The daily gazette., 1876-04-26
For the Delaware Gazette.
A Letter from samuel T0,Uusend,
CONCLUDED.

mr. JOHH " DyTne, our chairman OF
the committee of ten, instead OF re-
porting to convention in the court
house, that should in all decency have
been called, and taken action, before
these said delegates arrogated to them,
selves to draw off and make nomina.
tions for the county. O'Byrnc being
stranger, comparatively, and not
posted on the rascalities of Democratic
tricksters, of New Castle county, went
into the bogus delegate convention and
made his report for the committee of
ten; and that report was in favor of
nominating members of the Legisla-
ture and Levy Court by ballot, in the
several hundreds, and of course if ad-
opted by a county convention would
have elected every assumed delegate in
said room, for that report spoke for
the party Of the different hundreds be-
fore these delegates were appointed;
and the action of that committee of
ten were sacred, and of higher authori-
ty than the delegates, as 1t had emil
mated from an act of the first county
convention, held at New Castle, ON
the 9Th day Of June; but, as l have
stated, OByrne made his report to
those bogus delegates, and they, of
course, rejected his report drawn; for
if it was adopted, they, the bogus
delegates, knew they must walk out.
But these bogus delegates went furth-
er; they not only voted down o.
Byrne's report, but originated these
Rules that Mr.. Reynolds of the Trans.
cript has published; and among their
rascalities in said bogus convention,
repudiated the recommendation of
the said delegates from Appoquini-
mink hundred, and nominated fer us q
State Senator, who now lives in st.
Georges hundred, having lived about
one year and half in this hundred,
cut of the four years term of Senator ,
IL he fills 1t out. l have no objection
to the man, but to the reckless rascali.
fy OF the bogus delegate convention
nominating for our hundred.
Now, these last Rules of said bogus
convention, say that there shall be 55
delegates in the county-10 from Will
mington-that is from each Ward,
and o from each hundred. There is
now a new hundred, which must in
every particular in politics, as it is in
law, be the equal of every other hum
dred Of the county. We, of the old,
large Appsquinimink hundred, few
years ago, asked, and the Legislature
made two election districts, so that we
could the more surer get all the votes
In, in 1874. 1t was necessary to appor-
tion the delegates between the dis
tricts.
A good representation of leading,
active Democrats met at Black Bird
one afternoon; some proposed that the
meeting should assume the fern of
regular advertised meeting; | said no,
that there had been no notices put up,
and | myself, had only heard of the in
tended gathering the day or SO before,
and II such gathering Termed itself
into meeting, it could be said that
few tricksters had arrogated to them
selves to act for the two districts; l
therefore proposed that we should 90
ints room (there were about 20 to 25
persens) and talk over the matter; that
there would be 8 delegates to the State
convention and 5 to the county con-
vention, if it was not previously ar.
ranged, to make county nominations
by ballot, and delegates selected in
stead. 1t was agreed to with but one
dissenting voice, that northern Appo.
Quininink ought 10 have 2 delegates
to the State convention and to the
county convention; if it was thus de-
termined to send delegates, the upper
district 3, ard the southern district q;
and that we recommend all these dele
gates to both State and county, if it
was necessary to send them there,
should be elected by ballet. Certain
tricksters here, uuder the management
Of these Rule gentlemen in st. Georges
and other hundreds, advised the hold,
ing of meeting and the reputation
of the election of delegates by the dis
tricts, and therefore, there were two
sets of delegates from this hundred
We, in the new Appoquinimink hun
dred and the northern district elected
by ballot, on the day agreed on, our
portion of delegates, myself one of the
two from this district to the State con-
vention. When l got there, although
elected by probably four times as many
votes in one district, as the disorgan-
izcrs had at their meeting called for
both districts. My seat was contested
at Dover, and committee on creden.
tials appointed in the interest of in
triguers of this county. Mr. Tatman
and myself, although elected by bal
lot, by several times as many as these
bogus disorganizers had, were reported
against our taking seats in said con
ventien. l appealed from the decis-
ion Of the committee on credentials,
and the State Convention; the State
convention sustained us, and gave Mr..
Tatman and myself our seats, and thus
we supposed that would be precedent
for New Castle convention; but that
bogus delegate convention made NOM
ination for us. Some of the st.
Georges delegates were particularly
active.
Now, as stated when commenced,
1 have given long history of the
wrongs dsne to the masses, and | hope
truthful one. for l have no other in
terest, and l say to all it may concern,
that l have not been asleep. l have
since got the districts of Appeuuini.
mink hundred altered into indepen-
dent hundreds, with the same rights
as'other hundreds; that we in Apo
quinimink hundred, have no member