Evening journal., 1910-10-31
DEMOCRATS and
GRIER CONFER
Milford Republican CIOSeted
With Willard Salisbury
and Alexander M. Daily
KENNEY SENDS SOME
MESSAGE ABOUT IT

Chairman Edmund Mitchell, of the
Republican State Committee, to-day
received from Colonel Theodore
Townsend, Of Milford, a letter telling
of a conference there on Saturday
night of Willard Salisbury, Demo-
cratic leader; Alexander NJ. DAILY, a
well known Democrat, of Dover, and
G. Layton Grier, of Milford, a Repub-
lican, who is leading an anti-bribery
movement in Milford and Cedar Creek
hundreds.
Mr.. Salisbury i'm an automobile is
touring through Kent and Sussex
counties fixing up his political fences.
1t is said that two-thirds of the Demo-
cratic candidates for the Legislature
are for Mr.. Salisbury for United
States Senator. He went to George
town yesterday.
IL will be recalled that G. Layton
Grier, of Milford, recently engaged in
controversy with Colonel Townsend
over some political advertising, which
the latter declined to allow to go into
his newspaper, the Milford Chronicle
The letter received BY Chairman
Mitchell from Colonel Townsend is
as follows:
Milford, Del, Oct, 80. 1910.
To Edmund Mitchell, Chairman Re-
publican State Committee, Whining
ton, Del.
Dear Sir-The desire not to open a
closed incident causes me to hesitate
to write this letter, but the human
feeling Of qualification that one ex-
periences upon vindication is its JUS
tifcation.
Such was my confidence in the pro-
priety of my position, that the whole
correspondence was published in the
Chronicle without comment other
than the caption Let the People
Judge" Faith in the bedrock sense of
fairness of men enabled me 10 bear
with resignation the labored distor-
tions indulged in by the democratic
press.
If there are any who would criti-
else me for acting prematurely. let
them know that the correctness of the
information on which l then acted, has
now been demonstrated, let them
/ know that G. Layton Grier is i'm open
/ league with the Salisbury Democrats
of the First Senatorial District of Sus-
sex and the Fifth Senatorial District
of Kent counties, plotting to the best
/ of their combined cunning to defeat
| the Republican nominees, State, leg
| islative and county
At Milford, on Saturday, October
! 20, 1910, at the laboratory building of
/ the l.. ID. Caulk Company, a confer
ence was held and attended by Alex
ander NJ Daily, Esk, a dry" Demo-
crat; Willard Salisbury, Esq. a wet"
/ Democrat, and G. Layton Grier, wet
dry" Republican, Democrat.
This combination was so offensive
/ to the decent Democrats of Milford
| that certain of the more influential of
! them, communicated by phone with a
/ former Democratic United States
Senator I'm Dover. who communicated
such a sulphurious message to the
two Democrats above mentioned in
conference, that they Immediately
withdrew. Five minutes after the
/ first phone message went to Dover,
the chug-chug-chug of their automO-
bile was heard, and they left the lab
oratory building to find other fields
/ green and new.
/ want you TO realize that this letter
is written not in a spirit of yindictive-
ness, but to state plain facts, so shat
the real political, and not the pre-
tended position of G. Layton Grier
may be known. I have the honor TO be
Yours very truly.
Theodore Townsend.
The former Democratic United
States Senator referred to was Rich
ard r. Kenney of Dover, who is said
TO be in a combination TO support Mr..
Salisbury for Senator this year in re-
turn for which Kenney is to have the
support of Salisbury forces two years
,