Evening journal., 1894-02-20
SMITH AND MONAGHAN.
Each is Making a Vigorous
Fight to Succeed Himself.
BUT OTHER MEN ARE IN TIE FIELD

is Giving Magistrate Monaghan Hard |
Fight.
Next to the Townsend-Fllnn-C Gala |
fight for the deputy col |
lectorship Of the port Of Wilmington |
political speculation turns towards the |
offices nOST held by Magistrates Frank f. |
Smith and James Monaghan. The seven !
year term of the former expires on |
Wednesday Of next week, while that of |
the lattor expires the latter part Of next /
month. The emOlumeRts of neither |
Office are calculated 10 enrich a man ia |
seven years To tho man who has never |
held the Office and aspires 80 to do there
Is promise Of seven years Of plenty, but
after he has been in Office for two or
three years be Is loud in his proclama
tlon that his commission means seven
years OF famine Disinterested persons
know that there is a comfortable living
in either Office and the present incum-
bents make a quasi admission when they
apply for reeppointment. Both men
want to succeed themselves and build
upon that unknown quantity. the gov
ernor, to make such thing possible.
The fight for MagIstrate Smiths place
is now raging all along the line. The
candidates are the present magistrate,
John Kelley, Henry Crippen. Secretary
Of the State Bosrd Of Health + b Frazer,
aud, some say. ex-Dsputy Register Of
Wills D Taylor Bradford Each man
is sanguine of appointment and this
leaves four men open to disappointment.
lR the language OF one Of the aspirants,
who evidently knows something about
the American game, "Its like drawing
one card for a fush-you get all or moth
ing.
Magistrate Smith has made thorough
canvass Of the city. He is endorsed by
all but five OF the lawyers Of the New
Castle county bar. and has letters from
many OF the leading business men Of the
city. These he has bsen sending TO the
governor In installments to insure peru
sal His friends, who evidently regard
Mr.. Kelley As their most dangerous foe
have introduced a new factor into the
ight-that of religion. They say that
Magistrate Smiths place has always
been conceded to Protestant; Magistrate
Monaghan's to a Catholic. Magistrate
Sasse's to a mRn who speaks German
fiuently and Magistrate McWhorter's
to nan who had neither re
llRious predelictions of a particular
guages, living or dead
They say that Mr. Kelley Is a Catholic
and that Magistrate MonRghan's office is
sure to be filed by Catholic Conse-
/ Quently il the place occupied by Mr.
Smith is not given to one OF the Protes-
tant element of the Democratic party
great dissatisfaction will result
Mr. Kelley's friends laugh at such q
proposition and say that Governor Reyn
olds will look to the temporal and not
the spiritual fitness for the place. They
criticise the Smith men for introducing
such foreign mstter into the fight, and
say that they should eonfne themselves
to the issue and not fly of on creeds or
screeds
Probably the most formidable man
next to Mr Kelley is Henry j Crippen,
the genial notary public He is not what
one would term an office-hunting hustler,
/ but he Is doing good missionary work on
the quiet He entered the fight In the
last stages and is evidently sorry that he
/ did not think of 10 sooner In his official
| capacity be has made many friends and
they are doing everything possible to
advance his interests.
Secretary Edmund B. Frazer is not
believed tn dgure largely in the contest.
He is sincere in his aspirations, but the
State Board Of Health could not possibly
get along without him. IL is understood
that his principal hackers are the Gamers
of Kent and Sussex, and the owners OF
property not In good condition from a
sanitary point Of view. They want Il
get him shelved somewhere so that his
serutinizing eye will not see their sins Of
omission.
d. Taylor Bradford is not believed e
be a candidate in earnest He may be in
it for the fun of the thing, but If he is
he came ont entirely too late to accom-
plish any practical results.
Messrs. Smith, Kelley and Crippen arl
the fsvorites, the bets on the Two FIRST
named being about even. The Smitl
men are handicapped by the governors
we'll known objection to reappolntments
while the Kelley and Crippen men say
that the endorsement of the New Castle
county bar does not amount to anything
when a man has had one term, and cit'
Charles H. McWhorter as an example
When he wanted to succeed himself 8,
Jerk Of the Orphans Court and registe
in ehsncery, he not ouly had the en-
dorsement of the members OF the bar
but that of the judges as well. i
/ 0lul uhNh oul NhcNpf ApA hN ogFoAhAcN
J his old friend Colon Ferguson, whit
( probably hadn't lawyer or judge at hi
back.
Seventh Street Temple ofJustiCe.
The men who want to administer jus
/ tice in the Seventh street office sre
Mogistrsts James Monaghan, Thomas r
: Lslly, ex City Treasurer r r Grifiu
aud ex-Sergeant-at- Arms Of the Senat
John Doran.
Magistrate Monaghan is, If anything
|, more ssnguine of reappointment thai
Magistrate Smith. When the fight begai
= he said he entered it as a winner an,
: would come out with the commission Il
= his possession. He has made good
= clean record politically and IS an i'm
: partial Judge and thinks the governo
will take cognizsnce Of 1t.
:. Thomas r, Lally is the leader Of th
opposition and is leaving no homes
I. effort untried to win the .golden opinio
= of the governor It is his conviction
= that It will be Magistrate Lslly whe
the ides Of March roll around and that
and Magistrate Monaghan are the onl
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