The sun., 1900-10-31
IS EFFORT BEING
MADE TO BRIGHTEN
COLORED VOTERS !?
Democrats Held That John
Thompson, Colored, Did Not
Live at SOC W. End.
THE MAN APPEARS In COURT
He Swears Positively That He Lives
There and is Allowed to Remain
on Registration List.
Many Gases Heard
Yesterday.

the appeals from the registration heard
by Judge Spruance at the Court House.
There was a large crowd all day. The
judge sat until after 6 o'clock and then
held night session beginning at 7.3O
o'clock.
J. Harvey Whiteman, Charles B..
Evans, Franklin Brockson, L. Bayard
Heisel, Andrew @. Gray, William f.
kurtz, Francis Deli. Janvier and Char
les F. Curley represented the Demo-
cratic registrars and appellants.
The Republican registrars and appel
lants were represented by Harry p.
Joslyn, Herbert L. Rice, Anthony Hig-
gins, Walter H. Hayes, David ]. Rein
hardt, Frank l.. Speakman, James w.
Lattomus, Robert III. Richards and John
4. Lynn
The Democrats asked that these names
be stricken from the list:
| For n-residence-Wiliam Nichols,
Leon Mills, John Dusquene, Nathaniel
Hill, George w. Clerk, Richard Moore,
William H. Roberts, Henry Smith, John
Smith, John Rhodes, Robert Irons, Rich.
ard Stevenson, Thomas Virgins, James
Sanders, Charles w. Whitelock, Charles
Smiley, John Thompson, Robert Cole
man, George Ward, Marshall Spindler,
George w. Spindlcr, Albert Frisby, Mat
thew Mills, Benjamin Hicks, John Col
Inns, John Tribit, Michael Lambert, Dan
iel Taylor, Richard Clerk, Philip Ander-
son, Samuel K. Still, Thomas johnson,
Walter Parker, James Papne, Frederick
Eden Bach, William Hutchinson, Thorn
as johnson, William Norris, Herbert
Gibbs, William III. Hamilton, William
Quinlin, Andrew Selby, Octavius Lewis,
Charles Anderson, Isaac Good, Irwin
Benson, William Coleson, William Sad
Ter, Joseph G. Dutton, Jr Lemuel Gill
kie, Harry Nicholas, Matthew Lope,
Robert A. Miller, Charles Moore. Flcm-
ing Armstrong, Joseph Redson, Jose
Thomas, Joseph Hilyard, Isaac Ander-
son, Frank Brown, William Tasco, Isaac
Holland.
Charged with being convicts-Henry
Boyer, John W. johnson. John Ii. Thorn
as, David White, james Murray, Her
bert j. McColley. George Bell, William
Cooper, Andrew jackson, William
White
Improper Notwithstanding Mich
OILS,
Petition of William Orth to be placed
upon the list was also presented by the
Democrats.
The Republicans asked that the fol
lowing be placed on the list: Wesley
Cook, Edward Neil. Rosario Delcos. Will
liam Martin, William 4. Pierce, Lewis
Redden, William Brown, John Kelley,
Lewis Kane. William L. NJ. McGeachie,
Thomas Fields, Samuel G. Pinckney,
Charles Sampson, Daniel Walker, Sam
uel Harris, John L. Richardson Levi
Murphy, William I. Nickerson. Walter
Little. John Iulherin. Harry Dodd.
Petition that these persons be stricken
from the list-Godfrey Lorz, Thomas G.
Jones, Joseph A. Hamilton, Patrick Nc
Cusker, Patrick Kenneally, John Thomp-
son, Earl A. Wiley, Emanuel z. Miller,
Beray Cahall, Patrick Hogan, James H.
Lynch, Henry Haley, John II. Hostler,
Charles III. Smith, David II. Smith, Ed
ward L. Smith, Joseph Crestenbaum,
Anthony Leitch, Henry Prince, Isaac
Taylor, Henry Goodman, Joseph c.
Smith, Nation Fl. Hawkins, Morris |
Goldstern, Harry Stein, William Carroll, |
Herman Grimes, Edward Cornig, David |
J. Herman, Albert II. Muhlenberg, Mar |
tin V. Moody.
The judge laid over the cases where |
petitions were filed but the petitioners |
did not appear and where the applica-
tions had been previously made and not |
pursued.
The first cases taken up We're those of |
the soldiers at Fort du Pont The regis
trar was John T.. Cheairs. Anthony Hig- |
gins represented the petitioner and L. |
Bayard HeiSel the soldiers.
The case of Godfrey Lorz was first |
taken up. He is member of Co. l.,
Fourth Artillery and enlisted in Balti-
more, coming to Fort Delaware in 1898,
and then going to Fort du Pont the
same year. He said that three or four
months ago he made up his mind to
make Delaware City his residence. This
statement of his intention caused him
70 be stricken from the list for he had
lot been a citizen of Delaware for more
han a year.
Corporal Thomas G. Jones said he had
brought his family to Delaware City in
1893 and from September of that year
Intended to make Delaware City his
'esidence. His name was allowed to re-
main on the registration.
Patrick McCusker, who has been in
he service twenty-nine years come to
Delaware from Baltimore in 1898 and
he same year brought his family here.
He is librarian at Fort du Pont. He
will be entitled to retire in six months.
His name was ordered to be allowed to
'emain on the books.
Patrick Keneally, commssory SER
,eant, stated that he intended to make
Delaware City his permanent residence.
He re-enlisted April 22,1900 for years.