Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-05
Of HOUSE
|DEPENDS ON SPECIAL
| ELECTION IN SUSSEX
c Having Resulted in Repre-
sentative Vote in Seventh
District.
NO CONTESTS FILED
IN ANY OF THE COUNTIES

The official canvass Of the vote of Tues
AaV's election in Sussex county, Wthch
as COMPLETED Yesterday afternoon oF
bIdgcs Conrnd and liciscl, bavng shown
,ie for the office Of Representative IN
he General Assembly. from the Seventh
,.,r,ct az that county, tho deciding OF that
10 in a manner provided by law, VIII
.t,rmina the political complexion u the
X,v, HOUSE. Without this district the
rlcturns. so far as canvassed-and he WORK
Mas been completed in Kent and sussex
Ind part Of New Castle counties snow
ihat tho Democrats and kepubhcans
llectrd Il members each Otherwise, the
tnrial canvass did not affect the result
Is heretofore printed IN Every Evening.
, In view of the fact that no contests were
filed IN any Of the counties the two pro
posed IN New Castle county. in the Fifth
and Twelfth districts having been aban-
doned hy the Democrats it Is sale 70
assume that the result IN New Castle
county. as announced in Every Evening
On "Wednesday and yesterday, will remain
unchanged through the official count.
Therefore. II Is safe 10 assume furth
that tho lsDcmooratic candidates for Repre-
sentative and the Is Republican candI-
dates returned MS elected, VIII o. Sc
declared follow tho canvass. That beng
,h, case. tn, deciding Of the Sussex tIe
will determine the political complexion
of the House.
HOW TIES ARE DECIDED.
Tho state Constitution contcmplate'
special election. within 30 days after
the governor Is notified Of tie, as a means
of deciding n contest of this sort When
INQUIRY was made AZ the State House 70,
day II was stated that the governor had
not vet been officially advised; therefore
there was nu official statement as 20 what
hc would do IN the matter. However the
law state Constitution saws
W hencvcr there shall he vacancy N
either house of the General Assembly, by
reason of failure to elect. inelIglbllltlv
death. resignation or otherwise, n writ
~ election shall I've issued by the presiding
officer of the house IN which the vacancy
eNists. or IN cases or necessity IN sucf
other manner as shall he provided by law
and the person thcrcupon chosen TO I'll
such vacancy shall hold office for the resi-
due Of the term And whenever there
shal be such vacancy in either house, anc
the General Assembly is not IN session
the Governor shall have power to issue
\ writ of election To AL such vacancy
which writ shall he executed rs writ
iSued bN the presidifiS olncsi ~ ei'ic'
house in case Of vacancy, and the persor
thcreupon chosen to fill such vacancy shsl
hold office for the residue Of the term
TIE ~ REruBIICAN DISTRICT.
The seventh Representative Distric
II Sussex county. in which the Repre-
sentative resulted from the election, j
Baltimore hundred, strong Republican
district. Incidentally, the voters in tha
hundred gave Harry Prettvman. Republl
can candidate for Senator in the Fourtl
senatorial district, 1.024 votes as agains
4al for 7. c. Stockley, the Democratic
candidate
In the Representative contest, however
the situation was different, each csndldat
Elmer J Turner. Democrat, and W Z. =
Hickman. Republican, receiving 14S cacf
In the returns as originally received b
Every Evening Mr. Hickman had a
and MIR. Turner 74S, which would hav
elected Mr. Hickman by a majority {
one
Notwithstanding the usually heav
Republican vote there. the Democrats AZ
counting on Mr Turner's popularity I
u-iD