Evening journal., 1912-09-12
ALLEE-LAYTON MACHINE
PUTS THROUGH SLATE
Men Who Organized Progressive Party Take the
Places on the Ticket of Convention
They Controlled
AMUSING SPECTACLE OF DR.. LAYTON
DENOUNCING POLITICAL CORRUPTION

opeCldl 70 If1E EVENING JOJhNAl4
DOVER, Del, Sept i2.-As will be
seen from TIE foregoing, the slate set
up by former Senator ]. Farnk Alice.
DR.. Caleb X. Layton and the old COM
binstion of former AddiclIs leaders.
with the aid OF Senator Drexler and
Robert G. Houston, was put through
the Progressive party convention
yesterday afternoon. There was no
semblance OF OppoTition to any OF the
nominees excepting Drexler Tor Con-
gress, so we'll oiled had been the ma
chine set up by the slick politicians
of the old Addicks regime who have
gotten control Of the Progressive
party.
For while the opposition 70 DreI-
Ter, which was to be centered upon
the Rev. Or. George Edward Reed.
pastor OF Grace NJ. r. Church, Will
mington. promised TO crack the Pro-
gressive slate, with DR.. Layton lean
ing toward DR.. Reed for Congress-
Dr. Layton was In mood 20 dump
over Drexler and help to nominate
Dr. Reed, but he could not be con-
vinced that DR.. Reed was eligible,
because Of him not having a years
residence IN Delaware this having
been clinched when Il became known
that DR.. Reed had received two votes
for State Treasure Of Pennsylvania
in the Keystone party's convention
in Philadelphia on July 8. DR.. Reed
gave 1t out that he was not a can
didate although he entered no OBJ
lection to the use of his name for
Congress, but ne wished to consult
officials of Grace Church 10 learn
what they would think about it. Tn
der the circumstances DR.. Layton
lined up with the Progressive ma
chine TO nominate Drexler.
So carefully had the delegates been
hand picked by the Progressive lead
ers that DR.. Hiram r. Burton receiv-
ed but four votes for Congress and
DR.. Reed one vote, Drexler receiving
all the rest.
II was essentially a Kent and Sus-
sex county convention. But twenty
fve men from New Castle county
voted on the only contest in the con-
vention. that for Congress. Some Of
them the men who remained in
The meeting and arranged to organ
ize a real Progressive party after the
split occurred in the New Castle
county caucus in the morning sat in
the convention and voted, but sew
eral others of them who were pres
ent refused to vote when their names
were called Others did not even at
tend after their plea for proportional
representation for New Castle coun-
ty had been suppressed in the caucus
and the right of free speech In the
form OF allowing the reading Of VIII
liam p. Whites statement had been
denied.
But Alice. Layton. Houston and
Drexler, with the aid of Newall Ball,
James v. McCommons, s. John Alb
bott, r. Reese Layton and several OF
the other old Addicks leaders who
were relegated from domination when
the Republican party was united sew
eral years ago, had picked for dele
gates in the convention from Kent
and Sussex county men who stand
without hitching, and they had no
trouble in getting through their slate
without any public show of bossing
the convention.
The fact that but twenty-five New
Castle county men responded with
votes in the convention shows that
the real Progressive sentiment in
New Castle county, while still for
Colonel Roosevelt for President, is
against straight State and Congress
sional ticket that viii throw the
State over 10 the Democrats. That
was the attitude OF the men who
would not submit TO the machine
methods OF Horace g. Eastburn and
some others active I'm the Progressive
cause in the New Castle county eau
. Gus yesterday and which viii result
IN the organization OF a fourth ucke
with Roosevelt electors and ticket
A made up of fusion with the Republi-
a can State ticket.
Candidates of Own Party.
The outcome of the State Conven
4 tion demonstrated one thing particu
d larly-that George B. Hynson, Rober
G. Houston. Louis A. DreXler. Henr.
Thompson and A. A. Wilmot wer
active organizers of the new part
and then took the nominations for th
principal Offices on the ticket Of III
& party they organized. Failing TO con
troll the Republican party. the organi
81 zation OF the new party and the tax
& ing OF advantage of the sentiment 10
81 Colonel Roosevelt for President CAV
N Hynson, Houston, Drexler ThOmpso
and Wilmot a chance 10 become caudi
81 dates for office, which all. execptin
g. possibly Hynson, have yearned for 70
81 some time. This scheme of organizs