The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-27
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One Of the favorite "chunes' played by
the bands in the Philadelphia convention
this week was Happy Days Are Here
Again"
That sentiment, in the light of the con-
vention record, appears to have oeeh only
partially correct.
Take the case of Senator Smith OF South
Carolina, Mayor Maybank of Charleston
and other South Carolina delegates. 1t IS
perfectly reasonable to assume that the
DAYS were not altogether happy for them,
In fact, when these gentlemen walked
out of the convention, it appears to be
more than probable that their mental state
was similar to the chronic state of feeling
of Brother Crawfords wife these gen.
tlemen must have been very unhappy.
Passing over the fact that it is alleged
by convention observers that the gentle
men from South Carolina were not alone
- their unhappiness-it is alleged that
.'-~-. fo~ various and sundry reasons,
...., he managed to conceal, were more
... .. mentally perturbed-it may be said
h-.neople of this immediate section
.--'-o~e there is no race problem) under
I'd and appreciate the position of the
..-r~ln of South Cardinals "black belt
AMI -.r-r sections of the South similarly
,....,@
Ho---r-,. one thing is certain-Senator
Nth and his friends may accept it as a
'~ra~one conclusion that their protest will
mount to nothing, chiefly for the reason
.-as TIE leaders of the national political
-rrav now in power in this country have
come 20 the conclusion that it is no longer
nasas~.~r tonpIacate southern Democrats,
Eh. <n~'h in spite of the 1923 debacle,
h need the politicians that about as
i. is necessary to go to get the votes
his section is to label any political
movement Democratic"
Believing they can safely flout the South
"a the 'colOr line as to the two-thirds
go and in regard to other venerated po-
..tical tenets iand policies, and that a ma
lority of the voters of these States will con-
tinue to docilely march to the polls and
vote for candidates selected by other sec
tons of the country and for governmental
policies imported from Europe, such dis
erection as may have controlled in the past
has been discarded, and the Philadelphia
convention gives the South Carolinians the
merry Ha! Ha!
The administration in the November
election will be sorely in need of thousands
of negro votes in States outside the South
and will battle the Republicans to the last
ditch to capture them. For this very prac-
teal reason, the protest of Senator Smith
and his fellow South Caroinians will not be
worth the effort necessary to make it.
However, Senator Smith, Mayor May.
bank and the other honorable gentlemen
from South Carolina, appear to, be, deal
and blind to facts of much graver conse
quence ta their State and the. other Al
States than the COLOR line" or race prob
lem ISSUE III h..5 $50 E5tIsfl
We wander if these gentlemen hav
given any consideration whatever to tn
fact that South Carolina and the othe
Southern States havesabout as much i
common with the crowd in control of tn
party machinery and organization labelle
Democratic" as these States have in con
mon with Russia, Germany or Italy, an
their political systems?
This is "a question of momentous impo
tance to the South and to the country I
large. I u tsi5-a .gs@.Ss
Will s natOr Smith, Mayor Mayfair