Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-07-28
CHANCE To WIN
SAID TO BE- GOOD
BY SUPPORTERS
Friends Of Lieutenant
Governor Believe He
Would Make A Strong
Race For u. S. Senate.
BY E BLYTHE

With the next campaign for Unit
ed States senator four years off, an
with Senator Josiah W.. Bailey jus
now completing the first third of hi
six years in the nations highest leg
i%slative body, friends of Richard I
Fountain have already begun to ad
vance him as Senator Bailey's oppo
nent in 1886.
The lieutenant governor made
sensational second primary race will
]. c. B. Ehringhaus of Elizabeth Cit
for the gubernatorial nomination ane
came perilously near overcoming f.:
$4,000 lead MI. Ehringhaus piled Ut
in the first primary. The lieutenant
governor would have won had the
second primary been three or four day:
later, declare the Fountain followers
At any rate, the Rocky Mount man
came within a little more than H.,
900 votes of squaring it with his OPP
ponent from Elizabeth City.
Picking up $4,000 votes when he
had been 'doped" t o lose by about
$4,000 to 10000 was quite a feat,
and Mr.. Fountain reversed the fig
ures on most of the dopesters by from
about 10000 to $4,000. All his
friends and all his enemies give him
and his manager, ]. L. Delaney OF
Charlotte, credit for a wonderful sec
ond primary race.
That race, say the Fountain sup
porters, leaves him in a good position
politically. He was beaten, it is true,
but he was beaten going upgrade. 1t
was a fight against time, they declare,
and the gong sounded before he had
time to knock out his opponent. As it
is, he can offer for the senate in all
seriousness, they say, and they add that
he can win.
Senator Bailey will be a one-termer,
declare many democrats here who fol-
low the doings of the poltcans and
who sometimes figure things cut
ahead of time. He was elected, not by
those who wished to elevate him, but
by those who wished to debase Sena-
tor Simmons.
He W. the paddle the avenging
democrats used to spank the senator
who gave aid and sympathy to Her
bert Hoover. They don't carry u
the analogy with use of the recent
senatorial primary participants, how
ever, although there are a few who
have already whispered discreetly that
Bob Reynolds will also be a one-term-
er. In fact, judging things political
by the present temper of the voters,
it will take a demigod to be anything
but a one-termer.
At any rate, say the friends Of Mr..
Fountain, he will be in excellent po-
sition in 1886 to lead 1.-THE people
against "entrenched privilege and .ht
will be able to slip MI. Bailey's high
and mighty seat right out from under
him.
Mr.. Fountain hasn't said anything:
say those who keep close to him. Last
night Mr.. Delaney said he had heard
discussion of Mr.. Fountain as a 1886
candidate for the senate, but, as far
as he knew, MI. Fountain had thought
little or nothing of the reports that
he might run and he was of the opin-
ion that he would say nothing of them
this early. "It's too long off," observ-
ed Mr.. Delaney. II wouldn't think
Mr.. Fountain would want to say any
thing about the senate race at this
time"
1t was also reported here yesterday
that Judge Wilson Warlick of New
ton might be a candidate for governor
in 1886. The governorship comes west
next time, and already CO... T. L.
Kirkpatrick has announced he would
be a candidate. The colonel has also
announced he would run for senator
in 1886. That would be in the middle
of his term as governor, granting for
the sake of explanation that the col
onel will win the race for governor,
and Colonel Kirkpatrick would run a
la Huey Long, who was elected SEN
ator in the middle of his term as gov
ernor and served out the governor
term before going to Washington.
But, someone remarked Yesterday, Just
anybody can't do what Huey does.
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