The Sanford Express.
P. H. 8t. Clslr,
D. L. St. Clair, Publishers.
Sanford, N. C, Jane 19, 1930.
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- - Marvin Nash, of Hamlet, who rep
resented Richmond county in the last
Legislature, was so sure that he
would be returned to the next that he,
had made it known to his friends that
he hoped to be the next speaker of
the House. Yet when the votes were
counted out at the recent primary Mr.
. Nash missed the nomination, his op
ponent winning by 840 majority. A
rather emphatic knock out for the
would-be speaker. But you cannot
always tell what voters will do. j
It is said that the tariff bill just
passed by Congress and sent to the
President will cost the consumers of
the county a billion dollars, increas
ing the revenue only seventy-five
million. It is claimed by economists
that the measure does nothing to ease
.. up things in favor of agriculture, and
that it is as badly adapted as could
be to the present position of the Unit
ed States in world trade. Not only
the consumer but some of the biggest
industries in this country are oppos
ed to the measure.
The News and Observer wants to
know if the wives and other relatives
of candidates should take active part
in furthering the interests of their
relatives in primaries and elections.
Then that paper answers its own
question by saying there was conspic
uous evidence of the assistance rend
ered by the women in the recent
senatorial primary. Not only so,
but some of the Democratic candi
dates for the Legislature owe their
nominations to the assistance render
ed by the women. In Lee comity
women were quite active around the
polls. |
The idea of consolidated duplicative
city and county offices in the interest
of economy and convenience to the
tax-payers is gaining ground. Durham
has asked the county advisory com
mission and other state agencies to
outline the necessary legislation to
establish the consolidated system in
that city, while in Greensboro, accord
Ing to the News, there is a pronounc
ed sentiment for similar action in
Guilford county. The Express would
like to see the idea carried out in
Lee county. For instance, • why
wouldn’t it be possible to combine the
tax collecting agencies of Sanford and
the county. The combination would
eliminate one of these offices. It
goes without saying that such an ar
rangement would save money and
prove a convenience to tax-payers. *
Tht new president of the University
Carolina, Frank Graham,
came to jSanford not- so very long
ago and made a talk in which he ex
pressed the opinion that the Pied
mont section of the South would in
the near future become the great in
dustrial center of this country. In
that talk, as we recall, Dr. Graham
took advanced ground as to the just
rights of labor. He is a historian' of
parts but that is not all. As a writer
in the Baltimore Evening Sun' says,
"Graham is one of the almost ex
tinct species—those who go to church
on Sunday and try desperately all
week to live up to the doctrine they
have espoused.” It is gratifying to
the Alumni and friends of the Uni
versity to know that such a man— ‘
“A Christian Gentleman,” aa the same
writer calls him in another place—
has been placed at the head of the '
State’s education system. A few
years ago another Graham—Edward
Kidder Graham—was.president of the.
University. Ed Graham carried the
University to the people Sf the State;
-’and made them understand in ho un
certain way that the University was
their institution. Frank--Graham wiH
\ do the same thing in a more intimate
way if that were possible. T
TALKING IT OVER.
Charlotte Observer. . '
~ The diagnosticians are agreed on
the one point that Simmons was de
feated mainly on the -score of his ‘re
fusal to support Smith. He was giv->
en a dose of party discipline. How
ever discussion continues as to the
contributing causes. One mighty
good'cause that is likely to come in.
to general acceptance later on, after
the mad had subsided,, is that the
Simmons managers laid too '' much
_ stress, in the latter days of his cam*
paign, on the prohibition issue. Bailey
, . got the support of all the wets, while
a large part of the dry vote failed
Simmons. The wet Raskob issue
had been so tightly drawn as to have
turned the contest somewhat into the
nature of a referendum on that ques
tion. While the Simmons managers
were playing up that issue, Bailey was
'Sharp enough to distract attention
from that to one more immediately
concerning the people. This was
“Hoover Prosperity.” Simmons back
ed Hoover; Hoover was responsible in'
the eyed of the politicians, for the
prevailing depressed condition of the
country, and for Bailey, that was
making hay while the sun was shin
ing.
Simmons’ prestige at Washington
was altogether lost in the shuffle.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Journal of Commerce gives
what the Observer believes to be a
clear line on that point. The view
taken there is that had business con
ditions continued at their par, Sim
mons’ defection from the Smith con
tingent in the South would have been
overlooked to a considerable extent,
but when the voters, taking cogni- ‘
aanoe of changed commercial situa
tions, reckoned that the Senator guess
•d wrong, the result may be looked
upon as an anti-Hoover demonstra
tion and vindication for the Ai .Smith
Democrats id tue State. ■ .
