The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-24
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JOSIAH BAILEY
WILL co AFTER
SIMMONS TOCA
BY X. E. POWELL
Especial Correspondence

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curious bit of propaganda general
ly believed here to have orisinat-
ed in either the capacious Uranium
of Senator Simmons, Himself, or
in what passes for the brain OF
Private Secretary Frank A. Hamp-
ton, has hoomerang-e all overthe
State and the unmistakable re-
suits is that Josiah william Bailey
has all but actually determined to
run against the Senator next
June.
For a long, long time Bailey has
been discussed as one of the leading
aspirants for the Simmons success
sion. the proviso usually being that
if the succession came in response
to the will of the people at the bal
lot box. But, before Al Smiths cap
ture of the National Party, Mr..
Bailey entertained no notion of run
ming agniast Senator Simmons. One
time friendly relations between the
two were not responsible for this
early attitude so much as notion
that Simmons was unbeatable in the
Democratic party.
Came the Smith nomination at
Houston, to which Bailey had con-
tributed a lions share in North
/ Carolina, and the turn-coat caperS
of the former party boss. 1t was
soon evident that no prominent
Democrat, barring. of course, Angus
Wilton Mclean. would hesitate to
oppose the denomination OF Sim
mons when the time came. In the
list of those willing were w. Luns-
ford Long-and some recent events
concerning him are also connected
with Washington, D. c., industry
and intrigue-John G. Dawson, Con-
gressmen Kerr and Warren, James
70. Carr, Wilmington, Bailey and
others.
After the wreck last November,
most of the politicians went into
winter quarters. About the first
real portent of the 1880 effort to
finally. and by the vote OF the peo-
pie. rid Democracy Of the blight.nS
influence of Simm mons came
strangely enough, from Washington
It was the amusing news that the
Senator was going to be regular
and would encourage no Hoovercrat
organization. In fact, this particu-
lar bit of feeling things out went
on to say that the Senator was
advising his turn coat fratmates to
get back in the old camp.
Reaction in the press of the State
and among the folks who scout Tor
Simmons and Hampton interviewed,
was not so cheerful. Another course
was apparently agreed upon and last
Sunday morning the ever faithful
chronicler for the Greensboro Daily
News sent down word that word
had reached Washington OF Mr.
Bailev's imminent candidacy against
, Simmons.
Past history offers some convinc-
ing. if not entirely conclusive proof
that the purpose behind this yarn
was to stir up the other candidates
and get them to abusing Bailey
early. But how different it has all
turned out.
In the first place, the Greensboro
News (that part of it in Greensboro
looks upon j. w. Bailey with a great
deal more genuine favor than the
News and Observer, when he served
! it as contributing editor, ever did
It was no surprise, then, that the
smart young men on the News gave
Mr.. Bailey the finest sort OF
break in handling the Washington
dispatch. 1t made leading, from
page story and "set it off, with Mr.
Baileys new picture-one that does
him and the photographer credit.
That was not all. The ever aler'
Raleigh correspondent of the Daily
News got busy and found that Mr.
Bailey was thinking more seriously
than washington dreamed OF run
ming against the Senator. various
stories in the papers and num-
Der of friendly Ito Bailey editorials
have appeared during the week anc
j the Bailey mail for the past fe"
DAYS has been in proportion tc
what a candidate might look for II
the middle of contest for major
office.
! Friends are telling him here al
home, where the Jones machine al
most kept him from carrying the
county in his race five years age
against A. w. Mclean, that he vii
get an almost solid support in tbs
primary and all but the regular
Republican vote in the election If ht
! is nominated. Almost as good wore
comes from Franklin, adjoining, anc
the nevs from Johnston, Vance anc
Nash counties is heartenlng.