Smyrna times., 1898-12-14
ITEMS OF DELAWARE POLITICS.

San.
John G. Gray is not an expansionist.
Neither is his old friend Bryan.
The Democrats of Delaware have
been purified with their own new con-
stltutiOnal fire.-.SUn.
The Union Republican Star has
risen and is now the brightest lumi-
nary in the political armament of Del
aware.
Woodburn Martin, of Georgetown,
and Editor G. W. Kenney, of Laurel,
are aspirants for the clerkship of the
Delaware Senate.
The ways of the "LOrd" are peculiar
said a politician when speaking of the
present Recorder of Deeds of Kent
county.
1t is said plans were partially COM
pleted at the secret session of the Levy
Court held last week, to complete the
St. Augustine road as Christmas pres
ent to New Castle county.
The Wilmington Sun sticks to it that
President Mckinley wants Mr.. GRAY
and majority of the Republican party
wants Mr. Addicks and these two are
in the race alone.
M. s. Plummer and I. E. Bach have
been appointed special agents in the
free delivery system, comprising Mary
land, Delaware, Virginia and the two
Carolinas.
William I. Smithers and Frank H.
Davis have both served their party
well, and the decision as to which shall
be clerk of the House of Representa-
tives will be hard one to make.
The two cOlored minister's who are
pressing for the office of chaplain of
the Delaware House of Representatives
have the good wishes of the SMYRNA
CAL. One of them ought to have the
office, it says.
The RepubIican representing the
Republican party of Wilmington and
Delaware. demands the removal of Ii
quOr gauger William S. Knight. He
was appointed during the Cleveland
Administration. He now pretends to
hold his position under a Republican
president under the protection of
civil service.
The members-elect of the General
Assembly have a month yet in
which to make up their minds con-
corning the kind of man to be sent to
the United States Senate. We do not
believe that another terrible mistake
will be made. One of the kind re-
recorded for the session of 1895, fol-
lowed by the emistake of 1897. is enough.
A mistake can be made, however. in a
different direction, by electing the
wrong kind of man. But that is not
anticipated.
1t is one thing certain that when Mr..
Anthony Higgins was United State
Senator he made appointments that in
the end built up a machine that was
hostile to him. Who are the men who
are SO prominently identified with the
Union Republican party in this county
but the men whom the erstwhile Sen
or fnH ho GcI
from Uncle Sans bounty? 1t is said
that the ex-senator has the Senatorial
bee buzzing in his bonnet as lively as
the first time when he was accidentally
elected to this high office. The Daily
Republican.
The Democrats are greatly worried
over the retirement of Hon. George
Gray from the United States Senate.
We admit that Senator Gray has made
a creditable record in the Senate, but
we suppose that if another man should
be elected the earth will continue to
exist. AS estimable men as he is have
passed away and still legislation goes
on as usual. The Republicans will
find some on who will be able to vote
and carry out their policy, and the
people will prosper notwithstanding
the change The Rodneys, the Clay
tons and the Bayards have passed
away, and yet legislation goes on and
it will continue to go on when all the
great men in the Democratic purity
will have turned to dust. DAILY Re
publican.
1t is stated that the Republicans in
the next General Assembly will stand
sixteen for Addicks and fifteen against
him. This majority of one would be
sufficient to secure the caucus nomi-
nation of the Gas-man, provided his
Republican opponents are caught in
caucus. As matter of fact, however,
those fifteen against will be found to
grow sadly fewer and fewer as the
session time approaches. Dover IddeG.
There is not even the shadow of fear
that the Ignorant colored vote" of
this State will ever dominate. They
could not, if they would, and it is
more than silly for reputable news
paper to roar against one class of ig-
norant voters, knowing full we'll that
the Democratic party in Delaware has
always secured its maiorities through
the votes and trickery of the vicious
and ignorant whites. Ignorance is
not confined to those who have dark
skins. There are others. s.-Morning
NTosns