The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-01-06

mus Sp6n many organization days, DuJ
il is doubtful II In all her history she
has experienced one like yesterday
was. When tho first morning train
nolth-bonnd arrived at the depot 1t
brought Il couple of carloads OF Sussex
.oUuntians, who evidently had read the
little fable OF the carly bird and the
worm, and every train aft0r that both
north and sOiIth-bound brought Its
quota, SO that by noon Dover was full
--ehork full OF the faithful, about
four-iifths of whom We're ready and
willing to help organize that Legisla-
ture by accepting positions In the
makeup.
The members-elect, with the exccp-
lion OF Thomas AttiX of Kenton Hun
.dred, who Is laid up with a broken lrg,
We're all here, and a decidedly rough
experience the Democratic members
had OF it. From the timc they stopped
on the train until they went into eau
Gus Inst night they were button-holed.
Applicants for clerksiiips, sergeant,at-
arms, iiremen and page in turn tackled
them, anywhere and everywhere, and
these same applicants FOR each and
every Office outdid In numbers any
thing ever seen here. Ii looked as
though tho Democracy of the state
was hungry unto starvation.
Well, everybody couldn't get there,
md the deuce OF 1t was To tell lust who
would get there. All day long tho
leaders caucussed and schemed, and
planned, and when night came they
were no nearer knowing just who was
who than they were in the morning.
Slates wcfu made only TO be smashed
and then they were made up again,
In the morning Sussex plainly gave
1t out that Gle wanted both clerkships,
and did not care IA continental where
Inc speakelShip went, Towards noou,
however, tho friends of +. N. Dunn, OF
the Index, made themselves felt, and
sussex lost her grip ON the House
clerkship for white.
Sirnian for speaker and Dunn for
clerk was the combination the Wolcott
men fought for all day, while n com
bination from Kent and Sussex both
threw all their weight for liidgely Of
Kent Tor speaker and John L. Layton
and young John Ponder for elork.
THIS is the way 1t went nll day as far
as the House was concerned. FIRST
one crowd would bo on top than
another until, as stated above, even the
leaders were at sea when the caucus
met.
With the Senate ilghtit was different.
II was quietly known all day that ex-
Governor Hall was not unwilling TO ac-
cept the speakership, but the general
impression was that the combination
was slildoNed In the REPUBLICAN weeks
ago, DoIGahoe for Speaker and Edward
Hearn for Clerk, would go through
and IL did.
The Senate went into caucus at 0
o'clock and came out ut 1880, with tho
following result; Donahoe, Speaker;
Edward Hearn OF Georgetown, Clerk,
BUD Phillips, Sergeant-at-ArmS,
The tallotlng was:
Speaker-Donahoe, s; Hall, 2, on the
first ballot.
Hearn, 3; Polk, l; IIardcastle,
l. First ballot.
Sergeantat-Arms-A Phillips, of
Selford, u Joseph Grccnlee, =.
For Chaplain-Rey Duhamel, 8; Rev.
Nil. Fixes, =.
The page was elected on the third
ballot and Carroll Demo, u bright
little Dover boy won.
Speaker Donahoe was congratulated
all around when the doors were
opened.
Early in the evening the Kent and
Sussex members each went into separ-
ate caucus. The kent men ti,sci,t.,d u,
! present no candidate for Speaker and
thls took Ritgeley out OF tile race.
When they went into general caucus
William q, Sirinan OF Sussex was
elected Speaker. without trouble. But
then the caucus deadlocked. Sussex
wanted the clerk, too, and presented
tho name Of John L. Layton of Dags-
boro Hundred, against Rents candi-
date, Frank Damn Of the Index. The
vote stood Z to Z.
I'rhe vote of MIR. AttiX of Kent, who
Is sick, was cast by proxy.
ft.at. L. 4.
adopted resolution to pay the clerk
but Sl 600 and Sl0o for superintending
the printing Of his journal; the reading
clerk to receive S4OO.
Then committees were sent out to
interview Mcssrs. Layton and Dunn TO
inform them of this resolution and
ask whether they still wished to
consider themselves candidates. Both
agreed to abide by the resolution and
the caucus again started balloting and
Tour ballots were taken between Il so
and l22O Between the ballots NOM
befS OF the caucus came out aud in
terviewed their friends and several
leaders were admitted to the caucus
room,
At 1880, Col. Stevens, chairman of
tho Democratic State Central Commit
tee, gained adlnittanee TO the caucus
chAmber and urged the Sussex men to
give Kent a show, as Sussex had taken
everything in tho Senate.
This speech had its effect, evidently,
for on the next ballot Dunn was nomi-
nated by vote OF to 0. After another
hRlf-hour's ballotlng, at II. m., George
Y. Phillips OF Laurel was nominated
for sergtant-at-arms Then another
1Alf-hour slid by and Nolan MeGonigal
Vas selected as page. Another halR
hour dropped Into the misty deep
while they wrestled over tho chap
latnoy, when at Q q. III. Rev. Alysils
Green was named and the longest
drawn out caucus ever held by the
Democrats of Dover ended.
Mr.. Dunn, who was selected as clerk.
Is acknowledged to be tho best solec-
ton that could have been made from
the candidates. He Is hard political
worker, AN excellent pennan, sharp,
bright business man and will I'LL the
bill.