Evening journal., 1900-06-18
BRYAN MEN
MAY CONTROL
State Convention Likely to
Name Free Silver Delegates
GOLD MEN IN STRONG FIGHT
ChampiOned by Patrick Neary They
Will Make Bold Stand-PIatiOrm
DenOunceS AddickS

Democrats Of Delaware will meet in
State Convention at Dover tomorrow
TO elect six delegates to the National
Democratic Convention in st. Louis.
That the Delaware delegates will go
pledged to support William Jennings
Bryan for the presidency is a foregone
conclusion. as the Silver men allege
! that they are in a position to control
the convention and to consequently |
elect their. candidates without any
great effort.
All is in readiness for the conven-
ton. New Castle county named her
sixty-five delegates several weeks ago
| and Democrats Of Kent and Sussex
Il counties each named sixty on Saturday
Nearly all of these are Silver men. The
convention will assemble at IL o'clock,
but not until afternoon will the con-
vention begin its principal work.
John Biggs will call the meeting to-
order and he will name temporary
chairman who will be succeeded by
7 John f. Salisbury, an avowed Bryan
: man Of Kent county. as permanent
chairman. Thus the Silver element OF
the party will have won its first night
and will have paved the way we'll to
G controlling the convention. Subsequent
! action by the Silver men will prove
their strength.
\ It is the alleged intention of the New
: Castle county delegation to precipitate
the fight for Bryan delegates and in
! the work they will be assisted by For
J rner Congressman L. Irving Handy
r and John G. Gray. Bryan leaders
4 here In Patrick Neary. chairman Of
: the New Castle County Executive Com
4 mittee and John Biggs, chairman of
! the Democratic State Central Commit
: tee, they will have strong individual
\ opponents, they having determined to
make the Gold element OF the party
assert itself in the convention. They
! will fight for the selection Of John II
L Rodney, William #. lyman. David T
/, Marvel or Andrew G. Gray as delegates
4 to the National Convention.
ii The fight over national delegates
from Kent and Sussex counties will be
equally as spirited as that among the
New Castle state delegates. In Ken
county Senator Richard r. KeRney Il
expected to be one Of the two meI
chosen. Others who desire the homo
L are John Cosgrift. Smyrna, ClintoI
! Iltlly llluu anu a. M DAONntf VI ifONNA
The Sussex county candidates ar
John NJ. Richardson. r. d. Hearne, w
n n. Stephens and George II. Draper. bu
e. as news of no slate having been formc
lg has reached this city. It is almost i'm
as possible to say at this time who vii
ut be chosen. but Bryan men viii, Il
lg understood, be named.
as PLATFORMS IN EVIDENCE.
OF Platforms will be strongly in evi
dcnce Each faction OF the party vii
in present an instrument bat the one tha
ed will be adopted has been drawn b
Us New Castle Silver men. It danounce
d. the Mckinley administration as on
an that is corrupt and unnecessarily Law
ss. ish in its expenditures OF publ
n money; because Of its aggression
~ Philippine and Cuban affairs to satisf
III the greed Of carpet-baggers at the ca
n. pense Of the lives Of the American sol
- diery, and because Of the trust Cctu
y" pus, creature created by law for IN
advancement of the monied classes a
as against the masses.
tei The platform also upholds Bryan a
the greatest exponent of true Demo
cracy since the days Of Jefferson; COZ
firms his sentiments on the Silv,
lr- question; reanirms the allegiance
m the Democratic party Of Delaware to Il
'ad free and unlimited coinage of silver
49, the ratio Of 16 to 1, and pledges I'll
Vi, Delaware delegates to uphold tho.
~ principles. Tie instrument den lunc'
J. Edward Addicks as a foe of hone
government ami calls upon the peop
Of the state to suppress him.
W. WANT NEW CASTLE MAN
a New Castle county Democrats q
es- clare that New Castle countian nm
vas be sent to Kansas City. For this lc
son they do not look upon John
Gray with much favor. He may be
good delegate. but they argue i5 is D.;
politics TO send man from New Cast
rch county who has been but few yea
VIII here from Sussex county. In this WI
The it is figured out that probably Form
he Congressman L. Irving Handy al
OF John II. Rodney OF William r. Lyna
would be the representative New Cast
men to go to the convention. Hanl
g an old resident of New Castle cOW
in and it is probable that he will he 4
law choice from the rural districts.
On the other hand, there seems 10
no possibility of Handy and Rodney
. Lyman being named because he &C
men Will net swallow Free Silver. a
10, the Free Silverites declare in emphni
lIIV terms that they have no use for gC