Evening journal., 1896-10-30


past, and after this year Georgia will
be the only October state left.-New
York Sun.
POLITICAL NOTES.
I'VE have twenty-five per cent. more
money in Delaware this year than we
had two years ago." said an Addicks
leader this morning, land the money
for Kent and Sussex is already in the
hands of the workers. We have not
less than 100000 down the state. -
When this was repeated to member
of the regular Republican County Com
mittee this afternoon, he said: THAT
is all bluff They have no money
why even the band men and liverymen
here have not been paid.
Peter J. Ford will preside at the
meeting of the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club at the Auditorium tonight.
The speaker of the evening will be
Senator Gordon, of Georgia. Members
of the club and their friends will meet
at 7.45 o'clock and proceed to the meet
ing in a body.
Howell S. England will address "A
Democratic meeting at Hockessin on
Monday evening.
"a committee of the Addicks work
ers called on Addicks at his home, at
Claymont, on last Monday and de-
manded their pay, saying that they had
not received it from headquarters, -
said a regular Republican this morn
ing. "One of them told me that Ad-
dicks told them that he had put $57 900
into Wilmington this campaign, and
only $4,000 of it had been used. He
proposed to make an investigation and
see what had become of the other S22,
600. He came in town on Monday
night, and a general shaking up all
around ensued.
This evening L. Irving Handy will
address the Democrats of Hockessin.
George Lodge, one of the most astute
political observers in Brandywine hun
/ dred, says that there is no doubt Lut
that John Lynn, the Republican nomi-
nee for Levy Court commissioner, will
! be defeated in the First district by
| Abram Palmer, the Democratic nomi-
nee.
This afternoon the Democratic
County Executive Committee will meet
and arrange for the campaign wind-up
Two hundred ballot stamps and pads
have been found in the sheriff's Office
to which place they were returned by
the rural election officers, but they vii
not be used, as new ones have been or
dered.
Bird Quails is a colored voter regis
tered in the First district of East Do
yer hundred.
For the benefit Of the voters of th'
west end Of the Ninth ward, the rooms
No. 2105 Market street will be Opel
every evening until the election. Com
petent instructors will be at the room
every night, from Z to 10 o'clock.
An examination of the Wilmington
registration discloses the fact that tn
full Democratic vote is on the books
while the Republican and Addicksit
registration is from 600 to 900 short
In some districts of the Fifth ward, 70
instance, the Republican registration
has fallen off from so to GO, and tn
falling off in other parts of the city
equally marked.
Democrats complain that LOui
) Finger, one of the Wilmington letter
carriers, now under civil service, is do
E ing political work, and they threaten Z
J bring charges against him for offensiv
E partisanship. The allegation is that h
5 is working among the Jewish voters O
5 the city for the benefit Of the Republi
r can ticket.
/ When the Mckinley and Hobar
Club, of the Eighth ward, marched b
Fourth and Market streets the Saliva
tion Army sang Nearer, My God, t
e. Thee!"
At a regular Republican meetin
j in the Twelfth ward last evening ex
: Senator Anthony Higgins said his re
b spects to Addicks by saying that il wa
s not the fault of the Republican part
d that Delaware was without its fu
= representation in the United State
s Senate. II is the fault of the four me
e who entered into a written agreemen
o to stand with the Democrats to defea
r the election Of a senator; il is the fau
n of the man who arrayed the six Popu
e lists and the thirty-nine Democrats