Milford chronicle., 1921-01-14
EXIT GOVERNOR TOWNSEND;
ENTER GOVERNOR DENNEY
From Sunday Star:

LAVA LA w Y AAAANOAA UAAvAN4
From Sunday Star:
On January 18 Governor Townsend
will lay down the reins as Chief Exec
Utive of Delaware and will be sue
ceeded by Col. William D. Denney. II
will be the passing of one good gov
ernOr to make way for another who
may be depended upon to give Della
ware an equally acceptable admins
tration. To the retiring executive we
may truthfully say: "Well done, good
and faithful servant, you have fully
vindicated the confidence and trust
imposed in you by your fellow citi-
zens."
Everybody, even those hostile to Re
publican control, including the some
times captious Every Evening, con-
cedes that Governor Townsend has
given us an admirable administration,
that he has arisen equal to every
emergency and has turned every op-
portunity to account for the advance
ment of the State. He has fitIy and
ably represented Delaware at con-
ferences of governors and national
leaders, and his views have always re-
ceived the earnest consideration that
they deserved for his counsel has al
ways been based on the experience ac-
quired through long and extensive
business career and good hard COM
mon sense.
Mr.. Townsend, as the war governor
of Delaware, has had term of unus-
ual activity. He has been busy almost
Of ~
work through the trying days of the
war required much discretion of
high order and much unselfish patrio-
tism. Not one of the more than ten
thousand young Delawareans who
went with the flag at the call of the
nation to arms, but felt that in the
governor of his own State he had a.
loyal friend, and to those who were
left behind he was regarded as a big
helpful brother. In the stirring days
when the registration, and the draft
were on, and our men were leaving
home daily to share in the fortunes
of war our governor was always at
hand to cheer them on, and express
his pride in the loyalty and patriotism
of these worthy descendants of those
soldiers who in the Revolutionary
war won the distinction of being "the
best and bravest that ever served on
a battlefield" In providing for the
comfort of the men who went to the
front or those who stayed at home
Governor Townsend was tireless in
his endeavors,~ and the quantity of the
work he accomplished was enormous.
He was in the lead of every move
ment for the raising of money for the
various war activities, for swelling
the funds of the government to enable
it to prosecute the war with all the
force and persistence and power of
the nations tremendous resources.
AS the War Governor Of Delaware,
Mr.. Townsend will long be held in
grateful esteem by the people of this
State, both for his splendid achieve
ments and for the example of unflag-
ging patriotism, and if it has been
proved there were no more than ten |
actual slackers in Delaware when |
the war call sounded, not a little of |
that manifestation of loyalty was in
spired by our executives high sense
of individual duty to the State and |
the nation.
No other governor since the civil |
war has had half the responsibility
nor problems of moment that came to |
Mr.. Townsend in his four years of
service as the States head. In the fu-
ture estimate of the services of those
who have filled Delaware's executive
chair we will find Mr.. Townsend's
name writ large and bright, for he
served the State with ability, fidelity
to his ideals and with unfailing re-
gard for the welfare of the people.
Perhaps no act of Governor Town
sends better illustrates his unselfsh-
ness and his willingness to subordi-
nate his own interests or aspiration to
The good of his party, and the State
,han his refusal to take advantage of
victory at the primary polls and en-
iorce his rights at the expense of his
party. He was not willing to assent
10 the proposal of his friends to take
such a selfish although warranted
stand as would split his party on the
ave of national election. It was, in
Iced, party before self with Governor
Townsend. The result of his self-ef-
,acement is told in the sweeping Re-
publican victory in this State.
Governor Townsend's strong and
persistent advocacy of a modern
school law in face of the manufac-
ured hostility directed against it in
lis own county among his neighbors
md closest friends, illustrated the
high courage of the executive when
jtill he was representing the best in
erests of the State. His insistent
work in behalf of suffrage, his willing
less to sacrifice all hope of political
uture, in espousing the cause of
,qual rights showed him again to be
'eady to hazard self-interest for what
lie believed was right.
Governor Townsend is a true and
ypical Delawarean of the old school,
genial, cordial in his re-
atoms with his fellow citizens. He is
nd has been at all times approach
bile, always open to suggestions and
and the people generally have
cit nearer and actually kept closer
o him than they have to any other
Executive for half century, for every
me knew him to be sincere, capable
nd without ambition other than to
erve his fellow Delawareans accord