Smyrna times., 1904-08-10
DUPONT MEN FOOLED At
THEIR STATE CONVENTION
WORK OF THE WHOLE DAY UPSET BY A
RESOLUTION IN INTEREST OF HARMONY.
Dupont Men Nominated Straight Ticket to
Stand, but Resolution Gives State Commit.
tee Power to Dicker With the Unions.

tee Power to Dicker With the Unions.
The Dupont men were badly fooled
In the Regular Republican convention
at Dover yesterday. They have been
Addlcks' bitterest opponents, and have
always objected to trading votes with
the Unions in order to carry the State
for the Republicans with some sort of
ticket. The Higgins men, on the
other hand, have been more anxious to
put the State in the Republican col.
umn, and have been pretty active in
the trading line. Yesterday the Du-
pont men succeeded in getting their
man, DR.. Joseph H. Chandler, nomi-
mated for Governor, ard he made
speech, declaring that he accepted the
nomination under the sole considera-
ton that he would enter the fight to
the end ana stay on the ticket until
November. 81 would rather suffer
honest defeat, he declared, 'than be
pulled off the ticket that somebodv
else might be substituted. The Du.
pont men emitted a number of lustv
cheers, and departed for home under
the impression that they had a State
ticket that would stand Thereupon
the Higgins men, who had fingered.
put through resolution empowering
the State Central Committee to make
any changes in the ticket which in
their Judgment might bring about the
success of the whole Republican ticket
IN Delaware. 1t is not considered nos
slble that the Union Republicans will
lndorse DIR. Chandler for Governor
though they may rot object to Horace
u. Knowles for Congress or Robert Fl.
richards for Attorney General. The
ticket follows: Governor, DR.. Josepb
d. Chandler, Centreville; Lieutenant
Governor, Samuel H. Derby, Wood
SIDE; Congressman, Horace G. Knowles
Wilmington; Attorney General, Rob
ert ID. Richards, Wilmington; Insur-
ance Commissioner, Charles Il. Mauu
Lewes; Treasurer, Thomas N. Raw.
Inns, Seaford; Auditor of Accounts
George H. Dick, Smyrna; Presiden-
tlal electors, Thomas H. Sayev. of
New Castle; Manlove Hayes, of Kent.
and DIR. William P. Orr. of Susser
On the ticket one Smyrna man was
given place, Mr.. George H. Dick. who
was nominated for State Auditor. bnt
the local politicians think when the
wedding out process goes on in the
interest of harmony, 1t is hardly likely
ne will stand.
The convention met in the Onero
House and was presided over bv Il.
coleman Dupont, the head of the
great powder making concern of the
The preliminary skirmisbes
in the caucuses, and the con-
est In the New Castle meeting settled
he question of party supremacy. Ex-
senator Anthony Higgins and the Z
)uponts--T. Coleman and Colonel Fl
LOCKED horns. The fight was on
ne Endorsement of a candidate for
Governor. The Dupont's candidate.
'r. Joseph H. Chandler, the noted
MUSICIAN, head of the Chandler Club.
to-, received fifty three votes. Merritt
J.. Willitts, the opposition. was given y
and Thomas Clark fonr
otes. Mr.. Higgins voted for Clark S
he convention itself was featureless a
Xcepting for the introduction of II p
oleman Dupont to State politics. in y
hlch he was given pointers bv Attor. l
ey William s. Hilles, introduced the .
tate Committee harmony resolutions a
n. Horace Greeley Knowles. named =
r Congress. was Consul to Bordeaux v
nder President Harrison and helped L
overturn the State in McKinlev's h
terest in 1896. The platform in. Z
'rses Roosevelt and demands the en-. =
rcement of the vigorous Delaware
ws against bribery. No alluslon was
ade to j. Edward Addicks.