The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-06-18

day, at an harmonious state conven-
ton.
Follows HOey Tax Plan
The platform, which Incorporated
a ringing endorsement of the admin
istration of Governor J. c. B. En-
ringhaus, followed closely the sales
tax proposal by Clyde R. Hoey as
outlined in his campaign for the par
tvs gubernatorial nomination. DR..
Ralph W. Mcdonald, Hoey's oppon-
ent in the second primary, and a
critic of the state administration, has
conducted his campaign on a prom
ise to abolish the sales tax entirely.
Liquor Plank Ignored
No discord was evident at any
time on the convention floor, though
the platform committee wrangled
over a possible wet or ''bone dry"
liquor plank and then compromised
by making no mention of the ques-
ton at all.
]. Melville Broughton of Raleigh,
president of the North Carolina Bar
association, was keynoter and vivid
ly painted the record in the nation
of ."'this inspired and courageous
leader" Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
"our courageous and public-spirited
governor, son of Pasquotank, J. G..
B. Ehringhaus." Broughton praised
the Humanitarian" administration
Of Roosevelt and the fiscal p.slicies
and expanded" services of the
Ehringhaus administration.
Hoey and Med. Applauded y
Governor Ehringhaus was named
chairman and spokesman for the del
egation, Senator J. w. Bailey, of
Wake, was placed on the platform
committee. Congressman R. L.
Doughton of Allegheny, on the rules
committee, and Chas. H. Robertson,
of Orange, on the credentials COM
mittee. Hug Mitchell, of Statesville,
was elected delegation secretary.
The convention gave an ovation to
Governor Ehringhaus as he entered
and took his seat with the Pasquo-
tank delegation, and did likewise for
the two men battling for the party's
gubernatorial designation, Hoey and
DR.. Mcdonald, when they entered
to sit with the Cleveland and For
syth delegations.
Repeatedly, as the convention
waited on the report of the platform
committeA calls were made for
speech from Hoey, but the perma-
nent chairman, Congress n
Doughton, paid scant attention.
All of the speeches praised the
record of the Democratic party in
state and nation, and prophesied
party victory in November.
The platform with its declaration
against elimination of the sales tax
was declared adopted unanimously
by Chairman Doughton. At the time
Mcdonald, who included complete
elimination of the levy as plank in
his first campaign platform, was sit
ting in the Forsyth delegation.
Platform Highlights
In brief, the state platform
pledged:
I. Exertion of all appropriate CO.
operation that gives reasonable
promise of promoting the economic
we1l-being of the rural population of
North Carolina, including state and
interstate control of crop production
through compact legislation.
2. Conservation of highway funds
to provide adequate maintenance OF
highways and progressive improve
ments to local roads.
ga reduction in automobile IL
cense costs by the 1887 legislature
4. Enactment of state and inter
state laws to promote the better
ment of working conditions, and
passage of humanitarian laws where
ever practicable.
5. A reasonable increase in a full
school program, looking to the pay
ment of all teachers of salaries in
line with the vital Importance Of
their services and looking also the