The daily gazette., 1880-09-03
FIRST EDITION..
Houston and Harmony F.!
But Il llarlnO y That Will Not
Carry the Election
The Republican Convention Gets
Through Without a Fight,
OWinO fO me Abject SHbm issiOn
W ne county Conn WiTtee.
Fisher, Harrington and Bird Run
the Convention.
JUDGE HOUSTON NOMI MATED
BY ACCLAMATION.
JUDGE HOUSTON NOMINATED
BY ACCLAMATION.

DETAILS OF THE CONVENTION
THE SIXTH WARD CONTEST WAS DE-
cIDED - THE NOMINATIONS MADE
WITHOUT OPPOSITION, AND WITH
LOTS OF FRoTHy ENTHUSIASM.
DOVER, DEL, Sept. 2.-IIarmony
has been secured in the ranks of the
Republican party of Delaware, but
ut a fearful sacrifice the provisions be-
ing an unconditional and disgraceful
surrender of the County Committee
adhercnts to the triumphant follow
ers Of the Dover ring.
Such harmony is not of n kind cal
culated TO inspire hopes of party sue
cess and the sulking County Com
mittee contestants inwardly burn
and torture at the dictatorial terms
of the State Committee, which left
them no alternative save abject sub
mission or open revolt. Policy die
tated the rejection of the latter, and
the former was fairly crammed down
their unwilling throats by their inso-
lent opponents, who all along have
been ready and anxious for any
measure calculated to widen the
existing breach.
OF to-day's Convention, per sc, it
can be truly said it was harmonious
and enthusiastic but the harmony
was born of submission, and the
enthusiasm was more the Joyous
outburst of n triumphant faction
than the spontaneous rejOicings Of
a confident party. From the first it
was evident that the State Com
mittce was going TO have its own
way or fight, and the County Com
mittee simply submitted in order to
| avoid an open rupture.
Though the State Committee ad-
herents in the New Castle County
delegation were in n minority, they
came prepared to do every bidding
| of the Dover ring, and the presence
among their followers Of about a
dozen of the biggest rowdies and
ruilians of Wilmington indicated
that if shoulder-hitting was neces-
sary for the success of their plans,
| It should he forthcoming. On this
| account the County Committee dele
gates, with wholesome fear OF
| bloody noses and broken heads, de-
cided not to go into caucus, and for
the first time in many years the
New Castle County delegation went
into Convention without an attempt
to map out their plan Of action in
advance. The result of this fear on
the part of the County Committee
is seen in the formation of the Con.
vention Committees for New Castle
County, which contain scarcely one
real representative of the men who
composed majority of the delega
ton. Kent and Sussex held the
usual caucuses, and attended to the
preliminary work, but the com
mittees for New Castle were pre-
pared by the Dover ring.
Levi Bird and Harry McMulleI
came into the Convention, a.
proxies, but |. n. Mills, Dicl
iIarring ton and Judge Fisher were
present as regularly accredited dele
! gates from Kent County. Straneel,
enough, the selection 0f Levi Bir'
, as permanent chairman was oppose'
; by Isaac Mills, and as a compromis
it was agreed his name should b,
| presented for the position solely ol
: the condition that at the proper tim
| he should decline the proflere'
, honor "for the sake of harmony.
! Levi assented to this proposition
| 4 g,;,hG,,lI norrip1 IL OIIf
. Several times during the Conventio
e climax was so iminent that IA singl
: incendiary word would have precipitate
y decided row. But with "A remarkabl
/ degree of fortitude the County Commit
q tee manfully swallowed the nauseatin
- dose of complete submission, and accepl
ed their disgrarcful surrender without
/ word of loud monJhed protest. Eve
a roIl-cal was not demanded by th
i trucking IN nOrity, though 1t was ey
y dent that an aye or nay vote woul
u have shown the exact aud nearly cqui
C strength of the factions, and possibly &
ven the County Committee control
II the Convention. The unanimous choit
n of the Congressional and Electoral tlcl
Il cts indicated nothing beyond the Ia
~ that these were points that did not eht'
into the principles over which tney div
= ded. and were held secondary to u
b" great question as to whether or not IL
State Central Committee should be su
- tanned.
Us As soon as the Convention was ov
s. hos. lies Nere rene we'd, and e bic
III erinss became 50 ardent among u
c. County Committee men That an OPT
ry Gobt was Narrowly escaped. They q
n c1sed each 9th oI coward ce, aud t
opposition oftlraehery all the way u
The din IN some of the cars during t
e up trip va, lghful, and as intenslti
p Inv the sinein AID " ling of the Sta
by Commuters Wilmington II ughs, one
ne whom stole a chicken in nover, and c.
ried il home under his arm.
.es The Diet .ied procee'lin-s OF the W
80 ,,,ll ha faunI