Milford chronicle., 1942-04-03
SUSSEX COUNTY
REPUBLICAN URGES
COMPROMISE NOW

! have read with great interest il
the Delaware press, recently, tina
the Republican State COMMITTEES
was feeling out sentiment as tt
who would make the most available
and strongest candidate for thu
coming convention to nominate TO
United States Senator. It is i'm
, perative that the Republican part.
J choose a strong candidate for thu
Senate vacancy that will be filled
at the November election.
The Republicans OF Delaware
should nominate a candidate wht
fully meets the exacting require
ments of the present situation. HC
should be a vigorous and aggres'
sive leader in the war for victory
over the Japs, Nazis, and all Other
enemies of American liberty and
democracy, while preserving as a
Republican the American principle
of two-party government and the
inalienable right of the people to
have their voice heard in the con-
duct of national affairs. He should
serve the interests of all the people
of Delaware in their important
contribution to the war effort and
victory-Delawar industry, labor
and agriculture; Delaware factor
les, shipping, farming and all the
important energies which are con-
centrated in this state, and are vital
to the national cause.
He should, as a Delawarean and
Republican. stand firm for the pre-
servation of constitutional and
state rights, which guarantee to
our citizens the continued exercise
of their standing as freemen; the
preservation of tn cir liberties
under the American way of life,
and of the social and economic
rights of the people which Della
ware attested first, among all the
states of the Union, by her sigma
ture to our Federal Magma Charta.
Preservation of these rights in the
stress of wartime, when they are
open to infiltration or attack both
from despicable fifth columnists
and dangerous theorists, must pri-
marily be the duty of Republicans
in loyal opposition" in the halls of
Congress.
vitality important, also, should
be the selection of a Republican
candidate and Senator who is a
true-blue Delawarean, and for the
cause of absolute harmony in the
party should not be a factionist.
There are, no doubt, able Republi-
cans in all of the three counties
who have had varied experience in
public affairs, and who have pre-
viously served the State we'll in diff
ferent capacities, but who, unfor-
tunately, have been enmeshed in
factional or sectional animosities in
recent or past years. This is no
time to stir up factional or intra-
party strife. 1t decidedly is the
time. for all good Republicans, and
all good Delawareans, to rise above
the quarrels and divisions of yes
teryear and send to the Senate a
real Delawarean who will have
only one interest to serve-the in
terest of our State in these turbul-
ent times.
Such a candidate l propose to
suggest to the Chronicle. He is
man who embodies the require
mentsp which, I Believe, are set in
the minds of the voters of this vital
juncture. A plain man, a man of
the people, a Delawarean who has
more friendship and confidence in
Sussex, Kent and New Castle coun-
ties, believe, any other man in the
State; a Delawarean stepped by ex-
perience, tradition and ancestry
dating back to Colonial days, and a
Delawarean who as a Republican
candidate for Senator would make
deep draughts for support upon
voters of all political beliefs, creeds
or traditions. In short, a Della
warean who, if nominated, can be
triumphantly elected, and who
would worthily serve Delaware in
the Senate in these trying and trou-
blous years.
Such a candidate would be Fred
erick X. Reybold of New Castle, of
Kent, of Sussex. Born and raised
at Reybold Station, near Delaware
City, for some years past resi-
dent of Wilmington, his relatives
and forbears have been Delaware
ans in New Castle, Kent and Sus-
sex counties for generations past.
Among his progenitors have been
the Tybouts, who with the Reynolds
gave form and substance to the
Diamond State, it's farms and Or
chards, its shipping and river and
bay transportation, its manufac-
lures and industries, and its honest
and sturdy county and state gov
ernments.
Carrying on the record of his
family's martial patriotism, from
the Revolutionary War down to the
present, Fred Reybold's brother,
Major General Eugene Reybold,
product of Delaware College, is
now chief of the U. S. Army Engi-
neer Corps, and his son, John B.
Reybold, a West Point graduate, is
Lt.-Colonel of the 10th U. S. Caval-
ry. Starting on his grandfather's
farm at Reybold Station, near Della
ware City, Fred Reybold has been
an indefatigable worker all his life,
and his many years of experience
in the business world gave him
practical schooling in fair labor re-
lationships. Associated with sub
stantial Delaware enterprises, his
business qualifications give him a
grasp upon the requirements of
the States industrial life, and his
knowledge of general State affairs,
particularly in their relation to the
interests of farmers and taxpayers,
gained through long familiarity