New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-28
THE DELA WARE SENATORSHIP.
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS RETICENT.
MEN WHOSE MERITS ARE EAGERLY DISCUSSED
BY THE PARTY AT LARGE-THE GRANGE
SENTIMENT STRONG.
frY rELEGRAPu TO the TRIBUFEI

lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSEI
Wilmington. Del. Dec 27.-The choice OF the
Arc, Renublican limited States Senator in Dela-
ware will be made in caucus, and not oeioro
This has become the settled convlctloh oi .noS.
who are now engaged in the exciting WORK Oh
6ndino the right man. The sixteen Repuoncan
members OF the General Assembly are exasperat-
inev non-commttal in respect to their preferences
and bevond six or seven of them, 1t Is UNSAFE 10
olace them anywhere Not one Of these Repupncah
has had legislative experience
but the Oldest politicians admit that they are
the wariest group of men that ever occupied the
public eye in Delaware Through many years OF
defeat, the Delaware Republican has learned TO De
cautious One half Of the members OF tnc iower
house are erangers, and the grange sentiment will
largely predominate, and Will propaoIy aVOern'iA'
the choice of the Senator At least a dozen per-
sons have been named in connection with the
Senatorshp but three of these, one in each county,
stand out prominently.
Anthony Higgins, OF Newcastle, is probably
the choice of more individual Republicans in
Delaware than any other. His county is pract1-
callv solid for him, but it has no votes In the
legislature all the Representatives coming from
Kent and Sussex George Y. Massey, OF Kent
counsel for the Pennsylvania Railroad mas
strong following in his county, and is the inst
choice of at least three representatives Ills chieI
obstacle is the Grange sentiment. The state
Grange is now prosecuting suit against inc
Pennsylvania Railroad Company before the inter-
state Commerce Commission for discrimination III
freight rates Charles II. Treat OF SUSSEX tne
recent candidate for Congress, granger, mas an
aggressive following in his county and mas al
least three votes assured in caucus. HIS great
service in the recent campaign and the cry that
Sussex ou yht to furnish the man. are his most
potent arguments Against him are arrayed
nearly all of the leading Republicans in his
county. who insist that the true choice OF the
county is Mr. Higgins. They support this claim
with the assurance of three votes and propaoly
four on tie first ballot for their man. Inc
venerable n B. SmitheIs, of Dover it is said, has
one vote in Sussex and at least another in Kent
It. is conceded that if Mr.. Smithcrs were merely
over 81, tv instead OF over seventy, he would
be tho man He was member Of Congress IN
1864
Among those who are looking for deadlock
in the caucus are the Rev. Jonathan D Wlihs
Of Milford; James r. Loftland of Milford Dan
iel J. LAYTON of Georgetown: Dr. Hiram K Bur
ton. of Lewes, and State Senator Alden & Ncn-
ardson. of Dover, whose wife is credited WIN
ambition. She is certainly charming woman,
strong in her social relations, and sne Is one
mistress of a large fortune She Is urecu
descendent of William Penn. Her husband Is
a Gamer at Dover and the .propriet0r OF tne
Richardson House, the leading hotel In Delaware
The Richardson movement is alarming the MASSEY
men. 1t will take every Repupncan Eo.e 10 10
elect. and it is thought that if Mr.. Richardson
wonid stand ont for himself, his party associates
would come to him before they "oulo aiio"
Democrat to slip in.