The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THE UNITED: STATE?

There is no reason for excitement abont the
trace question" in South Carolina. white suprem-
acy' would not be in danger in South Carolina
even were the negroes voting, for since 1880 the
whites have been, a considerable majority in the
population.
The president apparently is not pressing for a
constitutional amendment. 1t is likely that news
from the South has caused him to drop it for the
present Mr. James Farley probably has been chat
ting quietly with Southern senators and represent
tatives At the moment there is no cause for ALARM
The, Roosevelt revolution cannot succeed without
complete destruction of the right of states to nan-
age their internal affairs. That is too plain to be
questioned His silence in regard to the Costigan-
Wagner bill is clear indication that he has little
sympathy with the Southern feeling about questions
of that kind. Never would there have been doubt
about Woodrow Wilson's Grover Cleveland's
opinion upon them Some of the noblest men and
women in the world differ radically from us South
erners about the negro question.
The Northern Democratic party already has been
revolutionized. 1t is controlled by progress
sives so-called such high minded folk as Mr. lckes
Miss Perkins, DIR. Tugwell Contributing editor to
The New Republic). 1t mas no kinship to the party
of Tilden and little more with the party of Bryan.
Bryan was a free trader.
To change the form of government of the United
States to convert the forty-eight states into the
United States may be wise and right Inc news
and Courier does not think So but it is classlhed
as a. Tory a reactionary. The one thing OF winch
The News and Courier is sure is that the eHort Is
going on to obterate the states. While the preSl-
dent does not admit it in plain words ne constantly
asserts it by acts we'll as expressions. Some OF
his advisers speak bluntly about it, which is to
their credit.
If the South Carolinians want this change, If
they favor the revolution, they should say So 1t
is their right of course to favor it, and they may
have better vision" than The News and Courier
has. But they should know what they are dong
and acknowledge it.
II is their privilege to repudiate Calhoun, Hamp-
ton Tillman. If the revolution succeeds and the
United State come into being, South Carolina will
he governed from Washington. If Mr.. Roosevelts
Capitalization policies succeed, they will outlast
him. He might be reelected in 1886 and succeeded
by. Republican Republican progressive IN l94o.
but his policies would live Once we shall have
the United State it will stay.
It is nonsense to say that we in South Carolina
could do as we chose about the negro question or
anv other question in United State. We would be
governed by officers named in Washington, by Con-
gressmen.
It is not impossible that next year the federal
government will elect the majority in the general
assembly. 1t would like to have legislators who
would enact social security" and other bills writ
ten in Washington, and in every county are scores
of men and women in it's pay. They have immense
political influence.
In one county, Richland, literally thousands
of mon and women in the federal governments
pay.
Again we say that the revolution may be desir-
able but it should be called by its right name
Charleston News and Courier.