Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-06
RESULT DOUBTFUL
IN SIMMONS RACE
White Supremacy and Al
Smith Issues in Contest
Against J. w. Bailey.
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NOONLu1uCQ ETOm E1TSG EaRe.J
candidates not supported by elements
favoring Bailey, with two results: The
organization of each candidate is more
elaborate than anything ever before
known in the State, and never before
have there been so many candidates for
local offices.
But while both candidates have es-
chewed speechmaking for organization
Senator Simmons has pursued a course
widely differing from that Of Bailey on
the matter Of issues.
Senator Simmons has met the Smith
issue in two ways-by insisting that his
course was proper and by the statement
that IN any event his record for party
regularity is superior to that Of his
opponent.
Given 5000 Votes.
In an effort to make Bailey an issue
In the campaign, prohibition has been
widely injected into the campaign, hut
only in an effort on each side to show
that its candidate is drier than the
other. DR.. Thomas L. Estep, from the
mountain village of Stratford, Is run
ming as wet Democrat, but he does
not figure at all in the calculations, as
5000 votes out Of the more than 300, 900
that will probably be cast Is considered
his outside limit.
Bailey, who was then an editor of
the Biblical Recorder, Baptist paper,
is attacked on the ground that he was
an Independent then, although he has
been a regular of regulars since his ac-
tive entry into politics in 1908.
Campaign activity was largely below
the surface for the first four months
of the campaign, but there has been
an intense activity in recent weeks,
with each side presenting q vast guam
tity OF, literature.
Senator Simmons has included in his
booklets one giving an elaborate sum-
mary of his 20 years in the United
states Senate. This matter has been
ignored on the Bailey offense.
White Supremacy Issue.
But the matter which has expressed
the most widespread attention is the
white supremacy issue Senator Sim
mons has played heavily on three
pending bills in Congress, the tariff,
rivers and harbors and veterans relief
measures, but the incident upon which
his supporters have seized most avidly
is the presence on the registration
books of a number Of Negroes regis
tered as Democrats. with about 500
so registered in Raleigh alone. The white
supremacy issue was the one upon
which Senator Simmons rose to power
in 1898 as the champion of the con-
stitutional amendment containing an
educational qualification which was
designed to remove the Negro from poll
tics permanently. But Negroes are bet
ter educated now and politicians have
formed the habit of using them In
some localities when contests have been
close.
When the campaign opened 1t was
thought that the nomination would be
of doubtful value to either candidate.
That view is no longer entertained ano
the four Republican candidates for the
Republican nomination are expected TO
poll we'll under 100 900, with some est1-
mates only half of that number.
The Bailey supporters are charging
that many voters normally Republican.
will enter the Democratic primary and
vote for Senator Simmons. The 1our
Republican candidates are George M
Prichard, one Of the two Republican
members Of the House to be elected from
this State in the Hoover landslide; FOR
mer United States Attorney Irving B
Tucker and George z. Butler, brother
of former Senator Marion Butler, VINO
has for years practiced law in Wash
ington.
Smith on One Side.
A second primary may be necessary
to determine the Republican nomina.
ton. but all of the interest is centereo
on the Democratic fight with the pres
tige of Senator Simmons sand the un-
popularity of Alfred e. Smith arrayeo or
the one side, and the intense regularity
of North Carolina Democrats on the
other.