Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-09-06
A WATERLOO FOR SALISBURY.

TINTED States Senator Willard Salisbury found
" his Waterloo in the Democratic State Convention
Dover yesterday.
The old-line Wolcott men, under the leadership of
former Judge David 7. Marvel and Josiah Marvel his
brother, and with Attorney General Josiah o. Wolcott
for their standard-bearer obtained the
venton took for themselves nearly all of the places
the ticket and incidentally placed themselves in
troll Of the State Democracy
For years they had been scheming to effect those
suits. When the psychological moment arrived they
steamroered Senator Salisbury and his friends with
ruthlessness that reminded Of the old days when
the wolcott and the Salisbury forces were struggling
for supremacy and when the policy both sides
OF no quarter and the knife TO the hilt" In view
Of that ruthlessness need be surprised IT, under
cover. many of the old Salisbury in the State
knife the ticket at the general election in November
In fact, even among who not friendly TO the
fortunes Of Senator Salisbury the feeling seems to
be that the iubant wolcott men went too far when
they used the power they possessed to hog every
thing in sight and when doing to load the ticket
down with lawyers Practically everything they al
lowed to Senator Salisbury Albert f. Polk. the
candidate for Representative in Congress. He is
the ticket not because the wolcot wanted him
there but because the nomination had been conceded
to Sussex and Polk had the delegates "sewed up for
himself" as Of ais friends expressed IT,
Josiah o. Wolcott the candidate for United States
Senator. is OF former Chancellor James L. VOL
colt of Dover Years ago James L. wocot who had
read law in the Office OF United States Senator Eli
Salisbury. conceived the idea that Senator Salisbury
had served long enough and that he Wolcott should
supersede him the United States Senate. In those
days the position of the sausburys in Kent and sus
sex counties looked upon by many persons be-
ing impregnable James L. wolcott, however did not
share in that opinion. He announced his candidacy
for the senaorshp and rallied his friends to his sup
port
the young lawyer. At first they denounced him an
migrate and laughed at him. The apostle of Demo-
cratic discomfort made such Roadway. however, that
when the Democratic primaries held. the Sauls-
bury routed in Kent and everything looked
for Wocot if they could elect the ticket they had
nominated.
Instead Of abiding by the result Of those primaries
The saulsburys, led by John f.. or Barney" sauls-
bury went out and knitted the ticket The result was
that the Republicans majority vote of the Legis-
lature on Joint ballot and Anthony Higgins sent
TO the United States Senate instead of James L. VOL
colt
From that time forward the fight between the VOL
colt and the Salisbury Democrats bitter and un-
compromising. The Bayard and Gray Democrats in
New Castle county went in the side of wolcott
In fact, Democratic politics in Delaware ruled by
the Bayard-Gray Wolcott combination. wocott never
succeeded in getting to the United States Senate be-
cause the saulsburys and the Republicans, working
Jointly. always able to prevent IL L. VOL
colt succeeded, however, in being made Chancellor
He also had opportunity to the Federal bench
but IL story fully credited be true Willard Salisbury
Al the instance Of John F. Salisbury and in harmony
with the old political feud, slipped down Washington
and the door 70 the Federal bench that had
opened wolcott by friendly President The Sauis
burys played a hidden hand in that DEAL but it
none the less effective
Two Of James L. Wolcott's Josiah o.,
Attorney and candidate for United States Sem
ator. and James l. Wocott Jr, Dover lawyer. Those
quite naturally mbibed the antSaulsbury feeling
Of their father and his friends James L. Wolcot Jr
devoted most Of his time to anti-Saulsbury work.
After Chancellor wolcott died willard Salisbury let