Milford chronicle., 1920-09-17
UPSTATE DEMOCRATS
BOLT THE CONVENTION
NEW CASTLE COUNTY DELEGATES STAN
PEDE TWICE, FIRST FOR GREATER
REPRESENTATION.
KENT-SUSSEX MAKE TICKET
RUSH NOISILY THROUGH AISLES AND OUT
OF BUILDING WHEN G0RMLEY'SDE-
FEATED BY STEAM-ROLLER.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

Governor - Andrew J. Lynch,
Georgetown.
nant-GOYernOr-H. G. Tay-
lOr, Dover.
COngreSSman-J. II. Clements,
Clayton.
Attorney -Generai William Il. Ly-
nam, Wilmington.
State TreasureT-William ID. Null
len, Holly Oak.
AuditOr-Dr. james Martin, Mag
nOlia.
Insurance COmmisSiOner-AIex
der J. Butler, Wilmington.
Presidential ElectOrs-Judge Geo.
Gray, Wilmington; +. VI. SOper,
Magnolia, and Joseph II. Cox,
SeaiOrd.
( The New Castle County delegation
TO the Democratic State convention
at Dover on Tuesday twice "boIted"
/ the session, the second time remaining
away while the remaining delegates
nominated the whole ticket except
the gubernatorial and congressional
candidates. Andrew J. Lynch was Sc
lected for the former and J. r. Gle
ments. OF Clayton, for the latter. Will
mingtOn had presented Thomas i.
GOrmley on the tacit understanding
that if Lynch were nominated for gov
ernor. that city could select the man
for representative in Congress. When
the dOwn-State counties rode rough
shod over the upper county represen-
tatiOn the New Castle countians nois-
ly stampeded from the hall.
Without the slightest hitch the re-
naming delegates promptly proceed
ed to nominate. as follows: Lieuten-
ant-Governor. Herman c. Taylor. Do
yer; Attorney General. William T.
Lyman. Wilmington; State Treasurer.
William D. Mullen, Holly Oak; Audi
tor, DR.. James Martin. Magnolia; In
surance Commissioner. Alexander J.
Butler. Wilmington; Presidential
Electors-Judge George Gray. VIII
mington; F. NJ. Soper, Magnolia, and
Joseph H. Cox. Seaford.
Bedlam alone describes the con-
vention. the event resolving itself in
to an unequal tug-of-war. with Kent
and Sussex counties relentlessly
crushing Wilmington and rural New
Castle county beneath a steam roller.
Only once did the upstate aggrega-
tion land an effective punch against
the strength of its opponent, that Oc-
curing when they bolted the conven-
tion upon the decision of Kent and
Sussex to refuse a request for equit-
able representation at future State
conventions.
Led by City Chairman Timothy J.
Mooney, of Wilmington. the delegates
from the metropolis and rural New
Castle to a man paraded up the aisle.
shouting: IF that is the Kent and
Sussex idea of Democracy we have
had enough of it. Let them elect their
own ticket.
Delegates Get PrOfane
Typical Democratic pandemonium
broke loose with delegates rushing
up and down the aisles. shaking their
fists and consigning each other to
places that are not usually mentioned
in family newspapers. The gathering
got entirely beyond the control of per-
manent Chairman John G.. Gray, his
gavel beating a merry tattoo that was
drowned in the general hubbub.
The second bolt came after New
Castle magnanimously withdrew Can
didates Thomas F. Bayard and Ezekiel
Cooper from the gubernatorial race
and saw its candidate for Congress.
State Senator Thomas +. Gormley,
pitilessly massacred by the bi-county
machine. Women delegates getting
practical politics, gazed upon the
spectacle that was enacted before
their eyes with a helplessness akin to
the panic attending a shipwreck at
sea. Following the convention the
remnants of the Democratic wreckage
were tossing about on the shoals of
political disaster. leaders whose 10y
atty heretofore was regarded as a sec
ond religion admitting that they
could not support the ticket that YER
itably robbed them of the right of
Organization Destroyed
What little se...hlance of an ORGAN
ization existed before the convention
was entirely destroyed and the party
faces the coming campaign in state
of disruption that UNDERWRITERS the
success of the Republican ticket from
top to bottom.
Lynch Named Unanimously
Nomination for governor precipi-
tated the second break in the rou-
tine, New Castle county Offering the
names of Ezekiel Cooper and Thos.
F. Bayard. Kent had no selection and
Sussex nominated Andrew J. Lynch.
The two former withdrew on a tacit
was to come to Wilmington and
Lynch was UNANIMOUSLY named.
Then the Congressional offensive
was opened and New Castle present.
ID Thomas +. Gormley of Whining
on; Kent. j. r. Clements. of Clay
on; and Sussex. Mrs. Eta Gray
Iones, of Bridgeville. The first bal
OF was a deadlock. the vote follow
ng: Gormley, 54; Clements, 81; Mrs.
Iones, 90. A second ballot unearthed
iome repeating among the New
,astle delegation, 20 votes being cast
or 65 delegates. 1t was thrown out
nd another met like fate. A fourth
'allot resulted in victory for Gle
nents with 81 votes while CORN
ey got SO and Mrs. Jones .2s.
This ignited the second 'bolting
,omb' and Wilmington and New Cas-
lie delegates staged the second stam-
'ede. As they double quicked" out s
f the opera house they shouted: