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Friday, October 9, 1931.
j*HE PILOT, a Paper With Cliaracter. Aberdeen, North Carolina
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By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent
Persistent and insistent reports,
coming from or through what may be
considered authoritative sources and
channels, say that Josephus Daniels,
Raleigh editor, is planning to run for
Governor and that his announcement
for the Democratic nomination may be
expected soon.
;)emocratic leaders have discounted
these reports all along, saying Mr.
Daniels would not risk his nation-wide
reputation with the voters of his
home state in a race for Governor.
However, they are beginning to give
some credence to the reports, many
not without fear, and to speculate on
what may happen if Mr. Daniels does
enter the already three-cornered con
test. It is not a possibility they con
template with satisfaction.
“It would be one of the meanest
campaigns in many years’^ is the al
most universal expression, followed
by a shaking of the head, indicating
that it would do the Democatic party
no good. That he would wield his
pen in his behalf is considered certain.
That he would take the stump and
give voice to the criticisms he has
expressed of the legislative and execu
tive branches of the State government
almost inevitably follows. Forces of
the state would line up in two dis
tinct camps and fight it out to a fin
ish.
One of his planks would undoubt
edly be a luxury tax, for which two
of the present and prospective candi
dates are only luke-warm. He would
ask for a kilowatt hour tax on elec
tricity, an increase of tax on the to
bacco companies and power companies.
He would demand a tax on stocks in
foreign corporations. Schools would
be supported in full from these and
other sources “where the money is”
rather than that any would come from
land.
Mr. Daniels would line up a strong
following from land owners of the
east and probably good support in
the mountains. He would have the
real estate boards with him. The
“moral element” would give him a
good vote. Many, in fact, who have
been against him in many of his
stands in the past would be with him.
The industrial and commercial forces
would fight him to the last ditch.
It would be Agriculture vs. Industry,
in a sense.
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Belief is pretty general that if Mr.
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Daniels enters the race. Attorney
General D. G. Brummitt will not be
come a candidate. Mr. Brummitt, it
is certain, is depending largely on the
support of Mr. Daniels, and it is not
likely that both will be candidates.
Also, the assertion is made that if Mr.
Daniels runs, Lieutenant Governor R.
T. Fountain might as well retire. Mr.
Daniels undoubtedly would cut deep
into his vote.
The opposition to Mr. Daniels would
be found in Revenue Commissioner
A. J. Maxwell and J. C. B. Ehring-
haus, both of whom are looked upon
as strong men, either able to cope
with the editor under normal condi
tions. Running at the same time,
they would weaken each other. The
stronger man of the two would sur
vive a first primary and probably
contest with Mr. Daniels in the sec
ond primary.
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Mr. Maxwell is looked upon as prob
ably the best posted man in ' thle
state on tax matters. While achiev
ing that information and experience,
he has in several instances raised up
groups of enemies. While he might get
aid and comfort from the tobacco com
panies, the power companies would
oppose him, in all probability. He hab
practically alienated the 23,000 school
folks in the state, but may have an
nexed a larger support thereby.
Whether he wins or loses from these
contrary forces remain to be seen.
Mr. Ehringhaus has been out of
public life for several years. While he
has not been in position to make
friends with large groups, through
public or official contact, at the same
time, he nas not laid himself open
to criticism from other groups. In
contract bridge terms, he is not as
“vulnerable” as some of the other
candidates. Whether he will lose by
not having been in official position,
or gain by having come more direct
from the people, also remains to be
seen.
Mr. Daniels still has them guessing.
A man who had read a letter written
by him within the last 10 days to a
close friend of long standing said he
would be in the race. And Democratic
leaders have still other information
that his entry is not far away. If so,
a fight to the finish is sure.
Governor 0. Max Gardner heard for
two hours a delegation of about 50
men from 11 cotton growing coun- j
tries in their requests for a special
session of the General Assembly to
take action looking toward reduction
of cottor. and tobacco acreage next
year. The delegation, here Thursday,
presented resolutions from the 40 or
50 mass meetings of about 145 called
to urge the special session. It was
headed by E. G, Bartlett, secretary of ■
the Eastern Carolina Chamber of j
Commerce. ;
Governor Gardner assured them|
they had a right to petition for a
special session, that he would give
their request serious consideration
and would arrive at a conclusion that
seemed to him best for the people of
the state as a whole. He reminded
them that North Carolina produces
only 5 per cent of the cotton grown in
this country and 3 per cent of the
world supply, and that this state has
cut acreage in cotton more than 500,-
000 acres in two years. “We must look
carefully before we leap,” he said,
stating that he would seek an opinion
of the Attorney General as to the
constitutionality of the acreage re
duction law.
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Carey K. Dufrey former broker,
was sentenced to State’s Prison for
eight to ten years for embezzling
$116,800 fro mthe Tucker estate by
Judge Walter L. Small, in Superior
Court last Fiday. The aggregate of
the terms in 11 counte was from 25
to 38 years, but the sentences are to
run concurrently.
Wade Marr, partner in the broker
age firm of Dufrey & Marr, had been
acquitted the day before on charges of
collussion with Durfrey in handling
funds of the Tucker estate, of which
Durfrey was executor. Durfrey, an in
voluntary witness in the Marr trial,
said he never discussed the Tucker
funds with his partner, and doubted if
Marr knew of his shortage in the
funds. Marr is to be tried later on
the brokerage firm shortages, charges
being embezzlement from funds of
customers.
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Ed Hugh Lee, former city tax col
lector, charged with embezzling $48,-
000 in Raleigh funds, had his case
postponed because of the illness of his
mother.
Moore County Asks
No Additional Funds
Not Among Those Seeking to
Supplement Budgets Approv
ed by Board of Equalization
Moore is among 46 counties of the
state which have not asked for per
mission to supplement the budgets ap
proved by the State Board of Equili-
zation on the State standard basis.
The State allottments for the 54
counties asking for supplemental bud
gets amount to a total of $8,898,450,
while the supplemental budgets asked
for these counties amount to $6^2,771,
or 8 per cent more than the amount
on the State basis. Four counties,
Durham, Guilford, New Hanover and
Mecklenburg, account for more than
one-half of the amount in the 54 sup
plemental budgets. Durham would in
crease through local taxes the State
allottment by 57 per cent; New Han
over by 39 per cent; Guilford by 14
per cent, and Mecklenburg 10 per
cent, or $61,399 more than the State
approved budget of $562,529.
Forsyth county, richest in the
state, increased its budget about 2
per cent, asking for $10,914 more
than the State standard basis of a
budget of $476,809. None of the sup
plemental amount asked will go for
increase in the salaries of teachers
or for additional teachers, the budget
shows. J
Numbers of the counties calling for
relief in the last General Assembly
have filed supplemental budgets, in
creasing the amount for schools and
thus increasing the local taxes for
schools, in addition to the 15 cent
State ad valorem tax for the six
months term.
Among the 46 counties from which
I no report has been made and for which
1 no additional amounts have been ask
ed so far are Buncombe, Burge, Cleve
land, Carteret, Davidson, Montgomery,
Moore, Rockingham and Transylvania.
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