A MANY-SIDED MAN.
The following article from the
Greensboro News will be read with
interest, by the people of this section
where Mr. Bailey is personally known
by many people:
“Leaving out the years occupied by
growing up and schooling, a phase of
existence of universal experience, the
State has known two Josiah William
Baileys and now begins acquaintance
with a third. The young luminary
of the Fourth estate ascended rapid
ly and high. He was to be called
by some one the Baptist pope, and
with sufficient of truth to cause tha
appelation to stick in men’s minds.
He had grown up in the atmosphere
of ecltsiasticism and of journalism.
He wrote to the Baptist denomination
and to the> world in the clear faith of
youth, in an assurance growing out of
a rich heritage of general and special
abilities of sound preparation ior
his work, of complete harmony of
his environment. His brilliance^
his industry, his mastery of the
medium through which he w'rought,
Constanaly enlarged the scope and
power of the Biblical Recorder. Be
fore he left this field he had laid
foundations on which the state was
to build. In doing this he had met
and overcome intellectual giants. He
was still a youth, wearing such lau
rels as few had been able to win in
a life time, when he ceased to be
Bailey the church journalist and be
came Bailey the lawyer and man of
affairs, with incidental participation
in politics.
“The second Bailey was not me
teorc; relatively, he was no stellar.
He was before the multitude a great
deal, at intervals he campaigned for
prohibition, for the Democratic
party, for its chief and his mentor,
Senator Simmons, he was not a
stranger to audiences political and
general, in; any part of the State.
He was One of the great Simmons
captains. He was rewarded when
the party held its brief lease of na
tional power, with a place of substan
tial dignity and emolument. But for
much of the period of two decades
Bailey was submerged in the practice
of bis profession, in domestic life, in
relative obscurity. In every politi
cal campaign he emerged to do his
share on the hustings, he was always
a tower of strength in the inner
counsels. He elected to make a con
test for the nomination for governor,
equivalent to election. His great
strength, his ripened knowledge of
the game of politics, and of the peo
ability, his engaging - personality,
seemed, when it was all over, to have
been applied with a singular lack of
judgment of the situation of the mo
ment. He put forth a tremendous
effort, and at ho time was there a
chance of its success. At the end of
this campaign the Bailey legend seem
ed shrunken and lifeless. Political
virtue, men said, had departed from
him. He had left the machine and
gone his own .way, and a great lieu
tenant was proved to be an inept'
leader. He was not a people’s’ man. j
\abilit3e^ did not jincjude the
ability to compel the enthusiasm of(
;he mass. People did not understand
vhy a man of such reputed sagacity j
iad set out upon what sagacity should
)ave been so ill-fated a venture. \
Hany concluded that he had run for |
he exercise; for the opportunity ' of,
expressing himself from that particu- !
ar sort of forum. If he was beaten *
b spirit no one sensed it. • - -I
t ■*"fhe ~thkl Bailey is dramatically
revealed as the choice of an over- i
whelming majority of his party for
United .States Senator. It is a sit-;
lation that grows directly out of the ■
Bailey participation in the Presiden- ]
:ial campaign of two years ago. Once
nore he becomes altogether the lime- 1
ight Bailey. The lieutenant is no.
nore; the chief arrives. Good fortune
ittending Him in the fall election,;
lenceforth we have a Bailey robed in
■he most magnificent of political hab
iments save only those of the Pres
dency, living and moving in an at- ,
nosphere that has many of the attri
butes of the grand ducal. The
nan he replaces is the head of his
pvariy in North Carolina. inat dis
tinction does not necessarily go with I
the succession; it is Bailey's if he can (
and choose to hold it. If he had been
a dilettante in politics, he will be so
no longer. Dillanttes do not survive
ui the senatorial toga. ,
“A many-sided man, this Bailey.
