The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-23

POLITICAL: !.
VI. ! !. !. =. GOSSIP.
Stephen Downey Has Not
Withdrawn.
$4,000 BALLOTS ORDERED,
Henry Mahaffy IS d Mad
Man and Has Every
Reason to Be. ;,
$4,000 BALLOTS ORDERED,

The writer OF these notes approached Mr.
Harry Mshalfy Yesterday afteriiouH 1t tn,
farnasf's picnic At Jhsllpot pack and after
shaking hands wish the OK Marshal asked
him what be Was out forS
He replied notning, tlYas thoy would not
LOT him oSine Gus fer ahsssA. He shsis snil
that hs had ssut tive Isstevs 70 tbs oeanty
executive committees which had ~ head.
quarters at che Uninn Ropubsican Club,
corner OF Fiftn and Shipiey stfessA
One OF the l0sseeS b. Aldresscd 10 Daniel
+. Stewart and she oljsss one 10 DR. j.
Heisler Ball After waiting fds seyerai
days for reply to Bis letters 10 came Into
The city and called At the hoadquarters.
He saw Howard Il. Stuats AID asked him
10 be had not rscsived letter from him.
MI. Stats replied In the affirmative and
said that he had sent an answer to Nj. Ma.
haffy. well" replied Harry, III you have
] never received 1t, and am we'll known
in the city and county. don't believe you
ever ssntsn sn:wsr 70 my letter" Mr..
Staats was equally positive that his letter
had been answered Be that a. Is msy
Harry said he never received word IN
answer to esther one Of bis letters
He chen tandered his fifty dollars ~ re-.
CURED by the county committee as his al
sessmcnt whom 1t was refused, with the
repiy that certain Candidate had been
slated for th8 Office and that there WINS NO
use Of him running this time This was
the last straw TO break the casnel's baok
and Harry said that he would turn IN from
that minute and work against every Adj
dicks candidate. He Immediately started
blamed for this pieces Of pUlitioal trickery.
The different cnndidases on the Repub-
loan ticket were &sBessed as follows:
BheFinS SO each. There are i've Candidates
In the field. -
Tho ooronsrs, seS each There are SIX
candidates.
IThs recorder Of deeds, 30 each. There
are 10 candidases.
The State Senators 30 each. There are
On The representatives, v each. There are
The road commissioners, Is each. There
are 20 candidates.
The ASSESSORS, Is each There are 10
Thus running the amount collected from
tho candidates WIS over 81 1000.
Sixty thousand ballots have been ordered
printed by the committee and arc now
ready for distribution The way to vote
for The candidates of your choice will be to
cross OF Of the ballot the names Of tho
candidates whom you do not wish TO vote
for.
The tickets are now being sent to the vo-
ters by the different candidates and there
will be no trouble for every voter to pro-
cure one or more tickets without having
to go to the polls to get them.
The polls will open at O'Clock and re-
main open until O'Clock IN the evening,
10 that everybody will have o chance to
vote.
Archie s. Read 10 mad. And he has q
perfect right to be at the manner which his
friends induced him TO consent
20 allow the use Of his name for represent
;ative.
They came to him and requested him to
withdraw. He says he 10 out Of politics,
md never was politician and has no de-
ire for office.
The candidates were out In full force at
he farmers picnic yesterday at Sbeilpot
Dark and were getting In their work when.
ver and wherever possible. 1t Is strange
What lying some mon will do when IT.
ONES to politics. 1t Ia get there no mat
or how or by what means Mr.. Stephen
)owney says he has not Withdrawn from
he race for State Senator from first dis
rict and Is In the race to stay until the
Tolls close on Saturday night. Rninors
ave been circulated that Mr. Downey had
withdrawn. It's another one OF those con-
emptibl campaign lies.