Evening journal., 1888-08-27
Salisbury VOIcOtt.
The Family in Sussex and
Wolcott in Kent.
PENINGrON's SEAT IN DANGER.

Things Upside Down in the Two Lower
Counties. A Long Tale Of Ingratitude.
six Hundreds Out of Nine co Against
the Family.
stair correspondence of EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER Del, Aug. 26.-Senator Eli
Saulsbury's county of Kent has spoken
against him and and after thirty years of
power the family find their hold to
some extent shaken. The Wolcottites
have succeeded in six out Of nine hun
dreds. winning in kenton by 2l1
majority; West Dover. 10S; Mispillion,
| Ill; North Murderkiil, 65; Little Creek,
H. and South Murderlill, CO. The
| Saulsburys won East Dover by 202.
Duck Creek, 60. and Milford hundred by
g. This gives the County Convention
TO James L. Wolcott by vote of SO to
90
Under the rules Of the party it has been
the custom for years to allow at the
county convention each hundred to re-
! tire and nominate their candidate for the
Legislature and announce him to the con
vention. Under this rule the Saulsburys
would receive the members from East
Dover and Milford. Duck Creek already
has member and the convention Of
4 4
member made necessary by the fact that
there are ten members to be divided
among nine hundreds
II is hardly probable, however that the
convention On next Thursday will OBJ
serve this rule, but will decide to vote as
a unit and give Kent county's ten mem
bers TO James l.. Wolcott.
Already there are deep Salisbury NUT
terings about the probable contamination
Of this, and should it be done there are
many reasons to believe that the ticket SO
nominated would be defeated For years
the Saulsburys have carried the elections
in this coanty by their liberal contribu-
tions. The present Senator alone has
spent over 81, 500 al every election. 1t
is out of the range of human probability
that ten men selected for the avowed
purpose of defeating the Senator would
receive any financial support from his
faction or pocket, and without doodle, .
elections cannot be carried in Kent
county. The Wolcott men have no money
to spend themselves.
There is another matter that win tend
more to aid in the defeat Of this ticket
than anything else. The Republicans of
this county are pretty generally assessed
and the Democratic majority is by no
means as large as 1t was two years ago
and the Republicans hope with the aid of
the disatfection and doodle to be able
to carry the county at the coming cleo.
ton. 1t is an open secret about the
streets of Dover that three DAYS ago, the
word was given TO the Republicans to aid
all in their power to elect VOL
colt delegates, and they did some
good work. That the doodle
will be forthcoming there is more than a
little reason to believe NJ S. Quay has
had his eye on Delaware and this fact Is
known both in Pennsylvania and ii
Washington. Quay hopes to elect the
Senator from this State and is willing to
spend a good round sum to secure this
result. In support Of this theory, w.
Y. Hensel, Of Lancaster. Pa, told John
r. Nicholson, Esq, Of Dover, that he
(HenseD had the most positive informa-
ton that Quay proposed to make an ef-
fort to carry the Legislature, and Senator
Gray said only few days ago that he had
received definite information Of the same
kind IN Washington. That this rumor
has already had no light weight
is proved by the fact that last
night the Wolcottites were confidently
counting on all the ten members IN the
decline to make any positive statements
Be it as it may good sized fight will
take place in the convention before it is
all settled
Causes of the Defeat.
The Wolcottites are jubilant. and
almost everybody else is astounded at the
result The opinion was pretty general
that the Saulsburys would win. They
were giving figures. while the opposition
were only confidently claiming success
But there are several things that can be
enumerated that are responsible for
yesterdays Waterloo TO the family
Among them may be mentioned the dis.
appointed oilice-seekers, the old Bayard
BOurbons the free use of sboodle the
feeling that Senator Salisbury has had
enough and the aid received by Wolcott
from the Republicans. The history Of
the opposition to the family dates from
the fight between the three brothers. but
the fight that caused yesterdays defeat
can be said to have first commenced six
years ago.
james L. Wolcott came 70 Dover about
twenty two years ago very poor hoy
and comparatively without friends His
family and the Saulsburys had been init
mate in Mispiilion hundred where they
had resided for years. When younr
Wolcott came to Dover the present SEN
ator brought him from his native heath
and gave him place in his Office. VOL
colt taught school and studied law His
tuition was free and the Senator fur
nished the young man with pocket
money by giving him occasional work at
writing The time arrived when Wolcott
was admitted to the bar and the first
thing that was done was to make the
newly-fiedged lawyer clerk of the State
House Of Representatives Shortly after
this the famous triangular contest be-
tween the brothers took place, which re-
suited in the present Senator's first cleo
ton. AT that time he had large law
practice. 1t was at once turned over TO
young Wolcott. Everybody commenced
TO look upon the young man with favor
and as the right bower Of the family.
John +. Salisbury and he were
bosom friesds. One could not be
seen, hardly, without the other. All the
law business that the family could gather
together was directed to the young attor-
ney. Under these circumstances VOL
colt soon grew in popularity Seven
years ago Senator Eli discovered that his
protege was aspiring to wear his sena-
toriai toga and had conspired with Robert
). Reynolds with that purpose in view.
a break az once took place The effort to
defeat Senator salisbury in 1888 fell
ridicuiously fiat Wolcott. however.
was not discouraged. He gathered
around him everybody in the county