Milford chronicle., 1922-05-19
JUNIOR SENATOR IS
PRAISED FOR SERVICE
TO STATE AND NATION
PROMINENT DEAWARES VOICE DEMAND FROM ALL OVER STATE FOR THE
RETURN OF I. COLEMAN DU POINT TO UNITED STATES SENATE
In INTEREST OF CONSTRUCTIVE
BUSINESS IDEAS in AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY
ACCLAIMED As GREAT CITIZEN BY The MANY PROMINENT GENTLEMEN WHO
ADDRESSED The LARGE GATHERING AT RECEPTION RENDERED
MR. DU POINT AT HOME OF JOHN j. RASKOB


@4rcbmere." the handsome country
bonas of John J. Raskob, at Claymont,
E'ridav evening, May II, lauded United
ctates senator T. Coleman dupont for
bis high public spirit and construc-
tive genius and, by informal action,
repeatedly expressed in divers ways
put themselves on record as DeihS
convinced fully that the interests Oh
the country, of the State and OF the
Republican party require that he snail
he nominated for and elected to the
Senate for the full term of six years. |
Among the guests was oscar ,.
Strauss, of New York, former ambas-
sador to Turkey and former member
of the Hague peace convention;
II was an ovation in one of the most
magnificent and hospitable settings that
could have been selected for it in Della
ware. Mr.. Raskob was a delightful host
the function which he had arranged III
Senator duPont's honor and in promo
tion of his candidacy for a return to the
Senate was chamingly informal and, be-
fore the evening closed, the buffet sup
per had resolved itself into an important
harmony meeting of Republican leaders
who. no matter what their differences
may be upon minor and local questions
were a unit in the feeling that Senator
dupont had done so much for Delaware
as a private citizen and had acquitted
himself so well as a United States Sena-
tor that all Republicans should unite in
the work of sending him back to Wash
ington supported by a majority unprece-
dented in the history of this State.
This foregathering of Republican lead
ers. this articulate expression Of good
fellowship among them, and this fiatter-
ing endorsement of Senator DUPONT, were
witnessed by several Democrats of prom
inence. They were specialIy-invited per-
sonal guests of Mr.. Raskob and their
presence at the supper was understood
clearly to carry with it no political sig
nificance. The assemblage was so infor-
NAL and impregnated to such an atmos-
phere of Delawareanism, however, that
no one thought of drawing party lines
with respect to individuals. The shrub
embroidered and f1ower-bedecked envir-
onment the delightful repast and the
good fellowship everywhere displayed,
made the function seem more like COM
ing together of representative and high
spirited Delawareans to perform some
specific public duty than a partisan func-
tion brought into being to promote the
nomination and the subsequent election
of a Republican United States Senator.
The early part of the evening was
spent by the guests in inspecting the
Raskob home and the spacious grounds
surrounding it and marveling at the
many things which had been achieved
there by engineers, architects and land
scape gardeners, and exterior and inter-
ior decorators. Then came the delightful
buffet-supper, served in the large dining
room The endorsement meeting follow
ed It was held in the large patio which
the mansion surrounds. When the guests
entered that patio early in the evening
it was open to the sky, but just before
Mr.. Raskob opened the meeting someone
touched an electric button and a enor-
nous stained glass roof, in two sections
slid into place, and the guests found
themselves indoors. This >'disappearing
roof" as it is called, was the idea of Mr.
and Mrs Raskob, who left to their engi-
neers the task of working out the me-
chanical and ornamental details. 1t is the
only thing of it's sort, it is said, in the
world. The roof runs on small trucks, like
railroad trucks, and on tracks akin to
railroad tracks, and it slides back and
forth without any noise of a disturbing
nature.
Mr.. Raskob's Welcome
Mr.. Raskob in opening the speech-mak-
ing expressed his pleasure in entertaining
his guests and added that he hoped every
man present would call on him any time
he felt like it. Mr. Raskob said several
prominent men who had been invited
and whom it was hoped to have present
had been unable to attend and had sent
letters of regret, which he read.
Mr.. Raskob continued: I consider it a
great privilege to have you honor me
with your presence here tonight to meet
Coleman DUPONT.
'I suppose, like a great many other
men in business, 1 am to be criticized
for having so little to do with affairs po-
litical, although as most of you know
have always taken a keen and sincere IN
terest in the economic welfare of our
state While 1 hope that each and every
one of you will honor me with other Wis
it's, at other times, my object in asking
you here this evening is for the purpose
not only of promoting the nomination OF
Coleman dupont for the Upper House OF
Congress, but to urge the Importance OF
organizing the Republican party this fall
in a way that will send Mr.. dupont to the
United States Senate by the greatest
majority ever given any man in the his
tory of Delaware.
1T is needless for me to attempt to
describe the deep and sincere interest Mr..
DUPONT has always taken in. the social,
? political and economic welfare of our
state and it's citizens. Coming to Della
ware as he did in 1902, Mr.. DUPONT Or
ganized the dupont Company to take oV-
er a business which heretofore had been
conducted as a partnership with its prin-
cipal offices and operations scattered
throughout the country. He quickly
evolved a scheme for bringing the princi-
pal offices and the administration OF the
business to Delaware, resulting in the
employment of thousands of people. Un-
der his able management and direction
the company grew and prospered and it
was not long before the fruits of his Ia
Dor, which flowed to him, began to be
devoted to the promotion of good work in
every direction in our state.
I'VE now have in Washington, in the
person of Mr. Harding, a president who
is devoting all his energies not only to
instituting business in government but SO
to shape the efforts of the nation as to
result in a revival of business, in which
efforts he should be most heartily sup
ported, for the reason that within anoth-