Evening journal., 1888-11-20
POLITICAL AND OTHER GOSSIP.
what Clover Correspondent wrote In
Conclusion.

1 papers IN the country, concludes a three
column review of the political situation
in Delaware with the entertaining para
graphs given here:
But if the Democratic Senate freed
though it is practically from the sway of
Bayard and the Saulsburys concludes
that il cannot afford to assent TO popu-
lar convention which would settle some
Of these difficulties in short order it can
not prevent the election Of Repub
liean United States Senator; nor
can 1t prevent General Harrison
from taking Cabinet officer
out Of little Delaware if he chooses
Upon this last happy supposition three
quarters Of the Delawareans would at
once suggest the name of General James
II. Wilson, ex-president of the New York
and New England railroad and ex-diplo-
mate to China. But TO choose the Sena-
tor would be ten times harder The ar
guments in favor of the different candi-
dates who are already in the hands Of
their friends may perhaps best be imag
ined by reeounting the arguments used
against each one by all the others. Those
who object to Mr.. Treat say that the Re
publicans must put in lawyer as able
and honest as Gray and a parsonage as i'm
portant as Bayard, and add that he had
his plum when he ran for Congress
Many all over the state are urging the
| election of Hon. Nathaniel Barratt
Smithers of Dover probably the most
learned lawyer of the state. Some take il
he is seriously considered and object that
he is 20 and might yet give a Democratic
governor chance to change the political
| complexion Of the whole Senate. Some
Il ~ ha INIT t.l a.. l..
for the Massey talk. He is another Dover
nan. is George Y. Massey, the counsel of
the Pennsylvania Railroad at 81. 900 a
year. Those who think that Anthony
Higgins Of Wilmington would not do say
that the two southern counties carried
the State and ought TO name the men.
and insist, moreover, that it is Sauls
bury's successor any way, and ought to
come from the Salisbury county Mr..
Higgins is lawyer, who graduated from
the Harvard school in 1854 a gentleman
of some property, and a valued friend Of
Chauncey Depew and William Walter
Phelps. IL it is true that each of the
lower counties has a serious candidate it
is also true that New Castle is not vet
fully united on Mr.. Higgins There are
other names: James r. Lohand of the
Kent part OF Milford hundred. Judge
George p. Fisher, Wyoming LAWYER
practicing in Dover, and National Com
mitteeman Layton; but they are not
actively canyassed.
The big Democrats of Delaware could
feel the storm in the air before 1t fell.
The Secretary Of State made three
speeches here. Elk Governor Charles G.
Stockley, who cut the head Of Cove
Salisbury Gubernatorial ticket in 1882 as
IL stuck to tree in sight of everybody
and caused no end of talk, made UP for
his utter lack Of forensic ability by mt
ting in his finest management Senator
Gray talked in the open air to only 300
people. He, however, has no immediate
anxiety, for he isn't tricky enough 10
begin to plan now to have a Demo
cratic Legislature elect him in five wears
and perhaps he sees the handwriting on
the wall. Nor does Uncle Eli Salisbury
care so very much about the overturn
only he doesn't like TO be thrown out of
1t as by a buclSing broncho. He is 20.
and might have sent letter declining.
At amy rate, he can sit in the summer
sun on the green at Dover, talk with his
old cronies, see whether young John 4.
runs the Delawarean. the Salisbury
weekly organ, al right, and give vii
lard, his judicial brother, a point now
and then as to the best method OF sur
rounding the old political lots with barbed
wire again.
Thomas Francis Bayard takes IL all the
harder, with his family bereavments, and
the administration dlsapproVed Of and his
own state gone wrong; but If the strain
OF family loyalty made ruling easier per
haps II will make the disappointments of
the later day easier. His sister. the wife
OF Lawyer Levi G. Bird-who married
first DIR. John X. Kane Of Wilmington.
brother OF the famous Arctic traveller
lives here in Market street house, with
aristocratic traces all over it. Another
sister. Florence her name is, the others
was Mabel-married Major Benoni Lock
wood Of the army, graduate
OF Pennsylvania. James Ashton
Bayard, his eldest son, holds n
territorial Office in Arizona Another son
Thomas Francis Bayard, is at Yale. and
the youngest boy. Philip Thomas Bayard
is fitting at st. Paul's School at Concord
The Secretary's daughter, Mabel, married
,. ID. Warren of Boston. He inherts the
great paper business Of the elder Warren.
Ihey have two sweet Youngsters to de
light their grandfather even at a prim
New Years reception at the capital. Miss
Anne Francis and Miss Florence are at
their fathers home, Delamore. the
Bayard residence in Wilmington. is
about mile from City Hall, and
isn't more pretentious than a thousand
two story houses in town If they have
porches and pillars. Mrs. Bayard was a
Lee and came from Baltimore, and the
name of the house is corruption of Del
aware and Baltimore. The Secretary Is A
well liked neighbor, and the family. from
the time Of the oldest memory, has been
homelike and Democratic always. The
recently announced engagement OF Miss
Florence TO Billy Hilles. as everybody
calls him, descendant of an old Quaker
family, and lawyer with a shingle a
month old, was cause for general con
| graduation.
Many Democrats here insist that Mr..
Bayard is by no means out Of politics
They say that he may not hold office for
some time or perhaps never, if his sons
should come home and grow into the new
Democratic favcrs which they all believe
must follow. Whatever NAV have been
the danger that the Irish vote would slim
through the hands OF the administration
for any fault Of the Secretary of State.
the present Bayard is as strong among his
irish neighbors here as he could wish to
be. 1t is his popular manners and SYM
pathetic purpose, for not so long ago he
went with Senator Gray, to the funeral
OF 'Shanty Maguire, a Democratic ward
leader, who was killed in an election
brawl. The younger Saulsburys may also
he heard from TOO