The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-02-20
I'll |RD EDITION.
( DELAWARE BouRBoNs.


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4 DELAWARE BouRBoNs.
Rcaatbr Gray and Ambassador Bayard
Ilays Their Hands FaIl-Their PoiitI-
cal I,neu,ies at Work. !
speciai D.spa oh to the North American
DovEn, DEL. Feb. 1sth.-The Bour-
hons of Dover, Delaware, are very
openly expressing the opinion that
United States Senator Gray had better
let Hawaii, Grover, and Ex.Queen LII.
take care OF themselves for while and
turn their attention to affairs political
In hia own bailiwlck OF Delaware The
campaign year has opened, and In
every hundred In the State the Repub.
Leans are organized and active, while |
in thu ranks OF the Democracy the old
tnterneclne strife that swaInped the
party Of the Bayards and Sauleburys
in 1888. and sent Anthony Higgins
to the United States Senate is raging
with cyclonic force that makes the
aSSS breeze appsar like a summer 70
. phyr.
The fight this year is not being
fought on the same lines as was that
OF SB. Then IL was the revolt of the
old salisbury league In Kent and
Sussex, led by Uncle Ell, against the
domination of Bayard and Wolcott,
that wrought disaster to Deiaware's
Democracy. Tom Bayard at that time
was determined that the rule OF the
SaulsDurys In Kent and Sussex should
cease. and he used Jim CHOW Chancel-
lori Woloott as the club with which
Uncle LII and his clan were to DO
Knocked out. But the Saulsburys
hut 4 ~. "A.
the Democratic party should 20 with
them. and their oath was kept.
This time the finger OF Bayard is
again in the tight. and senator Gray.
TO whom Ambassador Tom leased his
seal In tito Senate when the latter went
into Cleveland first Cabinet, Is Bay
ard's lieutenant aud is supposed to TO
doing Bayard's behest in carrying out
the plan of campaign which the dis.
tlngui5hed Ambassador hao formu-
lated. This plan, briefly. II carried
out would make Ebe Tunnel. OF sus,
Eal, the next Governor, and send
Thomas L. Bayard. now Ambassador
to tile Court of st. James, to the
United States Senate in March 1885,, as
successor to Hon. Anthony Higgins,
whose term will then expire.
The TACT that both the United States
Senators would the be from the same
cOunty--Naw Castle-does not for Il
moment weigh against this scheme.
Tor do not .he preseut Senators
MesSrS. higgins and Gray-reside In
tile city oil Wilmington, on the same
Street, and with residences directly
facing each other-aHd were not
Ihomes II. Bayarl and his father
james A. Bayari, both elected on tilt
same day by Delaware Legislature
ns tho two representatives OF this
y atc In tho United States senator
Oh. no. Mr. Bnyard was well aware
when lie mapped out the coming cam
palgn that little thing like the gues
lion OF ca5ldencc would not stanC
lh the way of his going back to TIT
Senate when the mast Presidential
election shall Eave retiicd the Demo
l'rncy from the control OF national al
lars but something else, which ht
did not perhaps take into nccouut
does very seriously stand in the way
oi tho successful CARRYING out OF Am
bussndor Toms plan, ana that is tue
ambition Of two mon who weigh III orr
w. Delaware Just now than BayIrd
MID Gray combined. These men art
Robert j. Reynolds, Deluware's pres
eut Governor, and William L. Sirman
RN. Speaker of the state House o
Representatives
Reynolds ambition is to 20 to the
United States Senate, and sirlnal
WAITS o occupy lelawala's Guherna
t"tlnl chair wneA Reynolds racates !
hntt t"Gafy. Eyer since ils mas peel
elstte Governor OF lhe state, Bol
Reynolds has been liking things 81
ia IN lie event OF the Democrats car
ryiuy tile State THIS year he wUuI,
have Legislature That no could nan
die 10 achieve TIL end he Inns mad
alO his appointments Tho hickey
~ IS combine winch lie builJ III Nev
a5'le county by making John Dleke!
boss OF ell tho election machinery
gives MN the cOntot OF That county
against liaNArd ana Gray Kent county
balas his home ho cih now control
sine he has formed an alliance Wit
= pAn II. salisbury, and gotten Jane
J., Wolcott outof the way by appoint
Ing him Chancellor Tor LIE ana In Sua
ScN county iiD Is strengthening HIN
Belt 10y swinging IN behind Sirmll
nna against Iunhelland the Causeyt
Even the Gray mel OF Sussex ad
that the choice III Mt. Tunnel as
candidate Tor lt@vernOr Wis inisthk
nn the put OF tic taJ ari-,rtay cuu
blne, In the llrst pace, lie dussn [ al
pear TO want the oll!ee, and in III
second pace, II minated 10 il !thel
I'd 10 slaughtered IL BIS ewn count
by tho members Of his own party
Personally l.pe Tunnel ia an uprig Ii
stra ght-furward, conscientious maj
way above the average Delawal
emoceat!C politicians In point OF p
Htioh square dealing. But unfOr
unately his career in the only polite
Office lie ever he'd was disastrous.
1887 he was Clerk OF tie Peace in Su
Sex county.
As his deputy he appointed youn
man named Charlcs Whsatley. Whea
ley ran the olIlce and stole seye Il
thousand dollars from tho county t
means of forged orders. When Il
aiuputlleans came lutO 20 wer In :
tn Robbery was discovered. Whoa
leg committed suiclde, mud thong
Tunnel, who was inlpcont OF al
wrong except that o. neGleciAng
keep an eye on the wOrklnRsN oil Ii
Office. made good the loss to the eou
~ ont pf his pvt bIplrlf ssot ~
large faIniIy connections of tho II
fortunate young deputy IN some wa
lie ID him responsible for WheGtLey
dowafall and tragic death.
These relatives, embracing the Me
wins. the Moons, the Whedtloys, Il
Boyces, tho Grahams and the Dashiel
are all Democrats, and all lulluentia
and II 10 said they viii knife Tunut
should cray and Bayard succeed