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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24
For the con.ti,u,ional Convention.

The convention that met in this city
Thursday and named candidates for
delegates TO the Constitutional Con.
rention made ticket that is unex-
ceptionable, save in one or two 10.
stances, and one that in it's entirety ia
strong and satisfactory. The nomina-
tions of Senator Gray and ex,Attorney
General John Biges are unusually good.
They will be leaders in the convention.
The ticket nominated Thursday will,
in all probability, be elected in Noyem-
Der. True, it is partisan ticket. com
posed of ten Democrats. 1t would have
been good thing to entirely eliminate
partisanship from this feature of the
coming election, and agree upon non
partisan convention tickets of five
Democrats and five Republicans in
each county. But this desirable nropo.
sition. when made, wss rejected, and
partisan tickets on each side followed.
The blame for this failure rests
entirely upon the Republican party.
The Democratic party, through its
official board, made the proposition for
non partisan tickets, but it was refused
with scant courtesy. The probabilities
are that a convention unanimously
Democratic will be the result, which
will be snail comfort to those Repub.
licans whose blind partisanship led
them to reject an offer of equal division.
A Constitutional Convention equally
divided in membership between the
two leading parties would have been an
excellent thing for thu people. The
next best is Convention in the control
of Democrats.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24
A WORD oFTHE DRESS sTuFFs

Quieter effects prevail this
season--not an absence of
color. by any means, but an
absence of large designs. The
whole gamut of rough stuffs
is run--she weaver showing
his Difference to the tailor by
producing fabrics that will
closely follow the contours of
the wearer. This is noticeable
in the great family of cheviots,
the cheviot beauty left, but
the hummocky thickness re-
duced. Sac de Rasin and the
Potato-bag weaves exemplify
this. Broadcloths and the
smooth surface covert cloths
and serges fully hold their
own--thecoverts showing new
beauty. A brief list Of the
stutts in the Dress Goods Sa-
lon would read like this-llsing
the everyday names
Cheviots Bourette
Zebelines Diagonals
Camel's-hair Brocades
boucle Epingles
~ -
Souffle Tinsel Mixtures
Covert Cloth Tweeds
Homespuns Broadcloths
and the army of Plaids.
The mails make the whole
land a neighborhood. If you
cannot give yourself the pleas
ure OF a visit, write to us and
we'll send hints and samples
-of course, you'll guide US by
giving an idea of price limita-
tons and whether black or
colored stutts are wanted. we
don't believe careful folksever
toget to help us by this much.
loHN WANAMAKER.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

In his Dover address, Mr. Bryan
divided the people into two classes.
the producers and non producers and
scored the non producers quite sharply.
1t would be interesting to know if Mr..
Bryan classes himself as among the pro-
ducers, and. if SO, what he produces to
warrant his claim.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

There are now five candidates for
Governor in formal nomination in this
State. The list includes ono Demo-
cratic candidate, two Republican, one
Prohibition and ono Single Tax. After
the ballots are counted in November, it
win be found that the name of Mr..
Ebe W. Tunnel, the Democratic can
didate, leads all the rest.''
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Autumn and Winter-.for to
see the textiles gathered at
Wanamaker's is to have seen
all that is best in the loom
products Of France, Germany,
England and America to
have seen not only a compre-
hensive gathering Of what the
leading stores of the world
shall have to offer during the
season, but hundreds OF ex.
elusive elegances designed for
us and controlled by US.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Spinal meningitis, which has been
prevalent among horses in this vicinity,
is reported to be disappearing. Farmers
in Brandywine hundred have lost quite
a number of horses recently.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Mrs. J. A. Ewell, wife of the Rev. j.
A. Ewell, of Georgetown, was taken to
the Delawale Hospital yesterday for
treatment, she having been injured
short time ago by fall.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

A man has been arrested in Jersey
City on charge Of obtaining goods
under false pretenses, because he
bought trade dollars at fifty cen is
apiece and passed them at their face
value in the purchase OF goods. But
this man is not so dishonest as the free
silver coinage advocates want the
government TO be, rs the trade dollar
contains more silver than the standard
dollar does, and therefore has greater
intrinsic yalus.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

