The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-21
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Observers at Raleigh Be-
lieve Repeal Would Lose
if Vote Taken Now
By J. c. BASKERVILL
The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

sibility that North Carolina may
be the only state to vote against
repeal of the 18th Amendment is
by no means as remote as i:
seemed a few weeks ago, with an
increasing number of observers in
political circles here becoming
more and more convinced that
right now North Carolina seems
more inclined to vote against re-
peal than for it. The repeal
forces, of course, deny this and
maintain that merely because the
United Dry Forces have been car
rying on a statewide speaking
campaign and making all the
noise, they think they are going
to defeat repeal. They also are
convinced that in spite of this in
tensive campaign to get the PEG
pie stirred up, that a majority of
the voters have already decided to
vote for repeal.
eve are counting more upon
the patriotism and alertness to
the National Recovery program on
the part of the people of North
Carolina for our success than
upon anything else," Walter Muir
ply, executive secretary of the
United Repeal Council for North
Carolina, said today. "The man
ner in which Republicans and
Democrats alike, rich and poor,
high and low through the whole
nation have responded to PreSi-
dent Roosevelt's magnificent Ia
bors to restore the American peo-
pie to an order of prosperity and
contented citizenship. has left US
firm in the belief that North Car
DINA will not fail to demand It's
fair share of responsibility IN
helping to make national recov-
cry a reality"
The anti-repeal forces, how
ever, maintain that they have con
WINGED a majority of the peoplo,
of the state that vote for repeal
is a vote for the return OF the
open saloon and that as a result
the people of the state are gong
to vote against repeal. They also
maintain they have obtained much
more outstanding candidates as
anti-repeal candidates in the va,
rious counties than the repeal
forces have and that this is giving
them a big advantage.
"This repeal campaign is get
ting increasingly close and 1t
would not surprise me a bit TO
see the state vote against repeal
on November T." said a prominent
business man and politician from
one of the larger Piedmont coun,
ties who was here this week. And
l am saying this as an advocate
of repeal. / have been for repeai
and still am. But present indlca-
tions are that my county and most
of the surrounding counties are
going to vote against repeal. Inc
repeal forces in these counties
were positively not able to get
any outstanding men to be candl-
dates for the state convention
while the anti-repeal forces have
in most cases secured outstanding
men. If the eastern and western
counties are organized in the way
the Piedmont counties are, the
state will go against repeal"
Others coming here from the
middle and western Piedmont
counties say that former Secre-
tary of State James A. Hartness,
who is in charge of the anti-re-
peal campaign in the Piedmont
and west, and who is past mas
ter at political organization, has
these counties organized to the
hilt against repeal and is daily
getting the people worked up to a
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