New Britain herald., 1930-10-20
North Carolina Assumes Aspect Of battle-ground as Two Major
 Parties Strive for Supremacy
Democrats Hope to Roll Up Large Majority to Clear Up Existing Doubts.

New York, Oct 20 (UP)-North Carolina, which two years ago went republican for the first time in dec ades has become a battle-ground of the two major parties once again.
 Democrats, having defeated Sen ator Furnifold M. Simmons at the primaries largely because he bolted their party's ticket at the presiden- tial election. on November 4 hope to roll up such a majority for their candidates that there will be no doubt left as to which party con- trols the state. They are predicting victory for Josiah w. Bailey. their candidate for the senate. over George Pritchard the republican nominee. by 100000 votes and claim they will win back the two seats in congress lost to the republicans in the Hoover victory of 1928.
 Republicans, reportedly with strong support from the national committee, are fighting hard to maintain their gains in North Caro- lima. These gains were hailed in 1928 as having more significance than the mere winning of state. They were pointed to by republicans as meaning a break in the solid south.
 If the republicans can hold in of fee their two congressman from North Carolina and win or even make a close contest in the senator ial race, they will look to 1882 with high hopes.
 Party Fight Staged
 In the primary more than 300,000 democratic and only 10000 repubi- can votes were cast but those figures gave no measure of relative strength within the state. The democratic vote was stimulated by the Bailey Simmons contest for control of the party and the senatorial nomination. In the republican ranks there was little at issue to bring out the vote.
 Bailey, who is counted as consid erable of an orator in his native state, is making thorough going stumping tour aimed to bring out as large a democratic vote as pos sible. Industrial and economic de- pression, the tariff, and farm relief are his main points of attack as he attempts to show the electorate that it made a mistake in giving MT. Hoover a majority over Smith in 1928.
 Congressman Pritchard, who abandoned his seat in the house of representatives to become republi- can candidate for the senate, also is stumping the state. He is de- lending the administration of Presi- dent Hoover but is being harried somewhat by the failure of the sen- ate to confirm the nomination Of Judge John M. Parker for the su- preme court. Parker, one of the leading jurists of North Carolina, was appointed supreme court jus tice by MT. Hoover but was turned down by the senate and Pritchard' s opponents are making capital of it as evidence supporting their claim that it is impossible for North Caro- lima to gain anything from 8 repub- lican administration.
 In four congressional districts blioh ColltCoto dlC III Pi "ltll the democrats leading the attack in hopes of regaining a complete dem ocratic congressional delegation.
 In the fifth district which went democratic in 1928 by less than 100 votes, Frank M. Hancock, democrat, IS opposed by John F. Reynolds, re- publican. Major Charles Hanley Stedman, democrat. who carried the district two years ago, died recent ly, the democratic nomination fall ing to Hancock. The district always had been democratic by a slender margin.
 The seventh district also is the battle ground for a strenuous con- test where Walter Lambeth, another young democrat and manufacturer of Thomasville, is opposing Colin c. Spencer.
 Textile Strike Aspect
 In the ninth district, which in- cludes the Charlotte -Gastonia tex tile mill region, the democrats are fighting to return Major A. l.. Bull winkle of Gastonia who was defeat ed by Charles Jonas, republican. in 1928. Jonas again is the republican candidate. This contest is compli- cated by the fact that Bulwinkle won the dislike of leaders of the 1929 textile mill strike because of his efforts in behalf of the textile mill owners. Communists have plae- ed a candidate in the field as ges- ture directed chiefly against Bull winkle.
 President Hoover's recent trip to the south for the Kings Mountain battlefield celebration. took him in- to this district and at Charlotte he made brief appearance on the rear-platform of his train, an incl dent which is believed to have help ed Jonas materially.
 Another sharp contest is in the tenth district where Pritchard. now republican candidate for the senate defeated Zebulon Weaver democrat in 1928. Brownlow Jackson, Of Hendersonville, former republican state chairman, is the republican candidate and Weaver is again car rying the banner for the democrats
 Political observers within the state feel certain that Bailey will carry the senatorship and that democrats will win in nine of the states 10 congressional districts. In one. the ninth, they look for a close contest with possibility of Jonas republican, winning.