Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02
CLEAN SWEEP HOPE
OF n. c. DEMOCRATS
All Ten Representatives and
Bailey for Senate Pros
poets of Tuesday Vote.
Special Dispatch to The star.

5pecl1l Dlspatcn TO Inc star.
RALEIGH, N. c., November 1.-THE
prospects are that North Carolina, now
represented In the House by eight
Democrats and two Republicans, will
send 10 Democrats to the lower House
of Congress and elect Josiah william
Bailey, who defeated Senator F. M.
Simmons for the Democratic nominal
ton for the United States Senate, by q
normal majority, which ranges in of
years from $4,000 to $4,000.
The only district now regarded as at
all doubtful is the ninth, in which
Representative Charles A. Jones, Re-
publican national committeeman for
this State, and Maj. A. L. Bulwinkle,
who represented the district from 1921
to 1929, are repeating their 1928 con-
test. The general feeling Is that Jonas,
who has been rather successfully on the
alert to further the interests of his dis
trict, Is stronger than his party, and
that Bulwinkle, who gained and lost
followers by his activities as principal
champion Of the cotton mills in the
strikes Of last year, is weaker than his
party, but to lesser extent.
Confident Of BuIwinkIe.
Were the country prosperous and the
Hoover administration popular Jonas
the fact that the Democratic majority
F, In the ninth Is usually larger than
that In three other districts In the
State.
But neither Of these conditions pre-
vail and qualified observers who have
Travelled the district are confident Of
| Bulwinkles election.
The fact that George M. Pritchard,
the other Republican Congress member
from this State, Is running for the
United States Senate instead Of for re-
election has been regarded all along
as a tacit admission that the Demo-
Gratis would win In the tenth district,
an impression which has been strength
Brownlow jackson, former State chair
man, and the nominee In the tenth,
has strength, but hardly enough to de-
| feat Zebulon Weaver, who was IN Con-
gress for IL years until swept out by
the anti-Smith landslide.
The Republican Congressional Com
mittee has sent funds into these two
districts and into one other the seventh,
where the Democrats think they have
solved the problem created by the re-
cent death Of Representative w. O.
Hammer with two nominations, putting
I'D Walter Lambeth, well known bust
ness man for the regular term and
giving the short term nomination tc
| Hinton James, who lives near the South
| Carolina line in q solidly Democratic
| territory, but one hard to bestir in an
off-year election. The Republican
candidate is Colin q. Spencer, little
known, but tirelesS campaigner.
Little Doubt in Others.
The other seven districts are regarded
as practically free from doubt.
| Mr.. Pritchard in his campaign fol
! the Senate has devoted himself almost
| exclusively to an effort to win the ele-
ment which supported Senator Sim
mons in the Democratic primary. II
! he has made Roadway 1t Ii not per-
ceptible. although Senator Simmons
himself has not only refused to say
| ANYTHING for Bailey and quickly brand
| ed as Unauthorized" a statement by
one of the Simmons primary campaign
managers. who in introducing Mr.
| Bailey to an audience declared that ne
| thought Senator Simmons wanted tne
whole Democratic ticket elected.
| However. Senator Simmons based his
repudiation entirely on the ground that
| he was able to make MS own state,
ments without help from anotner ano
apparently has done nothing 10 mnu-
| ence his followers to vote either way
( There will be individual defect1ons from
Bailey. but there Is no trace OF the
organized effort which led to Hooverf
carving the State in 1928. And the
only serious question about Mr.. Batley''
election is the size Of his majority.