The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-28
RECEPTION TO CANDIDATES
Enthusiastic Greeting to the Re-
publican Nominees at the
Young Mems Republican
Club Headquarters.

Club. house last night filled the big building
from bottom to top for four hours. The doors
Of the club. house weie thrown open at Z
o'clock and it was at once filled wi Ii enthusias-
tic Republicans who were anxious to meet and
honor the candidates.
The reception by the candidates was held
in the parlor on the first floor The room was
beautifully decorated and brilliantly lighted.
| Beginning along the front Of the building
there were pots of palms and vases of bril-.
| liant. colored cut flowers extending across the
room At the angle Of the south wall and
| along that side of the palor were other palms
and ferns, making beautiful foliage decora.
tons. The mantels on the south side were
banked with flowers and plants and the
| chandelier was festooned with smilax and
flags.
The walls were decorated with fine portraits
| Of Presidents Lincoln, Grant Hayes, Garfield
| and Harrison, each of which was decorated
| with tllgs. There were also por rats of Jam, 9
| 6. Blaine and William Mckinley exposed in
| prominent places and handsomely decorated,
| Above these were brilliant lights and coming
| from the reading room on the second floor
| came the music Of an orchestra, making the
scene cne of beauty ard hearty enthusiasm.
The candidates, with the officers of the
club and members of the reception committee,
| stood at the east end Of the paror; table
| laden with ferns and palms stood in front of
| the entrance and members of the reception
committee standing near it directed the con.
| tinuous stream Of enthusiastic Republicans to
pass along the west end of the paror and
| then along the south wall and passing in front
| OF the candidates to pass out and up
| into the other rooms. This is what
| the committee tried to have done, but the
| crowd was too great. 1t broke over old forms
aud precise ceremonies and crowded every
| nook and corner of the building. Every visi-
| tor, however, was introduced to and shook
| the hands of the candidates for governor and
| Congress and Of as many Of the legislative can.
| diates as could be kept in line for that pur-
| pose.
| Those who received were the Hon. Joshua
| H.. Marvil, beside whom stood Philip Q
| Churchman and DIR. A. L Fran,z; the Hon
| jonathan S. Willis with Thomas S. Lewis and
| Frederic Psie, the legislative candidate from
this city. Next 10 Mr. Pyle was ii.
| IL. McMuleD, legislative candidate frem
| New Castle hundred, and following
him in the line were Samuel Alrichs,
senate ial candidate from Pebcader hundred,
and John w. Jolls, legislative candidate from
St. Georges hundred Other candidates were
| line, but it melted away in the crowd that
| surged about the entrance, in the hall and on
| the stairway. IL was Il good natured, enthus-
ast'c crowd that greeted the candidates and
wished and promised them success in No.
| vember.
There were no long speeches. There was
| NJ time for speech making. as the whole
| evening ffon TO O'Clock was occlpi d in
| introducing the candidates. All the counties
| and nearly every branch Of the county tickets
were represented at the reception
Among the candidates present other than
those Who 5000 in the line with Mr. Marvil
and Mr.. Willis were: Robert Handy,
Francis NJ. Walker, George W. Reybold and
| Walter Money, of the New Castle county
| legislative ticket; Paul Gillis, candidate for
| sheriff Emmett Stidham, candidate for coro.
ner; George Cameron, Charles H. Hudson and
| Charles Whann, candidates for assessors in
this city; William Anderson, candidate for
assessor in asd Lion hundred.
Z Fleming, candidate on legislative
| ticket, and Luther Shaw, candidate for sheriff
, of Kent county.
Horace Brown of SeaTord, candidate on the
| legislative ticket OF Sussex county.
At the conclusion OF the reception speeches
were called for ami Candidate Willis spoke
| briefly. He said that the Democratic party
had shown Its incompeteney and the people
would doom it to long period of retirement.
Candidate Marv tlsnked those present for
| the pleasant rect pttn.
