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PAGE TWO A. H. (Sandy) Graham Democratic Candidate For Governor By C. A. PAUL (Editor’s Note: This is the first of four articles dealing with the person alities of the four democratic candi dates for North Carolina’s governor ship. The second, dealing with Clyde R. Hoey, will appear in The Dispatch tomorrow, to he followed on succes sive days by articles about Ralph W. McDonald and John A. Mcßae). Lieutenant - Governor Alexander Hawkins Graham is known as Sandy to his intimates and to the people of the state at large, a nickname those who have seen him only as president of the State senate are at a loss to understand because of his dignity. Away from the senate chamber, how ever, Sandy can unbend, and does. He became a candidate for the gover norship or. the last night of the 1935 legislative session, announcing his candidacy at the senate “love feast.’ He was born August 9, 1890, in Hillsboro, Orange county, and has lived there all his life, except for in tervals when he was attending out-of state schools and serving overseas during the World War. He is the son of Major John W. Graham, who was born in Lincolnton, and Maggie Bailey Graham, of Florida. Public schools were not always as good as they are now, so Sandy was sent to the Hearst school, a grammar school conducted by the granddaught ers of Alexander Wilson, who was widely known in the state because of the school for boys which he main tained for many years. After that Sandy went to Alexandria, Va.. to at tend Episcopal high school, where he graduated to return to North Caro lina to become a student at the State university. He studied law there and, later, at Harvard Law School, and has an A. B. degree from Carolina. To War in 1917 When the war came in 1917 Sandy joined the army and was commission ed a second lieutenant at Fort Ogle thorpe, Ga. Shortly thereafter, on August 28, 1917, he was married to Miss Kathleen Long, of Graham. N. C. Later “Shavetail” Graham became First Lieutenant Graham and. before the war ended. Captain Graham. He was a member of the 81st division. Like several of his forbears and kinsmen, Sandy is no stranger to pub lic office. He was elected from Orange The King’* Choices had nothing to do with the King's comfort. Did they? See Page 5 “Tuesday” And A Buying Session At Penney’s Ladies’ hand made batiste gowns sizes mi , 16 and 17 Ladies’ tailored cotton slips White and - tea rose Assortment 36-inch printed sheers—Voiles , Dimities and Batiste. While 300 yds. lasts yd. JL It / Ladies’ white tailored suits. Pure A«| linen Ladies’ stitched linen hats White and u colors V Ladies’ house frocks. Fast colors— - 14 to 44 Close out Ladies’ shoes—Whites and , blacks Priscilla style ruffled curtains—4o in.x2 1-3 / yards, 7 1-2 inch ruffle. Ecru and cream . . ywr Men’s polo Shirts. Coarse and fine knit .. 49/ Men’s summer caps. Checks and crashes .. 25/ Men’s Oxhide overalls. Full cut>—xtra heavy 69/ Men’s pin check pants. Sanforized shrunk, a a ✓ All sizes Men’s blue work shirts. Full cut—xtra quality Q 9? Close out, «>2 only, boys’ wash suits. Sizes a / 2to B—going at 365 r You Hear It Every Where— It Pays To Shop At Penney’s PENN ETT'S A. H. GRAHAM. county to the lower house of the leg islature five successive times, serv ing in the se--.oiis of 1921-23-25-27-29. He was elected speaker of the 1929 house and in 1932 was elected lieu tenant-governor, an office wnich he now holds. As lieutenant-governor he preside* over the state senate and is a member of the budget commission. Sandy and Mrs. Graham have two children, both boys. They are Alex ander Hawkins Graham. Jr., 17, a stu dent at Carolina where he, like his fathei\ is .known as Sandy. Sandy, the younger, graduated from the Hills boro high school at 14, the youngest student to ever complete the course there. The younger son, John Wash ington Graham, is 12 and is attending public school in Hillsboro. Mrs. Gra ham, like Sandy, comes from a family old in the annals of North Carolina, and the name of Long is well-known in middle North Carolina. Sandy is a member of the American Legion, the 40 and 8, Junior Order United American Mechanics, and the Hillsboro Lions club. He and Mrs. Graham and their sons are members of the Hillsboro Episcopal church. He has followed but one occupation, prac tice of the law. Tries to Smash Precedent In making the race for the gover norship Sandy is attempting to smash precedent; no lieutenant-governor of North Carolina has ever been able to step directly from the No. 2 office to the No. 1 job. Lieutenant-governors of the state have later become gover nors, but only after they had been out of office at least one term. The last lieutenant-governor to attempt to bridge the gap was Dick Fountain, who came very close to doing it in 1932 in a run-off with Ehringhaus. In Raleigh and among the leading political lights Sandy has the repu tation of being among the best parlia- HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1936. 'mentarians in the State. Debate may get tangled and snarled and long drawn out, but Sandy keeps every move, every motion, every legislative rule, neatly tabulated in his mind. The main plant in the Graham plat form .establishment of a state liquor store system to replace the present state of mixed affairs, with the reve nue to be applied toward reduction of the sales tax levy to not more than two per cent. He is usually classed as neither con servative nor liberal, but as a middle of-the-roader. Pro-sales taxers and anti-sales taxers, wets and drys, con servatives and libera’ republicans and democrats, alike praise his im partiality in making rulings during legislative debate. GRAHAM WANTS NEW HIGHWAY SYSTEM Advocates Changes and More Rapid Repairs To All Roads Raleigh, May 25 Enthusiasm with which Sandy Graham’s views on road matters have been received has led the Hillsboro man’s supporters to feel more confident than ever that he will lead the field in the June 6 primary. Mr. Graham, in each speech he has made for the past two weeks, has re ferred to the road situation and has consistently advocated a complete re organization of the present highway set-up and more rapid repairs to the county or secondary roads. His view is shat the present high way commission has lost touch with the people and