The daily gazette., 1880-08-19
FIFTH EDITION.
ANOTHER RADICAL RUMPUs.

MAKES MOVE THAT DOES NOT
PLEASE THE sILK-sTocKING .REPUB-
LIcANs.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee met in Dover, yesterday, with
a slim attendance, Dick Smith, ofMid-
dletown, being the only member pres
ent from this county. Even Mr..
Smiths presence failed to make
quorum, but the committee went
ahead and transacted business all the
same, although late in the afternoon
another member of the committee
dropped in and completed the neces-
sary quorum.
The committee decided to call the
Republican State Convention for the
nomination of candidates for Presi-
dental Electors and Representative in
Congress for tThursday, September 2,
at Dover. The committee further fla
ed upon Saturday, August 2S, az The
time for nominating delegates, and
decided that the inspectors of lection
instead of being appointed by ne
county executive committees, as has
generally been the custom, should be
chosen by the voters of the election
districts on the day of the election for
delegates.
This change from an old established
custom has kicked up II fearful rum
pus in this city, among the adherents
of the Observation-Disclosures fac
tion, or silk-stocking wing of the Re
publican party.
This faction is apparently in tho
majority in New Castle County, and
controls the County Executive Com
miltee, which organization, heretofore,
has uniformly performed the duty of
appointing inspectors for all nomina-
tion and delegate elections, They de-
nounce this moye of the StateCommit-
tees as trick to enable the Bird
Hawkins faction to steal the election
officers and thus return a majority of
the delegates from this county who
will be in favor of obeying every be-
hest of the Dover ring.
On the other hand, the adherents OF
the opposing faction assert that the ac-
ton of the State Committee was not
only legal but eminently proper. They
claim that while the County Committee
tors, it has done so solely by virtue OF
the authority given by the State Central
Committee, and that on this occasion
the State Central Committee has simply
delegated the power to the Republican
voters instead Of to the County Com
mittee.
r. c. Fraim, Esq, one of the leaders
Of the Bird-liawkns faction, says he
suggested this plan to the State Central
Committee, and boldly maintains it:
justice and fairness. He says the mat
ter is now entirely IN the hands of the
people, and that the election will moi
run the risk Of being conducted by Q
lot of packed judges selected for the
purpose of running it in the interest of a
factional committee.
The result of this matter will be that
the County Committee will either gC
ahead and appoint the judges of cleo
ton, or that there will be the liveliest
kind of contest at every polling place
for the control of the polls. In eithe
case it's a free fight, and Democrats
can afford to be entirely unconcerneC
as to which turn affairs may take.
OTHER POINTS.
1t is now generally conceded that N
b. Smithers, Esq, of Dover, will con.
sentto lead the Republican forlorn hop,
in the Congressional race. He is, o
coruse, the candidate of the Dover rim
but he will prove in a measure ac.
ceptable to the other faction.
The following, telegraphed from
Dover, last night, to the morning pa
pers, is without shadow of truth
"Chairman Jewell spent the morn
ing here and walked leisurely over thu
State of Delaware, with view of buy
ing it if he liked it, and in the cours,
of conversation he remarked that Gar
field would certainly carry all tn
Northern States, all the Southerl
States, most of the Territories and TIN
border States of Mexico and province
of Canada. He is entirely confden
that with such an overwhelming Gar
field victory, the Democratic Congress
will not at attempt to count in Han
cock"
The Dover ring is so obnoxious t.
many Wilmington Republicans, tha
some of them think that Dick Han
; rington, its leader, has horns. By hi
presence and speech at Institute Hall
tonight, he is expected to dispers
this prejudice, and create very ia
yorable impression.