Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-06-29
Piedmont Region
Is battle-ground
lCOhtinued from rage One.)


confident that the eastern counties
| IN which he was strongest three
| weeks ago are more than ever pro
Mcdonald now after ten days of inten-
slve campaigning in them, so that he
| can spend a part of this last week in
| other sections
Hoey Relies on Piedmont.
| Accordingly, both Hoey and Nc
Donald will concentrate their final
| week Of campaigning in the more
| thickly populous Piedmont counties
| where there are more votes in single
| precincts than in some of the smaller
eastern and western counties and
where it is agreed that sentiment has
not already crystalized to the extent
it has in the east and the west. If
Hoey can get a majority of the Pied
mont vote, it is generally conceded
| that with the vote he is sure to get
in the west, he will win the :lomina-
ton by a large majority But if MIC
Donald can get a majority in even
half of the Piedmont counties and
gets anything like thes vote in the east
which he is claiming, he may be able
to make it very uncomfortable for
Mr.. Hoey
Mcdonald will not turn towards the
Piedmont until Wednesday,, however,
while Mr.. HOey speaks there tonight
| opening this weeks speaking itinerary
| in Wadesboro, Arson county, the only
F, county carried by John A. Nc Rae in
| the first primary. Tonight Dr. Nc
| Donald will speak in Dunn, in Har-
| nett county and tomorrow in Lilling-
| ton and Durham, not reaching the
Piedmont until Wednesday, when he
will speak in Mebane in the morning
| and in Greensboro at night. Thursday
morning he will speak in. brownsville,
| in Salisbury that night. Friday noon
he will speak at .Kannapolis in Cabar-
rus county and close his campaign
that night with speech in Winston
Salem, his home town. He may make
one radio speech during the week eff
he can get enough money to pay for
the time,' his headquarters said here
today.
Although Mr. Hoey's speaking pro-
gram is not yet definitely completed,
his headquarters said all of his
speeches this week would be in the
Piedmont counties and that he would
lIldhC IWO oIdICWIOC IduIO SpCCCnCS.
Thus it was clear to most observers
here today that the Hoey managers
have definitely abandoned all plans
to do anything more in the east,
where most of the counties are now
| definitely conceded to Mcdonald, but
| that they are going OF make a deter
mined drive to put most of the Peid-
| mont counties into the Hoey column
including those who went for Graham
| or Mcdonald on June 6. A. good many
of the Hoey workers privately admit
| that Mr.. HOey made few if any new
votes in the east and the result of his
sneeches there last week and that
about all they hope for in the east is
| to hold what they had and get an
even break with Mcdonald on the
Graham vote. Most observers are also
convinced that while most of the
| leaders who were formerly for Ora
| ham have come over to Hoey, not
more than so per cent of those who
| voted for Graham in the east will vote
for Hoey next Saturday and that the
| other so per cent will either vote for
! Mcdonald or stay home and not vote
at all.
The Hoey managers are convinced
however, that while Mcdonald may
be able to swell his original vote in
few counties as result of getting
some of the Graham vote, in many
others he will not get as many votes
as he did in the first primary. They
maintain that those who were back
| ing Mcdonald in the first go-round
because they thought he was sure to
win-the "bandwagon jumpers" =
have already climbed on the Hoey
| bandwagon and will vote for him in
the second primary. They are also
convinced that large number of for
mer Mcdonald supporters have be
come so discouraged and Disguised as
a result of his failure to lead in the
first primary that they will not vote
at all in the second primary. Which
is all right by the Hoey people.
But in order to play safe the Hoey
managers are taking no chances, es-
pecially in the Piedmont where the
votes grow the thickest. Nor are the
Mcdonald strategists asleep. It is go
ing to be a fight to the finish.