Daily Republican., 1880-05-07
DELAWARE RxpUBLIcANs.

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gatos TO ChicaGO.
Tire political leaders arrsyed against
each other in the Republican State Con.
vention, OF Dover, yesterday, undoubt'
eddy met foemsu worthy OF their steel.
Whether at the same tiyle they eXpe
r.encsd that stern joy which is attribu-
ted to warriors under similar oirouin-
stances is another question. From first
to last it was drawn battle, and the
opposing factions standing against each
other in unyieldirg opposition, fought
for six hours, and every inch that was
lost or gained, ,as the case might be, was
secured through the most stubborn de-.
termination.
1t was faction light which apparent
ly had its birth in New Castle County.
GA one side was Anthony Higgins, Esq.,
as the leader, aud the chieftain of the
other clan was Levi c. Bird, Esq. All
had been harmonious in the party ranks
until very recently when this difference
made .ts appearance. The opposition
TO the regular party leaders was not
thought ~ be very strong in New Cas-
tie County and the Higgins faction were
confident that they had secured hard.
some majority of the delegates, in both
Wilmington and the country hundreds.
Counting upon much support in Sussex
of which they felt confident, they went
to Dover yesterday with assurances Of
success.
Affairs assumed = different aspect
when the train leaving here at 3 Is
o'clock reached Dover yesterday. This
train bore all the delegates and possibly
twenty. five or fifty interested outsiders.
In the crowd were Mr.. Higgins, and
his assistants, including Messrs. H. y.
Pickels, II. c. McLear, George W. Bush,
George W. Stone, Washington Hastings,
Postmaster Pyle and othere; and Mr.
Bird, and his supporters, the leaders of
whom were U. s. Marshal McMullin,
James l.. Hawkins, George H. P. Sim
mons and z. C. Fraim. 10 the Higgins
men it soon became apparent that COM
binations had been formed against them
the extent Of which they had not ex-
pected. The Kent and Sussex delegates
were already OH the field and all the
preliminary manipulations Of political
convention were apparent.
THE CAUCUSING.
NEW CASTLE AND SUSSEX SPLIT UP BUT
KENT SOLID.
The matters usually settled in eau
Gus were as general thing left to the
decision of the unsettled convention. In
this respect the result was wholly un-
expected, es many had been sure that
the result could he toreshadowed by
the action OF the division conventions.
AS it was every one was more at sea
than before.
THR KENT Caucus,
Kent held her caucus early. BY the
time the New Castle folks put in an
appearance everything had been
smooth ed over and the usual news that
Kent was solid one way or other met
the WiImingtonians at tho depot. The
caucus was quiet and brief. The result
but confirmed the impression that had !
heretofore existed, that Kent was favor
able to the Bird side. The delegates
decided in favor Of N. B. Snithsrs, Eiq.
and Major James L. Loaand for dole
gates TO the National Convention and
unanimously selected George 7. Fisher,
Ksq., aS permanent chairman of the
convention. The former action stood
but before the convention met, Mr.. |.
N. Mills, said to be friend OF Mr.. Bird,
was selected instead of NJ. Fisher for
the place Of presiding officer. And so
Kent went into the Conven tion united
to man, with her chairman instructed
to cast her solid forty votes for the man
selected.
THE NEW CASTLE CAUCUS.
The New Castle caucus met at
o'clock. II was a most exciting meet
ing. Mr.. S. Hersey called the delegates
to order, but was objected to as chair.
man Of the caucns by the Bird men.
This was sustained after much
trouble and Allen Smith of Wilmington
elected chairman.
An effort was at once made to
take the Ninth Ward contested dele
gate election case up and Mr. Bird ,
moved the appointing of a committee
on credentials. The committee was ap- ,
pt inted, but for some reason took no
action. Finally after much discussion ,
Mr. Pickles moved that the caucus go ,
into nomination and elect delegates
10 Chicago. The chair decided this ,
motion out of order. Amid excitementl ,
Mr.. Pickles appealed from this decision
which was sustained. This was a VIC =
:ory by the Higgins men, as they had ;
/ majority. The men put into nomina.
lion as delegates we're Christian II bi-
ger nd!Lewis: Thompson of Wilmington, !,
Levi G. Clark and George l.. Townsend. q
None of them were decided upon, and 4
he caucus adjourned in disorder at a E
ew minutes past 2 o'clock, the hour >
or the convention to meet.
THE sUssRX CAUCUS. a
The Sussex caucus was in session for ,
IN hour and half and chiefly csnsid- :,
red the question Of delegates to the =
National Convention. The eandi iates
'ut in nomination we're d. J. Layton,
Albert Curry, Ben amin Burton, w. J. U
stewart and Marx Ii. Davis. D. J. Lay y
on and Albert Curry were elected dele
'ates, and Mark II. Davis and W. J. y
'tswart alternates. A vote was taken u
n the caucus by way of fealer in the Il
action fight, which resulted in vote 81
+ "a to is for Higgins. "
THE CONVENTION. c,
THREE HANDED GAME IN WHICH kent
HOLDS THE JOKER. u
1t was in this condition that the dele
ptas wapt into th. Cnuuant;on K.uX 70