Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-16
KENT DEMOCRATS
NAME COUNTY TICKET
There Were Some Interesting Con
tests. but Results Were Gen
orally Satisfactory.

/ Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
! Dover. sept Is The Democratic pri-
marieS held IN kent county, Saturday
afternoon. were attended with moro than
( unusual interest because n( threc-cornered
! contests for two of the most important
/ county officers sheriff and clerk Of the
/ peace The most interesting tights were
/ fnr sheriff and clerk of the peace, Lee K
4 Cochran Of Smvrna, John Evans Cook ot
| Camden and William NJ Hughes ni
! Na~tcn : Corner contested for sheriff and
/ Edgar T. Clements OF Dover. Jacob Hcvd
! Of Felton, and James Harry Lat hum .lr,
oi Milford wrc~t'cd lor clerk ot the peace
The contest for the shcriffalty noml-
nation was most cNcItjng. because 81 the
small majority the successful candidate
received u votes The vote for sheriff
, was as follows Ice II Cochran. 271, John
Evans Cooke. q69 William NJ Hughes.
alS Cook was defeated two wears ago for
the nomination hy sheriff Frank Nansant
The contest for the clerk ot peace nom
. nation also Was interesting, although the
winner far distanccd his two opponents
The candidates wcrc Edgar Clements.
Dover Jacob IIcyd, Fclton and Harry
atchum, Milford The vote was.
| Clements, $50: Hcyd. ! l4N. I.atchum,
| i5S, making Hcyd plurality 80
! tor recorder Of deeds Charles q Cover
/ dale III smyrna and former state Senator
( John W Sheldrakc Of Harrington were
contestants The vote was Covcrdalc,
/ l.2il Shcldrakc 94S
There were bat two candidates for the
nomination for register IN chancery and
/ clerk of Orphans Court Mark " Cole
az Dover and Joseph Seward DALEY Of
/ Hartly Cole won by this vote Cole,
| pa Daley. $40
There being no contests for coroner and
! county treasurer these two candidates
/ received the entire party vote, with the
exception Of some tickets which were not
properly marked for other candidates and
/ had to be thrown out The candidates and
their votes are as follows Coroner.
/ Oliver ! I.affertv. Clayton. 2,205; county
/ treasurer, Edmund @ RAYMOND, Dover,
/ 2,I99
FIGHT FOR STATE SENATOR.
Th3 onlv contest IN the Senatorial dis
tricts was in the Third district, including
the Fifth and Seventh Representative
districts. Dover and Camden The can
! didafe-. both Of Dover. were r l. Jones,
former Representative for two terms. and
Rev. Wilson G. Moore The vote was
Jones so, Moore ll2; Jones ma
Jori,y 2l>
There were two contests for Repre-
~entatives IN the Fifth districts. Dover.
and the Ninth district. Harrington The
candidate, in the lrth district were
Charl,~ VI Hardesty and John { Hayes
Harde,;1 received lt3 votes and Hayes 81
The other contest IN the Ninth district.
wa- between James Hardes'y and
William r Tharp Hardesty received
10 votes and Tharp l0}-
There were also two contests for Levy
Court Commissioners. both of which were
hard fought The first was n the Second
district Dover between John { Slaugh-
ter and J Harry Wilson Slaughter won
ly II maloritv ] he second contest was
m the Fourth district. between John
Schneider and former state Senator
Henry William, Williams won by o.
majority
\ new county committee also was
voted for, but as many ~ the old members
were rpn0minatcd Il ls possible there Will
be few changes
Kent County Executive Committee will
meet here tomorrow morning to canvass
t he vote
The full county ticket chosen by
Saturdays returns IS as follows
sheriff joan Evans Cooke, Camden
Coroner Oliver J Lafferty Clayton.
County Treasurer Edmund O Ray
mond. Dover
Clerk Of PeacerJacoh Heyd, FELTON,.
Recorder Of Deeds q harles 6 Cover
dale, Clayton.
Register in Chancerz and Clerk Of
Orphans Court Mark " Cole Dover
State senator FIRST district, Lewis VI
Price, smyrna: Third district, Edward J..
Jones, Fifth district, Louder \ Hcarn.
Representatives First district, James
Robinson; Second, g. Dewitt Paradee;
Third, Abel Numbers; Fourth, John
Wesley Smith; Fifth, Charles W Har-
desty; Sixth, James NJ Sherwood; seventh,
Edgar Furchenal, Eighth, J Leonard
Soper; Ninth. James G. Hardesty; Tenth,
Raymond Pennett
Levy Court Commissioners Second
district, John G. Slaughter; Fourth, Henry
Williams; Eighth George Waldman;
Ninth J Harry Raughley; Tenth, Walter
6 Dill
Assessors FIRST district, Allen Raugh-
cy; Second Harry II Smith; Third,
George " Cooke; Fourth, Norman III.
Willis Fifth. James v Boyer; Sixth,
Edgar Minner; Seventh, David II Rash;
Eighth w g. CatIin; Ninth, Robert j..
Ba ynard; Tenth, Frank ID Sapp
Receives Commission.