morning and the convention is call ed to order on Monday The Stew ems Hotel will be the headquarters of the Connecticut delegation.
 Senator Albert Coles of Bridge port was apparently the only one at the Democratic State Central Committee meeting last week who thought that the party rules ought to be lived up to with regard to examination of the new commit tee. Public Works Director John M. Golden of New Haven recOm- mended that the newly-elected committee f0regO the duty of Or- ganixing until after the state con- VentiOn at which the candidates will be nominated. It's safe to say there were few objections to the Idea or thought behind it, but, as Eenator Coles, who is party secre- tary, pointed out the rules are specific on the point that in a presidential election year the new committee be named at the con- vention which elects national
 delegates and that within one week this committee meet to elect officers and effect other organiza- ton. With0Et even urging sus- pension of the rules the new com < mittee voted the New Haven re- quest following recessing of the convention.