Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-05-07
Daniels Is After
High Party Post
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of years, it is generally agreed here
that son Jonathan is at least re-
ceptive candidate and already getting
his ducks in a row. He is reported
to have frankly admitted to several
people here that he would like to be
national committeeman from North
Carolina.
Was Mcdonald Backer.
Nor is that all. It is further report
ed in political circles hereabOut that
son Jonathan who was one of the
principal hackers of DR.. Ralph w
Mcdonald during the 1885 General
Assembly and one of his confidential
advisers, if not his principal political
strategist during the 1885 session, is
now counting on the support of DR..
Mcdonald and his following in the
State to help unseat Shipping and put
him in as National Committeeman.
1t is generally agreed in political cir
cles both here and elsewhere that son
Jonathan and The News and Obser-
yer have done as much, if not more,
than any other combination in the
State to make Dr. Mcdonald what he
is because during the 1885 general as
Sembly and what he is today, with the
result that if DIR. Mcdonald wins the
Democratic nomination for governor
will more or less be under obligation
to son Jonathan. So if DR.. Mcdonald
is nominated and elected governor,
and, if son Jonathan wants to be ma
tional committeeman, most observers
believe that, according to the rules
n tho o~oof rA1ifi0oI ~ at will
help you and you help me-" the pro-
fessor-governor would be honor bound
to back the youthful editor-politician
for any post to which he might as
pire.
Not that any political trading is be-
ing done between son Jonathan and
the youthful Forsyth county college
professor, who is now leading the
field in his campaign for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor, and
who most observers believe is being
greatly assisted in his campaign by
The News and Observer. Neither MIR.
Daniels nor DR.. Mcdonald are of the
type who would stultify themselves
by making a cold-blooded, cut-and-
dried political trade, it is readily
agreed.
Observation-Disclosures
But both DIR. Daniels (son Jona-
than and DR.. Mcdonald are intell-
egnt men-they belong to the ultra
intellectual strata of thinkers in
North Carolina and are by no means
dumb, it is pointed out. There is no
doubt that DR.. Mcdonald already rea-
Lies how much help and assistance
has already been given him by son
Jonathan and that he would not
hesitate to do anything he might be
able to do later on to assist son
Jonathan, most observers here agree.
1t is also believed that DR.. Mcdonald
already realizes what an unusual as
set it would be to his administration,
should he become governor, to have
both the editor of The News and OBJ
server and the paper itself back of
him. For during the past ten years,
The News and Observer has been one
of the bitterest critics, if not the bit
terest critic, every administration has
had, those who. have followed the
facts here agree. The late Governor
Angus w. Mclean felt the sting of
the Daniels editorial whip during
most of his four years in office. It
sizzled out at former Governor O.
Max Gardner because of his opposi-
ton to any form of sales tax and
worked the eastern counties up into
a frenzy for a sales tax-any kind of
a sales tax. For the last four years
The News and Observer has been