The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-25
Many Doubt That
Shipping Will Be
Comm EN- a n
Is Said to Have Canvassed
State Committee; AZ
fair Is Muddled
BY J. c. BASKERVlLL
The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, Oct. 25.-In spite
of the efforts Of the Bailey-Shu-
ping forces to make it appear
that c. Leroy Shipping of Green's
boro is already virtually assured
of being elected National Demo-
cratic chairman to succeed former
Governor O. Max Gardner, the
prevailing opinion in political cir
cles here is still to the effect that
Shipping will not be able to land
the job, as hard as he may have
been working for it or as much as
he NAV want it.
The Shipping followers are MAX
ing much of the report that has
been going the rounds in news
paper circles all week to the eff
feet that Shipping has already
canvaSsed the members Of the
State Democratic committee and
has enough votes pledged to as
sure his election as national COM
mitteeman. w. Thomas Bost, the
Greensboro News corresponding
here, has woven story around
this rumor that virtually predicts
Shuping's election. Yet other
neWspapermen here who heard
this rumor. traced it down as
emanating from Herbert Gulley,
of Senator J. w. Bailey's secre-
tarial staff, and there dropped 1t
as not being worth following any
farther. Nor have they been able
to find any indication from any
other source that Shipping has
obtained any commitments from
state committee members, to say
nothing of enough to assure his
election as national committee
man.
1t was also intimatcd in the
same story that Shipping had been
carrying on a systematic canvass
of the State Democratic commit
tee for some time and had thus
stolen a march on all the Others,
lust as he had canvassed the
states leading Democrats before
Bailey even became candidate
for the senate and obtained COM
mittments to the effect that SEN
ator F. NJ. Simmons should have
opposition, and thus had the skldS
all CREASED when Bailey stepped
in and placed them under SIM
mons.
But this theory is not being
subscribed to by very many here.
For while it was intimated that
Shipping must have had advance
knowledge that Gardner was 60
ing to resign from the National
Democratic committee on the ba-
sis of this knowledge had been
getting commitments from mem
bers of the state committee, the
prevailing opinion here is that
Shipping did not know Gardner
was going to resign until after he
had already resigned. Not more
than ten days ago Mr.. Gardner
told a friend, with whom this
writer has talked, that he wanted
to resign and intended 20 by sprin
to resign and intended to by
spring but that he would not be,
fore that time. He also minated
that one reason he was not going
TO resign now was because he felt
Shipping and his following would
make fight for the job and thus
cause a factional fight within the
party-which is exactly what has
happened. Why Gardner changed
his mind and resigned now. no one
knows for sure.
Thus the story to the effect that
Shipping has already canvassed the
membership of the State Demo-
cratic executive committee in an
effort to secure his election as
national committeeman is strong
ly discounted here. Instead, it IS
believed that Shipping had strong
homes of being elected chairman