The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-06
THEN AND NOW-OR DR.. McDoN-
AIDS POLITICAL COURSE

The State magazine of Raleigh devotes
the editorial page of the last issue 10 an
answer to the question, us DR.. MCDONALD
really good loser?" The question Is pro-
pounded in answering The Lumberton
Robesonian's assertion that such is true.
The State quotes a number of things SAID
about DIR. Mcdonald and his candidacy Tor
the Democratic nomination for Governor
by Candidate Clyde Hoey during the
urinary campaign, and the conclusion
reached by the Raleigh magazine is that
DR.. Mcdonald, or any other citizen, would
he able to muster very little genuine en-
tbusiasm for an opponent under such cir
cumstances. On the other hand, the things
Or. Mcdonald said about Clyde Hoey may
also be considered in this connection.
The conclusion reached by The State in
answering its. own question is that DR..
Mcdonald has no love for Goyernor-elect
Hoev: that the Winston-Salem man is
smart, a smooth politician, and knows that
his future political prospects would be IN
iured by failure to follow the course adopt
ed in the post-election campaign. That IS
the cause of his activity and of his enthusl-
astic endorsement of Hoey in the last weeks
before the election.
No doubt all intelligent observers, who
have some understanding of human nature,
will agree with the diagnosis of The State.
DIR. Mcdonald no doubt expects to continue
in politics, He will again be a candidate !;
he sees that an overwhelming majority OF
North Carohnians are Democrats and does
not care to join the minority party; his
political future, if he has one, will be tied
up with the Democratic party. The Doc
tors course in the campaign is the course
usually pursued by smart politicians who
think they have political future.
1t is this attitude of politicians, among
other things, that causes thoughtful, intel
ligent. honest citizens, to distrust the aver
age politician, to have no confidence in the
professional politician or typical office
seeker.
The conviction of this newspaper during
the primary election campaign in which
DIR. Mcdonald went up and down the State
attacking the Democratic party, was that
if the party is as bad as charged by the
Doctor it is not fit to govern North Caro-
lima. The Democratic party was not
changed by the primary; its record OF
around forty years in control of the State
government was not changed or improved
by the primary; Candidate Hoey was not
converted or reformed by the primary
CLYDE Hoey and his party remained the
same after the primary and neither Hoey
nor the party ought to be entrusted with
control of the State government if they are
what DR.. Mcdonald charged in the pri'
mary campaign.
A man who sincerely and honestly be-
Iieves the statements made by DR.. Melon
aid before the primary could only finc
adaptable and satisfactory refuge in the
Republican party, or at least in a party
opposing the Democrats Minor differences
of opinion, or honest disagreements about
fundamental principles, now and then, are
not sufficient to cause party splits or 70
cause an individual to renounce party al
legiance; but when a citizen arrives at the
definite conviction that a party is as bad
as DR.. Mcdonald declared the North Caro-
lima Democratic party to be, in his primary
campaign, it is about time for that citizen
to join upswith another and better party
if there be such-and if not, it would seem