Evening journal., 1888-11-15
SENATE AND HOUSE.
The a'en Who Would Like to Fiji the
the Offices In the Coming Legislature.
seNernl Nnrmns Nnnnr.tch

about the disposition of the Offices within
the gift Of the next General Assembly. IL
! Is developed that as in years past nearly
every member of the Senate wants
70 be the speaker, and as a natural
result about eight of them will be
left The candidates most promi.
nently mentioned at present are Senators
Lewis of Kent Dormau of Sussex aud
Crossen of New Castle county OF the
seven Democratic members DR.. Lewis. in
the opinion Of those who are familiar
with the different members is by far the
best qualified for the position. The
doctor has had the experience Of a session
IN the House, two years i'm the Senate and
IN the Senate Of 1887 was the leader of
his faction in the fights between It aud
the three Salisbury members. He is the
only candidate mentioned who has any
real strength. He will receive the two
votes in Kent, and has every prospect of
two in New Castle Senator John b.
Dorman has also ambitions for the speak
ership, and next to senator Lewis is the
best fitted man for the position He is a
candidate that it will not be well TO leave
out Of calculations in disposng Of the
Office While the senator is not abso-
lutely sure Of winning the coveted prize
he will be on hand at the finish and
turn up with the necessary four votes 10
elect. AS to Senator Crossen from New
Castle county, he is not taken into the
calculations whatever down here The
only possible vote that lac could secure in
the state outside of his own, is that Of
John p Donahoe OF Wilmington ana
even that is extremely doubtful Senator
Ferguson will vote for DR. Lewis i'll
preference to any one else. besides Kent
or Sussex county wants the speaker and
between them there is pretty fair chance
that one or the other win get there Not
content with the speaker, Kent reaches
out its ayaricious NAV for the clerkship
There are three men who want it, Frank
Dunn the editor Of the Index. who would
have been a candidate for clerk of the
House If IL had not been for the late mis-
fortune William g. Kerbin, faithful
adherent and manager of the literary
bureau Of the Wolcott forces, and John
d. Hawkins, a school teacher of Camden.
This last young man is the same one
mentioned in these columns before as
trying to change the course of admission
to the bar, little scheme that was
nipped in the bud by Chief Justice
Comegys He was candidate for
clerkship two years ago when he was
still a non resident here In the county
convention where the unit rule was en-
forced, he was the tool used to do much
Of the work It is said that out of his
brilliant mind has been evolved a scheme
to combine with Senator Ferguson for
speaker, but the Senator viii not combine.
not that the Senator would not
like to be speaker, for all Senators have
that ambition but because he proposes to
vote for DR.. Lewis. kerbin and Dunns
chances are both good, but If there is
any preponderance it is ON the side Of
Dunn. Dunn has been an old hustler
aud is politician full Of schemes and re-
sources. He will leave no stone unturned
to reach the coveted goal
There are some VINO say that Kent is
rather cheeky" to ask for both positions
and among that number is John Gray. Of
Bridgeyille, but at present school
teacher near kenton. Gray was a candidate
two years ago and became very angry at
some Of the members because they did
not vote for him. He said number Of
very hard things against some of the
present members and that is apt to be re-
called by his present candidacy. He how
ever expects some votes but Gray will
not be elected clerk. That is one Of the
sure things in the contest. New Castle
county has not been heard from ia the
clerkship as yet, but a certain well de-
fined rumor reaches here that New Castle
does not propose TO sit idly by with her
three votes and then be left on the
speakership and the clerkship both. She
will be heard from
There are fourteen Republicans in the
House who are somewhat in the position
of boy with a new toy, They have got
it but don't know what to do with it, "
Among the fourteen there are not two who
have in previous campaigns been to any ex-
tent prominent in politics, and then in a
measure they are mostly young men. In
previous struggles for the organization Of
the two houses newspaper correspondents
have always found it easier TO tell before
hand who were going to be the officers of
the House than they could the Senate
This fact in view of the greater
number in the House, seems unreasou- !
able, but it is nevertheless true. The
new faces change all this and
none of The new members have
ever been in Legislative body
before. The result is that nearly every
one is at sea as TO who is apt to win IL !
is as serted with positiveness that Sussex |
will be apt to win the lions share of the |
offices, and there is a reasonable amount |
of truth in this Tor it is a popularity Of |
Sussex to capture about as many Offices /
as she can. She already looks with |
earnest eyes upon McKendree Down |
ham of Georgetown and Charles II. /
Maui of Lewes as the proper material to |
make speakers out Of Maui is /
said by his friends to be man /
particularly fitted for the position Down
ham, however, has the call on Maull and |
is in the fight with a determination TO
win. The chances at this early date are
that he will win the prize In Kent
county John II. Hoffecker at once com
mends himself to everyone as pre- emf
nently a fit man for the place He will
be named it is thought, as a candidate,
but already there are fears that his
county will not stand solidly at his back
and If it does not Sussex will win the
prize.
The fight for clerk, too, has com
menced in earnest and those so far en-
rolled in the list are Horace g. Knowles
Of Loves, Sussex county, a student-at-
law with Henry G. Cosrad, Esq, J.
Francis Bacon of Georgetown, and Henry
Q. Conrad of Wilmington. This fight has
developed the strange anomaly of pre-
ceptor opposing his student for political
office.
Missionary Councils.
The second days session Of the Mis-
sionary Council of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church was opened at Washington.