Evening journal., 1900-08-29
BIG -FOUR Arb
ON Tub WAR PATH
Will Fight the Salisbury
Element
Say They Will Vote The Republican
Ticket Before They Will Sup
port Salisbury
special to the evening Journal.

Camden, Aug 2S.-There is turmoil
in the old Shoe String district, just
below here. which embraces in its con-
fines the famous old bark mill of Sock
um, where John c. Gooden, OF hlstor-
ical fame was wont to mediate, and
from which. way back in the eighties,
lie sent forth those sulphurous fulmi-
nations which made his fellow Demo
Gratis who held the soft berths in the
county building In Dover tremble. II
also takes in Willow Grove, the noted
old grocery Of which has been the scene
OF so many political gatherings in the
olden days when the Saulsbury's rule
and afterwardswhen theWolcott faction
crossed swords with that powerful tri-
umvirate. Potent assemblages were
there OF times also, as upon that result
hinged the fate of the state politically
more than once. There has always
been more or less trouble and turmoil
among the Democratic brethren Of the
old Shoe String, so the present condi-
ton of affairs is nothing particularly
new, but 1t exists.
The Big -Four, Robert J. Reynolds
William Dickson, Samuel Meredith and
John Dill. il seems. have met in conven-
ton and decided that John Dill shall
be the legislative nominee this time
and none other. The Big Four, 1t must
be remembered, are anti-Saulsbury
tooth and Toe nail, bitter, uncomprO-
missing. knife to the hilt, and all that
Hence it will be readily recognized that
John Dill, their selection, is not likely
to enter any combination that looks
| like Willard Salisbury dnd r. r. Ken
ney for the senate Dill's vote would
20 for his namesake John. with the
suffix Of Biggs.
The quartet last Saturday, or some
time thereabout announced their die.
tum at the grocery where the faithful
met to swap peach yarns and whittls
cracker box lids, and the announcement
has aroused CONSERVATION up and dowr
/ the line. 1t is known that the quartet
is acting In conjunction with the littl,
ring in Dover and that the Causeys
OF Milford, are also no strangers tC
the movement
All the same the old Salisbury ele
meni is up in arms and things will bG
red hot from now on till the primarie,
are held on September s. A represen
tative Democrat from that section il
Dover yesterday said that the Big Fou
anu lHtll lbiitWtlb uptni9 unoCll tia
they will vote the Republican ticket
before they will support a Saulsbur!
or any one in league with them. Thi
Democrat added It would not be tn
first time that these same men vote
the opposition ticket
Senator r. R. kenneys name Is no
so prominently mentioned but it 4
known the old Wolcott ring have n,
love fer him, and never had. He go
his political training in the Saulsbur!
school, was for years closely identl
fed with it, never would train with tn,
other factions and in fact made hi
last big political fight directly agains
the Wolcott interests with all OF tina
faction opposing him. They may hat
the Saulshurys' deeply-but they Ger
tainly have no love for Kenney Their
will be much interest in this sQlabbl
/ and the eyes OF Kent will focus on tn
Shoe String from now till the evening
! of September s.