Smyrna times., 1944-04-27
GO P. PARLEY
HITS NEW DEAL
Senator c. ID. Buck KeynOter
at Republican State Con-
ventiOn; 9 Delegates
TOWNSEND FOR DEWEY

lOWNSEI\D TON LIE w II l.
Former u. S. Senator John G.
Townsend, Jr., of Selbyville, be-
came the first of Delaware's nine
delegates to the Republican Nation
al Convention to pledge himself
when he stated publicly that he
would vote for Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey, of New York, if Dewey is
candidate for the presidential nom-
ination. Mr.. Townsend's statement,
coming toward the end of the Re-
publican delegate convention at
Dover, aroused the greatest moment
of enthusiasm. 1t was immediate
ly an important topic of conversa-
ton, for the former senator is
chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial Campaign Committee. Called
on to speak by U. S. Rep. Earle d.
Wiley, of Dover, who had been
elected permanent chairman of the
convention, Mr.. Townsend, predict
ed that 'if we nominate the proper
candidate we will elect a majority
in the House, we will elect the
president and there is a possibility
that we will win the Senate"
Will Vote for Dewey
That Governor Dewey was his
reference to "the proper candidate"
Mr.. Townsend lost no time in
stressing, that unless you instruct
me differently shall confide in you
now that my vote at the conven-
tion will be for Governor Dewey
of New York" He ended with an
appraisal of the New York COVER
nor's administration. Earlier, in
both the keynote speech of U. S.
Senator c. Douglass Buck, who
was elected a delegate, and the
eight-point resolution adopted by
the convention, the Republican
Party in Delaware left no doubt
as to its line Of attack in the ap-
preaching presidential campaign.
Criticized New Deal
Senator Buck criticized the New
Deal government of 'bureaucrats,"
saying that the IL years of the
New Deal will be accounted for in |
years to come as an era in which |
1--WE were governed by bureaus and
bureaucrats, theorists and crack
pots, professors and brain-trusters,
and in which we were governed by
those who were not elected by the
people, nor accountable to the peo-
pie, but derived their power by ap-
pointments, DEGREES and directives."
Sees Labor Regimented
Congress, he continued, wants to
see the government put back into
the hands of the people and, he
stated, this is impossible under the
present administration. "The truth
is," he stated, that our own politi-
cal order begins to show signs of
developing a process of degrada-
ton, the ultimate stage of which is
indistinguishable from the very
Nazism and Fascism against which
we are fighting" Labor, he said,
is fast being regimented by the
New Deal and it is time that the
American worker be assured of
free labor movement, free from
governmental as we'll as private
domination.
Agriculture Important
"The Republican Party" the SEN
ator continued, "well realizes that
agriculture is the backbone and
mainstay of our country's welfare,
and insists that not a New Deal
but a Square Deal shall be given
to it, for without it our country
cannot prosper or endure"
Both Senator Buck and the reso-
luton praised the administration of
Gov. Walter w. Bacon, also dele
gate, and of the service to the state
and nation of Representative Will
ley, another delegate, while the
senator included commendation of
Mayor Albert w. James admins
tration of Wilmington.
8-Point Resolution
The eight points of the resolu-
ton which was read by George c.
Herring, Jr., of Wilmington, chair
man of the resolution committee,
touched on the war, peace, veter-
ans, national economy, labor, the
two-party system, state govern
ment and Senator Buck and Repre-
sentative Wiley.
Victory over the Axis and dis
armament of Axis nations, togeth-
er with the destruction of enemy
nations facilities for making
weapons were stressed, and ire
sponsible participation by the Unit
ed States in postwar cooperative
organization among sovereign ma
tions" was urged. The latter was
qualified to the extent that in any
emergency the nation should lad
here to the policy which will pre-
serve its constitutionalism as ex-
rracced in tha Dec1arqtion of Tnde-