The New Haven Union

REPUBLICAN FACTION HAS STARTED CAMPAIGN TO DEFEAT SENATOR BRANDEGEE FOR THE U. S. SENATE

Hartford Crowd Against United States Senator:
HILL AND BROOKER
THEY NOW APPEAR
"More Lazy than Useful"
Flung at Senator.

From an announcement in the Hartford Courant today, it would seem as if a powerful faction in the Republican party is to oppose the re-election of United States Senator Frank B. Brandegee. The next Legislature will choose Senator Brandegee or choose his successor.

The Courant's editorial is something of a "roast" on Brandegee, and it indicates that the "Courant crowd" in Hartford favors the elevation to the senatorship of Congressman E. J. Hill of the Fourth district.

Says the Courant:

"It is mighty interesting and welcome news this morning that Congressman Hill is out as a candidate for the United States senatorship. Mr. Hill himself has been called to Washington on his congressional duties, but he has a host of friends in the state,
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and no doubt from now on they will be busy.

"Everybody who passes judgment on our representation at Washington sets down Mr. Hill as its recognized leader. His district has just re-elected him by a plurality of about 14,000, or practically 50 per cent. more than any other congressman received and nearly a third of Taft's splendid vote in the whole state.

"Mr. Hill is an administration man. He and Mr. Brooker were chosen delegates to the Chicago convention when the state was bound to send only men who were for Taft. Mr. Brandegee was at that time predicting that Taft couldn't be elected, and therefore he was not of the delegation—and Hill was.

"Mr. Brandegee has had four years in Washington as the successor of Senator Platt, and what has he done with his time? On the night of his election, under the spur perhaps of disappointment that he had been preferred to George P. McLean, the Courant said that with all his personal attractiveness Mr. Brandegee was likely to prove more lazy than useful as a senator. We are not aware of any important vote of his in the Senate except that which killed in committee the measure on which Secretary Taft had set his heart.

"It would not be surprising to hear in a day or two that Mr. Brooker was also in the field. It is known that some of his close friends are urging him to let his name be used. Neither Hill nor Brooker would be four years in the Senate without a record. It is claimed that during the campaign the incoming Legislature has been all buttoned up for Mr. Brandegee, but we question whether this claim will hold. It is certain that his advocates have been exceedingly nervous at the possibility of anybody else getting into the canvass. Why should they feel so, if the state really wanted him sent back?

That is very hot stuff and it is expected to burn holes into the supports that Senator Brandegee's friends have erected for him. It looks now like another three-cornered fight among the Republicans in the next Legislature.

One story is that O. R. Fyler, who is given credit for being chief engineer of the Lilley campaign, is not shouting himself hoarse for Brandegee. However, Senator Brandegee has many friends in New Haven and other counties of the state and will not throw up his chances for the chances of the others by any means.