Evening journal., 1917-01-26
Insurgents AND
Democrats NAME.
SENATE EOFFICERS
Combine in Support of
Caucus Slate of Three
Hold-Out Republicans
elect CUNNING. BALL,
HOPE, HOLLINGSWORTE
Stan Correspondent.

otdH correspondent,
DOVER. Del, Jan. 26.-The six
State Senators who on Monday com
bined with the three insurgents. Bar
nard, Frazier and Webb and elected
Senator Barnard as president pro tenn
OF the Senate, and yesterday elected
George W. Cunning, Of Smyrna as sec
retary OF the Senate, continued the
combination this morning. when the
entire insurgent caucus slate was
elected. The officers elected this
morning we're:
Reading clerk-William Ball, Of
Delaware City.
Bill clerk-Henry Hollingsworth, Of
Marshallton.
sergeant-at-arms - John Davidson.
Of Magnolia.
Attorney-william NJ. Hope, of Do
yer.
Telephone messenger - John M.
Thomas, Of Dover.
Stenographers-Mis Evelyn Culver,
of Wilmington; Miss Olive Roach, Of
Georgetown, and Miss Helen Wise. Of
Dover.
The officers previously elected were
President pro tem-SenatOr John A.
Barnard, Of Camden.
Secretary-George w Cunning, Of
Smyrna
Chaplain-Rev. Edwin Gardner Of
Dover.
Page-FlOyd Hilyard Of Dover
The seven regular Republicans re-
fused to enter any combinations and
supported their original slate for Sen
ate officers.
Senator Mitchell Holds Out.
Senator Mitchell, Democrat, declined
to enter the combination and voted
for the original Democratic nominees.
pliers, when he supported the three
elected, who were nominated by Sen
ator Frazier.
When the Democratic Senators
reached Dover this morning they i'm
mediately went into conference which
lasted for nearly an hour When they
emerged from the conference room II
was announced that they had decided
TO combine with the insurgents for
the principal Offices.
As soon as the Senate was convened
on motion of Senator Frazier. the
Senators started TO ballot for read
ing clerk It requires nine votes to
elect and the reading clerk, bill clerk
and sergeant-at-arms were elected
ont the first ballot, which was as fol-
lows:
For Reading Clerk:
William Ball, Insurgent Delaware
City-Barnard. Frazier. Webb. CORN
ley. Murphy, Wharton, Hollett,
Joseph, Hart-9
William G. Singer, Regular Re
publican. Newark-Hoffecker New
ton, Brown. Long, Pool, Hickman and
Walker.
Anthony Summers. Democrat, Clay
tOn-Mitchell-1.
The same combination elected Hol-
lingsworth as bill clerk and Davidson
as sergeant-at-arms. The other nOmi-
nees for these offices were:
Bill Clerk-Thomas Peeney, Will
mington. Regular Republican, and
James B. Graham. Clayton, Demo-
crat.
Sergeant-At-Arms - The Regular
Republicans before the ballot sub
stituted the name of Archie G. Lynch.
of Evansville. for J. j.. Lynch, or
Frankford. and the Democratic nomi-
nee supported by Senator Mitchell
only. was Thomas T. Rogers, of Sell
byville.
The first temporary hitch in the
slate came when the balloting was
started for attorney II is said that
before the balloting some OF the Reg
ular Republicans notified the Demo-
Gratis that they were willing to sup
port the latter's caucus nominee, Fl.
r. Isaacs, OF Wilmington. for attor-
ney. Most OF the Democrats turned
this proposition down and said they
would continue to vote for the Insur-
gents slate.
On the first ballot for attorney,
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