FIX Representative Geary of The First
California district has refused to take
the stump for the Bryanites BECAUSE
he cannot lend his assent to the plank
in the Chicago platform announcing
the Supreme Court of the United
States, "a plank" he says (which
has too much of a Jack Cade favor to
be endorsed by any conservative, law.
abiding citizen. +"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

The Regular Republicans of Sussex
county have determined to defy the
Addicks leaders by placing a county
ticket in the field. Primaries have
been ordered for Saturday next, for the
election Of delegates to county con-
vention TO be held at Georgetown on
October lst. Two Republican local
tickets in Sussex county will make
politics decidedly Interesting there.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Mr.. Bryan, both at Dover and viii
mington, quoted with great JUNCTION
the bimetallc views of Prince Bis
marck. 1t is the most savage growl of
the Silverites that the advocates OF
sound money draw their financial in
Spiration from England. Mr.. Bryan
seems to be drawing his from Germany.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24


After the election and the defeat Of
Bryan and Populism, the historian
who writes the history of this remark.
able campaign will, if truthful, Gays
tho Philadelphia Ledger. ascribe the
result to three conclusive causes
First, the invulnerable uprightness
and intelligence Of the American
people; second, the power and energy
VI the newspaper press Of the country
10 disseminating truth, dispellng
illusions and deiusions, and in its con.
tentions against fallacious and pernici-
Gus political doctrines; and third, the
conclusive force of Bryan's unschooled
and nischievous public addresses,
which convinced the electorate Of his
conspicuous moral and intellectual IN
fitness for the great Office he had
sought. Which of these three reasons
was the dominating one it will proba.
bly, be decided was the latter as it may
reasonably be assumed that Bryan s.
speeches will have, had "a greater in
fuence than all other things combined
in the accomplishment of his defeat.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Twelve Democratic papers in Ala.
bama refuse to support Bryan and
sewall and are doing good work for
Palmer and Buckner. In section of
the country whore populism has been
so rampant this is good showing.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Robert D. Drummond died on Monday
at his residence, No. 931 Poplar street.
OF dropsy, aged "a years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Democratic organs down the State
are obiecting TO the charge that Mr..
Bryan is not Democrat. They have
only to look to the past utterances of
their candidate to learn that the charge
is strictly true.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Ex-Governor Flower ably defined the
position Of thsSound- Money Democrats
in his opening address at the great
Palmer and Buckner Democratic meet
ing in Madison Square Garden, New
York, Tuesday night, He said:
1--WE are Democrats and not Popu
lists. We are in favor of liberty, regu.
lated by law. VI. are not reyolu.
tionists. We believe in maintaining
our form Of government in lis full
vigor; the legislative department to
make the laws: the judicial 10 ex-
pound them, and the executive 10 en-
force them. We believe 10 law and
order; not in riot and disorder. We
believe in dollars of full intrinsic
value, measured by the markets Of the
world. We are not Soc Democrats,
We favor tariff for revenue only.
We declare that the government should
not engage 10 the banking business.
We are opposed to fiat money. We
favor the merit system; the fewer
the spoils tho less corruption in party
politics. We believe in economy in
every department of government. We
iudorse the administration Of President
Cleveland. Our principles point the
way to stability 10 government, not to
doub tful experiments; to confidence
In business, not to uncertainty; to
prosperity, not to panics"
Here is d plain, positive. explicit
statement of the true Democratic posi-.
ton, in single paragraph. Governor
Flowers pungent sentences are golden
epigrams. They cannot fail to com
mand the approval of all who read
them.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

1t is hard to conceive why Mr.. Bryan
should have gone so far out of his way
az to make bitter and viniictive at
tack upon the clergy in his address al
the Auditorium, Monday night. His re-
ception at Dover was marked by the at
tendance of several clergymen, who no
doubt were sincere in the welcome
they extended him. How these uivines
will feel to day, when they read of
Mr.. Bryan's malicious and unwar-
ranted attack upon their class, it is
not easy to imagine.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Here is another instance of the shifty
and insincere support that Candidate
Bryan is receiving from many Democra-
tic papers that support bin on the score
of "party regularity" 1t is from the
Mobile, Ala, Register, which, after
quoting an assertion that 'the country
will be ruined il Mr.. Bryan is elected, )"
replied: 1--WE quite agree that this
will be SO, provided the policy enun.
ciated by the Democratic convention in
Chicago is carried into effect; but we
do not believe that policy will ever
find a place on the statute book. We
do not believe Mr.. Bryan himself, when
he is brought face TO face with the
probable consequences Of carrying out
that policy, will dare to do what he
declares on the stump should be done. -
1t would be more honest for the Regis
ter to work against even the possibility
of Mr. Bryan being permitted to carry
out his disastrous policy.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

