Evening journal., 1888-12-31
SENATORIAL OUTLOOK
Good Words for Messrs. smlthers and HAg.
gins-County Lines not TO be Considerey.

Eihs-Oounty Lines not 30 be Considered.
To the Editor Of the EyaNgNG JouRvAr.
AS the time intervening before the
meeting of the General Assembly lessons.
the feelings of the friends Of the respec.
tive candidates for official recognition
correspondingly increase. Speculation
Is rife concerning the organization Of the
two houses. What is set down one dav
by the political prognosticators as certain
to happen, is quite as confidently repu-
dated the next day and an entirely new
prognosis formulated
without entering into any specula-
tions as to the probable votes that differ
ent candidates viii receive for Speaker
OF the House 1t is generally conceded
that Mckendree Downham Of Sussex is
the coming man. The chances for the
clerksLip present an open field, with the
/ probabilities favoring Horace Greeley
| knowles, who seems as the time draws
nearer TO be steadily growing in popular
favor For sergeant alarms our old
friend Thomas n. Battell Of Dover ap-
| pears to have the good will Of everybody,
and If elected will fill the position eredi-
tably.
The organization Of the Senate is still
more problematical. The friends of
/
each confident that their candidate is the
proper man and ought therefore to win
! The fight has been till within the last few
days regarded as lying between DR.. Lewis
Of Kent and Dorman Of Sussex, with the
chances favoring Lewis Since the con
ference OF leading Democrats Of New
Castle and Kent county in the Levy Court
room at Wilmington. looking toward the
pacihcation of factional feeling in the
state and putting the party in line for
the gubernatorial campaign of two years
hence, public sentiment has been drifting
toward New Castle county for the speak
ership. Lewis and Dorman are well
known and intensely bitter partisans;
the elevation Of either would prove dis
astrous and draw factional lines more
tensely. In this dilemma, looking at the
matter in the light of the recent Demo.
cratic conference, Notwithstanding VOL
colts preference for Lewis the party in
the interest Of harmony and future sue
cess will be compelled to fall back on
Crossan, who by his course in the Senate
two years ago proved himself more pa
triotic than partisan, and gained the
esteem and good will Of all. Win New
Castle county support Crossan?
The clerkship Of the Senate is very
uncertain quantity, and will doubtless
prove to be the oyster Of him who can
open it. Robert White, ESQ, of George.
town is candidate, but the wiseacres do
not take much stock in his success viii
liam q. Kerbin, f. M Dunn late sheriff.
and Others are candidates in Kent. with
varying chances of reaching the desired
goal With the speaker from New Castle,
the probabilities indicate +. M. Dunn,
the managing editor Of the Index, who
will be pushed by Wolcott and bis
friends.
On the Senatorial question politics is
badly nike There are plots. counter
plots. conspiracles and the active friends
Of the prominent candidates are very
jealous in the advocacy of their man.
without respect TO their party affiliations.
The truth is, the people in the two lower
counties want politician; one not afraid
to work for his party; one that will not
dicker with his political opponents 10
keep his place in the public eye; one that
can exert commanding influence in the
United States Senate; one favorable to
the agricultural and commercial interests
OF the state as well as to the manufactur-
ing that will secure appropriations
for improving our water highways
railroads in the matter of freight and
transportation charges Several Of the
leading Republicans of Kent and down |
the state have said TO your correspondent
within the last few days that it made no |
difference where the Senator comes from.
so that he can fill the bill and does not |
stand in with the combines, trusts and |
corporate monopolies to grind down the |
toilers and tillers of the soil, and every /
man that does an honest days work for |
his living. We have two men, they say.
either Of whom would be acceptable. |
The Hon. Nathaniel B. Smithers. the |
Nestor of the Delaware bar, mau Of |
ripe experience, Of fine presence and com
influence, of decided opinions.
Of undoubted honor whose sympathies
are with the people, and who is in favor
OF giving all fair play, is one of these
men. II younger blood, full Of fire and
enthusiasm and energy and excellence,
The peer of George Gray, and exerting an
equal commanding influence in the United
States Senate, is desired, they say rive
hem Anthony Higgins With these facts
before them, will the people get what
hey wantg Or will they be cheated into
by the Establishments of the
'nemy Of their interests? Powerful in.
luences, corporate and political.
ire quietly and persistently at
work in the interests, not Of the
'eople but Of a greedy and grasping cor
lorate monopoly A prominent RepubH.
AN lawyer Of Dover informed me that
two or three members Of the legislature
iad been approached by Wolcott' lien.
enants in the interest Of Geo. v Massey.
With the prestige ana influence of that
powerful corporation the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the backin & Of Wolcott and
bis lieutenants, who claim TO own two
'otes in Kent and six in New Castle, who
AN doubt what win be the result2
There is another matter IN the way Of
,fices that very little is said about-the
auditor and State Treasurer 1t Is gener.
lily understood that the Wolcottites are
Wiling to strike a bargain with the Re.
'ublicans that they will trade the State
Treasurer for the Auditor. rather than
ct the governor reappoint the two
,resent efficient state officials, and them
elves get nothing.
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