Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-08
E$spite Split
Returns to Fold
|Old-Age Pensions Over
~whelmingly favored;
Vote Offsets Gain
In East
PRESIDENT PLEASED

Louisville, Ky.-A. B. (Happy)
Chandler, Democrat who had the
support of President Roosevelt, piled
up an apparently insurmountable
lead over Judge King Swope, Re-
publican, in their race for governor
of Kentucky Tuesday.
Kentuckians wrote into their
constitution authority for the legis-
lature to enact old age pensions.
KENTUCKY MAY OFFSET COP
GAINS IN EAST
Kentucky elections t~ellers count
ed a growing lead for Democracy's
gubernatorial candidate, A. B.
(Happy) Chandler, forecasting a
possible offset to Republican vic
tories in the east.
Safely in control of the New
York and New Jersey State as
semblies and victorious in electing
a mayor in Philadelphia and a sup
erior court judge for Pennsylvania,
Republican leaders claimed voters
in those States had repudiated the
New Deal.
Chairman James A. Farley of the
Democratic national committee Jaw
it otherwise. He asserted tina
Ipepuarvoteltotals In New Yorl
would give Democratic candidate:
a plurality of some 100000.
Accepting that the New Deal
was the issue, he added, "New
York State voted in favor of it by
the large majority of 100000"
Farley insisted that Republican
gerrymandering had made it i'm
possible for the Democrats to elect
a majority of the assembly except
in landslide years.
Adding to the complexity of the
Democratic factional fight in the
Kentucky campaign, the New Deal
issue was very emphatically raised
by some Democratic spokesman,
who appealed for Chandler votes as
ballots indorsing the Roosevelt ad-
ministration. Swope avoided any
mention of the New Deal in his
speeches.
The feud between Laffoon and
Chandler began when the lieuten-
ant governor turned against the
State sales tax which Laffoon had
fathered, and then defeated a Laf-
foon-backed candidate for the De-
mocratic nomination.
Laffoon campaigned actively
against Chandler, denouncing him
as "a grooming, dancing young
man." who had betrayed his admin
istration. The Governor supported
other Democratic nominees, how
ever.
PARTY LEADERS DIFFER IN
INTERPRETING VOTE
Washington.-National Republi-
can and Democratic leaders found
such divergent meanings in Tues
days State election as claims that
the New Deal had been both repu-
dated and Endorsed.
From G.. O. P. spokesman came
contentious that the election Of
Republican-controlled Assemblies
in New York and New Jersey in
dicated waning support for the
Roosevelt administration.
Promptly, the Democrats re-
sponded that, nevertheless, their
candidates polled a plurality Of pou-
ular votes in New York and northx
ern New Jersey. Thus, they said,
the voters approved the New Deal.
The Republicans thoughr Phila-
delphia's election of a Republican
mayor was significant, too, but the
Democrats pointedly noted that the
e. Oh plurality, $4,000 in 1882,
was $4,000 on Tuesday.
While other party leaders were
quick to voice their conclusions,
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park
stood by a policy Of not comment
ing. Friends who knew his mind,
however, said he felt the election
ofra Republican Assembly in New
York despite a Democratic popular
plurality was normal.