Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-08-20

AN60A NON as having IAC support
of powerful industrial and banking
interests, both of whom have been
| announced candidates for some
months. A fourth candidate is John
A. McRae, of Charlotte, who is most
circles is now expected to run fourth
| instead of third. :
Regardless of how much the old
line Democratic politicians may scoft
at Mcdonald md his chances to WIN
the nomination, or how loudly they
may contend that he does not "have
| chance" to be nominated, there -
| no doubt but that he has thrown a
real scare into the party leaders and
hurled a ansized brickbat into the
campaign plans of Hoey, Graham ana
McRae and their friends. While they
will not admit it, there are indica-
tions that Mcdonald is going to travel
lot farther in this campaign than
lot of people think he will While
his platform of save the poor and
soak the rich," which is what it will
eventually be, will give big business
the jitters, just as it gave these in
terests the heebie-j -jeebies during the
recent General Assembly, there are
thousands of voters and sales ta4
payers to whom it is already sweet
music. There is no doubt that the
sales tax is still just about as un-
popular as it ever was and many
agree that Mcdonald could not have
selected a more appropriate time to
play on the sales tax string of his
campaign fiddle. Or it may. turn out
to be a bass violin before the cam
paign has ended.
Hard Fight Ahead. ia. ..
But Mcdonald has a hard fight
ahead of. him, all observers here
agree. He will have the old guard
in the Democratic organization in ths
State, known as the machine" dead
against him. He will have all the lar
ger industries, such as textiles, pow
er, tobacco, furniture and even the
larger retail stores and chain stores
against him. He will have most of
the larger banks against him. And it
is agreed that this is very difficult
combination to buck anywhere, and
especially in North Carolina. 1t is the
combination which has virtually die
tated the laws of North Carolina tor
35 years, as we'll as the one which
has nominated most of the Demo-
cratic candidates for governor. If Nc
Donald is able to buck this combina-
ton and win the nomination, the po
lticians of the State, as we'll as the
people, can be sure that a New
Deal' has actually arrived for North
Carolina.
Mcdonald is not dumb and is not
blind, all who know him agree, and
is going into the campaign knowing
exactly what he is up against, his
friends say. But, on the other hand,
Mcdonald believes there are more
farmers, mill workers, wage earners,
school teachers, State employees and
unemployed than there are bankers,
industrialists, manufacturers, coupon
clippers, lawyers, doctors and those
sympathetic with the capitaliStic
point of view Besides, believing that
Hoey and Graham at least, if not Ms
Rae, all belong to hte "big business
school of thought, and that these
other three will split the Tso-called
capitalistic vote, Mcdonald believes
he has a better chance to win the
nomination than if he were opposing
any one of these two or three other
candidates alone.
That McDonald's platform will be
a modified "Share the wealth and
soak the rich" structure, upon which
both Huey Long and Eugene Tai
madge of Georgia, scared to political
heights, is indicated in the statement
which he issued today, and in which
ne said
', II hope that the campaign for the
nomination for governor will bring
showdown between two points of view
which are fundamentally in conflict
with each other in North Carolina.
The point of view which is now
| dominant in State affairs has ex-
| pressed itself in the enactment of the
sales tax in the largest reduction IN
| funds for schools recorded In any
| civilized state, in the accumulation OF
| huge cash surplus, which unDal-
| ances the State budget at the same
time it insures profits for bondhold-
! ers and bond spectators, in the ap-
! pointment of wholly unframed poll
| ticians to important State offices with
huge salaries, in a low pay scale Tor
| the rank and file of State employees,
! in a serious neglect of the social and
human needs of the. State and IN
J countless other actions which sa-
crifice the interests of the masses OF
| the people to the advantage of bond
holders, major corporations and high
ly concentrated wealth.
'"The two major announced cand1-
dates for governor are two OF the
| finest men the State of North Car
olina. I wish there was some way HI
which they could be completely di-
vorced from the background OF po~
litical thinking which must naturally
come to any person whose close and
intimate services have been to pow
er, cotton mill, tobacco and other spe-
| cial interests. But the record speaks
so plainly that even the finest of men
| cannot shake off the influence of
such connections
Against this point of view in Stats
| affairs my candidacy is fight-to-the-
finish Above all things, shall keep
my campaign clean, honest and above
board. But there will be no letting up
until we win. What may happen to
me as an individual is important OF.
lV to nv family R1It that the cause