Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-24
LAMBSON AND BARNHILL
THE COUNTY TIoKEr oFFIoIA1Lr
MADE
What Was Done NJ tho Adjourned
Session thIs sday Af'crnoon--Th
Revised fteIorts and OInc4nI Ise-
port Of the dsp.u in iftcc.

The Democratic county execntiee com
inittee Thursday afternoon, settled the
| controversy over the result Of the Demo.
cratic nomination for sheriff and coroner
on Saturday last, by declaring fiiis
Lanbson Of Now Castle hnndrnd the
nominee for sheriff, and George I. barng
hill of Wilmington The nominee for eoro-
ner The conclusion was arrived Mt 10y
rejecting the returns from the upper pre-
cinct of the FIRST, the lower end OF the
Third and the Tenth wards, on the ground
that they were illegal by renson of having
been kept secret for 4S hours after the
other returns had been publicly an
nonncd.
Every member was present when
the committee assembled in the levy
court retiring room at 2.20 o'clock.
Messrs. Lambson and Chambers, the
rival candidates for the sheriffalty noiui-
nation, were present. and the former was
also represented l,y George II. Bates and
L. O. Vandrgrift, Esqs., as counsel.
Patrick Lambert, one of the candidates
for coroner, who had the nominaiiBn ON
the returns us reported Monday night.
was also present. lie told the committee
he had nothing to say and would abide
by their decision.
The subject under consideration was II
once entered upon, aud Messrs. Bates and
Vandegrift argued in favor of rejecting
the returns from the lower Third, Tenth
and Eleventh wards, on the ground that
they were fraudulent in returning more
Democratic votes than these wards con-
tanned. Afidavits in regard TO the Demo-
cratic votes of these wards, as shown by
tho rafurna Of 11rauinun nominations and
elections, were presented, and also one
from Merris Taylor, to the effect that the
list of the Judges of the nomination as
published in EVERY EVENING ON June 9th,
was copied by him from the list read out
by j. Frank Biggs, secretary of the ex-
ecutive committee, without alteration or
of any kind. This affidavit
was made because Mr.. Taylor had been
accused of inserting the letter "Rn in
the name of Joseph II. Myers, one of the
Judges named for the Third ward, ii
being afterwards claimed that Joseph
Myers was the man intended for the po-
sition.
After hearing the evidence and argu-
ments, the counsel and candidates retired
and the committee went into consulta-
tion. A resolution to reject the returns
iiOlh hoMcA ihAANf
and Eleventh wards was offered, but was
amended so as to receive the Eleventh
ward returns, which were made in legal
and regular form, despite the suspicious
proportions of the vote. The
amended proposition was then adopted
by vote of 10 ayes to 8 nays, the mega
tives being Charles j. Kyle and James
Malloy of this city and Thomas j.
of Christiana hundred. After
reaching this conclusion the committee
1t $40 o'clock, adjourned. The mem
bers refused to reveal their decision as
hey came out, but the result soon
became generally known.
The returns, as revised by the COM
nittee, nominated Lambson and Barn
lill for sheriff and coroner, as will be
'een by the following table, computed
without the rejected returns;