The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-21

ernor in 1886, and a growing
number believe that the reason
he has switched over so complete
" to THE Bowie group without
making any effort to even hgh:
for the figures in his own appro-
priations bill, is that he wants TO
get the support of this radical
eastern group in the primary CAM
paign for the nomination for gov
ernor in 1886.
In fact. this charge was openly
made on the floor of the house
Friday afternoon when the Bowie
Cherry group not only sought to,
but did increase the appropriation
for the North Carolina Teachers
College in Greenville, Pit county,
above the level of the other state
educational institutions, but bat
tered down the appropriations for
the various STATE negro education
al institutions. The appropriation
for the East Carolina Teachers
College was increased from $751;
800 as recommended in the orig
inal Bowie bill. to $1,000 in the
amendment offered by Cherry.
But the appropriation for the
negro Agricultural and Technical
College in Durham, was fixed at
only S21.470 as compared with
the $28,630. Discrimination was
also shown against the Western
North Carolina Teachers College,
for which the appropriations COM
mittee had recommended $4,000,
by giving it only $4,000. Very
heavy cuts were made in the ap.
preparations for the negro normal
in Elizabeth City, which it cut
from recommended S13, 780 to
S1O,34O, and the negro college in
Winston-Salem, cut from $23,21O
to $17,310 year.
The appropriation Tor the APP
palachian Teachers College at
Boone, in a neighboring county
to Bowels Ashe, was boosted
from the $32,470 Bowie asked for
it, but this amount was not in
creased by as great proportion
as that for the East Carolina
Teachers College and is still be-
low the S43,290 recommended for
it in the committee appropriation
bill. Western Carolina Teachers
College at Cullowhee, Jackson
county, was given only $4,000
instead of the $4,000 recon-
mended by the committee bill.
Yet Cherry did not raise his voice
in protest against any of this,
even when Massenburg declared
that the reason for this discriml-
nation against the negro schools
especially was because 1.-THE ne
groes can't vote"
Another reason assigned for
the Cherry turnover from an APP
parent follower of Gov. Ehring-
haus for the first six weeks of
the session to his alignment with
Bowie, the governors bitterest
opponent, is reported to be Cher
Ty llI1tdllOll az lOG bSliiSo oHA> w
become chairman of the new
State Highway Commission of
Public Works. 1t has been ru-
mored about for some time that
Cherry. as chairman of the house
committee on roads and as 4
member OF the powerful Rcor-
ganization committee, that put
through the bill consolidating the
highway commission and stare
prison. which had the support Of
Governor Ehringhaus, had hopes
of being offered the chairmansh p
of this new and potentially pow
erful political organization. 1t is
generally agreed that such an ap-
pointment would have put Cherry
in a position to greatly enhance
his position as a tentative candi-
date for governor in 1886.
Not much credence was given
to this report at first, chiefly be-
cause Cherry had been regarded
as one Of the governors chief