Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-02-20
Hoey Holds Lead
Above Rival Foes
(Contiruea from rage One.)

uoev can still win the nomination., .
one observer pointed out here today.
For there are single precincts in
Charlotte. Greensboro, Winston-Salem,
Durham and even Asneville contain
mo more Democratic votes than some
of the eastern counties. 1t is also
true that in the middle and western
counties. the Democrats center on
one candidate and stick with hlm,
while in the eastern counties they
are usually split up between the va
rious candidates. with the result mat
tho Democratic votes in the Piedmont
and Western part of the state are
moro effective. The western counties
wara the ones which nominated Nor
,icon Mclean and Ehringhaus and
now thew will in all probability noml-
nate HOey."
A large number of the old-time po-
liticians here are IN almost co"ple'e
agreement with this point OF view ana
maintain that with the field split pc
tween four candidates, and with the
strength which Hoey is said to nave
already in the Piedmont ana WeSt'
there is nothing that can keep MIN
from being first man in the flrst prl-
mary. These same fOrecasterS point
ont that if Hoey is the leading candl-
date in the first primary, he will con-
Time TO hold that position in the Sec
ond. since the very fact that he was
high man in the first will attract the
band-wagon jumpers who always
want to be on the winning side. Ac-
cordingly, this group maintains that
if Hoey is high man in the first prl-
mary he will also be certain to be
high man in the second primary and
thus win the nomination. Further
more, the opinion prevails that the
Democratic machine" that mythical
piece of political mechanism referred
to in every political campaign, is sup
porting Hoey and that the machine
has never been defeated, although the
more candid political observers here
are convinced that if such thing as
democratic machine" eve revisited,
it certainly does not exist now.
Many Dissenters
The Graham and Mcdonald sup
porters, however, do not agree at all
with this reasoning on the part of the
Hoey hackers, except the+ they do ad-
nit that in most primaries, the Pied
mont and western Democrats Out-vote
the Democrats in the solid eastern
counties. But both the Graham and
Mcdonald hackers maintain that the
biggest fairy tale of the campaign so
far as that the Democrats in the mid
die and western counties are going
to vote solidly for Hoey. The Graham
forces already maintain that in num-
erous western and Piedmont counties
Graham will get more votes than
Hoey, while the Mcdonald followers
also maintain that the WinstOn-Salem
college professor from Illinois is also
going to garner many votes in the
west. Both of these groups point out
| that when Morrison and Mclean were
machine" was functioning in the
west, also that the factor that carried
| the west for Ehringhaus was the
powerful influence#of o. Max Gard
ner, but that at the present time the
| Gardner-E hringhaus influence is more
mythical than real and will be un-
able to swing the Piedmont and west
into line behind Hoey.
And even if Hoey should be in first
place in the first primary-and many
of the Graham, Mcdonald and McRae
followers privately admit he probab
ly will be high man in the first &C
round-this does not mean Hoey will
win in the second primary, it is main
tanned The Graham supporters are
confident that if he can win secont
place and hence fight it out with