The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-27
CLYDE R.H0EY
Gan editorial from the Greenville, N c.. Ncws.1..,
Gan editorial from the Greenville

Here is name familiar in North Corol
man who has stood out for more than forty vso.'
Tens of thousands have heard him. tens ' "a 'H
sands have known him-and to one and o III IN tAOl
known as Clyde Hoey. It" ne
Who is he? What manner of man is bag
In forty years of public life no man boo u,,..
accusation against him. He is without renroooh an
man has questioned his ability None has o~",;. No
his character. ''ONea
Not long ago the Baptist minister of Clvdo H.,
home town, where he was born, where he har NV,
his life, had occasion to introduce him. The mn' au
was the Reverend Zeno WALL president of the Ran;a
State Convention sanity man of great snrs rM
He said:
"For over ten years have lived within bocr i.
Clyde Hoey, on the same street, during which ins
he has passed our home daily and as he passeS we
know that an upright God-fearing and BbIe.I%yi"e
man is passing our door.
Brother Hoey, this great gathering of men and
women, in this large auditorium, is unmstakable owl
dence of your ability as a teacher of the Word n
God, and of the high esteem in which you are held
by all of our people"
DR.. Wall is a Baptist. Clyde Hoey is Methodist
The former is a minister; the latter layman. Hear
the minister testify:
can upright, God-fearing and Bibe-loving man.
"a servant Of Cod"
This simple testimony of notable minister Of a
Baptist church to an humble layman of the Meth.
odiSt church tells the story of Clyde Hoey II is The
testimony not of political partisan, but of God
called witness to the nobility of Christian laymans
life
Political rivals may suggest insinuationS. Ambition
may seek to destroy character like this. But they
cannot succeed. The house of Clyde Hoeys character
is founded upon rock. 1t will survive every storm Of
ambition and envy. 1t will bear witness to Gods
grace when his detractor shall have been forgotten
That Clyde Hoey should have lived so long and
we'll only to have rival seek to destroy his character
by insinuations that he is "a machine candidate" or
a tool of special interests; that he would not faith.
fully serve the whole people, is a commentary upon
the ignorance and the heedlessness of the ambition
of one who would tear down the character of a lie
time to gain the bauble of an office. He has not MIS-
understood Clyde Hoey, but he has misapprehended
North Carolinians.
Who would exact such price to be Governor o.
North Carolina and having eXacted it, what manns
of man is he who could have satisfaction in such al
achievement? There is way to honor, but that WAY
must be the path of honor. Men rise in North CalO
lima on their merits, not on their capacity to deS'C
the character of their fellows.
Clyde Hoey's whole life has been spent in NoFI
Carolina. He rose from poverty-from printers oe
to the forefront of the legal profession; from Wv
voiceless silence of the unknown to the lna'cHe,
orator of the civil and moral life OF great Ioni'U
wealth. His father Confederate Soldler' ah I
his calling was that of carpenter ne KNOWS u"
struggles of the poor and sympathlzes WIN ''e"'
The Baptist preachers testimony is chaIe.s e,s
his detractor-in the singular, for there Is o"t cI
and he a stranger to the State stranger 10 G%"
Hoeys noble life of plain living and hlgh tn1 In"
a stranger who is revealing himself day Dy Gai Li
North Carolnians as one who knows holh''s :"
standards and their intelligence.
Right now our State needs man. The 'll 1sa o.
confused. Councils are darkened. There Is m'.I on
faith and of courage There is need OF syhpa.n,
understanding. There is need OF hlol'I atrmog
There is need of the wisdom that comes Oh tn
with adversely. There is need OF tranKheS' ""'
in order that the people may know.
There is need not of some ampuouS mo-" orde
would seduce the distressed with promises u that
to gain an office, but of one who mas 50 'Gu vi
man of God, far removed from p0ltlcal .,iGed
stand up and testify as Zeno wall Has
Clyde Hoey:
"A servant of God"
can upright, God-fearing, Bible-lovlng h'''
North Carolina needs Clyde Hoey!
North Carolinians never needed as INV
such q man in the governors office.
What an exampleihis elevation would set mother
ward generation What aromfort to humo oho"t the
who see the old moral standards falling ""'
sons! -,