Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-11
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Attitude of the New Castle
County Republicans.
WANT ONE THAT IS PARTISAN
Rejection of the Democratic
Proposition.


A meeting Of the Republican County
Committee was held on Saturday after.
noon at the rooms Of the Young Mems
Republican Club, and tho chief bust.
ness done was TO declare for a partisan
Constitutional Convention delegation.
Chairman l.. II. Ball presented the
County Committee asking that The
two parties in this county agree to d
bipartisan delegation TO the Constitu-
tional Convention. The communica.
tion was ordered spread upon tho min.
utes, but immediately afterward the
following, which was offered by Fred
f. Bach, was adopted without dis.
senring vote:
Resolved, That it is the sense Of
this committee that the Republican
party Of New Castle county, in pursu.
nnee of its patriotic purpose TO re.
establish in Delaware q popular OF
Republican form of government, should
nominate 10 capable and representative
members Of the party as delegates of
the Constitutional Convention pro.
yided for under recent act of the
General Assembly,"
= When the question Of apportionment
was brought up, the following, which
was offered by Joseph G. Jols of ST.
Georges, was adopted:
Resolved, That in providing for the
nomination Of the aforesaid 10 delo.
gates in New Castle county, they he
spportioned in equal numbers five
delegates to the First district and five
delegates to the Second district. z
+ Another resolution. as follows. was
also adopted, after there had been con.
siderable debate thereon.
Resolved, That in view Of the din.
culties confronting fair and satisfac.
tory apportionment of tho delegates
among the many subdivisions of the
First and Second districts, respectively,
1t is hereby ordered that at the next
Republican primary election to be held
in New Castle county, tho Republican
voters OF each ward and hundred shall
select as many delegates as is now their
custom to select for State Conyen-
tion, which delegates in district CON
rentlons assembled at place and date
to be named, shall nominate five good
and true men for each district, and the
same shall be the candidates of the
Republican party Of this county for
delegates to the Constitutional Conyen-
tion. -
Still another resolution was adopted
1t was as follows:
Resolved, That the delegates for the
district convention shall assemble in
this city on the first Saturday succeed.
ing their election at o'clock. n. M,
the 40 delegates Of the First district 10
meet in the hall Of tho Young Mems
Republican Club and the s. delegates
of the Second district at Republican
headquarters, =
1t was the sense Of tho meeting that
where delegate finds he cannot serve
he shall have the privilege of naming
his alternate. When the matter of ap
Forthcoming the legislative ticket came
up, the representatives. Of the three dis
tricts held caucuses, the result Of which
was that the candidates for representa-
tlyeF will be named in Christina. Mil
Creek White Clay Creek, Rcd Lion.
81 Georges, APPOINTMENTS and vii
minston. Erandywine and Peneader
have tho huliing.over Senators
Wilmington was accorded the one Sen
ator and one Representative. Tho
primaries will probably 10 held in
August.