Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-11-20
THE DELAWARE FIGHT
A CORRESPONDENT IN DELLA
WARE.
Another How York Newspaper Hah
Something to Say Eblut the
Delaware COutsst-The
Oehsr Side.

Ine NOW 1Ofk Press has had a cOrFGs
spondeut down In Delaware looking up
The causes which l9d to tie wonderful
political revolution that will send a Re
publican to the United States Senate.
Mr.. Marshall Gushing, the corr0spen
dent referred 10, from tho tenor OF bis
letter, has evidently not thrown himself
into tle wsy Of Democrats to give his
letter pRrtigAn tlrn, as wOs evidently
the oAse With tho Suns correspondent
Mr. Oashing's article takes up three.
oolumn spaca In the Press, but the fol-
lowing is an extract tbA, most Interest.
DalAWATeAus:
James l.. Wolcott half-mensured
strength with Ell Salisbury siH years
ago, but the Democrats ali concluded
they q give the old man smother term
Again, two years ego, did the leading
DemoorAtio lawyer OF Kent County do
eide, perhaps 81 ain ct the desi OF
ThOmHO y. BayRrd, to try oonclusl ons
with the "old man." The BBulsbury
psopiG-toT Ell, and perhaps willard .
little, did the directing, as John u.
salisbury, nephew of tho bTo.hers
did tho exeou,ilg-Would not conoede
representations n the county ticket 10
h1ndreds thst were strongly Anti-5Auls-
bury, but held to the INIT rule. This
year the young Democrats held to the
unit rule with q vengeance. They con
trolled the Kent County c0nyentiOn and
DominAted ticket of their own. The
bAulsburyB tu,ked. Toe R9publIcAn
ticket pulled through. DO II did in sus-
sox on . still hunt. Both this Wolc 1T
people who, perhaps, really wanted
BRyhtd after his services in the Cabinet
is overland the Salisbury people wers
dumbfounded. Both dynAstlss wete
thrown out,
Charles Il. Treat OF Sussex, late Rs
publican candidate for onRrsss--for
the State OF ooursc-snd BEATEN, he
lieve, by 8. 400 votes. gets much OF the
credit for the vlOtory In his home
county. Mr. Treat is . Mains Yankee
who came to the State Hftesn yearu aso
and now employs 100 banda making
butter tubs, peach crates, barrels aud
wooden pi0nic plates. He thought
Sussex could be carried. He and An
tbOny Higgins OF Wilmington, ard
Daniel j. Layton, the Republican Ma
tional Committeeman from this State,
pat their heads together. They could
got no help to speak Of from Senator
Qasy. Mr.. Treat offersd to raise 81, 600
u Mr.. Higgins would raise another
10. .OGO for the organizItlO OF the clubs
nr. HiRglna enlisted thu aid OF WhsriOa
Baker. The fght Was taken up 81.
through the ranks from Anthony HlR-
Gins, Wh9 WAb chairman Of the Rspne.
loan State Committee In 1855 and
never fl nohss, down to the biahest
private. The Republican and iuda
pendent papers, espsoiElly here in the
oity, did sledRehAmmer work.
On the protection and anti i-dyuasty
side were The MorDing News, Ropubn
can, edited by Watson r 5psrry, .
Yalo man; the Evening Journal, lnde-
psndent, edited by Fred. e Bach, who
used to work for Mr.. Bperry, and who
once taught gchool here; the German
Ffeie Press, independent, edited by
Colonel Cody Anfenger, aud the DAILY
REPUBLICAN,, sdited by George w.
Vernon. Besides the tariff iBfuo, which
hAs helped to build this plaOs up from
AZ 600 population in 1850 to 10 900 now,
and which goes and stays In she oar ana
car wheel shops, the MalleAble iron
mills, the carriage factories and the
shipyArds Of The Harlan q HollinRs-
worth Company, j. Taylor Cause, and
JaokHon & Sharp, there WAS the busi
ness tax issue. Years ago when the
5Au'sburys incurred = d8bl for the State
for the payment Of substitutes for the
vAr, they passed q law tAKin every
500 worth OF business transacted ten
cents per year. This was all the more
characteristic OF the 5aulsburys, be
cause the tax fell almost exclusively on
tho city Of Wilmington, which was
10y al during the war, and benefited tbs
oopperheAd southern counties, which
would gladly have seeded II the Della
ware and Chesapeake bays had not in
tsrposed impossible objections, II WAR
simply hght for local slf-goyernmsnt
Il was great victory, because II WAS
Tonderfui to have accomplished any
thing At all.
But II the Democratic Senate, free
though 1t is practically from the sway
Of BAyArd and the Ssulsburys, con-
oludes that 1t cannot afford 20 assent to
popular convention which would sol.
tie some Of thGss difficulties In short
order, IL cannot prevent the election OF
a Republican United States Senator;
nor can II prevent General Harrison
from taking . Cabinet cfloer out OF
little Delaware II he chooses. Upon
this last happy supposltlon thres quar-.
ters Of the DelaHAreNns would ct once
suggest the name Of General James II
Wilson, ex president OF the Nav York
and New England railroad and ex-
diplomat In China, But to choose the
Senator would be ten times harder.
The arguments In favor CT the different
candidates who are already in the hands
Of their frienis may bess be imagined
by rcc1uutlpR the arguments used
sgHin each one by all the otherp.
Those who object TO Mr.. Treat Say shat
The Republicans must put In . lawyer
4s ablo and honest - Gray, and . per
sou sgs as ion portant AB BayArd, and add
that he had his plum when he ran for
Congress. Many ell over the Ststs are
urgihg tho election OF Nathaniel BArrAtt
SHithsrs Of Dover, probably ths most
learned lawyer OF TIE State, some tskB
It be il seriously considered and object
that he is 70 and Night Jet give a Dem.
ooYalo Governor . chance to change
The political complexion Of the whole
senate,
Some take the smIthers tslk to bt
only . cover for the Massey talk. BE
!s another Dover man, IL George V.
Massey, the counsel OF the PennsylvR
mia Rsilroad at f5 900 yesr. ThoBe
vito think that Anthony Hippine, Of
Wilmin gton, would not do say that tbs
two southern counties carried ths Ststs
and ought to name the man. and Insist,
moreover, that It Is Saulsbury'B 3 success
asr Gny way, aud ought 10 come from
the Salisbury oounty, Mr.. Hlgglns is
lawyer, who grsdusttd from the HaT.
ward school in 1884, q gentleman Of
some prOpsFty and valued friend CT
Chsu1cey DeDsW ard William Walter
Pholps. II # Is trus that each Of the
10 Rer counties has a serious candidate
10 Is also true that New Castle 10 not yet
July united on Mr.. Higgins. There are
a,hCr pameFi James II. Leland, Of the |
x ent part OF Milford Hundred; Judge |
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