Qne of the Bailey’s is a nature lov
er, specializing in angling and bird
lore. He is a companionable man
who yet can be sufficient unto him
self. He w**ll go-afishing in the
company of kindred spirits; he will
go a-fishing alone. He will sojourn
in a^Iodge in the wilderness, hard by
a bass pond- fie will pas-a day
solitary industry amongst the fish,
and a night of such repose as the en
thusiastic angler wins. He will
awaken at dawn to listen to the birds
chorus, all familiar as the various in
struments of an orchestra to any of
the congnoscenti of a man-made mel
ody. Then he will turn him over
and take a nap; afterwards preparing
his breakfast and setting forth for
another day with the fishes. It is
suspected that this Bailey has put ill
a good deal of time in the past 20
years, first and last, extracting the
flavor out of life, getting from it an
snjovjnent of intellectual apprecia
tion.” v * I
A COSTLY VICTORY,
Houston (Texas! Post JWspatch.
Democrats of North Carolina have
put the stamp of their approval upon,
party regularity. That is the teal
meaning of the primary vote which
takes F .M. Simmons out of the Sen
ate and gives Johiah Bailey a chance
to get in. A great many Democrats
who voted with Simmons for Hoover
in 1928 must have voted for Bailey
against Simmons in 1930 Appar
ently they feel at liberty to bolt par
ty nominees at will, but deny to lead
ers of the party the same right. In
rebuking bolting 'party leaders, the
North Carolina Democracy has per-'
haps done much to enforce party reg
ularity in the future.- But, it is un
fortunate that in accomplishnig this
result, it has removed from the Sen
ate one of the most capable legislat
ors who ever sat in the body, and per
haps the ablest and most influential
member of the Democratic side of
the chamber. The Democratic party
loses from the Senate a stalwart
leader who will be hard to replace.
His nearly 30 years of service gave
him an experience th#t was of great
value to his party in its efforts to
maintain itself as a vital force in the
upper house. Senator Simmons has
suffered the supreme penalty for Ids
sin of defection in 1523,
URGING MR. HOOVER TO
VETO TARIFF BILL
Farmers, Importers, Exporters,
The Great Body of Econom
ists and Many of the Leaders
- of the President’s Own Party
Are Persisting and Asking
Him to Veto the Worst Tariff
Bill in the History of the
Country—Even a Majority of
the Republican National Com
mittee Said to be Advocating
A Veto.
(Editorial Corespondence.) —
Washington, June 17. President
Hoover is now up against the most
serious problem he has ever faced, ac
cording to independent Washington
observers. The most monstrous tar
iff bill ever enacted by any congress
now lies on his desk awaiting either
his approval or veto. If the Presi
dent is perplexed, and those who
claim to know, say he is, he has only
himself to blame, for if he knows
what he wants in the way of tariff
legislation and had definitely and
.unmistakably told Congress, he most
likely could have had it. His friends
in Congress, those whom he must
count upon for support, have had
their way. They passed the kind of
tariff bill that the manufacturing
industry demanded of them, and it
was passed because fice Democrats
Senators deserted their party, in the
final vote.
The tariff bill has been under dis
cussion for more- than a year and a
half, and the only help Mr. Hoover
has given Congress was a vague mess
age calling it into extra session in
April, 1929, and his expressed opposi
tion to debenture, the only provision
in the bill that could offer any real
benefiit to the farmers in their de
mand for parity with other industries,
and his opposition to the elminationr
of the flexible tariff. By his oppo
sition to these two provisions and
his silence otherwise he has permit
ted certain groups of industry to py
ramid their extortions and robberies
of the mass of helpless consumers in
the country.
The President s difficulty is great,
because the bill as finally passed has
created such dn array of formidable
enemies. Indeed it now appears that
practically everybody except the fav
ored industries are against the bill.
The farmers, as a class, the import
ers, the exporters, some of the giant
industries, such as the automobile
industry, the great body of econo
mists and many of the leaders in Mr.
Hover’s own party are persistently
urging him to veto the bill. The
White House is reported overwhelm
ed with protests, and according to
reports a majority of the Republican
national committee is advising a veto.
Some of the Republicans in Congress
who voted for the bill are now beg
ging Mr. Hoover to veto it on the
score that it will wreck the party at
polls this fall.
What is now greatly disturbing the
BepuhKean party is the Tact that the
Congressional elections are only fouT|
and one half months away, and the
cloud of economic depression hangs
as dark and threatening over the coun
try as ever. There is no silver lin
ing to be discerned’ anywhere. The
opening of the summer has not de
creased unemployment. Wall street
on the day the House. passed the
Smoot-Hawley bill had another black
fit. Fact is there cannot be any
real improvement in business before
November, and exerything that now
goes wrong will be charged to the
tariff.
