Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-09

Mos, u thr delegate contests a nc
Ds,n,ocratir primaries on Saturday alter
noon were won hv tie salisbury people.
md IL = result friends ot the Senator
,rf4lic. fha; hc will have al least l1o
,,.I poSsb}v Isl. Of the lS3 delegates at
the convention Al Dover tomorrow hey
..I,;m the solid delegation numbering
* from the city of Wilmington ~ ont
~ the 10 Delegates from rural Ncw 'astle,
56 ont of The 10 from Kent ami - ont ni
he 80 from ~uSscN
Jh,s claim is disputed, hnWCVCr, bv
the anti-SaulSburv Ts>ople. VINO ronccdc
the Scuatnl all the way from 90 70 ~
\ g-r,at d,a of interest was Ncntercd
~ the four contests for delegates in
Wilmington. and he workers were ont m
f6-rr The fight between William Covnc,
!, VIC, -prrSider, of tho r. !. du Pont dc
Memoirs Company. and Jeremiah Coady
N the un1p,r or,l Of The seventh ward came
il, 10 much attention CoynC IS a Nauls
hu-v s,.pIpn-trr. while Coadv claimed 10
l,c itd"Js.riCut COvnc won by majority
of 1883 votes
Henry Gr7rr. also a salisbury sup
rx,rtcr defeated g. Darr Hopkins IN
fhr eastern end OF be Seventh ward. by
10 votes.
.Iamrs / Ford defeated Flwood Bis
fw hv a majority Of IA votes after a
slurtf.t! contest in The Fifth Representa-
i've district, and Daniel \ Nc hcnney
va, easily defeated by John J. Nc
Govern by majority OF 207 votes cut
a. a total vote Of 80
reru pERE SALISBURY VICTORIES
~ gt.. contests in the seventh Repre-
serl2tiyc district which comprises Chns-
tiar,e hundred resulted III the election OF
ant.-s,aulsbury delegates Josiah Marvel
ljvs.s IN thc hundred John DorUan de-
foatcd John ] McC rafferty, by . majority
of IN votes out of a total OF 36 cast IN the
F.ftf district Bruce " Housed defeated
W:lliatfl Lawrence bv majority Of Is
votes, only 23 votes bcing east William
Doughcrtv was beaten by Michael Ma
loncy bv five out of total vote OF 81
MuLvENA BRAT coNNEILY
OF the contests for nominations for
various offices one Of the most interesting
was that for representative IN the Fifth
district OF Wilmington, where John J
| Mulvcna beat Representative William NJ
Connolly by majority OF 50l THIS was
| a victory for adherents 70 tn" rotation
system III the district II was claimed
tnat the Tenth ward Was entitled To the
nomination. and Mulvena lives IN hat
|
The senatorial contest IN the Ffsh
Senatorial district resulted in " IruXton
| Po.cc of Starton defeating \ b Cur
rindcr nf Chrisliana Poycc. who Was q
representative in the last legislature Was
champion of the 'drvs III the lower
branch
Al Saturday primaries Boyce had 3
najoritN of go
In the Seventh Senatorial district
Edward Latta defeated George " Wood
keeper for the nomination by majority
% II.
There were three contests 10 the rura
county for representative with following
results
in the Tenth Representative district
Joseph Qmgley defeated William Hunter
In the Eleventh Representative district
J. Leslie Ford defeated John K Butler by
40 majority the vote being 81 to u
In the Fifteenth Representative district
jefferson A Stats defeated Walter
Marker
For assessor Arthur Mc(iuire defeated
TAomas w Newell in the Fifth district by
81 ma joritv In the Fourth distric
Michael ] Carney defeated jess McCol
by - majority
Many Democrats will 20 to Dover thu
afternoon Tor the convention tomorrow
There will be meeting Of the State Cen
trail Committee tonight ii Is expected
that Senator salisbury will 20 to Dove
TODAY as he has been iii ms home u thi
city for several days
The vote for delegate in the contested
districts Of Wilmington was:
FIRST DISTRICT. THIRD REPREsENTATIvI
DISTRICT
Hopkins .................. o
Grier's majority ..-..-. -
SECOND DISTRICT, THIRD RErRE.ENTATivl
DISTRICT
Covne ..-........ -......-.... %
Coady ...-..........- ~
Covne majority ....->.... lH
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