Evening journal., 1907-12-21
What | Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
rt.IRrY.N .NlNrH ARTlclE.
BY Washington Hastings

My nomination for Congress impressed me as beine,
fairly we'll rece ed by the Republicans of the State but
4 llcaily as pe letter Of the notification
Von'""tlee ana tne complimentary speeches in
the convention would have seemed 10 ndi-
cate. This may have been the result or an over
sensitive dspositon-dont lauga-or it may have been
an over-estimate from my point view of the import
ance of the event Whatever t saw or thought 1
saw IN some directions the Indication of an interrogation
point when the subject discussion i'm private
at te beginning OF the campaign And this was
lsIs ~ up 10 lnat tne lawyer or at least mems
Der of the bar had always been by both parties
IN Delaware as the candidate for that ohce-as L re-
member.
However as the summer passed and the active cam
pasn opened i'm the fall all of this appeared fade out
or was forgotten IN the heat of the hateand W was a
not one-and had as good time running for con-
gress as could have expected stumped the state
from one enc to the other and spoke in every important
town and also at meetings held country
hom Brandvwine. TO Baltimore hundreds; and had am
eNceen opporunity-the first in my lifeto test genu-
inc Down state hospitality" especially I'm Old ssssv
. oG which had always heard so much. And i vvidy
reoaiI ~ two three occasions when after a hard
days travel ana labor convince my fellow citizens
that was the best for them for we arrived
I'm the evening at the plain spacious mansion of oe
fine old specimen Of tho Sussex county gentleman
tarmer--Where we were TO spend the night-and were
welcomed old fashion by himself and his family
Hes and corn pone' and coffee with an abundance OF
homemade preserves and an evening spent I'M 1iq,,
sion of the prospects for the election the affairs of
the nation in general and settling them to our own sat-
islaeton. at least we were shown to our rooms and
feather bed with pillows MATCH and slept the seep
OF the just'-at least to all human appearance
Charles b. Lore with whom had been on terms Of
intimate friendship from early manhood-we being at
one time officers In the same Sunday school-was the
Democratic candidate member of congress that
and we frequently crossed each others bows" in our
campaigning down below" speaking sometimes In the
sie Town on tne same day. the one after the other
the case might be- But nobody heard am urly or
natu~ed word fall from the lips OF of as about
we 'tneI lat was simply an mpossbility! 1 remem-
Der ono meeting in Georgetown where both parties had
meeting ON the same day an old Sussex county farmer
ol tne saho cracker variety came up TO and.
tending his hand said young fellow do You think Won
can can peat Nnarel Lore Why yes replied, Il am
sure can beat mimi We'll YOU can't" said he. "for
want 20 tell YOU that Charley Lore is the nonuiarest
man m this Statel' / found out that my old Sussex
paign.
The contest was strenuous and exciting one from
start 20 hnsh each side putting it's heaviest artier,
into the field and contesng every inch Of the ground
General Woodford, of New York spent week
with me, delivering address TO a magnificent aud
ence i'm the Opera House i'm wilmington and canpaign-
ng for -FOUR days In Kent and Sussex Every possible
effort was put forth by the State Central Committee ana
the several county and city committees to insure sic
cess and, az times ii looked though we would be sue
cessfu but Mr. Lore defeated me bv about
1900 plurality and Charles G. Stockley, the Democratic
candidate for Governor defeated Mr. curry v abo he
same numbor-2t votes moro. as remember A curious
incident OF the campaign that Mr. Curry 2 votes
behind me IN his county and ram 2 votes boln5 Mn h.,
my county proving tho truth the scripture "A pro-
phet rs not without honor save I'm his own country"
ment and conduct OF the campaign far as was per-
sonay concerned although IL certain that I lost Re-
publican votes heavily I was TO an extent ocu h tbs
higher oraersr but was not missed b, Tho losy, h
any means as ] made down town among the shin
Yards, the machine shops and tho rolling mis-arsely
from Denoerats-what lost mp town among Repub-
cans who went cunning election day or forgot that
II was election day, or voted for Mr. because he
being lawyer in high standing bar was better
equipped foe law-making than 1 was-which was un-
doubleday
Defeat is never agreeable pleasant its panrs are
sometimes ameliorated by incidents which are pleasant
70 remember and have one such incident Of the cam
paign OF 1852 received that election than
had ever been cast for Republican candidate for ans,
Office up 70 that time in Delaware This fact is matter
OF record IN the tables but have never seen IL re-
corded or mentioned anywhere else will record hore
FOR fear that future historians may forget t and then a.
would never be recorded at all except election retrns
which nobody ever reads except election night
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