The Republicans got themselves in
this mess by their failure in the pre
vious administrations to do anything
for the relief of agriculture. The
Hoover administration on the pretense
of helping the farmer, adopted as
one ot its policies the revision of the
tariff, and it has now frittered away
a year and a half and so far as the
tariff is concerned the farmers ars
worse of than ever.
, The -situation is one to be damned
if you do and be damned if you don’t.
If Mr. Hoover signs the bill, and the
odds are that he will, he and his party
will be charged with perpetrating
on the country the most obnoxious and
injurious piece of economic legisla
tion in .the hntire history of the Re
public. On the other hand if he
vetoes the bill he and his party will
write themselves down as having
wasted a year in floundering in the
quagmire of stupid inefficiency. Noth
ing done. Nothing accomplished
after all these glittering promises. I
While it might In the'end be
worse for his party, It might be bet-!
ter for the country if he should veto j
the bill. It Is said the bill will place
an additional burden of $5,000,000,
000 annually on the backs of \ the
American people. A comparatively j
few people will get that vast sum of
money, many of whom today possess
almost untold wealth. But there is
another class of these beneficiaries
who are engaged in operating enter- j
prises that are inefficient and have
no economic right to exist. j
The President will sign 'the bill,
his close friends believe, for*the. rea-1
son that bad as it is it cannot ■ be
worse for himself and his party than!
a continued agitation of the subject.!
If he signs the bill no new tariff leg
islation will be attempted by the
Democrats, even though they should
capture the next Congress. But if
he vetoes it and the Democrats must
er a majority they will present him
with a bill without export debenture
and the flexible provision eliminated.
«But a still more pertinent reason
why he will sign it exists. If he
vetoes it he will - win jw- friends
among his enemies, and the great
hosts of the opponents of the measure
and he will lose the friendship ol
many of those who have supported
him in Congress. While it may tx
true that some’ of 'those who voted
for the MU axe now ashing him tc
veto it, the leaders in the House and
the Senate who framed the hill and
engineered it to passage, are his only
hope for any legislation. If he by
his want of courage ami his silence
allows these leaders to puss a bill
after their many months of labor and
then puts it to sleep, it is not going
to increase their enthusiasm for him.
Some Washington observers point
out that Mr. Hoover, by his failure to
exhibit courage of'lead, tship while
the tariff bill was urn! r considera
tion, has thrust upon himself a sit
uation where he cam. t now escape
action and in which ' he cunot rightly
feel any emotions of pride.
((Since the above Washington let
ter was received President Hoover
signed this obnoxious tariff and it is
now a law.)
JACKSON IS A ClH'i; SPURT.
Attorney H. M. Jackson who was a
candidate for the Democratic nomin
ation for the House sends the follow
ing letter to Hon. A. A. F. Seawell,
pledging his support to the winner:
Sanford, N. C., June li, 1930.
Hon. A. A. F. Seawell,
Sanford, N. C.
Dear Mr. Seawell:
I congratulate you on your victory
in the primary; and pledge you my
hearty support in the fall election,
and anything I can do for you and
the Democratic party, call on me. I
am at your service.
With kind personal regards, I am,
Your truly,
H. M. JACKSON.
SENATOR SIMMONS TO SUPPORT
THE NOMINEE.
"I have no further statement to
make, for I assume the people of the
State know that I shall keep the
pledge I made when I entered the pri
mary, and support Mr. Bailey.” Sen
ator S- M. .Simmons wired John D.
Langston state chairman of his advis
ory committee, from Washington on
Tuesday in reply to an inquiry from
Langston. This pledge was to sup
port nominees Of the party selected in
the primary Saturday. Leading Sim
mons supporters all over the State
have wired their hearty support of
the nominee, and,every indication is
for a united Democratic party in the
State this fall. Senator Simmons is
rounding out his fifth term as Unit
ed States Senator from North Caro
lina. He is the oldest member of
the Senate in point of service and
age.
JONESBORO, ROUTE 2 NEWS*
Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Joyner, of
Nashvile, visited their daughter, Mrs.
R. W. Williams.
Miss Gerline Parrish spent the
week end with Misses Fannie and
Nettie Stone.
Mr L. S. Westmoreland, of Fay
etteville, spent Sunday with his broth
er, R. W. Westmoreland. |
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stone spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. Lamm,
at Rocky Mount.
Sorry to report Mi9s Fannie
.Stone confined to her home with
neuritis again.
Misses Odez Griffin and Mattie
Lee Stone, visited Mrs. Rupert Har
rington, Miss Stoners sister..
Dr. Gilbert S. Lambert
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