The Washington times., 1930-06-09
BAILEY VICTORY
FORESHADOWS
SOLID SOUTH
"CannoniSm" Received Heavy
Blow in North Carolina Pri-
mary With Many Shivering
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
International News Service

publicans have had of making
permanent their 1923 penetra-
ton of the old solid South" ap-
peared shattered today on the
heels of the smashing defeat
sustained by Senator Furnifold
M. Simmons for denomination in
the North Carolina primary Sat-
urday.
It was Simmons who led the
bolt from the national Democratic
ticket two years, ago, and who,
along with Bishop James Cannon,
jr., threw the flaming torch of
anti-Smith insurgency through
out the whole South.
Now he has paid for his in
surgency with his political life.
He loses the Senate seat which
he has occupied for 80 years, and
with it goes the leadership of the
state which has not been dis
puted with him for more than a
quarter of a century. The Dem
ocrats of North Carolina rose up
on Saturday and dethroned the
veteran on the single issue of
his desertion of the National
ticket in 1928.
Bailey BY $4,000
Private adVices reaching Wash
ington this morning indicated
that Josiah w. Bailey. a Raleigh
lawyer. has defeated Simmons by
approximately $4,000 votes. The
magnitude of Simmons defeat
amazed even those who had felt
that he might lose.
And, incidentally. it sent an
apprehensive shiyer down the
backs of other Democrats who
were lukewarm or actively hostile
to the Democratic candidate OF
two years ago.
Senator Tom Heflin. of Ala.
bama, already has been dis
cipIined" for his bolt of Smith
by being denied a place on the
Democratic ticket for the August
primary. Heflin plans to run,
anyway, as an independent, but
the Simmons defeat makes his
chances look none too good.
On the whole. Democratic lead
ers here were inclined today to
interpret the North Carolina re-
suit as indicating that the South.
torn asunder by the Smith can
didacy, has returned to Demo
cratic normalcy. 1t probably
means. they asserted, the recap
ture of all the congressional seats
which the party lost in the South
during the bitter Smith fight.
Simmons Carried Hoover
Due to Simmons influence and
leadership, Hoover won North
Carolina by some $4,000, and car
ried with him two Republican
Congressman. Simmons has lost
the State by about $4,000 in u.
primary that saw only a few
thousand Republican votes cast.
The election of Bailey in No
vember is considered a foregone
conclusion, although the Republi-
cans profess to have some hopes
that the bitterness of the fac
tional fight among the Democrats
will persist to the point of knit
ing" Bailey in November. Sim
mons announcement that he will
support the ticket, however,
rather diSpels this hope.
The retirement of Simmons
from the Senate next March
means a complete realignment Of
the party in the Senate. While
not the Democratic leader, Sim
mons, nevertheless. has been a
powerful figure. He has been
the ranking Democrat on the FL
nance Committee and during the
Wilson Administration was its
chairman. His departure now
means that Senator. Pat Harri-
son of Mississippi, steps into the
place as the Democratic leader in
taxation, tariff and fiscal legisla-
ton.
Only Two Winners
The defeat of Simmons also
drew attention today to the ap-
palling casualties among sitting
Senators in this years primaries.
Only two sitting Senators have
thus far been renominated-Sen-
ator McMaSter (R.) of South
Dakota, and Senator McNary RD
of Oregon, both Of the insurgent'
wing.
Senator Deneen (R) of Illinois
and Senator Grundy (RO of
Pennsylvania have been defeated,
while six others, some of whom
undoubtedly saw the handwriting
on the wall, decided to retire vol
unfairly rather than face the
issue. This list is composed Of
Gillett (RD of Massachusetts,,
Phipps CRO of Colorado, Goff
(R) of West Virginia, Baird (RD
of New Jersey, Sullivan CR.) Of
Wyoming and Gould CR) of
Maine.
And the primaries have only
really begun. Forty States are
yet to stage nominating primaries
or State conventions.
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