The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-01-18
BAILEY ISOUT
FOR GOVERNOR
Candidacy Formally Announc-
ed and Political Thunder
is in the Making
BY O. j. COFFIN
Special Raleigh Correspondent Of
THE INDEPENDENT

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cement of intention came out
on Saturday; his platform is
in the hands of the morning
dailies for publication tomor-
row morning. Some OF these
will print it as news.
Ii may be news that Mr.. Bailey
wants To do something to taxes.
and can bc counted on to speak a
good word for the farmer. lie
wants to improve the election laws.
and God knows they need 1t. lie
is agin the machine and so are n
lot of others who vote with 1t. He
pledges himself, to avoid pcrsOnali-
ties, which ought to be easy since
there Is already forming about his
candidacy a battalion Of mhd.sling-
crs who will bc glad to do the dirty
work for him.
There will be considerable Df
hell raised In the coming Glmpaign,
make no mistakes about that. For
none of II will Mr.. Bailey bc chiefly
responsible: blame must rest on
old humrhl nature. Of which IN
spite Of six.mOnths schools and pro-
hibition there Il n whole lot left
In this part % the country.
A. W. Mclean has said no word
of when his plntfOriI snnounce-
mrnt may bc expected: hut his plat
form requires no complicated work
of construction. II H. founded on
the status quo. the established or
der and he will bc running on and
glorifying the party record.
Which doesn't mean exactly that
Mr.. Mclean Is nm administration
candidate. As II matter or TACT
Mr.. Mclean was II guhcrnntorial
probability when Cameron Morrison
was still considered m impossible
ity. 4 Majority Of the officchold-
rrs I'm North Carolina. however. III
dubitabiy are for Mclean. AMI Mr..
Bailey has lot Of inertia Of feel
ing 10 move.
However. starting something Is
Mr. Bnilcy's long suit. There's
going 10 m u race.
: The Farm.Inb0r Council meet
lng here Monday did not result III
the Endorsement of Mr.. Bailey
ns the candidate of the state Fed
rration Of Labor and the Farmers
Tnion. The latter would probably
lave had little difficulty In reach
, ing n decision: but the Federation
l. more cautious because It's MEM
bcrship Is more difficult Ia com
mil. President Stone of the Farm
rrs Union has II close corporatioll
/ and what hc says gocs-ilr0llild III
:hr little circle composed of HIM
self. Dr. II. q. Alexander ana u
handful Of cmbattlcd and cmblt'
tered husbandmcn.
The platform reported ont by the
Fnrmcr.I.nbOr Council, which VIII
ryprct candidates to express their
views on the plnnks ami perhaps
to walk some of them, IL fcnrfully
and wonderfully made. IL has all of
tbr rural inhabitants distastc for
taxation in It.. the objection Of labor
to an income tax. Il propoS'li ~
shake down posScssOrs of whr'nihd'
of other impossibilitics. II proposes
fortunes for the bonus and Il host
to cut the tax on small incomes ana
on farmers. How drlwnct saycth
not.
II will hp far less mcnningIll
than was the Fermentation Qlcs
tionnnirc In 1920: but the meeting
po,lrcd more water Oh Bailey
wheel notwithstanding.
There has been no revolution ano
no rumor of war here as Il result
of the granting Of the Southern
Power Company's petition FOR u
rate increase. Raleigh itself hnsi
II respondent cotton mill ana noll'
of it's legal leading lights were In
yolycd i'm the argument before th'
Corporation Commission.
The Grand Lodge Of Masons lin'
developed u real contest hctW'ci
conflicting views. Frand Master
Hubert Potcat Is proposing thai
the Masons forcgo the state al'
which is contributed to the oxford
Orphunagc. lie points out that II
church orphanngc Is given nnythlni
hy the State and that the odd Fell
lows and Junior Order aren't ~
cciving an appropriation either.
Sentiment is divided, because the!
are many MasOns who while the!
rcspond 10 the urge Of sclf.rcspcc
that would not ask anything dcnict
nm odd Fellow or II Pythinn arr
still disposed to allow the state Il
continue to share in the good work
The question may not he settled u
this meeting.
Good eyc.i,,.ss iS inexpensive. E:'