Evening journal., 1900-03-21
THOMPSON
AND DUPONT
Elected as Delegates TO the
National Republican Convention
From New Castle County.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE


CHOSEN AS ALTERNATEs TO MA
TIoNAL CONVENTION DELE
GATES.
The members of the Regular Repub
lican state Committee went to Dover
last night and made arrangements for
the convention details today. Lewis B.
Morrow, of this city, was unanimously
chosen for temporary chairman of the
convention.
The credentials of the various dele
gates. except those OF West Dover
hundred were passed.
Included in the work that will come
before the convention will be the vest
ing the state committee with additional
powers to negotiate with the union re-
pubiicans. A resolution to extend the
committees powers will be introduced
this afternoon. 1t will be provided in
another resolution that the present
state committee shall continue in power
for three weeks before the new COM
mittee organizes.
The Wilmington delegates caucusedI
in the county court room; rural New
Castle county delegates on third floor
Of the Court House; Kent county in the
jury room, and Sussex county on the
floor of the convention hall.
There is every probability that the
delegates to the national convention
will be instructed to vote for the re-
nomination of President Mckinley.
Those who are mentioned as probable
delegates to the convention are Colonel
Henry A. DUPONT, Henry B. Thompson,
Manlove Hayes, Jonathan 5. Willis,
Henry p. Cannon and Charles +. Rich
ards.
A large party Of delegates and poll
ticians left this morning on the S.l3 Del
aware division train. Included among
them were
Levi c. Bird, William S. Hilles,
United States District Attorney Will
liam Michael Byrne, Horace G.
Knowles, Harry A. Brown, Captain
Edmund Mitchell, Jr., Frank A. Mitch
ell. Il. b. Shurter, John Lynn, Harry H..
Billany Philip Q. Churchman, William
j. Holman, Howard Jester, Harry Gill
ns. George II. Hollis, Harry w. Chairs,
Coroner Alfred ID. Vandever, Samuel M.
Knox, Nevin Clowney, Thomas S.
Lewis, b. A, Groves. Hadley Lewis,
Thomas A. Hudson, John p. Nields, 5.
c. Rice, Harry Lawrence, Howard ID.
Ross, ]. d. Carter. Harry Joslyn,
George w Bush, Samuel Mcdaniel, J.
H. Philips, A. G. B. Anderson, and
others.
The delegates and alternates who are
attending the convention today are:
WILMINGTON DELEGATES.
Howard n
Ross and Thomas H. Buckley; alter
mates, Thomas Taylor and Joseph 7.
Montgomery.
Second ward-Delegates, Thomas w
McVey. John Viagofski John w.
Thompson and ]. II. Goodwin, Jr.; al
ternates, Frank McMullin, Charles Gif-
ford, John j. Welsh, w. j. Winchester
Third ward-Delegates Neal Comfy
Samuel Coyle, Harry p Joslyn alter
mates. Archibald Crozier, Thomas S
Holt, Thomas Hume.
Fourth ward-ADelegates,J Joseph Wig.
ellsworth, J. Hadley Lewis. William
Shockley; alternates. Samuel G. Chad.
wick, William Lott. Isaac Chase.
Fifth ward-Delegates George W
Bush, Edmund Mitchell, Jr.. Lewis B
Morrow, Charlton Robinson and DR.
Sherburn Rice; alternates, Edward w
Jester, Hubert A. Roop, Henry Morri
son, F. Everett Janvier and james
Seeney
Sixth ward-Delegates. T. A. D. Hut
son, H. w. Chairs, George NJ. Fisher
Wilson Hewsley, Ralph Spencer; al
ternates, w. ]. Mckinney, George w
Cummings, Nevin M. Clowney, Georg'
F. Durham, Howard Caldwell.
Coxrarfl, o,.d nalacofac avf &
Bird Philip Q. Churchman, John P
Nields. Thomas ]. Day, William Nau
dain; alternates, Archibald S. Reed
DR.. Swithin Chandler. John Huxley
John Bailey Moore, Harry Weeks.
Eighth ward-Delegates William G
Byron, j. b. Blackburn, James Il
Morris. Edgar Pierce William +
Caldwell; alternates. William Win
trup, f. H. Davies, Wilmer X. Hair
Walter Wallace, Edward Anderson.
Ninth ward-Delegates, James
Hawkins, George Watson, Rev. Joh
A. Mattee; 1alternates, F. H. McCaulle!
John Spring, A, B, Mcpherson Johr
sen.
Tenth ward-Delegates. Robert Ke,
nan and Walter X. Babcock; altei
mates, George E. Groves and Lewis ]
Perkins.
Eleventh ward-Delegate Patric
Smith; alternate, Joseph Peoples.
Twelfth ward-Delgates, VILLA,
File and A. G. B. Anderson: alte
mates, Stephen Burnite and John /
Woodlan.
RURAL NEW CASTLE.
Brandywine hundred (north)-Del
gates, Charles Clark and Dr. Franc
II. Day; alternates, John ]. Harri
Scott Townsend; (easD, delegate, WI
liam A. Talley; alternate, Robert Car
Jr.; (south), II. NJ. Paschall, Franc
Paschall.
Christiana hundred, district No.
Newport-Delegate, w. ]. Hilyard:
ternate Arthur Grady. Marshalltl
district-Delegate Thomas e. Colliso
alternate. Walter Tanning. West di
trict-Delegate, Colonel Henry A. d
Pont; alternate, John Wilson. Thi
district-Delegate, Thomas ]. Stirlin
alternate. Reuben Hall. Fifth district