Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
Boiling Democrats Operate
Swiftly and Smoothly
in Organizing.
De PRIEST INCIDENT
TO BE PART OF FRAY
Insurgents Draw Line Between
Social" and Official" Relations
as Regulars Raise Issue.
BY 6. GOULD LINCOLN.
stan Correspoadent Of Ths Star.

ROANOKE, Va, June 19.-rhs
gubernatorial race in Old Virginia,
which usually ends with the Democratic
primary nomination, is going to be Q
grand row this year.
The anti-Smith Democrats, who car.
rted the State for Hoover in coniunc.
ton with the Republicans, have nonai.
mated William Moseley Brown for gov
ernor. Brown is a spellbinder, up until
his nomination late yesterday a pro.
fessor at Washington and Lee Univer-
sity.
Republican o. X. Is Predicted.
Unless Republican leaders of the
State are n1isinformed, the Republican
State convention in Richmond next
week will indorse the nomination Of
Brown. This means another coalition
between the Republicans, who have an
appreciable vote in this State, and the
anti-Smith Democrats, who have al
ready given evidence of what they can
do for Republican candidate for ONCE
and who are likely to make even greater
offers for a candidate of their own.
IlC AIlIleE0iII1Lll dJ1C COAfCIlS
ton was attended by approximately
1000 delegates from every congression-
al district IN the State. If enthusiasm
means anything. they are in this fight
to stay. Their slogan is Clean out the
machine" smash II. They certainly
showed no signs Of disintegration at
their convention here yesterday. In
deed, their leadership was able to cope
with every question that came up, from
70 aaaIiHofAr ~ A&1-
dence of being well in control. Their
leaders make the claim they are better
organized the State over today than
they were last year at election time,
when they made 1t possible to poll
vote of $4,000 for Hoover against
100000 for Smith In round numbers.
Regulars Say Issue Il Dead.
The regular Democratic orsaniya-
| ton of the State Is asserting that the
| issue OF 1928 In Virginia, which beat
Al Smith, is dead. They insist 10 can
not be brought to life agair. But II
the 1000 delegates at the anti-Smtth
convention yesterday know what they
are talking about, the issue Is not dead.
Their leaders have seized upon the fact
that John j. Raskob, the Smith choice
for national chairman, q wet and o
Catholic, is still national chairman, and
is to remain so by his own statement.
They rang the changes on this fact
from the opening of the convention here
until its close. -,
The regular Democrats who followed
Smith in the last campaign, have
banked much in the last few days on
the fact that Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife
of the colored Representative from
Illinois, was entertained at tea at the
White House. They believe that this
has raised the race issue to their ad-
vantage in Virginia; that 1t will send
thousands of anti-Smith Democrats
scuttling back from the Republican
party sallegiance Of last year to the
regular party fold.
The anti-Smith Democrats not only
do not believe this will be the case, but
they have taken steps in their own
platform, adopted yesterday, to offset
the effect Of the De Priest affair In
Virginia. They said in their platform:
we stand unqualifiedly for racial in
tegrity. While purely official relations
must be maintained, we are adamant
against any social relations between the
white and colored races and condemn
any such practices as unnatural and as
not only having the tendency to under
mine racial integrity. but as one Of the
most certain ways Of stirring up racial
prejudice. hatred and unrest and max
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