Evening journal., 1897-01-18

NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE ELEC-
TION OF A UNITED STATES SEN
ATOR.
STAFF Correspondence Evening journal.
DOVER. Jan. 1S.-Before leaving
Dover on Saturday Mr.. Dickey de-
clared that the votes would all have TO
be counted over again, as the commit
tee had failed to comply with the or
ders of the House. which were that all
the Legislative votes should be counted.
Mr.. Dempsey returned 10 Dover on
Saturday afternoon aud resumed his
seat in the Levy Court room with the
Committee on Elections. II is said
that he will present a minority report
declaring that the work of the COM
mittee was improperly done in so far
that IL disregarded the instructions Of
the House in several essential particu-
lars.
The anti-Dickey men declare that
such a report will not stand the wear
and tear of the action of the House,
as I.eander S. Hopkins and Joseph II.
Hopkins. representatives from Kent,
and William b. Mccoy, of New Castle,
are now arrayod with the anti-Dickey
men. and il is said that there will be
ranks to-day
TRYING TO SAVE o'CONNoR.
strenuous efforts have been made to
stop the count, but they were unavail-
ing. Charles -OC'onnor. inspector OF
the Third district OF the Tenth ward,
in which the bige est change for To-
mans benefit was made, the raise be-
ing about go votes, was down here with
James B. Toman, John j. Mullen and
Michael Conway, the latter being an
other Tenth ward inspector. Mrs.
O'Connor is almost worried to death,
and the daughter has been taken from
the High School in anticipation of pro-
oeedings being taken against her
father
O'Connors friends wanted the count
of his district stopped at any cost, and
endeavored to get political friends Of
ex-Chancellor Wolcott to induce him to
interfere In time TO prevent prOsecu-
tion of the inspectors alleged to be
guilty of crooked work II is not prob
able that Mr. Wolcott was pressed to
interfere but, whether he was or was
not he certainly took no action and
the count went on.
STIR OVER THE BOXES
Willard Salisbury. Jr. came down
on the noon train on Saturday. Deputy
Sheriff Wigglesworth was on the same
train. lie was one of the men who
brought the ballot boxes down here and
who helped to guard them before they
were turned over to the committee.
Speaking}of the delivery Of the boxes,
he said that the suggestion was made
that Chairman HAZEL count them to
see that they were all there. When
the count was made the chairman could
only make It "a. Instantly everybody
interested began to count Some made
II 90 and others "a. They could not
bring It up to 9S, the desired number.
Finally the four missing boxes were
found IN another part of the room,
where they had been placed and over
looked in the scramble.
One OF the boxes had no cover and
the certificate was outside. In endeav-
oring to push It inside one of the dep
uties broke the seal. This mishap was
explained TO Chairman HAZEL and the
box was regarded with suspicion, but
when the votes were counted they
turned out all right, showing that no
one had tampered with the contents.
THE IRREGULAR VOTING.
Many funny ballots came TO light in
plainly demonstrated that lots oi
voters had not been educated up to the
Australian ballot system. Some mer
voted every ticket on the ballot. Others
failed to stamp any In two instances
the stopper OF the ink bottle had beer
used in lieu of stamp, and in severa
other cases the pen had been used L
designate the ticket which the vote
wished to cast. These irregular ballots
caused considerable argument befor'
the committee.
SERGEANT NOT TROUBLED.
Sergeant-at-arms William B. HAZEL
OF the House, is an anti-Dickey man
and has considerable influence witt
some of the Kent county members. II
is a cousin of Representative Hazel, o
Duck Greek hundred who Is Chairman
of the Committee on Elections, whicl
is trying the Cheairs-Dickey contest.
Mr.. HAZEL says that toward the clos
of last week a representative fror
Sussex county approached him in tn
lobby and said:
Il have had hard time to proven
the Introduction OF a resolution remoy
ing you from the office of sergeant-ai
arms"
What have been doing?" asked tn
sergeant-at-arms.
1If'Why You have been lobbying anon
the members on this contest an
against Dickey," he replied
Mr. HAZEL gave an answer intima'
ing that whenever the House was read
TO dispense with his services his plas
was at its disposal, and there the ma
ter dropped
CANNOT RESIGN.
Representative Dickey said to Chat
man HAZEL in the course Of convers.
tion that he could resign If he wantt
TO. Mr. Hazell said that no resigni
,tion would be accepted. If man cou
resign under fire a matter of this XIII
could never be sifted to the bottof