Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-09-18

New Castle, First, Edward ]. Weggenman
Second, George T. Tobin, Jr. Third,
James j. Ryan. Jr.; Fourth, James W.
Denning. Pencader, First, Harry L. Dayett
Second, james +. Ford. Red Lion, East,
John A. Collins; West End. Daniel W.
Cush. st. Georges, First. James Keegan;
Second, Fredus r. Vanhekle; Third, John
p. Cochran, Jr. Fourth, William +. Shall
cross. Appoquinimink, First, Thomas s.
Wells; Second, Edward W. Manlove. Black
bird, First. George O. Heinold; Second,
Ridgely Nickerson.
Road dOommissioners-Br -Brandywine, Second
district, ---- ---. Christiana, Harry
Z. Lyman, Lewis J. Graves. Mill Greek,
Henry r. Kelley, Thomas J. Touhey. White
Clay Greek, George 8. Edmondson, George
w. Murray. New Castle, Edward L. David
son, James 7. kilyington. Pencader, ": j.
Crompton. Red Lion, Augustus Collins,
Alfred j. Davidson. st. Georges, Spencer
s: Holton, Albert Bender. Appoquinimink.
w. A. Allied.
There was only one contest for Repre-
sentative In the city, that in the Fourth
district, In which City Councilman Thomas
M. Monaghan defeated Bernard ]. McVey
by the vote of 469 TO 161. There were con-
tests In nearly all of the rural hundreds.
1t was notable fact that Capt. Chauncey
Z. Holcomb of New Castle, who was unop-
posed for Representative, ran ahead of the
ticket, getting 800 votes, while 29s were cast
for the candidates for some of the other
Offices.
In the contest for the shrievalty nomina-
tion. Mr.. Motherall did exceptionally we'll
in the city, having majority of 437, while
for coroner Mr.. Tarbutton's majority in the
city was 800.
lively assessorship fight was waged In
two districts in the city. In the Fourth
Joseph B. Bierman had a plurality of 90.
He was opposed by William j. Mclaughlin,
Meals and Dennis s. Shields. In the
~ AHfW l-e- .l-1
James +. Early by the vote of Az to 1877, a
majority of 24e.
As there were no local contests in some of
the districts, the vote was not as heavy as
1t would have been II there had been con-
tests all around. There was considerable
general interest, however, in most of the
districts and much enthusiasm was. mani
tested, with result that was gratifying in
those places. But the entire vote was not
what was expected by many, judging from
the registration.
The election was delayed in Wilmington
as result of the failure OF the Department
OF Elections to distribute the ballot boxes
before noon. After the members of the
Democratic County Committee had learned
that the ballot boxes had not been delivered
and threatened to prosecute the Department
OF Elections for failure to comply with the
Primary Election law, the Department of
Elections suddenly manifested activity and
began to distribute boxes. Jonathan b.
Roberts, the clerk; james Kitchen and
colored man doing the work. In order to
insure an election IN each district, how
ever, the county committee began tine dis
tribution of the boxes borrowed from the
| city Department of Elections and had got
around pretty well when they discovered that
| the department was on the same errand.
The committee was very much disappointed
over the failure of the department TO see
that matters were in shape in advance and
could not understand why this preliminary
work had not been done.
The situation was apparently unchanged
| at night, as some of tho election officers re-
| port that they went to the Office of the de-
| partment about 10 o'clock for the purpose of
| leaving their books, and found the office
| closed, although they understood that they
had to return their books within as hours.
| The accompanying tables give the result
| Of the nomination: