The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-06-13
Bailey an Unbeliever

bdileE teetotally dlsbelleves in the pow
er OF any machine to elect any man.
Bailey has been a sert of primary lido
later, but at intervals Of the campaipn
he sufferedslightly from necrosis of the
knee Joints. He wanted some kinks ta-
ken out. about 40 1even excrescences
removed and the short ballot, apparent
lmpoSsibiities, but otherwise his adora
ton of the primary was unchanged.
So Bailey joined no enterprise which
began by heseeching the machine. the
machine did not want delivefance f.om
! Bryan Grimes and Ben Lacy. Craven
iredell, and-well, that s pretty good
start, would have rotated the inclsin-
bents to the prosaic immortality Of
Roothogodiedom, but the primary DC.
clined. Had the primary not been an
institution fixed and to be fixed still
more, Beckett would not now be the
candidate for governor with the cleo
tion. Just 2 fdrr1ality; Lacy would be
at Millbrook; Grimes would be squat
upon his thousands of acres, and Max
Gardner would be dead. He was run
over by a Southern locomotive but the
machine would have f1attened him out
These none were organization men. And
as for Major Graham, where would he
have beens What waulti Manning his
torian have written Of lis nerve in ask
ing q nomination from machine con-
trolled convention:
Some mighty interesting phases of
this voting show themselves upon a
slight analysis Of the returns. Consid
ering the fact that Beckett, Gardner,
Lacy, CRIMES, Manning; and Jetner, the
six big men Of the ticket, voted for
Kitehin and Major Graham for Judge
Clark, and the further fact that Hart
ness was as devoted Simmons man as
Watts and that julie Mann was as true
as the stars to their appointed course,
the acquiescence of the organization in
the choices made is the most remark
able tribute tf' the primary g workings
Daughtridge was a great Simmons 1nan
and as the candidate for lieutenant gov
arn, for years ago openly disheart-
ened the Kitchin forces by repeated
statements that Kitchin would carry
rothing Of consequence west Of Greens
boro.
The analysis Of the primary will show
that the personally aggressive candidate
did not help himself. Hartness made a
| f.,l Ger1f vat ha
ed fewer votes than Dave Boyd, the
Haywood county kicker who imperson-
ated the weakness of Tom Lee. And
Tom Lee was the goat of the corpora
ton commission which 1e-assembled the
property Of the state and was abused
from alpha to omega Grimes sat i'll
his Office working on his job and won
ever two very active candidates. Judge
against the three opponents, two of
whom were personally active, polled al
most enough votes te win iii the first
race, though no second will be run.
Trenholm McClenaghan visited many
places, wrote thousands of letters and
adv ertised In great let's Of space to no
avail. Major w. A. Graham had two
good campaigners out against him IN
by spending about 5000 to repel the sug
gestion of some opponents that he was
dead, managed 70 cross the line with
1853.
That these figures may speak fol
themselves they are reproduced:
Secretary Of State: Bryan Grimes
81, ,s39; J. 4. Hartness, 27,1s6; Haywood
Clark, 1913. The Grimes majority
1O,46O.
Treasurer: B. R. Lacy, 59,9os; Mann
) 34,45s
: Commissioner of labor and printing
: Shiprnan, 62,oos; Dellinger, 25,5S9.
} Attorney general: Manning, 1882
Jones, 1902; Sinclair, 1906; and Cal
vert, 12,4S7.
Commissioner Of agriculture: Grahar
so $50; McKinnon, 1886; Hobbs, s,971
s Insurance Commissioner Young, 60
e aaS; McClenaghan, 22,c47
t Beckett received 63,12l and Daught
1 ridge 37,o17 for governor, making tn
r Beckett majority 26,lc4. Both cand
:. dates did reasonable amount of speai
f irg but nearly all the addresses mad
by Beckett were not political until tn
: last few weeks. The primary is
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