Evening Journal

A Healthy Sign.
Middletown Transcript.
The time for filing names of candidates for delegates and alternates to the Republican State Convention and for members of the County Committee of this county expired on Tuesday of this week, ten days before the primary.
From the list published there are contests in every ward in the city of Wilmington except one. In the county outside there are contests in only three or four of the thirty districts.
The contests in the city are for both delegates and committeemen. In the rural districts, except in the First district of Mill Creek hundred, the contests are all for places in the organization of the party. The contests appear to be personal rather than factional. That is, many persons desire to be members of the county committee. This is proven by the fact that in no ward or rural district is there a contest between two different sets of candidates, but there are as many as five candidates for one particular place on the committee.
We consider this condition a harbinger of success. Men do not fight for membership on the committee of a party that is doomed to defeat. It is conclusive evidence that former workers are willing to continue at labor, and many others not heretofore prominent, desire to "get on the band wagon."
There is always room for an earnest, active party worker, and the voters will now have the selection of the best.