Milford chronicle., 1922-09-08
BENSON'S ELECTION
WITH APPROVAL
The new REPUBLICAN, CHAIRMAN RE-
APPOINTS CHARLES H. GRANTLAND
OF WILMINGTON CHAIRMAN.
SUSSEX WOMAN ASSISTANT
MRS. LENA REED ANDERSON OF ELLEN
DALE APPOINTED ASSISTANT Sec
RETARY TO Mr.. GRANTLAND.

Action by the Republican State
Committee at the Dover meeting last
week, in electing Secretary of State
Alden r. Benson, chairman of the
committee, meets with general ap-
proval of the Republican voters of the
State. The selection of General Ben
son to conduct the campaign was IA
vorably commented on in Republican
circles. He held the same Office sew
eral years ago and made an efficient
and popular chairman.
Chairman Benson has reappOinted
Charles H. Grantland, of Wilmington,
as secretary of the State committee
and also appointed Mrs. Lena Ander-
son, of Glendale, Sussex county, as
assistant secretary.
In addition to Senator T. Coleman
DUPONT, nominee for United States
Senator; DR.. Charles M. Hollis, nOmi-
nee for Insurance Commissioner;
Thomas S. Furacre, nominee for State
Treasurer and Joseph Morris Harring-
ton, nominee for Auditor of Accounts,
also attended the meeting and met
personally members of the State Com
mittee.
The following resolution presented
by Mrs. Julia Ashbrook, of Whining
ton, was adopted:
"Be it resolved that it is the sense
of this committee that the treasurer
be authorized to formulate a budget
of the proper expenditures of this
committee, the same to be submitted
to the finance committee for their ap-
proval, and,
'Be it further resolved, that this
committee recommends that suitable
audit of the expenditures of the fl
nance committee be made at stated |
and that report of the
same be presented to the state COM
mittee."
A committee of three, consisting of
DR.. COnwell BantOn, Alfred Raikes
Ind James G. Robinson was appointed
)y the chairman, at the request of
he committee, to devise ways and
means for proper representation of
he Colored Women's committees on
he state committee committee
o report the result of their delibera-
ions at the next meeting of the state
Ommittee.
In accepting the Office for secretary
f the State committee, General Ben
on favored the committee with one t
f his humorous poems, to wit:
We're not of the clan of the jobless :
man
In fact we've jobs galore, I
hey come in fiocks and punches and
blocks
We've several jobs-and some more,
here's the State House repairs-from s
cellar to stairs, 2
A job that gave us some thrills
sed miles of tape-not red-we will
state -
Original Bills, a
here's the Highway job and the License d
And the job to title your car, l
lille we hold no brief for the auto thief
We often give him a jar. S
he gets in the NAV of the Auto Law n
And lands in Plummer's garden,
erhaps there's chance, though far in d
advance,
Of being released on a pardon.
eve another job that wrings out a sob, o.
And with your kind permission il
ill state this job is some job M
This job on the Tax Commission. -N
lere's the corporation Job the fran !
The job of jobbing supplies-a few
ltside of these facts-and letting con- al
tracts X
There's just about nothing to do.
and behold, now we're told
It inspires this little dity- fC
ere's another job, that is a job, p
Chairman of the State Committee" a.
At the conclusion of the meeting III
lner was served at the Hotel Rich =,
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