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INDEPENDENTS
MAKE |NROADS IN
OLD GUARD RANKS
They Have Prospects of Control
ling the Party Organization
in Kent County.
BUT A REVOLT is CERTAIN

Sner,al CORRESPONDENCE of Every Evening
Dover. June 29-An important poiitl-
cal conference will he held here, rcNt
month when the Republican State CentTai
Committee will give audience To the
committee appointed several weeks ago
TO consider the momentous question oi
harmony between the Organization Ike
p,lhlicans and the independent boilers
of I9I6-whose opposition proved SO
disastrous to the old Organlzat ion-W,th
a view to Republican harmony IN thus
wears campaign. The meeting Will nc
held in the handsomely-appo mead
quarters of the Kent CouEty kepubhcan
Committee. at State and North suectS'
at which time these fine accommodations
for campaign work Will he iormahE
turned over To the county committee.
There Is something ominous TO the old
Organization IN respect OF tins place OF
meeting. Il was secured and fitted up
hv members of the county committee
who are no longer of and with the Or
panization. but have gone over 20 the
Independent boilers faction. It cost
something TO secure and fit UP these hand
some headquarters. and Organization
Republicans, while they may not know
where the money for the purpose came
from, most assuIedly know where II
did not come from.
WHAT THE CONFERENCE WILL FIND
When this conference assemblies. there
is probability that q severe shock Viii
await some of the faithful followers OF
the old Organization. Nmie they may
have had an linking OF how things political
in Republican circles IN Kent county have
beeu going for some time, they may not
really have known how far the lnsidlous
and persistent campaign Of the indie
pendent Republican boilers To secure con-
troll OF the regular Republican party or
ganization for this year S campaign has
gone In Kent county. Unless their eyes
are opened before this mex ting.
they NAV &c as completely astounded as
were the friends Of Senator Henry A.
du Pont, in the first Republican primary
OF 1916. when, on assembling At Dover.
they learned. TO their astonIshment, that
Alfred |. du Point controlled the rural
New Castle county delegation and had
himself elected National Convention dele
gate, instead Of the Senator, who had
supposed he was secure.
Faithful Organization Republicans
when they look in at this coming Kent
county conference, will learn that
the independent Republican boilers have
made surprising lnroads INTO Inv oIu
Organization ranks. They will ind that
not only has State Chairman Alden X.
Benson gone over TO the Independent
boilers, but that County Chairman James
A. Irons, whose devotion TO the Organize
ton was supposed to be copper-bottomed
and douhle-riveted, also has listened TO
the voice Of the siren, and welded TO its
Establishments He i now IN line with
tho Indenendcnt boitcrS
HOW THE CHANGE WAS WROUGHT.
Organization voters. when they recog-
nize the displeaslng facts of the situa-
ton. may wonder how II was brought
about. But they will not lack convincing
evidences that il has come TO pass. They
may not and doubtless will not. attribute
anv OF the results TO ex-senator J. Frank
Alice. whose personal political influence
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