Milford chronicle., 1916-09-08
JOSIAH WOLCOTT FOR
The U. S. SENATORSHIP
Hughes of Kent for Governor; Albert F. Polk
of Sussex for Congress- at Salisbury

The fight had begun in the morn
ing in the New Castle County caucus
when Mr.. Wolcott starting third
stuck through, and by the superb
/ generalship of his manager, Mr.. Mar
vel, gained the caucus nomination on
the ninth caucus ballot.
In the New Castle caucus he was
opposed by Thomas F. Bayard, son of
the old Democratic statesman of the
same name, who claimed as high as
twenty votes in the course of the bal
loting, and L. Irving Handy, whose
strength went to twenty-five, despite
the fact that he is not a New Castle
County man and had won the caucus
nomination from Kent after a contest
in which Senator Saulsburys hand
had been shown in support of Harry
Ridgley, the blind lawyer of Dover.
All morning the New Castle men
took ballots without clearing up the
situation, and finally at noon, an
hour after the convention had been
scheduled to meet, they had to take
a recess for an hour. On the ninth
ballot, Thomas F.. Bayard, whose
strength had dropped to sixteen votes,
withdrew from the contest and the
largest quota of his supporters went
to Wolcott, who wound up with thirty
six votes. Then New Castles caucus
made the nomination unanimous.
Sussex meanwhile apparently had
fixed its program by proposing Polk
for Congress and Wilson for Insur-
ance Commissioner, while Kent had
been busy wiping up the floor with
the Salisbury followers in its caucus
b ynominating Handy for Senator over
Ridgley and by putting James H.
Hughes across for Governor by a
margin of one vote. The Salisbury
leaders rather than see another anti
Salisbury man get the important
nomination for Governor which was
Kent COunty's by right of rotation, got
behind j. Wallace Reynolds, of Eel
ton, an independent.
Until this time Senator Saulsbury's
personal arrival on the scene had
been frantically awaited by his fol-
lowers. Then about one o'clock he
made his appearance and Immediately
got in touch with affairs. The State
had named ex-United
States Senator Richard B. Kenney, of
Dover, an nti-Saulsbury man, as the
chairman of the convention. Mr..
Salisbury turned up after the conyen-
ton had gotten under way and missed
the fervent prayer that President Will
son might be returned to the White
House, as offered by Rev. T J Bail
sy, of the Methodist Protestant church !
lf Dover.
When Senator Salisbury did appear |
MS followers began to cheer and shout |
speech" Kenney didn't seem to not |
ce at first, though the imperilled state |
eader was chatting in a chair directly |
lehing him. At last Salisbury in des- /
leration, called to Kenney himself, /
md thereby got the floor.
He lauded the Wilson administra-
ion, and said that while he knew that
hughes was an estimable man who
lad performed his duties well, he be-
ieved that ii there was a morgue any
yhere from which to take candidates
. was high judicial Offices
Judges are not the proper men to
ominate for great executive offices"
e said Then he commended the poll
oy adopted by President Wilson of
utting through the eight-hour bill
or railway employees to prevent the
trike and save the people from real
The platform adopted endorses the
administration of President Wilson
nd denounces Republican party pol
lies.