Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-15
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New York Times.

bfate is egitatlng DeIsWs,ej !oPi o1ue "Au
bottom, Just At present. Ire 1t is that
Delaware is little enough to be ssitsteo
on snsn provocAtion perhaps, but this
text Of agitation, bl,zoned since last tueS.
dsv, Ia eta Consequence quite sufficient
to stir q bigger state. Ia fscs, IL Is al
ready stirring thirty-eight ststes. For
Delaware has done wt;.t 10 Deia"afeAn
ever ex3sCted . slARnfe TO dos doBe what
even the iiuutiest CT rstnooW c0asers
never d:re0 exosc: her 10 oo-throWn
aver In oae dsY, snd With 20 EdoI Baysro
dictation and Salisbury domination, ali
nv cpImly electIng & state Legislature
with q working z publican majority
ready to choose
A REPUBLICAN UNITED STATES eENAToK.
DeIsw.re saves the senate from tie.
Delaware gives the Senate al the nation
lis Ucliticsl complexion. O1e week sgo
q ufcpnecy Of this would hsve been re-
ceived wish much the same sort CT greet
ing that similar promises OF Mississippi
or Texas would hsVe evoked. But yes
terdsv t n sisl forms were completed that
make It = facb. "R ,turns have been can
7sssed, srd Delaware republicans are IN
readiness to possess themselves OF the
state house forthwith.
DelaEar Republicans are "a mucn sur.
prised as any one else can be. And that
is saving something strong to people VINO
NAV hsYe CHANGED to have been in poiiG-
cal groups in EsW York couple OF osys
ago. when a telegrSpdic message pro-
clsinsd the result. The wires between
New York and here were hot for half S
dsY, and interrogstories as excited as g
cross examination came pilins into Dover
and Wilmington from every quarter; and
answering ASSURANCES inst the state
really WAS IN line TO elect 3 Republican
limited States senator were 30 generally
received with skeptieism that in aoundsnt
instances the distant and anxious ques-
tion-,skerg insisted on inquirlng for fscts
oysr again. Then tilal popular accept
ance Of the fact established as indtspura-
BILE DslaWare's right TO glory in the "stiil
hunt" of all etill-iunts, the one incom-
parable.
The story Of how It came taat the Dsls-
ware Legislature ELECT is Republican will
read like g romance when it sasil o. told
fully. It is the story OF the Iule OF the
BsYsrds In Delaware; tee Use CT three
farmer lads OF the name OF Salisbury to
DISPUTE the older dynssty's pro priesor-
ship; concession, and finally Leagues be-
tween the two families, whereby the state
was divided ss into two pasture lots, one
each for the grazing CT respective Rocks;
the development Of show OF
RKBRLLI1N
among sections OF the faithful; mutser.
ings prefscipg threEss and silent diss fec"
tions growing quickly into open Ee2el-
hcn; and a0w feuds spread tAr and wide,
until the peace stipulstions OF over 81
score OF years ego sre sent flying, while 6
BSysrd contingent captures the sFyhole
Stst4's party machinery, only 20 dad
S4ulznorY cohorts solid sud stotio, and
bent on destructioq ell abound. ,
James L. Walaoss, the toreT oct Demos
cratic lawyer in Kent equity, was eiore'
time In the Salisbury fold. as the
usstEre>lo. combine betwixs Salisbury
and Baysrd nacsssitGted; for the BaYsrds
chosen to keep aud maintain 20 be kept
and to be nLintSiueG) The votes and voters
Of the s,s.e's northern county OF Na1css-
tie, with It's city of Wilmington patron
xge; the Salisbury prize WAS Gem
posed Of the rest Of the state, thu two
southern counties OF Kent and Sussex.
Mr. Wslcctt, ss Kent county mRp, wss
mus 1 SALISBURY chstGel. But somehow
ne got dangerously heterodox SWhile ago
and get up machine of his OWL, lid
pendent OF the SsulsburFe, defiant OF
them, indeed. He was
IN TEE RACE
for the United States Senate to succeed
Eli Salisbury. There WAC no conceal
ment OF his ambition. Hs had friends:
they multiplied. His sggressiveress
20, NJ a. In nd
the cohorts OF the Bxysrd camp we're
forth with giving him g quiet encourage
mept that Vas soon common fame. The
alliance had no disturbing influence in
any Salisbury direction, however, so far
ss outsi influence could discern. There
Wss calm Notification, however, sent TO
Newcastle thst some fine day there would
be repentance among the promise
breakers.
The primaries to choose delegates to
Legislative nominating conventions
brought astonishing results about, this
time, however in the form Of wholesale
capture Of the Kenton county delegates
b7 the Walc0tt-Baysrd combine.
The SkulsbuIys, outgeneraled, had but
three districts on their side. And even
these they we're deprived OF by q formal
vote of the convention to force voting and
nominations under O unit rule. The
districts thst were SAulsburg's were thus
appropriated. The Ssulsburys were Ge>
spoiled Of even their small pick:ngs. But
small SIS those plckIngs were, they We're
of consequence enough to have given the
Legislature to the Saulsburys through
possible combinations with holding
over Kent members and the delegation of
Sussex county. Thus the re election OF
Senator Eli Salisbury was quite IS sure,
and the defeat OF Mr.. Walcott no less
sure, than il the whole Legislature were
unanimously Salisbury.
The forcing Of the third rule
BROKE A BEAUTIFUL PLAN
all to Finders. The Salisbury day was
over; SO said the people who did rot sp.
preciate the stuff the: SaulsburYs are
made of. There was instant revolt. Out
Of the convention they walked, openly
proclsimiug vengeance.
All Of e sudden 1t wss announced that
the Republicans OF Kent county would
put legislative ticket in the felc TO con-
test the WRicott ticket, fact that under
other circumstances would have had the
SQUAD OF humos in it, but the understand
ing Wss abroad that bsck OF this Republi~
can licket would all IN due time be found
the iorce and cleverness Of Salisbury
campaigning. The Republicans protested