Milford chronicle., 1912-09-13
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
Their STATE TICKET

With confusion and disorder, which
seriously interfered with the work oil
the convention, the Democrats of Della
ware at Dover late Tuesday evening
nominated full State ticket.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the
leaders to effect a compromise with
other candidates, the friends of State
Senator Thomas NJ. Monaghan would
not listen to anything but the selection
Of Monaghan.
Kent and Sussex counties, feeling de-
termined that New Castle should not
have the nomination, decided to place
candidates for the GovernOrship also be-
fore the convention, their candidates
being Joseph E. Holland, of Milford,
Sussex county, and Benjamin A. Hazel,
of Smyrna, Kent county. This cOmbin-
alton, however, did not serve its pur-
pose, for on the second ballot, when
Hollands men withdrew his name in
favor of Hazel, instead of the Holland
men casting their solid vote for Hazel,
which would have given him the nomi-
nation, they were divided.
On the first ballot the vote for the
gubernatorial nomination was: T.. M.
Monaghan, 80; B. A. Hazel, 65; and J.
E. Holland, 40. The second ballot gave
Monaghan SO and Hazel 75.
After the GovernOrship had been set
tied interest was centered on Congress
man and Attorney-General.
The full State ticket nominated after
severe wrangling was as follows: Gov
ernOr, Thomas NJ. Monaghan, Whining
ton; Congressman, Franklin Brockson,
Clayton, Kent county; Lieutenant Gov
ernOr, Colen Ferguson, Blackbird, New
Castle county; Attorney-General, Josiah
o. WOlcott, Wilmington; State Auditor,
VIM. Poole Prettyman, Sussex county;
State Treasurer, Charles A. Hastings,
Sussex county; State Insurance Com
missioner, w. r. McCabe, Sussex cOun-
ty; Presidential electors, New Castle
county, SpottswOod Garland; Kent coun-
ty, James H. Hughes; Sussex county,
Irving Culver.
The platform denounces President
Taft for vetoing the tariff bills in the
recent Congress. 1t pledges the Legis-
lature, if elected, to repeal the voters
assistant law, vesting the appointment
Of State detectives by the Attorney |
General, providing the attorney-General
with adequate means for the investiga- !
ton and prosecution of bribery, provid- |
ing a statute for reasonable rules of
evidence in the trial of bribery cases, (
provides for a corrupt practices act, /
favors State Utility Commission, and
a workman 5 compensation act.
1t favors a system of good roads, con |
denns the administration of Governor
Pennewill and charges that he has vast
ed the States moneys by appointing a
man to office with large salary who
has neither power nor duties to perform,
charges that the Governor has used his |
power to make even the
State judiciary political prize, favors
the initiative and referendum, favors
direct vote for all State and county
officers.
The ticket for President and Vice
President was indorsed as nominated at
Baltimore, and a gradual reduction Of
the tariff is urged, also an act requiring
the payment of employees by corpora
tions at least twice a month.
The completion of the inland water
ways and the acquisition by the Federal
of the Delaware & Chesa-
peake Canal is urged, also the strict
regulation of the liquor traffic.
A Jim Grow" plank in the first plat
form was removed in the second.