The daily gazette., 1882-07-24
81 TO 81 IN SUSSEX.
INSIDE HISTORY OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN CONTEST.
MR.. FOoKs OUT OF THE FIGHT.
Views of Leaders OF Both Sides-Bad
Blood in sussex-A Fierce Fight TO be
Made at Dover-On Thursday Next
Both Sides Claiming Sussex.
Especial Correspondence OF The Gazette

| Especial correspondence of the Gazette !
DOVER, July 4.-The Fooks boom hat
gone all TO smash. The delegate election il
over and the men fighting for him are down
sussex has spoken, and though there Is
much that is uncertain in the sound she has
| given forth, there is not a cheerful strain
for them in the whole doleful tune, AZ
near as can be told, the county stands now
III to 2l, and when the Dover men get done
the pruning process it will stand more like
| ~ to "a, m their favor. So Curry will be
the Gubernatorial candidate. Mr., Fooks
| will not have the laurels forced upon his
modest and unwilling brow, and he may
thank his lucky and discreet stars that he
declined being a candidate the night before
| the nomination.
Even after Mr.. Fooks had made up
| his mind not 10 stand. thus treating his
| friends who had flushed their enthusiastic
brows and emptied their patriotic purses IN
his behalf, In the shabbyest OF shabby
| fashions, the news did not get out. and even
his home hundreds, Broad and Little Greeks,
sent delegates for him. All over the eounty
Fooks men were working up the Fooks
cause, but 1t was cause without head, a
bunghole without barrel, II Fooks boom, if
you please, without Mr., F0oks
Funny, wasn't It.
FEATURES or THE FIGHT.
Sussex was the battle ground. Here All
outside interest centred. and in the comfy
the result was awaited hy Republicans Of
both sides with what might be called bated
breath. TO an independent aud unbiased
observer, who understood the true inward
ness of the thing, and who was locker on
without partiality for either faction, the con-
test in Sussex possessed many features
worthy OF consideration. 1t was a fight be-
tween the old factions, but in many instances
prominent hundred workers had shifted
from one side to the other and new converts
mad been made in the rank and file The
issues were Curry and Fooks, State Central
Committee and anti-State Central Com
mittee, but In many cases men who had been
loud-mouthed one way or the other had
changed and were just as earnest the other
way.
Let me give an example or two. Lewes
and hehoboth will furnish the most strik-
ing in the lot. Here Doctor Hiram r. Bur
ton, personally one of the finest men in the
State, has big influence in politics. Doc
tor Hiram r., heretofore, has blown the
anti-Doyer fife, but he was elected on Sat
urday as Curry delegate, and Fooks men
rather count him that way. The cause for
the Doctors change is the talk in Sussex
will not say what it is thought to he in
plain terms. He holds Federal office, and
Will continue to hold it.
Then again. look at Broadkiln. Here is
11fss fssat1h's PsS vman OF Milton. Two years
ago he left the State Central Committees
picnic at Dover as mad as a hornet swearing
at Dick Harrington, Judge Fisher and Kent's
40 votes, like a good fellow. Yesterday at
Milton he was one of the the three men who
carried the Curry ticket there to oVerwhelm-
ing victory. So 1t was In Seaford EX-
Sheriff Eli Sharp started out for Fooks, but
went over like good Republican, who
would rather be right than be Governor.
Every one who knows anything about
Sussex politics know the Phillipses in Dago-
boro. They have always been for the Bird |
men, Now they are for Fooks. However
they did not take much part this time. Now |
watch the result of this. In Broadkfln |
there was Curry walk-over In Lewes and |
Rehoboth only one Fooks man-Dr. Houston |
was elected, and he only got in because
they elected four delegates instead of three, |
as allowed by the new apportionment In /
Broadkiln there may be one man who favored |
Fooks, and in Seaford the Fooks men did |
not get smell.
An interesting phase of the contest in Sus-
sex was the recent post office changes. The /
last move of this kind was In Georgetown,
and took place on Saturday as already tele-
graphed to the GAZETTE. Stalwarts have
also been given post office places made va
can't by the decapitation of half-breeds in
l.ewes, Laurel and Concord, and similar
change is expected at Millsboro at any
time.
THE RESULT IN SUSSEX
1t is not likely that any one will positively
know how Sussex has gone until the first
'onnd is fought in the convention next
Thursday, People may be puzzled at this,
out 1t Is nevertheless fact. Daniel j.
layton, Esq, went over the list of delegates
light and he figured up possible ~ votes
or Fooks. Here is the way the list he made
cad Nanticoke, 3 North West Fork, 3
Broad Creek, 3 ; Little Creek, 4 Gumboro,
Baltimore, 4 Dagsboro, 2 s: Indian
River, 1 Georgetown, 3. This makes 81.
Now, it may be that the delegation from
Jantieoke will be solid for Curry, for Mr.
layton, when he made the calculation, did
lot have their names. 1t was understood
hat the ticket to be run there would be
Wiling, under certain conditions, to support
fooks. They are claimed for Curry.
'trike these three off and you have "A left.
n Lewes and Rehohoth, DR.. Burton, counted
II Mr.. Layton's hurried list, may 90 for
1urry and DR.. Houston may be refused
eat. This will bring it down to %, and Il
urther reduction of one or two NAV be
made In Dagshoro. The Fooks votes may
lumber %, 81 or 90. The State Central
Committee claims at least % delegates. Mr..
lills thinks it will be more like 20 to lG in
heir favor.
| think the county may be put down as
ollows and relied upon: I
FOR FooKs.
l. w. fOfk OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.