The sun., 1900-04-02
CONVENTION 70 NOMINATE
Union Republicans Select Aug.
% as the Day for Holding
Next State Convention.
DEPT. OF ELECTIONS NOTIFIED
County Chairman s. Frank Ewart
Files Notice That Union Republic
can Primaries Will be Held
on August % for Delegates
to the Dover Gathering.

With each day Delaware politics be-
come more interesting, and at this.early
date it seems as though the campaign
Tor the general election of Noyem ber is
in full swing. At a meeting last Thurs.
day the Union Republican State Central
Committee decided upon August % as
the date for holding the State convention
for the purpose of selecting candidates to
be voted for at tie general election in
November. The primaries at which
delegates to the. State Convention will
be selected will be held on Wednesday,
August 22.
The State Committee having fixed the
date for the State Convention, Chairman
5. Frank Ewait OF the Union Republican
County Committee at once made prepa
lations for holding the primaries in New
Castle county. On Saturday Chairman
Ewart filed with the Department. OF
Elections of this city the notice neces
sary under the primary election law.
The notice filed with the Election De-
partment was as follows;
Wilmington, Del, March 80, 1900.
Department of Elections of Wilmington,
Wilmington, Delaware.
Gentlemen
Please take notice tlat the Union Re-
publican party of New Castle county, de
sires and intends to hold primary elec-
tion on Wednesday the Twenty second
day of August, A. D., 1900, for the pur-
pose of selecting delegates to State Con.
vention of the Union Repub lean party
of Delaware, to be held in the town ol
Dover, on Thursday. the twenty-third
day of August, A. d., 1900. Said State
Convention is to be held for the purpose
OF selecting candidates Of said party tc
be voted for al the general election of A
D., 1900, as follows:
Three candidates for the Office o
elector of President and Vice-Presiden
Of the United States; one candidate TO
. the Office OF Representative from Della
ware in the Fifty seventh Congress ofth
United States; one candidate for the OF
. fee of Governor; one candidate for tn
office of Lieutenant Governor; one candi
) date for the Office of Attorney General
! one candidate for the office of Insuranc
Commissioner; one candidate for tn
! Office of Auditor OF Accounts, and On
Z candidate for the office of State Treas
urer. This notice is given under th
! provisions of Chapter 39S, Volume q
I Laws of Delaware.
Respectfully,
/ SAMUEL FRANKLIN EwARr,
I Chairman of County Commute of Unio
Republican party Of New Cast
: county.
Z The Department OF Elections acknow
! edged the notice with the customary n
! ceipts and August 22 stands as the da
( of the first primaries for delegates to
: State nominating convention.
Tomorrow's Convention.
+ Chairman Allee's State Committee wi
! meet tonight in Dover for the purpose
: examining the credentials Of the del
gates selected Saturday for the Unio
Republican State Convention to be hel
at Dover tomorrow. The col yention Il
( morrow will simply select six delegat,
to the Republican National Conyentio
to be held in Philadelphia on June l!
u No contests are reported as the result
), Saturdays primaries and everything
y in readiness for the convention.