Show BOURBONS IN HARD FIGHTS 19 second Session Finds Party i Undecided on Three Senate C Choices f B Br By Pun EASTERN STERN POINT PINT Conn Sept 8 8 A A. three cornered contest for the thc United States senatorial l nomination engrossed grossed delegates today as they convened for lor the second session of 4 n Democratic state convention L. L M Meanwhile while with two party party groups I remaining firm on their choices s for forr r f large at the name ol of Gene ne Tunney was discussed as a pos pos- sible ible com compromise promise candidate The retired re reo tired heavyweight champion was not tt t the tIe convention He Ie has Iha said he would not be a candidate for or office this year Leaders of or the new guard which tempted attempted to th bind the states state's delegation tion to the national convention to support sup sup port rt Governor Roosevelt for for- president president of firm in remained support d dent nt Professor Harry Harr Morgan Ayres of Westport a member of the Columbia Columb a u faculty for senator at a conference last night OLD FIRM FIRl Standing by their endorsement of Mayor Maor Francis T. T Maloney of Men Merl den the old guard Alfred E. E Smith to their supporters prepared carry fight to the floor The third candidate Augustine Loner- Loner was as Representative ReP L tan gao of Hartford who has votes pledged to him Governor Wilbur L. L Cross is sure of Representative Mrs Mary T T. New Norton of New Jersey was to address delegates the he today Robert P. P Butler of Hartford keynoter key rioter last night termed Hoovers Hoover's statement on on prohibition the most astounding proposal that has ever come from the lips Ups of a president He charged Republicans with at at- tempting empting to split the Democrats by trying to Alfred AUred E. E Smith Our Republican friends may not like Franklin Roosevelt he said They may nay not agree with him politically but ut the man does not live who can successfully challenge his moral and spiritual courage The convention today adopted a platform calling for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment modification of the act state aid for cities needing help in handling unemployment ment relief and a state fund for aid of closed banks and depositors The platform bearing the approval of Governor Wilb Wilbur r Ix h. Cross and adopted without debate also asked a state old age pension fund and unemployment insurance It praised the national ticket and commended the candidacy of the governor to the people peo pea pIe of the state Hoover to Open Campaign Soon WASHINGTON Sept 8 UP UP- UP President Hoover in all probability will vill deliver his first campaign address in n the next few weeks either at Boston or New York The presidents president's plans however for tor forthe the he entire campaign remain uncertain It t was was- reiterated that he would not take a maj major r part in the public side of the Republican party's efforts to reel reeled reelect ct him Republican chieftains in New York and New England have brought considerable pressure to bear bearo to o get him to open his brief bric part in inthe inthe inthe the campaign in that area Senator Watson Rep Ind md said after a lengthy conference with the president late yesterday that he believed be be- Mr Hoover would deliver at least cast three speeches in the east one onen in n the middle west and one in the far west It was doubted in administration circles however that the chief executive executive ex would go beyond the Mississippi Miss Miss- valley He canceled his planned trip to open the Olympic games at Los at-Los Los Angeles last month and ando to o accept his nomination at Palo Alto because Because of the pressure of state af- af fairs and airs and it was pointed out it would hardly be politic now to make the thelong thelong long ong journey solely to appeal to the far west electorate for support Hence it appeared appeared as as reported month last ast month by bv the thc United Press that Press that Mr Hoovers Hoover's political appeals will will willbe be confined to speeches in the east cast and middle west Aside from New York and Bost Boston n it was believed he would appear at Chicago and possibly in St St. Louis Mo |