Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-08-28
BALLS NOMINATION
B0THERS THE UNIONS
Alice Declares That He Will Never
Vote for Him, But His Name
Will Stay on the Ticket.
UNIONS MAY NOMINATE A
TEMPORARY CANDIDATE ONLY
To be Succeeded Later by Con-
81 gresham Ball.
THOSE WHO MAY GET EMPTY HONOR

Special Correspondence OF Gazette and Journal.
Dover, Aug. 81. u. Frank Alice was
standing hatless and coatiess on the
Dover Green Tuesday afternoon when
the Republican State Convention sd-
journed, and he wore worried look.
He'd had troubles enough of his own
in the Union Republican County Con-
vention, but the noise the Regulars
were making over the denomination of
Congressman Ball in the hall above
the Addicks peoples meeting place was
hard for even him to bear. So Alice
was tanning his f1orid face with his
Panama when the Republicans flowed
out over the Groen, and he accosted
Wilmington lawyer in the hearing of
quite number of politicians from up
and down the State. Said he:
Well, hope you fellows will be
ready to take Ball off when the proper
time comes
Oh, no, we don't intend to do any
thing Of the Sort" replied the Viii
mingtonian. |" He was good enough for
you fellows two years ago and he must
be good enough now.''
Well, said Alice, ..you may rest
assured he'll never be accepted by our,
people; that's all there is about that. -
He was laughingly told that Ball
must stay, and that they 1.-THE Union
party would have to take the medicine.
well, now, right here let me say
personally" retorted Alice, "that 1
shall never vote for him. I'd vote for
Democrat first, and that never did
in my life.s'
Senator Abbott was standing little
way off, doubtless chewing the quid of
his latest disappointment; but he had
caught part of the conversation and,
after vainly trying to catch the little
lieutenant's eye, said: "Oh, d--n it,
4 Alice, don't waste your breath on such
I matter!'' Then the party broke up.
Much talk is heard in these parts
+ about what the Addicks people will
do and what they will not do. A
/ prominent party man told Every Even
! 1ng's correspondent that Martin B.
Burris would be nominated at the
Union Republican State Convention for
Congress, and he claimed that he knew
what ne was talking about. Mr.. Burris
has made no overtures for the place
and is satisfied to serve another term
as State treasurer; but the Addicks
people think that if they name him for
the Congress the Regulars will acauiesoe
and ask DR.. Ball to step down. 1t is
needless TO say that this is hardly a
probable proposition.
Several men are already talked of for
\ Congress from the Union Republican
ranks. There is Col. Theodore Town
send of Milford, proprietor of the
Chronicle, secretary of the Kent County
School Commission and of the Milford
( Town Council, and fruit-grower of
some prominence. He is working all
the wires possible to have himself
named for the place. The colonel is a
fluent talker and a staunch Addicks
man; but it is said he has already been
we'll romunerated in the way of choice
bits OF State printing, &C., and that
there is no probability of his being
named. Nhwell Ball of Seaford, is next
spoken of as Congressional posi-
bility. He has been the high cocka-
lorum of Addicks affairs in the lower
county and has looked with longing
eyes toward many high offices; but
somehow they don't come his way; and
now the leaders of the one man party
say. Newell doesn't draw enough water,
and that is all there is to it,
DIR. George W. Marshall, the present
insurance commissioner. could get the
nomination, it is believed, without the
least trouble; but then the doctor has
cut his eye teeth and dom want it.
He already has a fast office, and is moi
an old man by any means. He can afford
to wait. And, too, he hasn't for.
gotten how ingloriously he had to ster
down from the top OF the ticket two
years ago. IN order that John Hum
might be elected governor.