The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-02
HOEY ASSAILS M 'DONALDFOR
HIS ATTITUDE TO DEMOCRATIC
PARTY, in ADDRESS IN CITY
Attacks Record, Yet Would
Be Standard Bearer
Hoey Declares
POINTS OUT PROGRESS
UNDER LEADERSHIP

| Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby attorney,
brought his campaign for the
Democratic gubernatorial nominal
ton to Henderson county last
night with an address to about
800 people at the high school au-
ditOrium.
| The meeting was opened by j..
E. Shipman, chairman of the Hoey
organization in this county, and
Mr.. HOey was introduced by +.
w. Ewbank as the next governor
of the state and as a man who
has fought the battles of the Dem
ocratic party in the state for 30
years.
He declared at the outset that
! ne liked government by parties
rather than by minorities and spe-
cal groups, and he charged that
one of the candidates CDR Ralph
McDonald was campaigning for
the nomination by assailing the
record of the Democratic party.
Eliminate about one paragraph
from DR.. McDonalds speeches, he
said, and you have about the best
possible Republican speech.
Mcdonald, he said, is charging
that the Democratic party is ma
chine-cOntrolled and that It fayors
business and corporations and OPP
presses the people. at is the first
time | ever saw a Democrat who
has never lifted his hand for the
party and who assails its record
ask to be its standard bearer" he
said.
He then defended the party rec
ord in North Carolina for the past
35 years since the beginning OF
the century, pointing out that the
value of the states agricultural
products had moved up from 2Srd
to 5th place in that period, and
that in industry the state had out
stripped all the other southern
states.
He declared that he was a mem-
Der of the first state legislature
ever to appropriate money for
schools and that 100000 was the
amount of the appropriation. Now
it is S2O,OO0,00O each year, ne
said. Thirty-fve years ago the av-
erage length of the school term
was three months and 20 days,
now the state school term is eight
months. We don't spend as much
as we have, he said, or as much
as we should or will. He declared
that the state owed its school
teachers a debt of gratitude and
declared himself in favor of m
creased salaries for school teach-
ers and for free school books Tor
children, which he estimated
would cost only 100000.
He pointed to the great prog.
ress made in the road system OF
the state in 35 years and declared
that this progress was made With
ont p cent of tax on land. He de-
clared himself in favor OF a stlli
further reduction in the price Cf
automobile license plates. deciar-
ing that he believed such a reduc-
ton could be made.
He pointed out that there is q
surplus in the highway funds CT
about S13,OOO,O00. But eight mil,
lions of this is already contracted
for he said. and about two mil
lions will be needed to repair
roads after the winter damage. he
declared himself in favor OF using
the balance Of about three mil.
lions for the Improvement OF
county roads.
Relative to the charge that the
state favors corporations at the
expense of the individual he point
cd out that the corporation pays
every tax that the individual pays.
Corporations pay eight millions IN
franchise taxes, he said, and only
FUR states have higher franchise
taxes. Corporations pay e per cent
income tax which amounts to
more than five million dollars, and
only one state has a higher rate.
Inheritance taxes bring in large
sum from the wealthy, he said,
pointing out that last year one
man paid two million dollars IN
this tax. ,D,,
He charged that DR.. Mcdonald
is inconsistent in that he favored
the New Deal, including the proc
| essing taxes and was opposed to
the sales tax. He pointed out that
the processing taxes had placed a
burden five times as great on the
articles of food and clothing.
/ The processing tax was an emer.
pencv measure for the benefit OF
the farmer, the sales tax was an
emergency tax for the benefit OF
the schools of the state. There is
no Justice in clarifying one and
assailing the other because it suits
the purpose of the particular can
didate. ,, =.
He declared that he had never
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