Peninsular news and advertiser. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1872-1904, 1876-05-26

David w. Moore, of Laurel who had
stood firmly with the majority of the
delegates.
The delegates to Cincinnati were then
reported and ratified, no further obiec-
tion being made to SusseX's choice. The
delegates are:
New Castle-James Scott and Richard
E. Smith, with Levi ]. Coppin and j.
Henry Hoffecker as alternates; Kent
John H. Hoffecker and James r. Lof-
land. with John 7. Jakes and John
Downham, as alternates; Sussex-Eli r.
Sharp and David w. Moore, with Jacob
Moore and Daniel ]. Layton as alternates.
Levi q. Bird moved that the President
of the Convention be authorized to APP
point State Committee. ID. j. Layton
declared this unusual; that the proper
time to do it was at the nominating con-
Yention. The motion was adopted.
Cheers were then given by portion of
the delegates for Mr.. II. F. Pickles, and
for Mr.. Blaine, and it adjourned.
Associated Press despatch to N. Y. .Pnpers.l
The last resolution came near causing
serious time in the Convention, it be-
ing thrown at DR.. j. S. Prettyman, Uni
leu DldLeS OOlltCIOI, VIII Was hilOWn W
be the choice of the Sussex delegation
caucus for delegate to Cincinnati. The
delegation from Sussex threatened to
withdraw from the Convention, but
were finally persuaded to remain, ID. W.
Moore being accepted in DR.. Prettyman's
place. DR.. Prettyman is Bristow man;
hence the objection.
Especial despatch to Ne,o York Tines.l
l,os - D.s aNN NJ,
castle county did not vote on this resOlu-
tion, having left the Convention. A
sharp contest then took place over an
other resolution declaring that no Fed
eral officehOlder should be delegate, the
object being to exclude DR.. Prettyman,
| United States Collector, who had been
named as delegate by majority of the
Sussex county caucus, but who was sus-
pected of being less friendly to Blaine
than to Bristow. After u warm debate;
the resolution prevailed, but DIR. Pretty
mans friends insisted on their rights,
and the caucus named satisfactory SUBJ
stitute.
Wilmington Herald Democratic u
Mans inhumanity to man was never
better shown than when Mr.. Massey, at
the Dover Convention threw out his
hook for an office-holder and drew out
DR.. Prettyman. Years he had devoted
in patriotism to the party, the negro
had been cultivated by him rs a voter,
he had fought brave battles with the
Fishers and Harringtons in the same
army, and then to be treated thus. 1t
was the unkindest cut of all.
[Erery EUening independent. u
| If the men who controlled the Repub-
lican State. Convention yesterday are
after control of Federal patronage in this
State during the next administration
they risked a good deal on single card.
Mr.. Blaine may not be nominated, and
people, and is much more likely to be
defeated than some candidate who does
not attract the admiration and endorse
ment of such politicians as those gath
cred at Dover yesterday. In either event
we doubt if the position of a defeated
Congressman would carry with it suffi-
cheney of influence to pay for all that
the preliminaries to it have cost. If the
endorsement that Mr.. Blaine is getting
here and there throughout the country
come generally from conventions elected
by methods and composed of materials
like those of the convention in this State
which endorsed him yesterday, he has a
suspicious attraction for the worst ele-
| tllCnO III DOllbNso. l. llt 0lIll6 CIOWu blldl
endorsed Blaine yesterday at Dover. be-
fore the last Presidential campaign en-
dorsed ColfaX as the party's choice for
the Vice President. Well, ColfaX did
not get the nomination and the respect
able men of the party had good cause to
rejoice that he did not, afterwards.
[From the Wilmington Gazette Democratic. u
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. To
the surprise of the majority of the white
people of Wilmington, what las been
sneeringly termed the Ring" led by
gentlemen guilty of such bold acts of
fraud that the word "dirtiness'' is re-
sorted to by the chief organ of their party
as applicable to them. carried every
thing their own way in the Republican
Convention, in Dover yesterday, 18th
inst. Even DR.. John s. Prettyman, the
Internal Revenue Collector, and editor
of the PepinSular NelrS, who had been
INDUCING in silly, dirty little filings at
Messrs. Pickles, Gallagher, Febiger and
Baker, who are said to be here the lead
ers of the Ring, was unceremoniously
given to understand that he would not
be allowed to go to Cincinnati. So the
would-be United States Senator has to
take back seat at the dictum of the
Ring" and the ''niggers," whom he
helped to use as a ''club" upon Demo
Gratis now slap him in the face with their
! hands all besmered with ''dirtiness.'
The people of this State will now un,
derstand for themselves the vote of the
negroes in this city. They need no long.
er rely upon the Gazette to be convinced
that the negro votes influence the cleo
ton here. They are told this by the CHIEF
organ of the Republican party. AND
the same influence extends to the whole
State. The negro vote was as necessary
to Mr.. Blaine as it was to the Council
man of the eighth or the sixth Ward
without the negro vote Mr.. Blaine coulC
not have carried Delaware at the Gin
cinnati Convention. And it comes tt
this that only the negroes and about one
fifth of the whites will he represented il
that Convention. Bristow las 10 SHOW
in Delaware that is certain. The he
groes will not touch him. "Belknapery'
and 'Babcockery" rule the roost.
IFrom the Commercial.l
MANIPULATION OF THE STATE Con
vENTION. In the State Convention
yesterday, the same extraordinary au
thority was assumed by Mr.. Charles III
Gallagher that he usurped at the George
town Convention of 1874. In the latte
he assumed the power to rearrange tn,