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

the actioA5 tthe caucus was so arbitrary
and the control If Gallagher and the Will
miDgton deleci.tes so evident that it was
only degradation to remain.
The second re solution caused hot and
protracte6 dehate. AS soon as it had
been readHand before the decision to
consider tie resolutions seridtinl, DIR. j.
s. Prettyman rose and said its evident
object was{o oyerrule the caucus action
Of Sussex chunty. 1t was blow aimed
at him. He had known that ever since
the Sussex delegate election had become
known as bslNg FAVORABLE to his election
as one Of tnsdelegates to Cincinnati the
scheme had beeR-enfoot, but he did ex-
pect it to be developed in a more manly
and honorable manner. 1t had been the
custom for many years for the counties
to indicate their choice, and their desires
had been respected. He spoke very
earnestly, and was warmly applauded on
the Sussex side of the house.
George V. Massey defended the resolu-
ton. He claimed that it could not have
aimed at DR.. Prettyman, as it had not
been drawn by the Committee, but was
handed to them by an outside party. But
at any rate it had come to he understood
that the United States officials every
where were being used to defeat Blaine,
who was the choice of the people, and in
this Centennial year the people must
and would be heard. Mr.. Massey spoke
very loudly, and Jim Hawkins and 9th
ers, including an intoxicated young man
on the 'front.' bench, who was subse-
| quently detected pers0nating delegates,
after voting three times on the roll call,
made great demonstrations of applause.
DIR. Prettyman again spoke. He said
the caucus was perfectly straight-for-
ward, and him1sN and Mr.. Sharp had
been selected by "a fair vote in the usual
manner. He had no desire to go as
delegate to Cincinnati, but he did Insist
that the preferences of Sussex county
should be respected. He denounced the
attempt to override it as arbitrary, tyr
annical, and unfair.
| w. G.. Caulk, of New Castle county,
urged that the Convention respect the
| wishes of Sussex county. To over-rule
the majority, he said, was to fly precisely
| in the face of the ''voice of the majority
of people," for which Mr.. Massey had
so loudly commended.
| John W. Morley, of Cedar Creek, Sus-
sex county, made an earnest appeal to
the Convention to act justly and fairly
by Sussex county. He had been a SOL
der for the Union, and had known how
firmly and steadily Or. 2 rettyman, 1.-THE
| WdI-nOISo VI hcploilcdniSui ~ puooOA,
had stood by the Union and 10y the prin-
ciples of the party.
Levi q. Bird said he did not know
that the resolution was aimed at DR..
Prettyman. The people would rather
men should 90 tn-.Cincinnati "untram-
meled by Office" There had been "a
bitter and malignant contest in Will
mington, unprecedented in the history
of the State and it was part of the con-
test that no office-holder should go to
Cincinnati. He said the delegates from
Sussex county were made up by Federal
office-holders, and without them there
would have been no expression of the
county caucus in Prettyman's favor.
Mr.. Bird spoke quite vehemently, and
was loudly applauded by the Wilmington
delegates.
Mr.. Morley, of Sussex, protested against
the imputations thrown upon the man
ner of DR.. Prettypan's election by the
caucus, when George W. Josephs, U. s.
mail agent on the Junction and Break
water Railroad, took the floor with APP
parent intense excitfment. He had been
defeated as a delegate from Lewes and
Rehoboth, but got in in an Indian River
Vacancy He said the delegates from
Lewes and Rehoboth had been set up by
a Pennsylvania officesholder, (meanihg,
III was uuutIsbOou, MAYOR MOTIFS, Cne
special u. s. Treasury agent who had
come into the stRao t ghjurtSaettGTs EN-
than himself, on the pretence of discov-
ering frauds. This person had poisoned
the minds of the cOlOred people of the
hundred against him. He appealed to
Rev. Mr.. johnson, (cOlOred delegate, the
only one from Sussex, and the first ever
sent by that county, il this was not So
DR.. III. r. Burton, of Lewes, said it was
totally false that the Pennsylvania Off
cial had controlled the Lewes and Reho-
both election. He had not interfered in
any way. The election was perfectly
fair. and the delegates were the choice
of the voters Of the hundred.
Rev. Mr.. johnson then took the floor,
and in spite of several Interruptions by
Wilmington delegates, proceeded. His
statements were extremely severe on
Josephs, who, he said, had come to him
asking him and theother colored Repub.
licans of Lewes and Reboboth, (there
are, he said, 260 Republican votes in the
hundred, of whom ISL are colored,) to
support him, (Jossphs.) Mr.. johnson
replied that the colored men were enti-
tied to delegate, and he would take no
| part if this was refdsed. Josephs refused
to put one on, but the ticket friendly to
DIR. Prettyman did take one, lin whose
| pidCo MI. JOllIoOn came, ana therefore
he supported it. He denied that Josephs
was the friend of the colored men, and
said he had been denouncing him John
SOM as IA negro delegate" &C., &C.,
coming up OH the cars.
Mr.. Josephs did not reply.
The vote then being taken by yeas and
nays upon the adoption of the resolution
to exclude Prettyman, it was suggested
that Sussex county be called first, and
her vote was 10 to IL against it, but New
Castle and Kent voted almost solidly for
it, VIM. G. Caulk and VIM. A .Hukill be-
ing alone among the noes of this county.
The total was 10S yeas to "a nays.
DIR. Prettyman then asked leave for
Sussex county to retire and agree upon
, new man, as he had been declared dis
} qualified by the resolution. A vote was
taken ON this and it was lost, the Will
mington delegates loudly voting no.
: Daniel j. LaytO of Sussex, now arose
,, and made an earnest and effective pro
.. Test against the action of the majority,
He claimed and commanded quiet
: hearing, and although Geo. z. Roberts
OF Wilmington, insisted ON points Of
ORDER" MIR. Layton proceeded, the Pres
! ldent, Mr.. Hayes, who had acted witt
,, courtesy and fairness, ruling that hi
should proceed, by consent of the Con
' vention. MIR. Layton reviewed, ener
!, getically and forcibly, the arbitrary man
ner in which the expressed desires of the
: Republicans Of his county had beer
, treated, and he declared that the prece