Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-25

now and then great hubbub would be
raised over this. Is he Democrat or
Republican Is he of age or n minor ?
Does he live in the district or not These
were the questions raised and fought
over. There was very large vote cast,
the poll being 575, over go more than
were cast for Cleveland.
The ticket elected is in the interest of
Reuben L. lamar for register of wills
and Clinton Mccullough for the state
senate. Part of it is also for Howard
for clerk of the court. The defeated
ticket would have supported Albert
Constable for house of delegates, james
A. Lewis for register of wills, ex-Sheriff
Morris Dunbar for county commissioner
and W. z. Howard for clerk. The follow
ing is the full vote of the district:
observation-disclosures. Constable.
David u. Work. -. .343 Henry Cameron. :. 233
William L. Lee.... Sag John McCauley -. .227
Frank X. Scott .34il James A. Lewis. :. $50
John ). Writ. .3i3lS 5. X. Blake ....... .2I
III mas bremen. .3il John Ward. ....... ..22l
In the Fourth district there was
compromise. The delegation is partly
Constable and partly anti-C Constable. 1t
will support Robert Mackey for sheriff
and j. L. Willis for commissioner. In
the fifth North East) district delega-
ton in the interest of X. l.. Thomas, Jr.,
for the house of delegates was elected by
II majority of 1853. Thomas is opposed to
MIR. Constable. In the Sixth (ltisin1
Sum district the contest was between
Adam A. Magraw, president of the Cecil
County Agricultural Society and DIR.
X. X. Crothers for clerk of the circuit
court. The Crothers ticket was elected
by n majority of 70. Both Magraw and
Crothers are anti Constable. The Seventh
port Deposit) district delegation will
support William X. Reckefus, an anti
Constable man, for clerk of the court he
having defeated James NJ. Touchstone's
delegation by 172 majority. Touchstone
was n Constable candidate for register of
wills and had associated with him John
u. jackson for county commissioner. In
the Eighth district the fight was, us in the
Sixth, between Magraw and Crothers for
clerk. A delegation headed by ex-State's
Attorney Charles Q. Crothers was elected
to support his brother by majority of
%. The Ninth district delegation is anti
Constable. 1t is said to be favorable for
Wilson ID. Pierson for county commits
sioner and William X. Reckefus for clerk
of the court. The entire legislature
ticket will probably be in the interest of
ex-United States Senator Jnmcs b.
Groome. They will support A. p. Cor
man for the United States Senate.
1t is probable that Clinton Mccullough
will be nominated for state senator,
Reuben L. lamar for register of wills,
Robert Mackey for sheriff.
Following are the names of the dele
| ,EntnG nlnatpI x.l,,, ,t.tn nA4
tion of Tuesday:
Davis, William Budd, Eugene Pearce, J..
| G. Price.
Second-Thomas Howard, William
Lyle, Joseph Hedrick, +. p. Courey,
Charles Shnfer.
Third-Dnvid G. Work, John S. Writ,
Frank R. Scott, William II. Lee, Thomas
| Drennen.
Fourth T. Taylor Reynolds, Laurence
Seminar, 4. JEFF Scott, John Quinn,
| William b. Kirk.
Fifth-W. 7. Hammond, John G..
Williams, Theodore j. Abrahams, Charles
Wesley Cooper, Charles Ulray.
Sixth Samuel Tyson, DIR. Charles
Turner, Henry M. Evans, William Nesbitt,
Henry j. Briscoe.
Seventh W. Bevan, Fox jackson,
John Boyd, Timothy Kelley, Jr., Daniel
McCienahan.
Eighth Charles @. Crothers, Merritt
S. McNamee, james S. Rea, Stephen j. Cald-
well, John W. Gillespie.
Ninth-Joseph L. Grove, Joseph Eng
land,A A. j. II. Cameron, George W.Janney
and William L. Mearns.
ELKToN, June 23.-The Democratic
convention did not assemble until IL 80
II. III. II was called to order by George
w. Cruikshank.
On motion of John S. Writ, John W.
Bevan was appointed temporary chair.
man and Eugene Pearce temporary secre.
tary.
On motion of Charles @. Crothers q
committee of one from each district was
appointed on credentials.
After they reported, on motion Of
Joseph Hedrick, the convention adjourned
until 1.30 p. III.
The convention reassembled at 1.3(
o'clock. John S. Writ of the Third dis
trict made motion which he snid wai
without any object except to get ut the
sense of the convention in the matter
The motion was that the candidates fol
clerk of the court and register of wills b,
nominated before the Legislative ticket
The motion was adopted and the chair
man declared nominations for clerk of tn,
court in order. This Office is for a tern
of six years and the emoluments, which
are in fees. are large. There had been
hard fight for it at the primaries whicl
had not decided the matter.
Joseph Hedrick nominated William p
Howard of the Second district. DIR. II
Il. Crothers of the Sixth district, ant
! William X. Reckefus of the Seventh dis
trict, were placed in nomination by mem
bers of their delegations. After the chat
; appointed Thomas Bremen and II. Jeifer
son Scott MS tellers the convention pro
ceeded to ballot.
! The first ballot was thrown out becaus
of one vote too many being east.
stood: Howard, 49,; Crothers, II
Reckefus, 10.
Second ballot Crothers, lS; Howard
II; Reckefus, 10.
Third and fourth ballots-Crothers, q
, Howard, 49,; Reckefus, 5.
! 1t required % votes to nominate, theI
being 40 members of the convention.
. was moved and adopted that after I'll
tenth ballot the lowest man should |
: dropped. The ninth stood Howard, q
: Crothers, IS; Reckefus, 8.
The eleventh ballot decided the contes
Crothers receiving 25 votes; Howard, q
r. r. Crothers, the nominee, is
middle-aged man, prominent physical
: of the upper part of the county and
g brother of ex-State's Attorney Charles
!, Crothers. The friends of Howard clai
c he has been badly treated and are di
= posed to kick. The Third district del
J cation, which electioneered on h
!, strength, did not all stand by him.
Nominations for register of wills wei
then declared in order. The name
Reuben E. lamar being the only OF
h placed before the convention he was d
o clared the unanimous choice of the COZ
g vention amid applause. The nominee fl
Z a number of years was deputy register
G wills and is at present filling the une
II pired term as register of the late Harl
d. Miller.
For state senator there were but tv
names placed before the convention,
10 @. Price of the First district namiI
q William Ward, an ex-member of h
70 house of delegates. Clinton McCulloug
\ Esq, was nominated by John S. Writ
=, the Third district. The contest w
' decided in one ballot McCullouph I