Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-26
BREAKERS AHEAD.
The DOubie-barreIed Delegate Elec-
ton Which is to Come OFF next Sat

lican State Central Committee has issued
the following proclamation.
Dover, DEL, August 80, 1880
WHEREAS, 1t has been represented to this
committee that there is some doubt and
misunderstanding az TO the places where the
elections of delegates to the Republican State
Convention Ito be held at Dover September
I'd, 1880 are to be held in the city OF Will
mington.
therefore, For greater certainty, and to
avoid all possible misunderstanding the State
Central Committee Of the Republican party
of this State, hereby designates the following
places for the holding of said delegate cleo
tons in the city of Wilmington in pursuance
of the call heretofore issued, and in the
manner therein prescribed.
First ward White Horse Hotel, southwest
corner Second and Tatnall streets.
Second-Felton House, southeast corner
Second and Walnut streets.
Third p. Babcock's Hotel, northeast cor
ner Fifth and Orange streets.
Fourth southwest corner Fourth and
Walnut streets. ..-
Filth-Bailey's shoe store southwest cor
ner Seventh and Tatnall streets.
Sixth-H. kyle's office SIG King street.
Seventh Ferry Carpet Cleaning Company,
Delaware avenue near Madison street
Eightll-tiodirey coal office, southwest
corner Ninth and Bennett streets.
Ninth -Alckinnon's shoe store, Twentieth
and Market streets.
Tenth Mason's cigar store, northwest cor
ner Jackson and Chestnut streets.
The polling places named above CORE
spond in the First, Second, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth wards. with those selected by
the county committee last Saturday night.
For the remaining wards, the eounty conf
mittee selec cd the following polling
places:
Third Western Hotel
Fourth ward-Oity Hall.
Fifth ward-Lsfayette Hotel
Ninth ward-Old Academy
Tenth ward-Nortnwes corner of Pleas
ant and jackson streets.
As both wings of the party continue OBJ.
stinate, the prospect is that there will be a
duplicate SET of delegates elected next
Saturday and that the election will be
attended with considerable bitterness of
feeling and present some amusing phase g.
Both sets of delegates will attend the State
Convention on Thursday of next week,
but, as Levi Bird, ESD, says, only one set
will be admitted. Chairman Cannon will
call the convention to order and probably
decide that the contrasting delegates have
no vote until their right to seats has been
decided by Committee on Credentials.
The Bird men of Kent and Sussex will
then proceed to effect temporary organ
ization, appoint committees which will
exclude the delegates elected under the
in defiance of the rules of the State Com
mittee, and capture the convention and
run it to salt themselves.
The attempt to carry out this pro.
gramme will be likely to raise even a
bigger row than that which characterized
the last convention, and the delegates
would do well to take lunch baskets into
the Court House and prepare themselves
for an all.nigbt session.
CANNoN's MANIFEiro.
The following proclamation was issued
yesterday by Chairman Cannon:
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN STATE ExECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE OF DELAWARE DOVER,
August "a, 1SS0-TO the Republicans Of NeIr
Castle comfy II having been brought to
the attention of tins committee that portion
of the Republican County Executive Com
mittee for New Castle county are dissatisfied
with the manner prescribed by the State Cen
trial Committee for the selection of delegates
to attend the next Republican State Conven-
ton, and refusing to recognize the right of
this committee to prescribe the mode of
selecting said delegates, have presumed to
order different mode for such selection, and
named without authority, the judges to hold
the said delegate election, this committee
addresses you in spirit and hope of perfect
harmony and in the interest of party Organiza-
ton, without which we cannot hope to sue
coed.
This committee, in prescribing the mode of
selecting delegates, may have erred, but il
says with distinciness and clearncss that the
possible mistake was OF Judgment and not OF
intent The object we sought was an honest
and full expression, and II fair and honest
return of that expression. of the view'
of the Republicans OF Delaware, in our next
State convention.
In considering the question of calling til,
State convention, the state Executive Com
mtteo were necessarily confronted with til,
questions of time, place, number of delegates
and the manner of selecting the same. Only
AZ to the number of delegates and the pro
portional assignment OF the same was THU
committee instructed, that having been dont
by formal resolution of the State convention
which increased the representation Of yOlll
county all other matters having been left Il
the discretion of this committee, AZ n refer
enco to the calls for previous State conven
tons by the several chairmen will demon
strate. Those calls, if referred to, will make
III clear, lllll HtINlDlOTt lllt CutllllN fbul
mittees have acted upon the express request
of the State Central Committee. and in pnr
suancc of the authority to them delegated in
the calls made by the State Executive Com
mittee ut various times.
From no other source has any county com
mittce ever pretended to derive its authority
to fix time or place or mode for the selection
of delegates to state conventions Any othe
pretence of authority would be the cOmplet,
a. nd tttt Ii4ntporptiOD nf fine Marty Ag wei
might the "city committee, of Wilmington
fix the time, manner and place of selecting
delegates to the county convention, witlIOu
the authority of the county committee.
Our system of political organization is no
complex it is plain; the 'City ENecutiy,
| Committee attends to, and il authority i'll
city matters purely; the County Executive
Committee attends to, and il authority in
county matters; thetState Central Committee
attends to, and il authority in, state matters
The convention about assembling il Stat
| convention. and assemblies in pursuance an'
| BY authority of the State Central Committee
| and the time place, and mode of selecting
| delegates thereto is solely and eXc1sycl
within the province of the state committee
and these matters rest in the Judgment an'
| discretion of the State committee until other
| wise ordered and instructed 10y a convention
| of our party by express resolution.
| Assembling, therefore, i'll pursuance o
their duty, aud considering the question .
calling tile State convention to nominate
| electors aud n candidate for Congress, tn
committee had necessarily, to pass upon TIL
following
| az The time of holding said convention.
| (2l The place for holding said conversion
CD The number of delegates and thci
| apportinment.
az The mode of selecting the delegates.
Upon the first, the committee named Sep
TENDER I'd as II suitable time.
Upon the second, Dover, as being central,
Al to the the third, the committee wcr
guided and controlled by the action of
State convention, and based the number an'
appurtionment i'll accordance with its actions
As to the fourth, i. T., the mode of selecting
delegates, there were three ways open to til
committee To remit the matter to til
several county committees (2) Toappoint til
Judges of election itself, or 90 To refer til
selection of the Judges of the delegate elet
tion to tine people, ne S0ince ~ an po'ner, l
the various wards and hundreds of the STATE
The committee adopted the last mOdc-tll
reasons, as it seemed to them, being obvious
There has existed heretofore no nHitUrI
rule throughout the State for the selection q
delegates to State conventions and man
complaints have been made, and bitter con
tests heretofore had, in our conventions, as
the regularity of the election of persons VIII
presented themselves to, and claimed til
Eight to act i'll, the convention.
Desiring to establish a uniform and fai
rule for the whole State, and not desiring I
name the persons who should act as judge
of the delegate elections in the various ward
and hundreds, the State committee resolve
upon the plan already announced in its cal
to wit /: That in every ward and hundred d
the State the Republican voters, resdin
therein, at specified hour, should assembl
and select their o'rn judges, and those judge
of election, 80 chosen, should open and kte
OppR the polls for said delegate election for
sDerifd Hne and at the close OF said poll