Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, January 21, 1930. As the time for election approached Hawley and his friends got wind of the fact that under-surface work was going on to assure re-election of General Ferry, however the republican caucus might result. The Courant carried an article describing the situation and claiming two-thirds to three-quarters of the republicans in the legislature were for Hawley and giving recognition to the fact that there was talk of a republican bolt and coalition with the democrats for the benefit of Ferry. According to the article, Ferry had denied this for a time and on May 4th Hawley wrote to him directly, asking as to the truth of the reports. Ferry did not answer and told Julius Strong, congressman from the First district, that he had nothing to say.

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