Evening journal., 1903-08-24
SEE SUCCESS
IN CRAY BOOM
Democratic Party Managers
in Kent and Sussex See
Unity in His Candidacy
FEW PEOPLE MUST Be BURIED
Democrats Claim That There Are Dis
tricts in the Two Lower Counties
Which Would Send Democrats to
Legislature Instead of Unions.
Special TO the Evening Journal.

Special to the Evening Journal.
Dover, Aug. 2i.-The Democratic party
managers of both Kent and Sussex, claim
to sec in the Judge Gray boom for the
Presidential nomination an augury for
success for that party in this
State for the next campaign. They
say that the favorable spirit in which the
suggestion of the ex-senator's name is
being received by the Democratic papers
OF the State Of all factions gives promise
that the old anti-Bayard-Gray feeling is
disappearing in the two lower counties
and this they take to mean that the party
may be united in its efforts during the
next campaign something 1T assuredly has
not been since the bolt of 'SS.
It vii be remembered that the ground
work for the boR that came in 'SS was laid
really in the fight Of Sc when the Lore
and Gray factions were pitted against
each other SO bitterly especially in these
two lower counties. The UNITED Rule"
which the Wolcott men enforced in the
Kent county convention OF 1855 would
have been enforced in 1886 just as strenu-
ously had not the Salisbury candidates
for the Legislature nomination induced
Mr.. Lore to write a letter Of decllnation
on the night before the Kent convention
met.
Bowed to Inevitable.
The Salisbury men bowed TO the newt
able, but their hearts were very bitter
towards the men who forced this humilia-
tion on them and while they held the
Wolcott forces responsible for It direct
~ they felt that Senator Gray was back
of 1T and from that day TO this few sauls-
bury men Of either Kent or Sussex have
had much love for George Gray. The feel
ing then engendered was intensified by
the course Of tbs. ex-senator in the cam
paign Of M Nhen bs Is Soi supposed Pss g. have
Buckner men.
All this feeling has cropped ouf~in local
lights to the hurt Of the entire party and
II was common expression to hear men
or influence I'm the several districts swear
they would not support u man who was
suspected Of being favorable to John
biggs dooked on down here as the resi-
quarry legatee Of the old Bayard-Grav-
Wolcott combination and then to hear
TINS threat met by men equally as inhu-
entail In the district work with the re-
tort-'Well, I'd vote for the devil him
sell before I'd support man who would
heip elect Willard salisbury"
NA'A 1Ndh OnlOnSs
Hence n is that in this year the favor
able ma ier in which the heretofore anti
Gray ID mocrauc papers are treating that
sentleman's name is given such weight
ny the leaders OF the party. They contend
tnat II this really means that the old
spirit Is dead there are several Leeisla-
i've districts in both Kent and Sussex
"hich last election sent Union Republi-
cans 70 the Legislature, which will go
Democratic when the votes are noled
next year That it will also mean more
than this. 1t viii mean new men In the
management Of county political affairs
and it must mean the latter II the former
Is to be made a certainty.
It must mean a more liberal snirit Il,
the party all around IA disposition to
allow the party workers in rhe various
districts to select Their candidates a fair
deal with these same workers in both
county and State conventions. and unlessl
II means all this the sinking Of the old
spirit over which conservative Democrats
are now rejoicing will be followed by the
birth Of another that will extend TO ever,,
district In the State, and will knock the
party into smithereens. This spirit was
engendered at Kent's last convention and
Il was aided by the manner In which The
congressional nomination was disposed OF ,
at the State convention. To an observer
OF Democratic politics down here O. IS
plain that the Gray boom is bringing hone
OF the sinking Of the old factionaI feeling
that has clogged Democratic effort for {
years but it is also plain that to be of
benefit to the party it must be followed
by toss-up that viii sink some other
things and a few people with them.