Frederick L. Bach was called and spoke
briefly. He reminded those present of the
fact that new constitution was one of the
| issues of this campaign, and asked all present
| to use their influence toward the good of the
| party.
Candidate Pyle advised all to work for the
| success of the whole ticket
The reception was in charge of committee
composed of the following members of the
club:
Philip Q Churchman, president; John P.
| Nitlds, secretary; Samuel NJ Knox, Henry
| G. Conrad, DR.. A. H. Frantz, Frank A,
MITCHELL George w. Sparks, Henry II Bill.
lany, james H. Beges, Jr, Robert D. Kemp,
| John J. Mahoney, Charles A. Rudolph, Leon.
ard E. Wales, Jr., Henry R Triggs and
George c. Woodward.
Among those who attended the reception
| were:
Harry W. Adams, George H. Ash, Lewis =.
| Adair, Joseph X Adams John Apple ton.
William Michael Byrne, W. NJ Bracken, T.
| S Beah, Jr Robert Baird, John Black, j.
Paul Brown Frederick Il. Bach, Peter Batts,
Alhana Burton, f. s. r. Butler, Samuel H.
| Baynard. DR. l. Heisler Ball, Daniel P Barn
| ard, Benj,min Barnard, Henry Ii Burton z
i J Barr, Finley Barr, Harry A. Brown, W X.
! Brooks, Alvin L. Bell, Willard Brown, Will
| liam Ii. Bowers, Calvin . Bye, j. ii Blake
H. A. Brown of Seaford, John W. Barns
| Charles + Bower, Benjamin f. Bartram, An
| drew NJ BAR, Charles Baird
Frederick w Curtis, Joseph Conner, Alex
ander Crozer, W. q. Curtis, Ferdinand,
Chairs. A I. Calhoun, Philip r. Clark, VIII
liam B. Clerk, D. NJ Cahall, Frederick Clark,
| William Clayton, George Crawford, Alonzo
Chlisty, W. G. r Golquhoun, W. Frank Cor.
bit, A. A. Captle, Samue! Chadwick, Phi
lemma Chandler, Edward CLARK, Daniel Con.
nor, William Cummins, George Coates, Robert
Chaawicb, William h. Cole, John Christield,
| Henry Chairs, William Chandler, Edward
Cummins, Harry Cuiett, J. A Currey, DR..
J. Il. Chandler, Henry P. Ganron of Bridge
vile, james R, Crippen, Charles NJ. Curtis.
Peter s. Donney, Thomas II Day. A. S.
| Darlington, A. S Deverell, DR. j. NJ De Wit
of St Georges, George Drake, Joseph David
son, Frederick Darlington, Il. +. Dare, E. 7.
| DlWorth.
George A. Elliott, F. L Ellison of Penca.
der, S Il Evans, john Evans, Ii. l. EvaLs,
Richard Ennis, DR.. l.. G, Ellison OF Pencsder,
J. b. Eutricken Of Centerville.
Seth Feaster William Ii. FOulk, William
r. Finn of Newport, Samuel w. Fell, Lewis
Fell, Lambert j. Fou'k, Dr. j. F. Frantz
George NJ. Fisher, Ezekiel Fleming of Har-
! ringtoD, Henry r Fothe,gill.
Perce Gould, Harry Gould, Henry G. Guth
rie, Charles Carton, John j. Gallagher, Paul
/ Giliis, George Gilling, Charles II Groves,
Alfred Goodnow, Charles Griffith, George E.
Groves, William r. Garrett, Ferris Giles,
Chandler Gray, Lewis T. Giubb, the Rev
| Charles n Grandson.
Senator Anthony Higgins, Washington
Hastings, James Haynes, William Harvey, T.
Ceaikley Hltton, Ii. W. Hawkins j. H.
Hoh cker, Jr. Edgar L. Haynes, Frank
| Howard, Harvey Hickman, Francis Ii.
.cker, Edward Hopes, William H. Hill,
| Inn,ns H. Lin, S;rnnnn Hood l. d