that it would be to the best interests of the state to reorgan ize under a new system. Mr. Graham advocates a highway commission to be composed of eleven members, one from each Congression al district. In this way he feels that each section will have its own repre sentative on the board who can keep informed of the condition of the roads —particularly the county roads-—in each county and act as advocate be fore the entire commission. On the matter of repairs, Mr. Gra ham has repeatedly urged that more men be put to work repairing dam age done by the recent hard winter. He contends that there is surplus enough in the highway funds to get this work underway immediately and to complete it long before 1937, the date on which the present highway commission says conditions will be restored to normal. Machine McDonald Talks Was Long Since Dismantled (Continued from Page One.) he claims is now trying to nominate either Clyde R. Hoey or Sandy Gra ham for governor. If the recommen dations of Governor Ehringhaus had been followed either by the 1933 or 1935 general assembles, the terrible and horrible “machine” would have been almost completely junked. For Governor Ehringhaus vigorously re commended the abolition of the ab sentee ballot—long regarded as both sparks plugs and battery of the “ma chine”. The abolition of the absentee ballot would have rendered the so called “machine” as dead and as list less as a dimmantled automobile on v __ SOLD ONLY BY FORD DEALERS 1 1-2 Ton Chevrolet 1930 Pontiac Coupe 1934 Ford Tudor «-p i Another good car at a real low price. One of our best values. In splendid X TUCK You must see it to appreciate the condition and ready to go This is a 1934 model truck and has value _ JfcQTC 00 ■ ■ ■ ITTj! thousands of good miles left. 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Neither the 1933 nor the 1935 legislatures-—Dr. McDonald was a member of the latter —looked with favor upon the recommendations of Governor Ehringhaus to repeal the absentee ballot law, many of them evidently figuring that they might run for some office some time. It is a matter of record that Dr. McDonald did not offer any opposition to the secret ballot law while a member of the 1935 legislature. It is also a fact that in his campaign for governor lie has not cried out against it, but that on the other hand, his campaign man agers have sent out instructions to his county managers and precinct workers to get their absentee ballots early and to use them effectively. His headquarters issued an announcement to this effect within the last week or so. Gardner Wrecked It. So the facts are that former Gover nor Gardner, by his insistence on the enactment of the secret ballot law, more to wreck the old Democratic “machine” than any of his predeces sors, and by McDonald’s own admis sion is now making it easier for Mc- Donald to be nominated than any one else. Yet Dr. McDonald is accusing Gardner of being the chief pilot of the awful machine which is now seek ing to crush McDonald and his follow ers and force the nomination of Mr. Hoey, in contravention of the will of the people, although in the next breath McDonald admits that because of the secret ballot law, the votes of the masses can no longer be controll ed by the “machine.” After Absentee Ballots. Nor does this unusual situation stop with Gardner and the secret ballot law. It goes on to the absentee bal lot law. For while Dr. McDonald has had nothing to say about the absentee act# his workers have been intimat ing that the “machine” expects to use it against McDonald despite the fact that word has gone out to the Mc- Donald forces to make what use they can of the absentee ballot. But if the recommendations of Governor Eh ringhaus had been followed, there would not now be any absentee bal lot law, so that the “machine” could not possibly use it against Dr. (Mc- Donald. It might, however, have put something of a crimp in the McDon ald campaign plans and deprived him of some votes. All of which is causing those who have been thinking about these things to wonder if there is a “machine,” if so, whose “machine” and if Dr. Mc- Donald isn’t trying to build a new “machine” of his own now that Ma chinists Gardner and Ehringhaus have already dismantled and junked the old “machine.” Graham Is Co:n~ fident 2nd Place (Continued from page One.T Donald, rather than by desertion from the Hoey camp. They state for pub lication that these gains have put Sandy in the second primary beyond doubt. May Force Issue On Constitution (Continued from Page One.) ly satisfactory to all anti-New Deal ers, either. A SICK INDUSTRY Bituminous coal mining is a notor iously sick industry. Not only the min ers but many of the big mine owners suffer from the malady. The later were as hopeful as the former that the Guffey remedy would ease their sufferings. Now it appears that the proposed medicine is illegal. A considerable number of conserv ative as well as liberal congressional voices are raised to the effect, that, to keep up with changing conditions, various new enactments are needed whether or not they are unconstitu tional. ISSUE MAY BE FORCED Rooseveltians seemingly have not been in favor of fighting, during the coming campaign, for a limitation of the Supreme Court’s power to nullify acts of Congress. Some time ago the President hint ed at the raising of such an issue, when he spoke of the undesirability of returning to “horse and buggy” days, as defended by the court’s “nine ole} men’’ in their opinions. It was a “wise crack” which evidently did not “take,” however, or apparently he thought it did not, for he did not fol low it up. But today, with the august “nine’s” majority manifestly determined to block his whole program, he may have to. Ask Federal Aid Against Black Sect (Continued from rage One.) pierced body on a l.'ttle travelled road on jvlay i.'i «et in ir..>t s on investigations which disclosed the existence of a widespread national organization, with a reported membership of 135,- 000 armed men in Michigan alone. Thirteen men, including seven of Wife Preservers Before you wet your blanket pre paratory to washing it, spread it on a clean porcelain or wood table and scrub the ribbon binding with a soft brush dipped in foamy suds mode with mild soaD. 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