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exhibited a shameless effrontery offensive to the pub- 

 lic sense of decency and degrading to American 

 politics. 



Resolved^ That no incident of American politics is 

 more corrupt and discreditable than the proposed bar- 

 gain and sale of the confidential offices of the United 

 States Senate by the solid Republican party in that 

 body to a disreputable renegade and political adven- 

 turer, who qualified himself for the alliance by com- 

 bining the worst elements of society to accomplish 

 the repudiation of the lawful debt of an ancient and 

 honored commonwealth. And that the open and 

 shameless coalitions made or tendered everywhere 

 throughout the South by the administration with 

 every political prostitute and ready recipient of radi- 

 cal money and official position, deserves and must 

 receive the scorn and contempt of all decent men. 



Rssolved, That we view with apprehension the cre- 

 ation of an overgrown army of officials, and their 

 organized control over and interference with popular 

 elections, by the corrupt use of public money and 

 abuse of their official powers; ana that we denounce 

 as fundamentally false and dangerous the present 

 " spoils system" of the Republican party, in relation 

 to public offices, and declare that if our elections are 

 to be fair and free, and the form of our government is 

 to be maintained, the public offices must be filled and 

 administered with a view to honest and efficient public 

 service, and not be made, as they uow are, the mere 

 spoils of party conquest. 



Resolved, That the efforts of all self-respecting citi- 

 zens of Delaware are due, and are hereby earnestly 

 invited to assist in defeating at the polls a party led 

 and organized as is the Republican party of the State 

 to-day, who seek to control the State not for its true 

 interests, but for the spoils of office and to gratify 

 personal ambition, and rely for their success only 

 upon banded ignorance, race prejudice and profligacy 

 within, and the corrupting power of money gathered 

 from without the State. 



Charles 0. Stockley, of Sussex County, was 

 nominated for Governor, and Charles B. Lore, 

 of Wilmington, for Congressman. 



Charles C. Stockley was born in Georgetown, 

 on November 6, 1819, and received the rudi- 

 ments of his education at a local school. He 

 supplemented this by a course at a private 

 school in Philadelphia, after which he engaged 

 in mercantile business in that city, and subse- 

 quently in Millsboro, Sussex County. While 

 living at Millsboro he was elected County 

 Treasurer, and in 1856 Sheriff. In 1873 he was 

 elected State Senator, and in the second session 

 of his term, in 1875, was made Speaker of the 

 Senate. Of late years Mr. Stockley has been 

 chiefly known as a railroad man. He has been 

 for some years President of the Farmers' Bank 

 of Georgetown. He is a large landholder, and 

 lives on one of his farms, some three miles 

 from Georgetown. 



Charles Brown Lore was born at Cantwell's 

 Bridge, now Odessa, March 16, 1831. His 

 father, Eldad Lore, was engaged there in the 

 lumber business. He received a rudimentary 

 education in the public school at Cantwell's 

 Bridge, and after a preparatory course at the 

 Middletown Academy he entered Dickinson 

 College in 1848, and graduated with the honors 

 of his class in 1852. 



After leaving college he commenced the 

 study of the law under Judge John K. Find- 

 ley, of Philadelphia. He served as Clerk of 

 the House of Eepresentatives through the ses- 



sion of 1856-'57. Immediately after this he 

 turned his attention to the ministry, and the 

 Methodist Episcopal Conference of 1858 ac- 

 cepted him on trial, and assigned him to the 

 Princess Anne church, in the Snow Hill dis- 

 trict, where he preached for one year. At the 

 end of that time Mr. Lore withdrew from the 

 ministry, and, going to Wilmington, resumed 

 the study of the law under the late Chancellor 

 Bates. He was admitted to the bar in Novem- 

 ber, 1861. In 1869 he was appointed Attorney- 

 General, and held the office five years. 



Two Greenback Conventions made nomina- 

 tions, and two Temperance Conventions were 

 held, which made no nominations. The State 

 Grange took action against bribery at elections, 

 and in favor of representation by districts. 



The election resulted in the choice of the 

 Democratic ticket. The vote was as follows : 

 Stockley, 16,558; Curry, 14,620; majority for 

 Stockley, 1,938. Lore, 16,563; Hastings, 14,- 

 640; majority for Lore, 1,923. The Legisla- 

 ture is unanimously Democratic in the House, 

 and contains but one Eepublican in the Senate. 



DE LONG, GEORGE W., commander of the 

 lost exploring vessel Jeannette, perished of 

 hunger with a number of his crew while en- 

 deavoring to retreat to the settlements on the 

 Lena Eiver, in Siberia, in the winter of 1881. 

 De Long was an officer of the United States 

 Navy, of the rank of commander. He was 

 born in New York, in 1844. He passed through 

 the course of naval instruction at Annapolis, 

 and rose rapidly in the service to the grade of 

 lieutenant, which he attained in 1869. In 1871 

 he obtained leave of absence for two years, 

 which he spent in Europe. He married Miss 

 Wolien, at Havre. He was attached to the 

 service of the French line of transatlantic 

 steamers for a time. From 1876 to 1878 he 

 directed the training-ship St. Mary, at New 

 York. 



De Long had already, in 1874, taken part in 

 the polar expedition of the Juniata, under the 

 command of Captain L. Braine. While the 

 vessel was lying at Upernavik, in Greenland, 

 he undertook the perilous task of penetrating 

 farther to the northward, at the head of an 

 exploring party, in the steam-launch Little 

 Juniata. He pushed through the ice to within 

 sight of Cape York, where he was hindered 

 from landing by the pack. Scarcely had he 

 returned to the United States when he volun- 

 teered and was engaged to lead the Jeannette 

 expedition, which was to be fitted out at the 

 expense of the proprietor of the " New York 

 Herald." (For the record of the voyage, and 

 of the hardships and untimely end of the com- 

 mander and his companions, see GEOGRAPHICAL 

 PROGRESS AND DISCOVERY.) 



DENMAEK, a constitutional monarchy in 

 Northern Europe. The King, who must be a 

 member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church, 

 which is the state religion, exercises the execu- 

 tive power under the advice of his ministers, 

 who are responsible to the Eigsdag, or Diet. 



