Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-15

Thoroughly, tne DtmOCTath uhVlnR htbftcu
their ball last Saturday evening at Esquire
Brady 's Office in the Telegraph building.
The occasion was the reorganizing of the
City Democratic Association, which is the
first step toward organizing the party for
the September fight in the city. The
hour for meeting WAS s o'clock, and by
that time the room was As full IN comfort
would permit and hotter than comfort
could stand At 10 minutes past S, Es-
quire Brady, the retiring President, called
the meeting to order and stated that the
first business TO be attended TO was the Sc
lection of temporary officers This brought
Chief McIntire and Martin Farrell to their
feet with advice as to the rules, which,
they thought, provided that the retiring
President should act until the permanent
officers hac been selected. The rules were
not present, because retiring Secretary
Kenney had forgotten about the meeting
AN uNAusPIcIoUs OPENING.
In the absence of the rules and anybody
to back him up in his idea that there
should be a temporary President, Chair
man Brady proceeded to announce that q
temporary secretary would have to be
selected, whereupon a significant scene
followed
George Hepbron nominated James p.
Hayes but wasn't seconded. Mr.. Hayes
moved that Harry McIntire act tempo.
rarly and was seconded by Martin Farrell.
but when vote was taken "No No! No
resounded about the room like pack of
exploding fire crackers. Hepbron again
nominated Mr.. Hayes and was seconded
this time, but the ''noes" were as vocfer-
Gus as in the case of MIR. McIntire. Mr..
Hayes nominated ii. Il. Pennington, ESD,
who was greeted with the same negative
avalanche, though the reason could not be
given by any of the voters in either of the
nominations
Things looked ragged and'unproniising,
when Chairman Brady arose and asked
some of those. who had exercised their
lungs vigorously in yelling mo" to nomi-
nate man. There was no response to
this, however, and finally Michael Whelan
nominated William j. Morrow. against
whose name ouly three noes could be
counted, and he took the seat.
YOUR CHAIRMAN AM GLAD To DE.
Attention then turned to the organizs-
tion. Dennis Gallagher then moved that
committee of one from each ward be
appointed to select officers. Thomas
Mellon, however, amended by moving that
the meeting select the officers, which was
seconded by Farrell and accepted by
Gallagher, whereupon it passed the meet
ing unanimously.
Nominations being in order, Gallagher
nominated Martin Farrell and moved the
nominations close. The motion was not
put but no other nomination was made,
and Martin was elected by strong gi0a
00Ce vote, without vote in the negative.
The Chair appointed Gallagher, James
W. Ware and George Hepbron eom-
mittee to escort Farrell to the chair, which
was done and Squire Brady formally in
troduced him.
Farrell laid his hat upon The table and
and said:
FellOu Democrats IL thank you for the
honor that you have on this occasion con-
fcrred upon me. | thank you all the more
because it was wholly unsought for by me.
| shall do as near right as | can i'll all matters
pertaining to the success Of our party. There
are in this room many gentlemen who deserve
the honor you have conferred upon me, and
it affords me great satisfaction to say i'll the
opening of this campaign that if there was
any doubt in my mind about the position of
foreign born Democrats in the party, or any
fear of IL prejudice i'll favor of native born
Democrats, your action this evening has dis
PEELED it from my mind.
Then there was little applause.
GO AS YOU PLEASE.
Chairman Farrell then declared the
election of vice president III order,
whereupon the authorities on the rules
again proceeded to explain, some holding
that there should be one and others thai
| ihara ghnnlI he fun ptEpafu of tii.
description. The rules were not there,
though, and the Chair decided to have
only one second.
Councilman William IL. Blake was nom
mated and elected without opposition, anG
Messrs. Hayes, Pennington and Brady
appointed to escort him to his seat, which
they did, whereupon he made some re
marks 10 the effect that he was obliged t,
the meeting that he would do all in hi
power, like the President, to secure tn,
success OF the party, and that anything h,
could aid the CHAIR in he was willing I,
do. .-.. .....
BALLOT!
Then came the troublesome secretary
snip. Mr.. Wheian, encouraged by hi
success in the former difficulty, nominated
William J. Morrow; Depnis Gallaghe
nominated Frank McUloskty, who an
nounced that he could not serve, AM
somebody else nominated Il. Frarl
Townsend
: Chair-"There are two candidates TO
the office how shall it bs decided?'
"By ballot" cried strong lunged Dem
; ocrat, who was followed up by motto
to that effect and motion for u recess O
i've minutes in short order. Well, til
first motion was carried and Squire Brad
aud Tom Ford appointed tellers, witt
Representative Ware NJ clerk. The lns
motion was then carried aud the reces
was taken. Everybody remained in tn
room however, while Squire Brady nm
Dennis Gallagher tore up paper and handle
it around TO the assembled voters, VIII
wrote their choice upon it.
. At tho end of five minutes Farrell caltt
the meeting to order. Squire Brady pI
his hat on the desk and every body cam
up aud cast his ballot into the hat. 'rll
!, tellers then proceeded to count and III
nounced the following result Townsen
H. Morrow II; 'rowusend's majority 81
Farrell declared rown,end elected nm
:, Councilman NcGlincbey, Thomas Wells
:, and Thomas Murine escorted him to IL
: chair. MIR. Townsend expressed thank
a for the complimant-"onlyth this ard notl
lug more"
Il TIRE WARD VICE PRESIDENTS.
2 Next came the vice presidents to organ
9 izs meetings in the different wards. II
. Chair called the wards, and they propose
their men. Where more than one una
Il WAS proposed the representatives of IL
; ward retired and selected one of them.
The Fust ward asked for aud g
William Kyne.
The Second proposed Dennis j, Gd
D lagher aud Captain Joseph IL. Richard,
: retired, decided on Gallagher, ard Z,
y him. -..... .....
Tnird wnrd-James Monaghan.
Is William IL Brady.
Fifth--James Carmichael.
e Sixth-George o. Ward.
a Seventh-Samuel @. Pierce and Thoml
! Mellon the latter declined and Pier
"a was selected.
'e Eighth-Joseph S. Daley and Thorn
y Lynch Lynch declined and Daley W
Il taken.
Il Ninth-Thomas Rowe and George
:, Barnhill; Rowe wouldn't serve and Bar
! hill was chosen.
!, In the Tenth ward, Thomas Ford, Lou
as s P. Lynch and Dennis Mcguire decline
No No Allen Ruth was the man chosen.
lt scEIIANEoUs-NosTIY RULES.