Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-09-22

Between a and o'clock Friday the
Democratic county executive committee
determined on ordering new election
in the Third district, TALL below Sixth
street,. All the ballots are thrown out
but those for senator.
John Pyle is declared unanimously
the party nominee for the upper house
TO represent Wilmington.
The election will be held for Levy
Court commissioner for the Third dis
trict and also for representative.
The committee has ordered that the
election be held on Saturday next, Sep.
TENDER 21th. New election officers will
be appointed in every polling place Of
The Third district.
AS regards the vote for representative
1t viii be computed and canvassed BY
the committee rs follows: The vote in
the Second district stands as it now is in
the hands Of the county committee TO
this will be added the vote of next Sat
urday. The total thus obtained on rep.
rcsentative throughout the city, that is,
the Second and Third districts, will be
tho basis on which the committee will
announce the successful nominee for
representative.
The evidence before the committee
FRIDAY indicated irregularities more
or less extreme in all the voting pre-
cincts of the Third district. II was
these facts in their lack of accordance
with the provisions Of the Primary
Elections law that influenced the com
mittce in its decision to throw out the
votes in the district under discussion.
II was apprchendcd by the committee
that the requirements Of tho Primary
Elections law are not yet properly
understood by people in general as ap.
plying to primary elections. The i'm
preston seems TO be that its rulings are
dead letter, and that nomination cleo.
tons can be carried on IN the old indis-
criminate and irresponsible manner.
Several members Of the Democratic
county committee expressed themselves
very emphatically upon this point yes
terday They consider the primary
elections as of not less Importance than
the final election. They are determined
SO far as the Democratic party at least is
concerned, to put an immediate stop to
the old method of voting at primary
elections, and to insist on rigid obsery-
ance of the legislative enactment which
affects tits county and city.
The candidates for commissioner have
already resumed their campaign work.
When the contest over the county
commissioner nomination for the Third
district was before the Democratic
county committee, w. i. Kurtz sent to
the committee the following letter:
10 hr Democratic County F1ecnti,e Com
nattcc---tiENTLEMEN; The Democratic nomi.
nation for candidates for the Legislature
and for Levy Court Commissioner from
the Third district was held on Saturday,
September 10th. J, Harvey Sprlance and
the subscriber We're the only candidates
for the nomination for the lower house of
the General Assembly. On the face of the
returns MIR. Sprnance received majority
Of 3i7 votes. If the returns are to De nc
cepted by you as they stand, have moth
ing to say. IT, however, in the contest of
John j. Mealey against Michael Newell,
for the nomination of commissioner, the
vote of any or all of the wards should be
excluded on account of some alleged flaw
then | claim that the same rule must
apply to the vote for representative, as the
votes for both offices were east at the same
time and place and under the same condi.
tons.
have no desire to hamper the work OF
| your committee and have full confidence
| IN your Judgment to do justice to all.
fully realize the Importance Of the ap
| preaching campaign and the necessity ioi
| harmony in the Democratic ranks.
| sincerely believe that the good sense and
sound judgment Of the voters of this coun,
| try Will vindicate the principles of q
triumphant Democracy on November Stl
next But to insure the success of the
| Democratic party in this county, il Is the
duty Of your honorable body to see tina,
the real choice OF the voters Of the Demo
cratic party are placed in nomination.
am not speaking for myself, but in tho
! interest Of the entire party. So fai
AZ | am personally concerned amy
! judgment of your honorable body
will be considered satisfactory and final BIZ
| me. But, in considering this question, il
| is necessary that your committee shall sat
| isfy the sense Of fairness OF the masses OF
the Democratic voters of this city ! fee
that with - united Democracy in this State
| the prospects Of our party for success III
| every county in the state were never
Brighter. At the same time, ii is necessary
that our forces be united and that all Gle
| nents of discOrd aud dissatisfaction mel
| into the enthusiastic and unseliish idei
that Democratic principles ami party sue
cess arc above the personal interests 81
any candidate. Yours, respectfully,
WILLIAM II. kURTz,