Evening journal., 1920-03-29
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should clear its skirts by demanding
his resignation.
This applies also TO I. ID. Short
president pro TEN. of the Senate, and
\ member of the Republican State
Committee He is hand-in-glove with
Layton in his maneuvers TO repudiate
the Republican national party and
wreck its plan.
All this is predicated upon the the
ory that the rank and file Of Delaware
Republicans want to see the Republi-
can party remain in power at Wash
ingt0n and wish to see their State or
panizatiOn and State leaders working
in harmony with the national organic
cation and the Congressional leaders.
II the rank and file Of Delaware Re
publicans do not wish this, il they
wish to "secede" from the Republican
national organization TO help Dan
Layton and his clique make the Re
publican party Of Delaware a tail to
"Bulln McNabb's kite, that becomes
altogether a different matter.
Dan Layton is dividing his time at
Dover into three parts: One part IS
devoted to conferences witah Bull
McNabb and other Democrats; one
part to "cussing out" Will Fl. Hays,
Republican National Chairman, and
one part to "cussing out"s Governor
!. Townsend. Layton has quite a "sob
story of how miserably he has been
treated by National Chairman Hays
and the national committee, which
treatment he claims justifes him now
in running amuck and seeking TO
wreck the Republican party.
He says Chairman Hays has never
given him, Layton, credit for any
thing; that Hays has stolen from him
(Layton) the credit Of electing DR..
Ball to the United States Senate in
1918; that the national committee
never consults him about affairs in
Delaware and as evidence of this he
says he was not consulted about the
appointment of Robert H. Richards
as member of a national committee
on platform. He spends more time
IN Dover personally denouncing Hays
and the Republican national commit
tee than he does denouncing equal
suffrage
This is not a new attitude for Chair
man Layton, but there is another side
to the story he tells. If those around
Republican national headquarters
would talk they might introduce some
very interesting febuttal to Layton's
charges. II might be shown that IN
the 1918 campaign, the national COM
mittee could get no team work out Of
the two State chairmen. One was
William Lemke, of North Dakota,
who went over bag and baggage to
the Democratic Non-Partisan League
and refused to ''play bali' with the
Republican national committee, and
the other was Daniel j. Layton OF
Delaware.
The Republicans, as well as the
Democrats of Delaware, have good
cause to remember that things got in
such shape in Delaware under Lay
TOMS Craftsmanship that ten days be-
fore the election it was conceded that
Or. Ball would be defeated for the
United States Senate. They have
GOOD cause 10 remember that only as
= last resort, when drastic measures
ecame necessary if DR.. Ball were TO
& elected. the Republican National
Committee had TO come into Delaware /
over Daniel J. Layton's head, call a |
meeting of loyal Delaware Republi-
cans and urge them 20 take the mat
ter in their own hands and elect DR..
Ball. The loyal Republicans Of Della
ware who remember that action and
why it was necessary, can now decide
FOR themselves the truth or falsity Of
Daniel J. Lavton's cnarge that he was
for DIR. Balls election and
hat Chairman Hays is trying now to I
steal all the credit. They can also
pretty accurately take the measure Of J
the man and the Republican who ]
makes this charge as an excuse and a
Justification of his present action as Z
Republican State Chairman of join ]
ing hands with the Democrats under I
in a deal TO defeat the Re (
publican party. K
Nor is that all. II might be set (
forth that since the 1918 elections .
every effort has been made by the Re (
publican National Committee TO work I
with Daniel j. Layton and he has per- h
iistently refused to work with the ma \
ional Organization. Bureau chiefs {
ave come into Delaware from the
Republican national headquarters to I
work with Chairman Layton, as they !
ire working with other Republican I
tate chairmen, and he has told them i
% 'go back TO headquarters and mind .
heir own business" because he "didn't h
iced their advice on how to do things !
n Delaware" Letters and repeated 7
'equests for information and sugges- n
ions sent to Layton from national 4
headquarters have never been answer h
ed. Layton himself is quoted in q
Georgetown as Dragging that when he T
gets letter from Republican nation a
al headquarters he doesn't read it, 6
but throws it into the scrap basket -
where It belongs. Maybe 1t was one =
OF these letters which Layton is quot = =
ed as never reading which asked his :,
advice about the selection Of Robert y
Richards. L
This persistent snarling and hack
biting Of Delaware's Republican State 4
Chairman is no Estate secrepi in Re- a
publican national headquarters az l
Washington, and it is no secret that 1
the patience Of the Republican leaders a
is showing signs of exhaustion. They Y
We're not prepared, however, for Law I
ton to carry his fancied grievances
and grudges to the point of entering
into a combination with the Demo.
cratic organization of his State and
waging open and vindictive warfare
against the Republican party.
There is also unusual curiosity in
congressional circles re-
yarding the sudden display of politi-
al impotence on the part of Con- ,
yrreessssisssiisssaTs yrreessssisssiisssaTs Caleb r. Layton. He was
soiispicuously insistent that Governor
Townsend should call a special ses-
sion Of the legislature in order that 4