THE DANBURY REPORTER.
Established 1872.
The Case Against Doctor McDonald
is DR. MCDONALD IN THE PAY OF THE
DUPONT LIBERTY LEAGUE, OR IS HE FI
NANCED BY THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE—BOTH OF WHICH ANTI-NEW
DEAL AGENCIES ARE WORKING BY IN
TRIGUE AND UNLIMITED MONEY TO UN
DERMINE THE DEMOCRACY OF SOUTH
ERN STATES?
- Newspapers Apologize For Circulating
Falsehoods of Dr. McDonald
The Winston-Salem Journal, the Winston-
Salem Evening Sentinel, and the Raleigh News-
Observer on Saturday and Sunday came out
with apologies and retractions for circulating
the false statements and propaganda which Dr.
McDonald has tried to put over the people of
North Carolina..
These newspapers have been supporting 1 Dr.
McDonald for Governor. They now fully and
completely acknowledge to the people of North
Carolina that they have been innocently misled
bv his deception and unt/u'hs, and they make
All and Complete RfifR'ACTION AND
APOLOGY.
It is charged in North Carolina that Dr.
McDoriald voted the Republican ticket in Il
linois before he came to North Carolina. If Dr.
McDonald was a Republican in Illinois, he is
probably still a Republican, and this would ex
plain his attacks on the Democratic party of
North Carolina, which he seeks to discredit and
destroy by his charges of incompetence and cor
ruption.
It is charged and PROVED that Dr. Mc-
Donald lived in North Carolina eight years be
fore he registered or voted the Democratic
ticket. He gives in his age at 33.
It is charged and PROVED that Dr. McDon
ald was never interested in the government of
North Carolina until he decided to be Governor
of North Carolina, and that he has never made
a Democratic speech in his life.
It is charged—and not denied by Dr. McDon
ald—that he is not interested in white supre
macy in the South and it is PROVED that he
tried to get negroes on the registration books in
Winston-Salem, N. C.
His Policy Of Deception
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It is charged and PROVED that Dr. McDon
ald practiced a policy of deception in his cam
paign for Governor by trying to inflame the
ignorant voters against wealthy men. Note his
statement made about Bowman Gray's estate,
which he KNEW to be untrue, and when caught
in his misstatement promised to "explain," but
NEVER DID. Note his statements that cor
porations in North Carolina were not taxed as
high as other States when he knew the truth to
be that corporations are taxed higher *n North
Carolina than any other State, but one. Etc.,
etc.
Author Of Tax On Bread and Meat
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It is charged and PROVED that while cam
fekUgrning for Governor, and trying to incense
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the people in regard to the sales tax, that he
HAD VOTED HIMSELF for a sales tax on
bread and meat, and other necessaries of life.
{See his record in the 1934 legislature, House
Journal 1935, page 788.)
His "Occupational Tax" A Vicious Thing
It is charged and PROVED that Dr. McDon
ald tried to enact an "occupational" tax on
farmers, by making the farmer pay a tax of
£5.00 on every SI,OOO of products sold from his
farm, of SIO.OO on every $2,000, etc., and also
that he tried to pass a law laying a tax on every
man and woman who earned as much as $83.33
a month.
His Perilous Program
It is charged and PROVED that the program
as outlined by Dr. McDonald, would mean
■wrecking the school and road systems of the
State by creating a deficit in the State'?
revenues of more than $17,000,000.
McDonaldism Dangerous To Business
Every intelligent and thoughtful citizen is
friendly to industry and big business, while
desiring that they should bear a just share of
the burden of taxation. McDonaldism is
dangerous to industry and big business, as he
has pledged himself to his supporters to "go af
ter" the industries and to bleed them to the
satisfaction of the mob. Concerns with capital
! to invest would steer shy of North Carolina with
a McDonald at Raleigh, while many of the pros
perous corporations who are now bearing the
! brunt of heavy taxation would be forced to
I either tremendously curtail their investments
I and operations in the State, or else remove to
jmcre favorable locations. Thus thousands of
men and women would lose their .iobs to join the
great armies of unemployed. McDonald would
be responsible to none but his co-irresponsibles.
McDonaldism Would Cripple the Schools and
Disrupt the Road System
The schools would be seriously crippled,
while our fine road system would be disrupted
with McDonald at the helm. The cost of his
wild and impracticable EXPERIMENT would
be a tragedy for the State's magnificent in
stitutions, built up by the Democratic party
during half a century.
McDonaldism Would Be A Tragedy For The
Farmers
The final result of all wild and mistaken tax
schemes, is always that the penalty is paid in the
last analysis by the farmer. His prosperity is
the basis of all wealth. His property must pay
for the mistakes of those who fail in their fiscal
experiments.
A $17,000,000 deficit in North Carolina
could only be paid by the sacrifice of the farm
er's land.
Where McDonald Got Off The Train
It was left for the great State Democratic
convention at Raleigh on June 12, 1936, to over
whelmingly REPUDIATE AND REJECT Mc-
Donaldism, when the convention's nearly 4,000
delegates unanimously endorsed President
(Editorial)
Roosevelt and the North Carolina Democratic
administration. The Convention, with not a
dissenting vote, endorsed and approved the
position taken by Clyde R. Hoey and Sandy
■Graham on the sales tax, that it is an emergency
! burden that cannot be thrown off at once with
out seriously crippling the schools or imposing
cm ad valorem tax back on land and real estate.
However, the convention went on record for the
immediate repeal of the sales tax on the
necessaries of life. As Dr. McDonald sat in the
i Forsyth delegation, and did not say nay, it is
j presumed that he acceded to the convention's
wishes, even though he himself had voted to fix
a burdensome tax on the necessaries of life.
! 'See House Journal page, etc.)
As the great gathering of Democrats, 75 per
•rent, of whom wore Hoey badges on their lapels,
voted their confidence in the Democratic
government of the State, many persons wonder
ed which leg its enemy No. 1 (the Illinois tax
,doctor), would try to stand on for the next
' primary.
As July 4 approaches, every true Democratic
voter of North Carolina should be ready to go
to the polls and re-dedicate our great State to
those sacred ideals of PATRIOTISM, of TRUTH
j and JUSTICE and INTEGRITY which have
'made the State great.
Undoctoring McDonald
It was probably slightly embarassing to Dr.
.McDonald when the Raleigh convention gave its
I unequivocal endorsement to every Democratic
{State administration for 40 years, including the
j present one which he has so consistently lam
j basted, altho it carried the ship of State safely
j through the depression, even reducing the pub
lic debt 24 millions.
It must have been more embarassing to the
doughty Dr. to hear the great body of Democrats
tear his pet issue to tatters when it went on rec
ord against the immediate repeal of the sales
lax which has saved the schools while it held the
tax off land and real estate.
But it must have been positively mortifying
when the convention urged the immediate re
peal of that clause of the sales tax which fixes
a tax on the necessities of life, including the
poor man's bread and meat. This was mortify
ing- because he voted for it in the 1935 legisla
ture. (See House Journal, page 788).
To add, presumably, to the professor's discom
fiture, came speeches from Bailey and Morrison
excoriating those who would try to ride into of
fice by slandering and villifying their own
party.
As the convention's sentiment was unani
mous, not a dissenting voice being heard it is of
?ourse taken for granted that the Dr. acceded to
-he action, and by his silence acknowledged the
Ff, he has been trying to perpetrate on North
Carolina. His last legs were shot from under
nm and perhaps this is why he didn't rise.
in the second campaign now proceeding- the
with no issue except machine
politics, goes about the State angrily making
H ° e l' S p ~> character
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