Evening journal., 1912-10-02
BROWN A WINNING CANDIDATE.

admirable administration OF the Office OF Clerk of the
Peace in the last four years that there is general
desire throughout the county that he shall hold that
Office four years longer That his fellow Republicans
recognize his worth fully is shown by the fact that
when no ran for the nomination four years ago
entered the field in opposition to him. and that that
condition prevailed in the recent Republican pri-
maries In other words he both times, the unanm
choice of his party that place the ticket AS
Clerk of the Peace his relations with the public, with
the Levy Court with the county courts, and with the
state and county officials have been such to commend
him to every and to popularize him people in
all walks of life Since he has been in the Office there
has a breath scandal directed against him
or any his subordinates He has conducted the Office
with strict regard for the interests of the public and
has made It clear all times that he regarded il
Office belonging TO the public and not to himself to
the party which placed him in nomination for it. He
has systematzed the important work entrusted to him
for performance has brought the affairs the Office
to Unprecedented state of perfection Today it is
recognized by OF all parties of the best adj
ministered public Offices in the State of Delaware In
its administration by Mr. Brown there has been happy
blending of businesske exactitude and never-faling
courtesy which has appealed strongly to all who have
had affairs to transact in the Office.
Mr.. Brown born in the city of Wilmington. He
educated here and has lived here all his life For
the last wenty-four years he has lived in the Seventh
ward In all tha' time he has been identified promi.
nently with emens which have made TO- the public
good In view the fact that twenty-five years he
was in the business at the foot of West street it
is surprising that he injected into the work of tho
office the Clerk OF the Peace the business-lke meth
DDS which have made his administration popular
with every
one of the first evidences Of the high regard in which
Mr. Brown held by Republicans in this city,
CARELESS fractional differences, when in the fall
of 1904 he selected to be the Republican nominee
for Levy Court commissioner in the second district
embracing all that part of the city of Wilmington lying
of Market street In that year Daniel f. Stewart
was nominated for Levy Court commissioner by
faction Of the Republican party and Thomas Holt was
nominated by the other faction 1t clear to the
Republicans OF both factions that with two candidates
in the field the Democrats would carry the district and
with it the control of the Levy Court. Neither Mr.
Stewart nor Mr. Holt would withdraw in favor of the
other The only solution of the vexed problem the
selection of a compromise candidate who would be
ceptable to them and to their partisans That
concededly difficult thing to do in view of the nten
sy of the fractional feeling which then prevailed. Fin
ally It decided that Mr.. Holt and Mr. Stewart should
meet and select the nominee. They met, canvassed
the field, and finally settled upon Mr.. Brown the
man. Then, both Mr. Stewart and Mr.. Holt withdrew
from the fight each pledgng to Mr. Brown the hearty
support Of himself and his followers Brown accept
the nomination. His candidacy appealed strong
ly the people in that large and important section
city. that he elected by majority larger
than that of any candidate the Republican ticket
that year. In fact his vote far ahead Of that OF
the Republican candidate for Governor himself popu-
lar In that election Of the Republican can
ddates lost the district but Mr.. Brown, thanks to his
personal popularity and his long record for honesty
and fair dealing, carried it by a majority which stag
gered his Democratic opponent.
Mr. Brown served in the Levy Court for four years.
He made such honorable record commissioner
that his official conduct senced not only the opposition
leaders the opposition newspapers. by
that Levy Court that the good roads policy in
augurated in county Throughout his term Mr..
Brown not only earnest advocate of good roads
but also nsstent at all times the counys affairs
should be strictly upon business basis. Wherever
it was possible for him to do he introduced reforms
which safe-guarded the expenditure of county funds
He quick to detect carelessness and to correst it,
and equally quick to detect grating and to demand
that is should on printing acquisitions alone he
saved thousands of dollars the taxpayers and that
fact known and appreciated by them
At the end of his term Levy Court commissioner
Mr. Brown, in Difference to the request of party and
personal friends became a candidate the Republic
nomination for Clerk of the Peace. He had popular
lied himself so greatly by his conduct a Levy Cour
commissioner that when he announced his canddac,
for the Office which he holds, others, who had
thought Of running at the primaries, gracefully with
drew in his favor and he was nominated by the unan
mous of his party.
Hoping to win the Office the Democrats nominated
Dr. Francis L. Springer. the strongest they
had in New Castle county DR.. Springers professional
personal and poll cal OPP, ary such that it wa
predicted party lines would fall for his benefit ant
that Mr.. Brown would suffer ignominous defeat Suc
political prophets failed to take into account that Mr.
Brown also had a large personal following in the Demo
cratic party. When the votes counted it dis
covered that although DR.. Springer had captured ap
proximately 500 Republican votes Mr.. Brown had wo
the election by majority Of between 1900 and 1906
BY all party that regarded wonderful poll
teal achievement and gratifying testimonial of tn
high regard in which MIR Brown held by the voter
of New Castle county.
/, When MIR. Brown assumed the olice of Clerk of tn
Peace he decided to devote himself TO making his ad
minstraton both efficient and popular. Since then
has kept close personal upon every branch OF tn
work and the result has been four free fror
scandal in Office which. only too often in the pas
had been convulsed by scandals of political fnan
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