West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-08-11
THE DELAWARE sAuLssuays.
Three brothers Candidxtcs for United
Statcs S.nRtor "a Ono LcrI.IninrN.

Three brothers Candidxtcs for United
states SENATOR Ia one Lcgisiaturc,
The recent death OF Willard Sauls-
bury, chancellor of delaware and for
two terms United States senator, re-
history Of his little state, SAYS the Buff
falo Courier. II seems TO bc tho rulc
that small states should bc ruled bv
families. For many years tho Spragucs
contested the control OF Rhode island
with Brown, Ives 4. Co., and I'm the Same
way for long the Saulsburys disputed
with the house of Bayard the leader
ship in Delaware. Although tho Sauls-
burys did not hand down political hon
ora from father to son. as the Bayards
did, they too wore an old family, and
the late chanccnsr had i'm his possession
title deeds % thS ancestral farm, which
went back two hundred years Ills
father, farmer, was n prominent mnn
in Kent county and had been it's sheriff.
/ Willard was educated In Delaware and
! Dickinson colleges, began practicinq
/ law in Georgetown, Sussex county, and
soon obtained such hold upon the peo-
| pie through his good looks, remarkable
learning brilliant oratory and popular
manners that ut twcnty-nine he became
attorney general of the state. Nine
/ years later, In 1858, he was elected 10
the United States senate, and when his
! term expired he was reelected. lie bore
n prominent pnrt I'm the senate and was
a stnnch union man, but he drank so
hard that he became "A national scandal;
the exhibitions of tho late H. II. Riddle
| berger never attracted oue-tcnth ns
much attention rs did those of the bril-
| liant Dclawarcan.
In the meantime ono Of his brothers.
Cove Saulsbury, physician, had be-
| come speaker of the Delaware senate of
nine members, and by the death Of tho
republican war governor, William Cam
non, had succeeded in 1868 10 tho chief
niagistracy, the Office OF lieutenant gov
ernor not existing Ia Delaware. In
1868 he had been elected governor. The
! Delaware legislature consists of three
senator's and seven representatives from
each OF the three counties, and when
! the time came in 1870 for the election of
| a United states senator az the cNuira-
tion OF Wizards second term, fourteen
were for his reelection, fifteen were for
Cove, and one for tho third brother of
the fonily, Iii, Dover lawyer whose
public services had been confined 10 n
single term in the legislature. Nobody
but tho three brothers was even men
toned. Finally Eli got another vote
! \ delegation went across Dover green
70 his Office 70 sec il he would accent.
! ~ first he would not hear OF IT., bat at
length he was persuaded, and i'm ten
! minutes had becn elected 10y a combina-
ton or New Castle and kcut counties
sussex standing stanchly by Willard
willard warmly welcomed Eli ns his
uccesaor, and the latter served three
erms, and whom hc finally retired in
| 1889 pulled down the democratic con-
arol OF the legislature with him, making
way for anthony Higgins. n republican.
! 'ovc returned t. the practice Of mcdi-
inc IL Dover, where he dicd in 1851.
| In 1873 willard was appointed chancel-
Tor OF thc state by his brothcr-in-law,
lOv. Ponder 4 promise 10 abstnin en-
urcly from dri1lI was first obtained
from him, and this was kept except for
one or two lapscs Of which people gen
orally did not hear lie worked hard
and is said t. have made an excellent
chanccllcr, though very inGr1n phyai-
'GIly during the last portion OF his life.
his legs having been pnralyzcd for
many years lie was the seventh
chancellor which tho state had i'm one
! hundred years. Ex-senator Eli Sauls-
bury Is still living in Dover near his
brothers house, bat is in poor health.
whom he passes away the power OF the
''aulsbuTys will probably be as extinct
n Delaware rs that OF the Claytons,
| although there IL a second generation
which has cut some figure at the bar
sud In politics. OF the three brothers
Willard was the youngest, having boon
| born in lS}O; Cove was born in 1915, and
! Eli i'm 1917.