The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-06
The DAILY REPUBLICAN,
I {. cor THIRD AND kiNo srRssrs
The Republican Printing
and Publishing Go.
PUBL IsfiED DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAYS.
Battered at the Post Office 1t Wllmimgton
~ Del, a. second.ciass mall matter.
TUESDAY, JUNE &. 1900.

SATURDAYS election was one of
the quietest that ever took place in
our city, There was less pulling
and hauling around the different
polling places than when the election
was conducted under. the old meth
DDS. Each party had it's runners
out to get out their vote and car
riages were used by some of the
candidates to haul the voters to the
polls. The Republicans will have
one member from the Fifth, Sixth,
and Seventh wards in Council, max
ing 10 Democrats and Republic
cans, which will make that body
more Democratic than ever. There
will be no deadlock unless the
Democrats fail to agree amongst
themselves They will have consid-
cradle patronage to- dispense to
their party workers and already
the number of applicants is legion.
The pulling of wires by the several
candidates has already commenced.
The Democratic office seekers are
already buttonholeing the members
Of City Council and apportioning
the numerous positions in the Water
Department, which when Washing
ton Hastings retires will give the
Democrats control of that body.
City Council will elect milk inspec-
tor, meat inspector, city auditor,
clerk of Council, clerk Of the mar
ket, auditors clerk, city treasurer S
clerk, bailff of Council and men,
bers of the city Surveying Depart
ment. There are numerous plums
to award the faithful Democrats,
while the Republicans, who could
have, had the distributing of the
patronage themselves, can look on
and fall back and think "what fools
we mortals be?" "Of all sad words
Of. tongue or pen, the saddest are
these it might have BEEN" And
they were all happy, the Regulars,
because the Unions did not elect
their ticket, the Unions because the
Regulars got it in the neck and the
Democrats because they captured
nearly every Office in sight and have
something to be truly thankful for.
IT IS estimated that 1000 Repub-
licans did not vote at the last cleo
ton. This negligence on their part
may be attributed to the fact that
there were two sets of Republicans
nominated for the different Offices.
We have been assured by number
of Republicans that they did not
vote on that account, and further
more that they never would vote so
long as this struggle tor precedence
is kept up between the leaders Of
the wings Of the party. The men
who assume to direct party affairs,
may therefore take the hint. They
must harmonic and agree on the
same candidates before they can
expect full vote OF the party. If
two sets of candidates are nominat-
ed next year, hundreds, yes thous-
ands of Republicans will not pay
the dollar to register and the cleo
ton will go by default. This defeat
is the penalty the party pays for
the refusal Of the Republican mem
beers of the Legislature to 60 into
caucus and settle the Senatorial
question last winter Had they
then acted according to party usage
this division and defeat would have
beed avoided. The question now
is, will they learn wisdom by expe-
rience, or will they repeat the blum
der next year, A Union Republic
can assures us that when the party
agrees to pledge the nominees for
the Legislature, to be governed by
party usages. that only one set of
candidates will be nominated, otn-
erwise there will be two sets and
defeat will be the result Good Re
publicans are opposed to this, and
hence they can prepare to shape
coming events. Victory on the one
side and defeat on the other.