Smyrna times., 1888-09-12
The New Castle County Contest.
WOLCOTT WINS THREE VOTES, TWO IN
WILMINGTON AND ONE IN BLACK
BIRD HUNDRED--THE BALANCE
CARRIED BY SALISBURY.

The contest in New Castle county on
Saturday is thus stated by the EUening
Journal:
The entire Democratic ticket of the
State was completed on Saturday by
the nominations in this county. The
Democracy have now completed their
ticket in every hundred in the State
and the lines of battle are drawn for |
the coming November election. Sat
urday's election considering the inter |
est taken and the number of votes |
pOlled was the quietest held for years. |
Never before probably in the history of |
the party nominations was there so
much money spent for beer and whis-
key by the candidates. Around every
poll were crowds of drunken men, the
rain dampening to a large extent their
enthusiasm. But taken all in all the
| fight was fair and not a great many IL
legal votes were pOlled. The men re-
ceiving the coveted prize can feel that
they were fairly nominated as far as
the votes themselves go.
The fight for the senator in Whining
ton was greatly in the nature of per-
sonal fight between the candidates,
Where strictly factional votes were
cast, the WOlcOtt votes went to DOna-
hoe and the Salisbury votes to Quinn.
The claim made by Mr.. Mullins friends
that if Quinn had been out of the field
their candidate would have been nom
mated has been established. The
blunder has cost the Saulsburys a
member. Porter, as was predicted,
was unable to cope against such a
strong candidate as George w. Gray.
The impression that he was Mr.. Bates
candidate and of course EUery ECeaings s
also injured him among the followers
of Commissioner Hickman.
The decided majority received by
, Hickman for Levy Court certainly
, makes him the choice of the party
The strength of Hickman helped tC
carry the two candidates for the Leg
: islature through. The amount oil
: money spent to accomplish the result
! | of Saturday was certainly large. Hick
man and his friends are said to have
spent at least $4,000 Pyle probably
spent $4,000 and it is said to have COS
4 Porter as much as the latter figure t,
q get beaten. 1t is doubtful that S12 ,00(
. will pay all the bills contracted in thi
election. Illegal tax receipts were nu
: All desiring to vote the straight VOL
& colt ticket had no difficulty in obtain
g ing them at the tax office Where tn
others obtained them is a mystery. un
4 less they bought them of some of thei
a opponents.
+ In Brandywine Hundred the electio
is resulted in a tie between John SHAY
and George Lodge. The County EX
10 ecutive Committee, which is Salisbury
a. will give it to the latter.
- White Clay Creek.-General The
i dore f. Armstrong was nominate
h without any opposition of moment.
% New Castle Hundred.-The resu
II here was the nomination of the Saul
rv bury-Herbert candidate for the Legi
u lature, and the anti-Wolcott ticket ge
~, orally by decided majOrities. The ele
> ton passed off quietly. Large peaC
ia wagons brought the voters to the pol
~ from the out-laying country. The r
to suit Of the nomination was as follow
nc Representative, George w. Eckels, 81
i. E. Eliason, 203.
,s+ Mill Creek Here brilliant pie
To of political work was done by ex.Se
ator McWhorter and the Saulsbu
av candidate for the Legislature, Harv
bn J. Whiteman. Whiteman had be
,ar advised by some of the leaders not
run for the Legislature as he wOu
an have no show against Baldwin at su
re- late day. Whiteman, however,
ns young, not over % years of age a
,oI, full of confidence. He felt that
could carry Mill Creek hundred. 1
no. day he sent word to Mr.. McWhOr
his that he believed he could carry
,as. hundred if be had the "snews of wa
The register soon obtained the sine
Mi and placed so eifectually that VIII
of man won by a vote of 120 to 99
T. st. Georges. "A bitter contest in t
hundred was decided in favor of
,ro Biggs faction. The result for the ]
Tar' islative candidates is as follows:
West East. Tot
-r, W. Pierce Bggs....................l2S ll4 "a.
Dut- ID. N So lSO
she The Cochran family is said to nj
Mr. ber just sc votes.
ere. Black bird. d.-WolcOtt won in Bla
LETT bird. At first there were three cai
her dates for the Legislature, namely, K
lsly ert N. Huggins, Lawrence S. As
and Richard Brockson. The first
to are Salisbury men and the latter
on vors Wolcott Higgins was indu
Mr.. to give way to Aspril and this had
hree effect Of angering some of Hugg
friends and Brockson was elected
ter a hard fight by IA majority.
aes. This places the county vote on
Senatorial question at Eve for Sa
EAR bury and four for WOlcOtt, with G
q of san doubtful if Causey is in the Fl
mast A pretty fight is now looked for in
Ilish Legislature.
and DoNAHoE's NOMINATION.
There is pretty general Z" ki
40 against the nomination of John
. Nj Donahoe for the State Senate in
ain, mington. The two principal rea'
given are his business and his incon
y A: tency. There is a decided fee
bird among the rural democrats of
,, 10 Castle county in favor of temper'
and the nomination of DOnahOe is
Y A; worst possible thing that could
,hlrd been done. 1t is probable that
in, 8 will refuse to give him their v,
His incapacity has already made
81 A. merous Democrats in Wilmington
Nj clare that they will not support
'urth They say that it will be a disgraC
send to the halls of the State Sena
man SO utterly NSNOlu VI All liO Il
!. NJ; fications for the position Of a
maker. A well known Democrat wh
ling' years voted the ticket straight sal
DflsK an EUening Journal reporter on Sa
ility dry night. Isn't this nomination
ske1' John Donahoe an outrage upon
Tx; .a decent Democrats of this city? !
> 90 Of the candidates pleased me, but
the worst Of the lot. could
tance voted for either Of the other two ,
ut in out any stretch Of conscience, but
are not propose to vote for Donahoe.
leans have no guarantee that he will do
nsive better in Dover than he acted at
that late encampment of the d. n. G..
back he acts frequently in this city. :
e he the time has come for us to have
,cem- Of the saloon in politics. Beer sec
GIFTED his nomination and the LIQUOR
ason. have made for themselves a fatal
prise take should this man be elected.
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