The Milford News and Advertiser has
enlisted for the war. Abiding to the
refusal of the Addcks Republicans to
compromise on Presidential Electors,
it says:
Let every true Republican accept the
issue raised and battle with all his
might and With the heroism of self
sacrifice. Let the fight with Addicks
be made with the knife, and the knife
10 the hilt. Let the servants and
abettors receive the same treatment
that is given the master. In political
sense, let them be welcomed with
bloudy hands to hospitabe graves. .
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

Why is it that the Single Takers Of
this State are go enthusiasticall in
favor Of Bryan and SewaIl? This query
is respectfully referred to the Demo.
Gratis Il Kent county in general and of
the town OF Dover in particular.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24

According to the Susssx Republican Of
Georgetown, the price OF votes is 10 rule
high in Sussex county at the coming
election. THE Addicks lieuteuants
have SO encouraged the vote sellers that
there would be an abundance OF money
on election day., - 1t says, that they arc
making very high estimates as to what
they will receive for their votes. They
are counting on all the way from one
hundred to five hundred dollars each.
One fellow asks one thousand for his
vote and influence, and bis Influence
does not amount to much either.
In view Of these exfravagspt expecta-
tions, the Republican thinks il would
be well for the vote,sellers to come
down a little. II claims that "Mr.
Addicks will have to buy at least 8, 600
votes in this county to succeed in
carrying 1t, and such figures as these
might scare him off and then they
would be left - Its modest conclusion
is that the boys should be little
more moderate in their demands. -
The chief value OF the Sussex Repub.
LEANS deductions is that they furnish
good Republican testimony of the
intention of the dominant faction of
the Republican party to corrupt the
suffrage in Sussex county by the lavish
use of money. Here lie fair warning in
advance.
Ii ought NOT 10 he fiifficujt Tn cbecl,.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
School Commissioners.

The Board of School Commissioners
met on Monday. Messrs. Everist. Ash
and White present.
The contract made by the building
committee of the Third district with W.
L. Plack, of 1903 Filbert street, Philada.,
to furnish plans and specifications for a
High School at Elkton was approved.
The resignation of Miss Martha Biddle
as principal of school No. ?, Seventh dis
trict, was received, and with deep regret
accepted, as she has for over forty years
ranked among the most successful of our
teachers, with friends in every section of
our county who regret that falling health
forces her to this step. Our best wishes
go with her in her declining years.
The bill of SIS for ground rent due
Bayard estate, J. w. Steele, agent, for
colored school No. 2, Second district, was
ordered to be paid.
The trustees for the schools were APP
pointed and will be published later.
Trustees are required by the State law
to take oath of Office, to meet and organ
ize within thirty days, and to report their
organization to the Board of School
Commissioners.
The building committee of the High
School, Elkton, was authorized to accept
the Mackall lot, about one and half
acres, on Mackall street, and to pay for
the same ween a good and sufficient deed
is made.
The request of the trustees of school
No. I, Seventh district, to appropriate $40
to complete the payment on the organ in
their school was received.
Tee plans of w. l.. Plack, architect, for
the High School were accepted and will
be on exhibition on and after May goth.
Adjourned. GEO. BIpDLE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Borough Election.

The hottest borough election Ris-
ing Sun ever experienced was held
last Monday. The old board with
the addition of j. W. Barnes in
place of Jefferson Haines stood fol-
reelection and new ticket com
posed of e. III. Worthington, lei.
Fl. Haines, J. G. Hindman, Geo,
r. Grason, and Cecil E. Ewing was
placed in opposition. 81 votes
were polled, the total number Of
votes being 10Y. The result showed
that four of the new ticket and one
of the old had been elected. The
full vote was as follows: E. H.
Worthington, 81; H. Ell. Haines
50; J. G. Hindman, 81; Geo. r.
Grason, As; Cecil E. Ewing, A; A
L. Dyckinck, 4S; Jonathan Rey-
nofds, 46; Theodore Garvin, 46; W.
J. McDougal, SO; J. w. Barnes, 33:
scattering votes, S. P. Ryan, 3; G,
S. Fox, 2; J. r. Coates, 1; DIR. G
S. Dare, 1.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Orphans Court.

