The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-06-20
BAILEY BEING, !.
LAMBASIED.
Observers Wonder AT His
Anti-Administration
= Attitude
BvJ. C.. BAsKERMLL
~; - The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Iiotsl

SitlOn mas HOt Helpeu ,bhe SShioi
senator here in his home town, or
if those who have travelled out
through this entire eastern sec.
ton of the state are to be be-
lieved, over the state, as a whole.
The feeling is growing in the
minds of more and more people
over the state that Senator Bal
lev has not been and is not now
in sympathy with President
Roosevelt's recovery program, the
NRA, the PWA and the various
other agencies which have beer
set up to aid it, political .observ,
ers here say. Many feel that he
is playing right into the hands of
the Republicans who are also snip.
ing at the president and his pro-
gram. as
Reports reaching here also in.
dictate that there is an increasing
amount of talk concerning VINO
will be a candidate for the senate
nomination against Bailey two
years hence and that there seems
to be a growing .demnad for Con
gresham Lindsay C. Warren, Of
the first, congressional district to
oppose him. 1t is also reported by
some that there is almost as much
dissatisfaction with some of Sen
ator Bailey's recent acts in the
middle and western parts of the
state as here in the east and that
Warren seems to have a strong
following in many of the western
counties. Political circles here
are becoming more and more con-
WINGED that Warren is likely to
oppose Bailey in 1886 rather than
either Governor J. C. B. Ehring-
haus or Richard Tilman Fountain.
The prevailing belief in many
quarters here is also to the effect
that if Warren does oppose Sen
ator Bailey that he will defeat
him, unless there is a marked
change in sentiment during the
next two years.
1t is agreed by most observers
that Senator Bailey is personally
convinced that the NRA, the
AAA, the FERA. the PWA and
other New DEAF agencies are
becoming increasingly unpopular
and that there is growing wave
of dissatisfaction with these agen-
cies all over the country. 1t is
also believed that Senator Bailey
is convinced this wave Of dissatis-
faction is going to increase dur
ing the next two years to such an
extent that the recovery program
is either going to fail or be great
ly changed, in which case he can
then pose as one Of the 81 told
you so" boys.
There are some others, how
ever, who believe that Senator
Bailey's confidence in his own in
telligence and judgment is so
great that he is sure he is right
and the president and all those
who are backing his recovery pro-
gram, are wrong. These maintain
that Senator Bailey is the tyne
who believes he is always right
and that all the others are out of
step but him and that since he
always has been and still is CAPT.
talistically minded, he naturally is
inclined to look at the present
national situation from the stand
point of the New York bankers
than from the presidents stand
point.
Most observers here, however,
many of whom have known Bal
ley intimately for 25 or 80 years,
maintain that he has undoubtedly
taken his present stand .deliber-
ately, in the belief that the pres
ent recovery plans are going to
fail during the next two years, in
(which case he can pose as the
Moses in the wilderness who
sounded the warning and tried to
lead the children of Israel back
to safety, even though they heed
ed him not. =
eff Senator Bailey is right and
everyone else wrong, if the presi-
dents recovery program fails and
its agencies become discredited
between now and 1886, then he
will be sitting on top of the world
by that time" one observer said
here today. 'For then he will
have proved. himself to be not
only Moses but one of the
prophets as well. But if the presi-
dents program does succeed, in
spite of Senator Bailey and the
Republicans, he will have hard
time ever getting elected to the
senate again from North Caro-
lima" go.
A good many people here, tho
surprised that it should speak out
with such candor, found much
satisfaction in the editorial in
The News and Observer here last
Wednesday criticizing Senator
Bailey for his participation in the
questioning of Tugwell, entitled
'''The Republican Senator Under
stood" Only Senator "Cotton
Ed" Smith of South Carolina and
a Republican senator from West
Virginia voted in the direction