Evening journal., 1888-08-23
HE cLAsHlNc FACTIONS.
Inviting Republicans to Help TheAa Out
on SATURDAY..
BY Letter to Evening Journal.

BY Letter TO Evening Journal.
FELTON,, Del, August % -Peaches and
politics; politics and peaches. The scale
is most evenly balanced between them
and it is difficult just at present TO tell
which most interests the Kent voters and
fruit growers If you talk with a Sauls-
bury man, believing what he tells you.
you are convinced that the Wolcott fac
tion has not the shadow Of a chance Of
carrying Kent at the primaries on Satur-
day, while ON the other hand IL you listen
to one Of Wolcotts followers you are
dead sure that the Saulsburys will
receive their death blow on Saturday and
that they will be politically buried next
November
Saturdays primary will be better
than circus, said a prominent Republi
can this morning, and | would not miss
il for 500 greenbaclS IL is no secret
that Doodle will be used A follower Of
the Salisbury camp said this morning
that Duck Creek had asked for $500 and
had been given 1t, and that $500 will be
used in South Murderkill The latter has
been controlled by eK State Treasurer Il.
J. Reynolds, Colonel Wilbur H. Burnite
and their friends, but Uncle Eli expects
TO contest for the delegates on Saturday.
The Salisbury men have declared in
favor Of dividing the hundred, and have
posted hand bills urging the voters Of the
eastern part of the hundred to vote with
their friends they promising to make the
division, and make Frederick the eastern
polling place There are now l.. zoo
voters in the hundred, and IL is quite d
long drive from the 'necEs, east OF
Frederick, TO FELTON, where all voters must
now 60.
The DISTINGUISHED observer sets down
East Dover, Milford. and Little Creek foi
1.-THE family Kenton. West Dover. and
South Murderkill and hispillion a,
fighting grounds West Dover wa.
placed two years ago in the column II
now occupies by the use of Doodle, ant
Doodle may change il. Twenty-Five dol
lars is more than the forester Who IS III
the political market can get in November
and the temptation may be too strong
even for some of the Republicans of thi,
hundred, as il was ten years ago at tn,
primary Twenty-Five is said to be til,
starting figure. The Doodle win not all
be on one side.
The Wolcott men claim that
East Dover is not certain for "thl
family, as the appointments made by
Governor Biggs in two years have givei
them several Of the strongest workers ii
the hundred. who are now fighting Will
their former fractional foes for revenge
We do not concede a single hundred {,
the Saulsburys, said prominent Dove
politician on Tuesday. I'VE have then
on the defensive and expect to keep then
there, he continued
The prominent Republicans are tal1er
into the counsels Of both sides and they
are hoping against hope. because Demo
Gratis, you know, can fight and make ~
SO soon, that the bitter feeling will en'
in an open rupture. Neither side vii
hesitate to get in as many votes for Re
publicans on Saturday as is possible. Th'
fun is just beginning
The price of peaches here holds up {,
the satisfaction Of the growers. 1t wa
feared that the Old Mixons would glu
the market. but that danger is passed
Ten cars were shipped on Monday MIN
yesterday, and there win be about tn
same to-day The price paid for frui
ranges from 80 cents to 80 cents basket
The largest shipments are over.