Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-29
NORTH CAROLINA
LIKES ROOSEVELT
States Democrats Expected
to Give Him rs Votes
at Convention.
by ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.
o,;al nicrotct IN The Star


Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c. May 28.-Although
delegates to the National Democratic
Convention will not be chosen until the
Democratic State Convention. 1t is now
virtually certain that North Carolina
will send a Roosevelt delegation to
Chicago.
Leaders have not yet determined
whether to seek an instructed delega :
ton, but it is probable North Carolina
&c votes will be bound to Roosevelt
either by definite instructions for him
or by imposition of unit rule.
In a year in which North Carolina
Democrats are sharply and even bitterly
divided on all candidates within the
State there has been striking una
nimity Of opinion in regard to Coy.
Roosevelt. Josephus Daniels, under
whom Gov. Roosevelt served as As
sistant Secretary of the Navy for eight
years: Senator Josiah w. Bailey and
Gov. o. Max Gardner have long been
listed In the Roosevelt column. Prac-
tically every other important leader Is
either for Roosevelt or is acquiescent 10
the proposal that he receive the delega-
ton from this State.
In Five Cornered Race.
Senator Cameron Morrison has never
been listed as a Roosevelt supporter but
has shown no disposition to hight
Roosevelt. Even If Senator Morrison
were disposed to enter the presidential
fight. he now has troubles enough OF
his own without looking for others
Senator Morrison is engaged in the
hi 70 in I've
nered race for the Democratic nominal
ton for Senator
It is now generally conceded that the
outcome of the primary on June 4. will
be inconclusive and that there will be
second primary on July between Sen
ator Morrison and Robert R. Reynolds
Reynolds. a colorful campaigner who
vainlv sought to unseat the late Senator
Lee S. Overman in 1926. is running on
a platform which calls for repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment. Reynolds is
the first wet candidate Che was not wet
in 1926 to run in either party with
any chance of success for the last 20
years.
If Reynolds is successful in the pri-
mary of June 4, as almost all impartial
observers expect him to be, there is
some likelihood Of the prohibition ques-
ton being injected lnCO ln' OeI1loCTalAe
State Convention. Heretofore the two
parties in North Carolina have wed
with each other in extreme dryness
At the Republican State Convention
held in April a Hoover delegation was
unanimously selected and bone dry
platform adopted, with a lone wet
speaker booed from the platform.
Hot Governors Fight.
A sharply contested three-cornered
race for Governor offers an even better
chance for dissension in the Demo
cratic State Convention. j. c. B
Ehringhaus is regarded as the admins
tration candidate, although his two op-
ponents, Lieut.. Gov. r. T. Fountain
and Commissioner Of Revenue A. ]
Maxwell, are members of the admins
tration.
North Carolina will this year elect II
members Of the House of Representa-
tives instead of 10. and there is six
cornered race in the new district. Re-
representatives. Charles L. Abernethy and
Zebulon Weaver are the only ones Of
the 10 sitting Democrats who have
opposition.