Evening journal., 1888-11-23
HOW SUSSEX WAS LOST.
democratic Leader Tells the Story.
bayard's Name Had Cooling Effect.
Poor Nominations.

A Democratic Leader Tells the story
Bayard's Name Had a Cooling Effect
Poor Nominations.
A prominent Sussex county Democrat
was N the city yesterday. and upon being
asAeu 10 give his reasons for the loss of
the county by Democrats and its capture
Dy 'he Republicans said: well, taking
Ilvo consideration the condition Of the
DeAioeTatic party at the time it is q wonder
that they did not defeat us worse +hon
they did. The trouble with MS wa. s thot
no one mad any interest in the election Of
the ticket 1t was also an exceedino.l,,
weak one. One party wanted to see tbe
Kent county bolt successful and were
busy rendering quiet aid. tha
Others knowing this did not render
the proper support. Then again
there was no unanimity among the mem.
bers Of the delegation as to who they
would vote for senator. and in conse.
quenee there was no one to obtain money
from; they had thrown aside Senator Eii
vino had been the mainstay for years. and
taken up with a young man who had
nothing. You know we had two or three
candidates ourselves, and when q pretty
well defined rumOr travelled down to us
that in case of the defeat of President
Cleveland Secretary Bayard was to be
elected to the United States Senate the
elect was not inspiring. There were
men IN Sussex county who had some idea
what the Republicans were doing and
these men were leaders. Had the eirht
men nominated gone to one Of these men
ana said, will vote for you for United
states Senator he would quickly have
furnished the necessary money to have
won
But no not even the men that had been
selected were fixed and they were run
nlng purely for themselves It has been
customary for years TO select as candidates
on the Legislative ticket men Of means
ana influence, that did not seem the rule
this time. Every man that felt he could
be legislator ran, and the result was
that the ticket did not command the re-
spect and confidence of the marty
Therein the defeat was good thing. il
relegates 10 the rear that class of poll
ticians. In selecting the candidate for
sheriff the Democratic convention did n
foolish thing. 1t went down into Balti
more hundred and selected man without
any strength whatever, and then from n
Republican hundred. He did not even
have means to place in the campaign.
ne selecuon OF the proper man for
sheriff might have saved the ticket.
The party had no money as YOU know.
Men who have given it for years absolutely
refused to contribute a cent Some Of these
men had held high positions and they did it
because in their respective hundreds men
had been nominated who were opposed to
them. After we had paid our little bills
incurred by the County Committee we
only had 81. 800 to divide among thirteen
hundreds. Put this against the Republicans
$4,000, and DO not believe that is more
than half what they had, for when the polls
closed they had money left all over the
county. Given me $500 more could have
gone into Little Creek hundred and
changed the whole affair. had no inter
est in the ticket and was Indifferent as to
the result.
This is the story Of the defeat. There
was too much personal ambition to be
gratitied and too much jealousy among
the leaders, and this Jealousy Kept them
from working for the ticket. It is a good
thing for us and can only result in one
good end in the future, our success"