The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-21
BAILEY QUIET;
FRIENDS BUSY
Capitol Hill Hears Con-
gresham Hancock May
Seek Senator's Post
Bv JOHN A. PARIS, Jr.
Irnited Press Staff Correspondent

RALEIGH, Dec. Il, (OF)-
North Cardinals Senator josiah
W. Bailey isn't talking.
He's leaving that up to his po-
ljticaI friend. And they are doing
bic things for the Senator. That
ace advertisement i'll a leading
morning daily newspaper laudin%
Senator Bailey caused more COM
ment than any other red hot pol}-
teal news broken since Clyde
Hoey, Sandy Graham and Ralph
NcDonais annOuced for Governor.
The political observers believe
the advertisement showed much
mole than Bailey will ever adm't
his friends are a bit ner-
vous over his prospective cam
paign.
it. too carly for announcement
but Capitol Hill is whispering that
CONGRESSMAN Frank ". Hancock
is likely candidate for the Sena-
tors seat in the National Capitol.
Questions are flying thick and
fast here regarding Bailey's cam
paign. Observers wonder what is
behind the ad. They wonder, too,
if the opposition has brought the
issue to a head in GuilfOrd coun-
IT,. one of the most popular cOun-
ties in the State and home of 1t
Roy Shipping. National Committee
man and onc-time campaign man.
agcr for Bailey.
Shipping can smell opposition as
far as anybody in the United
States, observers say. 1t was he
who first discovered that Senator
Furnifold VI. Simmons would be
beaten and he who administered
the beating.
Now, the rumor about Hancock
goes, the Bailey forces must meet
the anti-SimmOnS psychology. The
assault on Simmons grew out Of
his boiling the Democratic ticket
and berating the State. Senator
Bailey hasn't done that. He is pre-
sented in the full-page ad as a
real friend of President Roosevelt.
Which mystifies, since Shipping
has been a sharp assailant of the
President as the kind of Democrat
most abhOTent to the National
Committeeman. Still, the observer
does not easily escape the con-
clusion that Shipping was in on the
Bailey advertisement and wishing
the President and Bailey well. The
whole thing gets the analysts who
lrealize they aren't analyzing at
all.
Just in case Hancock does run,
it is interesting to listen to the
man on Capitol Hill. And he will
tell you that Hancock is thinking
nightly about it."
Bailey who attempts to play the
part Of "lone wolf" has his
campaign machinery functioning.
There is a key man in every cOun-
ty of the State.
Bailey is an able speaker. He's
tops among the intellectuals and
observes believe he shoots over
the heads of most of the people;
that his hardest probes is getting
down to the average man in his
trend OF thought.
Hancock, on the other hand, is
just as capable a speaker, a bit
more forceful, and bit more
simple, which prompts the men on
Capitol Hill to say that the Con-
gresham has something in his
favor.
If there is a whispering cam
paign against Bailey, it has failed
to gain more than a medium whirl
in the East. Yet, observers point
out Bailey's differences with the
State administration.
And for that reason, Bailey
can't depend too much on getting
help from the administration. It
IS said that Bailey took credit for
securing the Moorehead Port
Terminal when Gov. J. C. B. Ehr-
lnghauS really was the power back
OF the movement. He also attempt
ed, so observers say, to take the
credit for tipping the price of o.
bacco.
The Man of Capitol Hill says it
appears Bailey is trying to hog
the credit for a number of things.
But despite these observations,
there Is another side to the poll
teal hodge-podge swiring about
the Senatorial campaign. 1t is a
certainty that Bailey won't get
"wide-open" opposition from Gov
ernOr Ehringhas.
The Simmons crowd still has a
feeling Of revenge for what Bail.
ey did to "tbe old man" back IN
1880 when he beat him out in a
race that cracked like a whip
from start to finish and sent Bail
ey to Washington.
Bailey has done little "wide.
open campaigning thus far. Sew,
= eral of his speeches have appeared
political"
His activities have been none
too limited this year. Weeks ag,
it was noticed that Bailey wa
getting a bit fidgety with politica
| litis.