The sun., 1898-11-11

Az it will take some time for the Board
Of Canvass Of New Castle county to COM
plete the work Of tabulating the returns,
the pluralities OF the respective persons
elected will not be known for at least
another day.
It is believed. however, that the Of
fetal vote will show that Hon. John II.
Hoffecker will have a plurality OF at
least 2,672 votes over L. Irving Handy.
The remainder of the State ticket will
have from 2,4OO to $500.
The slowness of tabulating the vote in
this county is due to the many clerical
errors which have been found, and also
to number of contests.
The most important Of these is that in
the Tenth Representative district, where
Harry w. :Hushebeck is contesting the
election of Lewis E. Eliason, Democrat.
It is expected that sensational develop
ments will follow in this investigation,
and it is more than probable that the
election officers in the Second and
Fourth districts will be arrested and
tried for altering the ballots.
Hon. George Gray has sent the follow
ing dispatch, which appeared yesterday
in one Of the New York papers:
''The returns show the result OF a very
hard battle, in which all the vehemence
OF the successful candidate and his splen-
did military record appealed to the mill
tary spirit, which is still so alive and
potential in consequence OF war so
recent and fagrlnt and not yet technl.
cally ended" :,
Touching upon the general result OF
the elections the Senator said: 1.-The
result in the country is too much in
doubt to warrant any expression OF opln-
ion. It does not seem to one at this dis
tance as though the policy of expansion
entered at all into the campaign
Ballot boxes were piled high in the
Office of Prothonotary Victor B. Woolley
at the Court House yesterday: Ninety
out OF the ninety-fve boxes being re
ceived in the course of the day. From
each of the ninety districts was received
a certificate, handed in by the presiding
officer of the district. They were KEEP
safely by Mr.. Woolley for presentation
to the court at noon yesterday, the timt
for beginning the canvass of the votes.
In order to guard the ballot boxe'
while in his possession, Prothonotarl
Woolley appointed James J. Brady
Democrat, and Edward T. Price, Repub
lican, to watch them on Tuesday night
We wish to extend to Chief OF Polio
DoIan and his subordnates our heart
congratulations on the efficient manne
in which they preserved the peace OF tn
city on Tuesday. In doing so we bellev
that we express the sentiment OF ever
. law.abidipg citizen, regardless of part!
--Ercning Jonrnof.
Aslt is an assured fact that the Repu|
licans have carried the State OF DelaWa1
and will have majority in the next Lee
islature, we hope that they will not pa
any offensive partisan laws: Ihere is
good many laws that We should like
see done away with and others mo
suitable to the present day pass
in their stead. There Is ~uesl
among some Republicans who ha
felt the yoke of oppression in Il
State of Delaware, to give the Democra
a taste of the same kind of partisan la,
That have been in vogue for the past 3
cade in our State. Who will say that t
Sussex County Republicans are not nc
together? The handsome majority roll
up for the Republican party of over o
thousand votes, shows that the 6
breach had been healed over and TT
the Republicans of the State had settl
their old animositics and rolled up tn
sleeves and gone to work getting out
vote on Tuesday last The handsol
vote rolled up for the Republicans
delaware at the election shows what
Republicans can do when they pull
gether as we'll as what quiet party VIC
will do instead OF so much speech mi
ing and brass bands and fire works
Doiy Republican.
From Sussex county comes word
contests OF the results of Tuesdays el
ton, growing out of the closeness OF
vole in several districts 1t is hoI
that all efforts in this direction will
ceive small encouragement
As Jar as the voting is concerned, tn
is reason to believe that Tuesdays el
ton was conducted with the utmost I;
ness. Money may have been used
Kent and Sussex counties, but, If so,
operations were conducted with gr
secrecy 1t is safe to presume that
vote in each district, no matter h
close, will represent the fairly hon
public sentiment of that district.
doubt the Republicans are greatly dis
pointed at not securing control OF
State Senate-which they had not so ia
the returns at hand show--but no
enlargement should be given to any
tempt on their part to secure such C
troll by reversing the result OF the c
tion in any district.
1t is said that the result in the In
Senatorial district in Sussex county Il
dispute, and that the official retul
which will be computed by the co
this afternoon, will elect Ellis, the
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