DELAWARE'S PARTY WHIPS REVEALED

DELAWARES LEGISLATORS Senator Harvey Hoffecker. The Lawmakers in the. In the series of Delaware appearing Wilmington Morning News there appears the following A certain Delaware paper at the beginning of the present session of the legislature printed an article giving a list of the party whips of the House and Senate Accord ing to this article Representative Hill was the Republican whip in the House and Representative Hall was the Democratic one while Sen ator Gormley was the Democratic whip in the Senate. In speaking of the Republican whip the arti cle stated that there was nobody home i i.

We do not wish to start an argu ment or get into any controversy over party whips but we do wish to state that when this article was written the author of it probably overlooked the fact that Senator Harvey Hoffecker was elected by the Republicans of the Fifth Sena torial district of. New Castle county at the election of 1914 to represent them in the Senate. As we understand it the term whip in this article implies the fact that the person designated as such is tht floor leader of his party in the house to which he was.