The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-21
EHRINCHAUS IS
BACK AT DESK
History Repeats in Candi-
dacies for Agricultural
Commissioner
By JOHN A. PARIS, JR.
Urited Press Staff Correspondent


Urited Press Staff Correspondent
RALEIGH, May 81: (UP).-
Notes jotted down on the cuff
while covering the political front:
History does repeat......... Thirty
years ago Major w. A. Graham OF
Lincoln county and Robert W.
Scott of Alamance county were
candidates for state commissioner
of agriculture........They both now
are dead........But their sons are
battling for the same post in the
June pl'imary......W. Kerr Scott is
hoping to do what his father
didn't........He hopes to beat Will
Graham, incumbent and son OF
the major, for COMMISSIONER.
According to political wiseacres,
Scott is giving Graham plenty to
worry about.........Aside from the
governors race the agriculture
commissioners race is the hottest
along the political front......Scott
is the only candidate other than
gubernatorial who has a press
agent who whips typewriter into
hot-box......W. J. Sadler, Raleigh
newspaper man, is Keeping Scott
well before the public.....He turns
our a story a day..
1t was left to Mcdonald head
quarters to pull another political
scoop.......Now they have lined up
women forces of the state for the
profesSor.........MrS. Annie Beckett
Ashcraft of Monroe, sister of the
late war governor of North Caro-
lima, has been appointed chairman
of the Democratic women's COM
mittee for Ralph w. McDonald.....
Mrs. Margaret Wood Smethurst
of Raleigh, wife of the managing
editor of the News and Observer,
was named secretary......Just what
effect such an organization will
have on the gubernatorial race
political observers were won't to
predict. According to the women
organizers they plan to cover
every precinct in the state.......
The Acknowledgements race,
three-way affair, with Chat
hams Wilkins P. Horton, John
ston's Paul Grady, and Cumber-
lands George Mcneil, is rocking
along without much ado.......All
three candidates, however, are
working up lather...... They're
beating the bushes for votes..."."
Each of the three is confident
there won't be but one primary.
Revenue Commissioner A. j.
Maxwell is getting spontaneous
response to his radio attack on
DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald -. =. Re-
quests for copies of his speech
caused the commissioner to have
printed 10000 copies.......He says
it looks like he is going to have
to run another 100000 There's
a demand for them, he says.~.....
Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus is
back at his desk after Today
illness. -. but he isn't talking poll
tics. ...not for publication......How-
ever, he is interested to learn of
all new developments in the gu
bernatorial race.........Although he
hasn't openly said so, it's q cinch
that he is for Clyde R. Hoey.."...
for Hoey is the only guberna-
torial candidate who hasn't at
tackled his administration.
Coercion in two state depart
ments is being charged by Melon
aid and Graham headquarters.....
they recall the same thing hap
pened four years ago that brought
about a lot of "unpleasantness."
Clyde A. Erwin, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, has
almost reached the 300-mark in
speaking.......and that's something
of a record for state officials.."..
Probably next week he will make
his Booth speech. incidentally he
has travelled almost 100000 miles
his speeches, although he is a
candidate, are not of the political
type........he hasn't mentioned the
present race yet.....Some political
observers say it's smart politics.