Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-17
@. o. p. PRIMARIES
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The real fight in Wilmington. however
was over control of the First District
0ityl Committee IL is now controlled
hv the New Dispcnsation The Old
Organization forces are. being marshalcd
for todays primaries with tho hope Of
clectlng majority ol their number on Che
committee. Who will win is problematieal.
In rural New Castle the situation Is
verv much the same, with "anti-Organ-
ization probabilities, according 10 re-
ports today.
A similar condition obtains m Kent,
though the Al!ees. who are among the
most active, are said 70 be carrying water
on both shoulders, with the hope of
having "a friend at court no matter
which side wins.
All of which means that there is no
national delegate slate and none can be
made until after todays primaries.
In Wilmington there arc contests in
all wards except the First and Twelfth.
The candidates for committeeman IN many
of the wards outnumbcr those to be
chosen. In the Fifth ward the candidates
are thirty with only fourteen TO be select
ed. In the Eighth ward there are only two
districts where there are contests for COM
mitteemen In the Seventh ward, there
are 20 candidates for committeeman
with only % 10 be elected. For district
chairman Col. James A. Elliasop, Albert
Stetser and Isaac Bowers are mentioned.
There are seven candidates for del
egates to the State convention at Dover
in the Seventh ward, the selection being
especially strong and comprising Benjamin
DEMO, Leroy Harvey, Charles A. Patter-
son, James II. Price, Henry Wilson,
Thomas p. Haugh and William. II. Robin
son.
In the first primary district the contest
is between Samuel C. Weaver and Samuel
NJ Ford: in the second district between
William T. Naudaine and james Mitchell
in the fourth primary district, between
Theodore Francis and George ". Cox;
in the nineteenth district, between Leslie
H. Porter and James NJ. Mason, In the
twenty-secOnd district, the contest IS
between Leroy w. Hickman and james
Chaney In the twenty-fourth district,
there is no opposition. There are twenty
niue candidates and only twenty-iour
districts 50 there may be five disappointed
candidates. The twenty-four candidates
receiving the highest number of votes
will be selected for the district committee
man, the men elected being assigned 70
thc ulueIeub CISlflCte dCtoIulAib " ttitii
selection
In the Fifth ward there are ten candidates
for delegates with only FIVE to be elected.
There are thirty candidates for com
mitteemen from this ward and only four
teen to be elected. In the Eigth ward the
only contests are in the ninth and eleventh
primary districts Cecil Reeder and
Joseph l.. Taylor in the Ninth and Cecil
& Hahn and William~J Orrin the ele venth
primary district, are the can didates
NEW STATE COMMITTEE.
The election also has another sig
nifcance. 1t will be factor in the elec-
tion of a new State Committee. The
present committee is controlled by the
New Dispensation, but whether the
new one viii be determined by the OUT
come of the delegate election
The polls opened at / o'clock this after
noon and viii close at z tonight, after
which the results will be reported at the
various Republican headquarters in the
several sections Of the State. In this
county the returns will 90 to the county
committee officers at the Young Men
Republican Club.