The Orphans Court was in regular
session on Tuesday. All the judges being
present.
Sundry claims against deceased estates
were examined and passed.
Bonds Approved. Bond of Harvey R..
Alexander, executor ofReuben Alexander;
bond of Newton Couden, Samuel S.
Couden and John R. Couden, executors
of James F. Couden; bond of John w.
Falls, administrator of Sarah R. Shippers;
bond of Henry Vinsinger, administrator of
Anders Rasmussen; bond of Laure J. Nc
Clenahan, guardian of Walter McClena-
han; counter bond of Anthony S. Davis,
administrator of James A. Davis.
The following accounts have been filed.
Sixth and final account of Robert c.
Hopkins, guardian of Earnestine Row
land; first and final account of James F.
Evans, administrator of Hannah E. War
field Ist and final account of Elizabeth
Spence, executrix of Thomas Spence and
distribution struck on same; Ist and final
account of Henry G. Hager, administra-
tor of John J. Hager; 9th account OF
Robert c. Hopkins, guardian of VIM. S.
Rowland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Elkton's Great floral Show.

The opening day at Barksdale was
ushered in under particularly unfortunate
circumstance. In the first race Penbrook,
ridden by Harry Manlove, fell and the
jockey was badly if not fatally injured
In the third race India Rubber, in charge
of Jockey Dwyer, fell and it was found
necessary to kill the animal as its back
was broken. Several other horses met
with accidents during the day.
The Elkton Racing Meeting came to All
end on Monday after run of twenty-six
days. Travel to Barksdale track from
E1kton is by vehicles of every description
by short cut across the country Many
of the people quartered here have gone
to Wilmington, Newark and neighboring
farm houses around Barksdale. There
are numerous rumors afoat as to another
track being opened here at the close Of
the Barksda1e meeting, and it seems to be
accepted that at least another thirty day
meeting will be arranged for in this
vicinity.
The above is the APPEARS report of the
great Cecil county enterprise which is
such good thing that it is likely to re-
turn from Barksdale to Elkton.
The Republican party have boosted
that they redeemed all their pledges to
the people at the last legislature. If there
was any one demand more earnestly made
than this racing gambling association
should be debarred from plying their ne
farious business in this county by the
legislature we have failed to hear of it.
We are likely to have the nuisance con-
tinuously as at Gloucester, N. J. For two
years it is to go on judging from present
indications, and when the June ''meet"
is closed at Barksdale, it will open for
July in Elkton, and vice versa!
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Change of Officers.

Perry Litzenberg was the first
coroner who qualified in Cecil
county. He has been coroner fol
twenty five years, and was succeeded
the first Monday of the present
month by William p. Dean. Other
county officers who were ap-
pointed by the governor, and who
have qualified are John Hartenstine
and Norville G. Brown, notary
publics, at Rising Sun. I. r.
Taylor, William P. Coulson, justices
of the peace, Sixth district. L.
Britton Carhart, justice of the
peace, Ninth district. Isaiah Biddle,
justice of the peace, Fifth district.
Thomas III. Cummings, justice OF
the peace, Eighth district. Samuel
P. Wivel, justice of the peace,
Second district. Thomas G. Bond,
Jr., notary public Port Deposit.
R. M. Brown, justice of the peace,
Seventh district. Chas. T. Pryor,
duck police, Third district.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Maryland Temperance Alliance.

The meeting of the Maryland
State Temperance Alliance will be
held Tuesday evening, May 26th,
all day Wednesday, May 9th, and
Thursday, May 2Sth, in Baltimore.
The twenty third annual meeting
of this organization is advertised to
take place as above. This Alliance
has been holding an annual meeting
in all these years with an elaborate
program composed mostly of
speeches by Reverend ministers of
various churches and devotional
exercises but the thing seems to
stand still. We have never heard
of it getting outside of Baltimore,
and of it's making very little stir in
the city. Of what use is such a
dead and alive concern anyway?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Primaries.

