Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-04-25
ELECTION PROMISES.


In this column about three weeks
ago l. L. McGoggan, of st. Paul. said
some pertinent things about Ehring-
haus' promises four years ago and DIR.
McDonald's promises now. He made it
plain that the mechine to which En-
rirghaus belongs was satisfied when
he promised anything would benefit
the people Il was cone to get votes
only. He also made it plain we have
u right to believe Mcdonald and tina.
even the kept press of the state be-
licves' him when he says he will find
money to finance the State govern
ment without robbing the. poor people
of the State. go,
( When DR. Mcdonald announced his
candidacy last August. and stated
what he stood. for. l. wrote him imme
diately ! was with him and would
gladly do all I could for his election,
I heard him the other evening on the
air and was we'll pleased with his
speech, especially when he told where
he would get the money to run the
state. Ir finding this money he has
made no new discovery, for some of
our best citizens have been saying for
years they knew where the money
was. The trouble has been the dirty
Democratic machine that always
names our Governors was too friendly
to this money source to ask it for any
tax. They preferred to tax the poor and
needy who were too ignorant and
feeble to kick. On that class the two
old parties have subsisted always,
Notwithstanding their leaders are
strong for religion and the church.
They must never have read verify I
say unto you, Inasmuch as we have
done it unto one of the least of these
my brethren, we have done it unto
me-"
The plutocrats and the newspapers
that do their bidding in our state, says
McDonald's is a strange voice in the
state. Indeed it is strange to have a
man running for governor in this
state who dares mention the workers
and seems to have some feelings for
the unfortunate poor. Mr.. Mcdonald
I take it, is weary seeing three mil
lion shaving away their lives in this
state, to keep one hundred and
seventy thousand in idle comfort.
Twenty-Five states have passed the
old age pension law, but all but one
are to pay less than thirty dollars per
month Some, where the money power
reigns supreme, pay as little as nine
or ten. If Mcdonald is elected with
legislature of the same stripe North
Carolina will pay thirty dollars,
whereas under. the present and usual
administrations we have in Raleigh
none will be paid. The people who
have been running our state for the
past seventy years, have never acted /
as if there was any other people in |
the state but they and their rich
sponsors They would not hesitate to
withhold from the old folks, whose
labor kept them and their kind in at
fiuence for generations, the meager
thirty dollars pension that skimp-
ing Congress expected them to have.
No part of our country needs pro-
gressive leadership more than the old
ignorant South, and no States need It
more than North Carolina and her
twin sister Virginia. It would be Tar
better for the farmers and workers IN
the two states if they had no repre-
sentatives in the National Congress-;
than to have what they have. Don
take my word for this statement, Dut
read the Congressional Record, then
dollars to doughnuts you will agree
with me.
DR.. Mcdonald is progressive. He be-
ieves in a square deal for the farmer