The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-02

POLITICAL NOTES
BY OUR REPORTER.
The New City officers Took Possession
on Thursday. M
DICKEY A NOTARY PUBLIC.
II. r. Dare and J. Augustus rcCaulley
Say They Did Not Attend Any Confer.
ference In Artisan Bank or
Elsewhere.

Whom twelve o'clock struck the old city
officers had ceased to exist and the new
City Officers elected on June 9th last came
into power. The new City Officials were
sworn IN on Thursday and are now part
of our City municipality. The new city
Council met last evening for organization
but no protest was presented from Clarence
r, Holt for Jaines Kane's scat In the
Fourth Ward Mr.. Holt will carry his
case to tho Superior Court and try and
compel the Board Of Election to give him n
certificate of election and by this means
GUST Kano from City Council. A large
crowd was present to see City Council or.
ganlze which passed off very quietly in.
deed.
CHAIRMAN OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
There has been quite lively fight for
the craftsmanship Of the different commit
tees of City Council which has been In
progress ever since the make up of the
new council was conceded to the Demo.
Gratis. 1t Is probable that Mr.. James B.
Oberley will be given tho craftsmanship Of
the Finance committee which Is the most
important craftsmanship within the gift
Of Council.
The appointments have caused another
wrangle and there may be fun before the
will BIO weeping and wailing and gnashing
OF teeth with few choice epithets thrown
in when the appointments are made to tho
different offices.
THE POLICE AS LINGUIsTs
The police Of Kobe, Japan, are said 10
be the greatest lingulsts among the police
forces Of the world. The patrolmen speak
English, French and German. The IN,
spectors and policemen are to bs taught
and trained in the English, French. Ger
man, Russian, Chinese and Corean Ian
guages AS well as in Jujitsu, Police con-
versation books are to be distributed twice
a month or oftener, SO that the officers
may become proficient In arrcsting any
stray dialects to be found astray. Herei In
Wilmington on our police force we have
linguists too They are not hard to dis
cover. Take stroll any time up to the
hall and listen when the officers are as.
sembled for change of duty from day to
night force. All tho same our officers arc
trained to hunt down crime and arrest the
scorchers
Still there can DO found men who
speak German, Hebrew, Italian, French.
Irish and English on our force and they
take no pains to conceal the fact from any
one. Education is all right but our force
do even better than that, they can play
good lively game of baseball
Mr.. Harry Smith, councilman from tho
Eleventh ward, was Il visitor to Farnhurst
yesterday
BAYARD LEGION OFFICERS.
i'These new officers have been elected by
the Bayard Legion Democratic Club;
President, w. B. Norton; first vlcc.presi.
dent. James A. Kelley; second vice-presl-
dent, Edward J. Newell; treasurer, VII.
liam O. Prohl; financial secretary, Walter
A. McEvily; recording secretary. Will
liam Il. McTecr marshal, Frank NJ.
Sewer; sergeant-at-arms, John j. Ryan.
THE BIG FOUR.
The Dover Index says: If the Big Adj
dicks -Four of the General Assembly OF 1875
have the political hives just now, they
should como up foran Office under this ad-
ministratiop. Referee DUPONT would not
fail to give them q good scratching.
ALFRED BETS WATER COMMISSIONER.
Mayor Mclean last evening appoint ed
Alfred Belts Water Commissioner in
Henry i. Pickles place whose term expired
June Both. Tho now hppolntee is a vol
known Wilmingtonian and had been
years engaged in the machine business In
the Western part Of the CITY, He is now
living a retired life at the Clayton House.
pontment is looked on with favor but
there arc others who think the Mayor
should have renppointed Henry H. Pick.
els. Il was Mr.. Washington Hastings
wish that Mr., Pickles should DO re.ap.
pointed.
Mr.. Mc1lcar being mayor consulted
his own wishes in tho matter. Mr.. Belts
has always been II Republican but never
identified in airy manner with the party
councils. In fact he is an entire new man
in politics, and for that fact should mako
n valuable member of the water commits
sion,
NO CONFERENCE HELD.
Tho REPUBLICANS informant who
stated that Mr.. J. Augustus MCCaulley
Mr. Henry f. Dure and others held con.
ference in tho Artisans Savings Fund on
Tuesday morning III relation to the sue.
ccssor of Mr. Henry +. Pickles as water
commissioner, was mis-; aiken. This insti-
tuition doesn't allow the holding of any
political caucusses there and none what
ever took place within its walls.
The conference if it was held took place
somewhere else, but neither Of the two
above named gentlemen attended it and
neither know anything in regard to
it. Both Mr. McCaulley and Mr.. Dure
disclaim any knowledge Of any such
meeting taking place
The man who is to receive the appoint
ment to succeed Marshal II, Lannan will
reside in Now Castle Hundred
This fact is beyond dispute. Thore will
be no need Of going down t. Sussex cnun.
ty to got a candidate and man deserving
of the Office His name won't begin with
an s
Could not some of tho salaries of the
county tax collectors be cut down suili-
cient to effect n saving Of several hundred
dollars to the tax payers of New Castle
county? We think 50. Mr.. Dlclley has
another Office, he has been appointed
Notary Public by Governor Tunnel.
Tomorrow night crab soup will be on
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