The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-15
DELAWARE STANDS
 FOR JUDGE GRAY Convention Adopts Platform and Praises FavOrite Son GRAY'S MISTAKE IN 1896 The Judges Friends Are Reminded That Gray Didn't Support Bryan In
 1896, But This Is Not Held
 Against Him.
GRAY'S MISTAKE IN 1896

Dover. Del. April 14-The entire fore noon was taken up with the caucuses of the three county delegations over the choice of the national delegates. The rule in Delaware is for each county to select two of the six delegates whose selection is later ratified by the state convention. Of the three county eau , cuses the most interesting was that Of Kent county, because the delegates in this county were divided between the adherents of Bryan and Judge Gray, the former having a majority.
 Matters ran smoothly until the nomina- tions for national delegates came up. When the name of former United States Senator Kenny, the national committee man from Delaware was placed in nomi- nation, MT. Kenny immediately declined because he said he would be in Denver any way, as a member of the national committee. He then launched into a speech upon the respective merits of Bryan and Gray. He said there was lit- tie doubt that Bryan would be nominated by the national convention, but he be- lieved it was the duty of Delaware dem ocrats to name Judge Gray as an avail able candidate for the nomination. IT anything should happen to MT. Bryan he said. the democracy would then have another good man who could sweep the country in November
 Grays Mistake.
 delegate reminded Mr. Kenny that Judge Gray did not support MT. Bryan in nd fn O. fense of the judge by saying that it was true that the judge had made a mistake in 1S96 but that it should be overlooked After considerable consultation over the method of voting the first ballot was taken and it showed that William Sauls- bury of Dover, a Bryan man, had re- ceived a majority of the votes. Three more ballots were taken without result and then Caleb r. Pennewell of Dover, a Gray man, was nominated by acclama- tion.
 The other county caucuSes were unan- imous. The national delegates selected by Newcastle county are Peter J. Ford and l.. Irwin. MT. Irwin nominated Judge Gray in the last national convention and he may again be selected for that agree able duty. The Sussex county delegates are Landreth Layton of Georgetown and William T. Records of Laurel.
 The convention was delayed on account of the caucuses and was not called to order until after l o'clock After nam ing the committees a recess was taken
 The convention reassembled shortly be- fore 8 clock. The platform as reported by the resolutions committee was agreed to and reads as follows:
 The Platform.
 We declare our attachment to our dual system of government, consisting of sov- ereign states. which are the surest bull work against anti-republcan tendencies at home, indissolulably united in a gen. eral government which is the sheet al- chor of our safety abroad.
 "The local self-government by which power to manage their own affairs is most efficiently retained in the hands of the people can only be maintained in the future as it has been, in the past by unfaltering devotion to the rights of the states as reserved to them in the federal constitution.
 "The exertion of the just powers of the federal government conferred by the con stitution are amply sufficient to accom-