The democratic clans are sum-
moned to assemble at the district
places of meeting on Saturday,
May %, to hold primary meetings
to elect five delegates to the county
convention which will meet in
Elkton the following Tuesday, May
26, which county convention will
elect four delegates to represent
Cecil in the State convention that
will meet in Baltimore, June 10th.
The county convention will also
elect four congressional delegates to
meet in Havre de Grace, Sept. I'd.
These delegates will be in the
interest of G. G. Crothers for con-
gress, and the primaries are likely
to be warm.
The judges for the primaries in
the four upper districts are;
Sixth District-W. W. Nickle,
Jacob Kennard, DR.. T. B. Moore.
Seventh District-W. I. Patten,
A. L. Barry, VIM. X. Reckefus.
Eighth District-Z. I. Rawlings,
E. r. Hill, Howard Reynolds.
Ninth District-Geo. W. Taylor,
Samuel Fitzgerald, Joseph P.
Groves.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
COIOra Notes,

W. w. Davis, state organizer OF
the Improved Order of Heptasophs,
is still with us, working for new
members for the conclave recently
organized here.
Capt. J. L. Eames is moving to
the house of s. M. McCardell at
Mt. Pleasant.
Jos. P. Brown has staked out the
new building to be erected for Prof.
j. G. Conner at West Nottingham.
West Nottingham Academy will
hold commencement exercises on
June 20. One of the items on the
program is a debate on the subject,
Resolved-That the United States
should aid Cuba in her fight for
freedom. The disputants are VIM.
f. Crothers and Burton Wiley on
the affirmative and Miss Cora Wiley
and Thos. M. Donnelly on the
negative. BLUE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Death of William Parker.

William Parker a former resident
of Port Deposit, and of local literary
note in his day, died in Brunswick,
Ga, last week at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. John w. McCul-
Tough. His remains were brought
to Port Deposit for burial and de-
posted in Hopewell cemetery. Mr..
Parker was for a time clerk in Cecil
Bank and also private secretary for
Mr.. Tome. In the days before the
war he was the Port correspondent
for the Cecil Wing when Palmer G..
Ricketts, conducted the paper on
the old political lines of Wing party
VS.. Democrat party. He wrote
over the name of "Peter" and his
letters were SO piquent as to attract
wide attention, and much curiosity
to ascertain the author who re
manned incog till revealed by
Edwin Wilmer, who nominated
William Parker, the "Peter" cor
respondent as a candidate for the
House of Delegates on the Wing
ticket. "Peterp was defeated, his
sharp, prickly letters, proving a
source of weakness at the poles,
though of infinite jest to everybody
but the fellow who happened to be
hit. Mr.. Parker was 83 years OF
age.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
Cliautauqua rleeting.

Holmes G.. L. s. G. met with
Mrs. Emma P. Haines last Wednes-
day evening. The regular program
was carried out in full, one item of
exceptional interest being a well
prepared paper on the lives and
characters of Ferdinand and Isabella,
by Prof. T. d. Bowers. 1t was
decided to defer the election of a
delegate to represent the circle at
Chautauqua, N. Y, next July,
until next meeting, which will be
held with Misses Maggie and
Jennette Reynolds on May q.
The following program has been
prepared for the OCCASION: Music;
quotations from c. FL. Spurgeon;
character sketch of Spurgeon, Miss
Rhoda V. Wilson; music; witty
saying of spurgeon, Cecil e. Ewing;
quiz on the two week study. Miss
Rhoda V. Wilson and Cecil g..
Ewing were appointed censors for
the ensuing term.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1896-05-15
History of rIaryland Banking.

At the regular fortnightly meet
ing of the Economic Conference oof
the Johns Hopkins University,
held in the Bluntschli Library last
week, Mr.. Alfred Goodman Bryan
of Rising Sun, Nd, presented an
abstract of GA History of Banking
in Maryland" work which he
has just completed.
Mr.. Bryan is a son of the late
Rev. J. Il. Bryan who was the
Methodist minister stationed at
Rising Sun for several years, where
he died. Mr.. Alfred Goodman
Bryan is not a resident Of this place
as the Baltimore paper from which
the above extract is taken states.