THE ROANOKE RAPIDS I
- ■ Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER IN HALIFAX COUNTY
Member North Carolina Press Association
CARRQLL WILSON, Owner and Editor
Entered as Second Class matter April 3rd, 1914, at the post office
at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, under Act of March 3rd, 1879.
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THE MAJORITY PARTY
For the first time in 75 years, the Democratic
Party can lay claim to the fact that it is the ma
jority party of the nation. Before this, the Party
has won national campaigns but only after the
majority party had disgusted the voters, even
some of its own, with the carelessness or corrup
tion which comes from too much power too long;
or when splits have come in the majority party
such as when Teddy Roosevelt left for the Pro
gressive experiment.
In our own time we recall some of the long list
of defeats handed William Jennings Bryan as the
Democratic nominee; we recall the downfall of
Cox, the hopelessness of Davis, the Smith debacle.
We have always been the minority party.
Even in 1932, it was necessary to woo tfte
progressives of the nation, along with Republicans
discontented with the long list of Hoover mistakes,
in ordfer to win with Roosevelt. 12 long years of
Republican misrule had angered even the staunch
est Republicans. But there was no guarantee they
would hot return to their own party, the majority
party, after they had forgotten their peeve against
Hoover. It had been done before time after time.
If we were asked to point to the most signifi
cant feature of the record-breaking 1936 election,
our unhesitating reply would be that Roosevelt
has performed the impossible: he has welded into
being from a scattered and scattering minority
party the new majority party of the nation. The
progressive element of the Republican party has
been definitely and finally weaned away from that
party forever. They will not return for they have
found in this new Democratic party that for which
they have been seeking.
Disgust with Harding, unfriendliness with
Coolidge, discontent and distrust with Hoover,
may have started them on the road to the Demo
cratic party, but it took something magnetic,
something deeper than any passing whim or fancy,
something which irrevocably tied them heart and
soul to a cause, in order to have them leave that
party of their fathers for good.
The answer is Roosevelt and his New Deal.
Tuesday’s figures speak for themselves. The Pres
ident and his administration realized the greatest
vote of confidence and trust ever given in the his
tory of the country. And in those ten millions
majority, among those 25 or more millions who
cast the largest vote ever accorded an American
citizen, were millions of former Republicans, who
left their party four years ago t;o try a new party
—and having tried it have not found it wanting.
They have stayed with it, will continue to stay
with it; thus a new majority party enters Ameri
can history.
We have very little patience with those few
Democrats who claim they are the only real Demo
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crats left. They call themselves Jeffersonian Dem
ocrats or by some other name to distinguish them
from the vast majority of the Democratic party,
because as they say, this party today is not the
party of ten, twenty years ago. No. That Dem
ocratic party was a minority party. They say the
Democratic party of today has turned aside from
the party principles of ten, twenty,thirty years a
go. This Democratic party has new ideas, new
ideals, unthought of, unheard of, generations ago,
at which our Democratic forefathers would shud
der were they to return today.
Ah, would they? Would they shudder any
more at the changes in the Democratic party than
at the scientific, physical, cultural, social, and
moral changes of the country and the world? We
think not. Adjusting themselves to the modern
way of living, they would just as easily adjust
themselves to the modern Democratic party.
And modernizing it has saved it—not only
saved it—this modernization, this adapting it to
the new trends of world progress, to the new ideals
of social justice, has made it the most powerful
party in America. We believe Jefferson himself,
after studying world conditions of today, would
applaud the Democratic party of today for having
the foresight, the intelligence and the courage to
present to the nation a party abreast of the times.
Victory brings its responsibilities. Those de
feated can now rest and await developments.
There is no rest for the victor. To preserve that
which has been gained in this national triumph,
the Democratic party must be wary of the pitfalls
awaiting the unwary and the over-confident.
We have a great two-party system, thru which
the people express their preferences. That we
must maintain. It happens that now for the first
time our party has the confidence and fidelity of
a majority of our citizens. We must do everything
in the next four years with the sole idea of retain
ing and solidifying that faith and confidence. That
is the only way to keep the Democratic party the
majority party. y/
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A NEW INDUSTRY
It can be called a new industry because it has
been a long time since the old Roanoke Fibre
Board Co. has run for any length of time, and it is
with genuine pleasure every citizen of Roanoke
Rapids sees preparations under way by the Man
chester Board & Paper Co. of Richmond to operate
the board mill once more.
This will mean that every plant in Roanoke
Rapids will be operating again and
as we all know so well it is upon
those turning wheels of industry
that Roanoke Rapids depends for
its daily living and future happi
ness and progress.
We welcome the Manchester
Board & Paper Co. to Roanoke
Rapids and wish for them all suc
cess in their Roanoke Rapids
Branch. We welcome as a citi
zen their local manager, B. W.
Davenport, and promise him and
his company the cooperation of
Roanoke Rapids in this new enter
prise, which means another payroll
and more folks employed in oar
city.
A SPEEDY RECOVERY
The many friends of Congress
man John H. Kerr, Judge to most
of us, were distressed to learn of
his injuries sustained in a recent
automobile wreck, Injuries which
have kept him in bed since.
We happen to know that the pain
of his injuries was not half so Im
portant to the Judge as the
thought that he could not come to
Roanoke Rapids on October 26th
and speak in behalf of President
Roosevelt and the entire Demo
cratic ticket. For Judge Kerr had
written a special speech for Roa
noke Rapids and had a special
message for our citizens.
It would have been fitting for
him to have delivered it' in the
court room of the new Municipal
Building which he helped us get,
and from the windows of which
he could have looked out and eyed
the new Post Office building which
he, and he alone, got for us. What
a speech the Judge could have
made to us in such a setting.
W. C. WILLIAMS
Funeral Director
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