The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-22
Letters To The
Editor
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rhine. NOW, ulluel IHoU
M one can be elected keeper of
canary seed in this or any other
statc of this union who is not "a
nart of or who does not belong
r. a machine. Therefore. it is not
n ouestion of machine or no ma
chine. it is a question of what
Lind of machine we have or are
~oing to have govern this state.
There are two major political par
tics in this state-a Democratic
machine and a Republican ma
chine. Each of these machines IS
made up of a series of minor Or
ranisms which function within the
major mechanism either recipro-
calIy for the common good OF the
whole system or antagonlstlcally
to the utter destruction of the
major mechanism, soon or late.
For more than 35 years the
state of North Carolina has been
governed by the Democratic ma
chine. For the past 25 years of
that period I have read through,
daily, what l believe to be Amer
ica's greatest metropolitan news
paper-The New York Times
watching with unflagging interest
The march Of events, state, nation
al and municipal, in this country,
and I challenge any one to point
out a single state in the constel-
lation of commonwealth going to
make up the great nation that we
arc, whose record surpasses and
few, if any, whose record equals
the record for progress, ability
of administration, freedom from
craft, waste or corruption that
has characterized the forward
march of this great state. The
foremost magazines of the nation
have carried exhaustive wrlte-ups
with handsome illustrations of
North Cardinals progress and
stressing the speed, foresight and
extraordinary skill with which this
advance was made and is continu-
ing to be made, as well as the
absolute freedom from scandal or
graft.
Today, we have four minor ma
chimes working within the Demo
cratic major mechanism-the Me-
Donald machine, the Graham ma
chine, the Hoey machine, and the
McRae machine. Recently | had
the pleasure Of hearing Mr.. Ora
ham make an address. 1t was
sound, dignifed, constructive, and
without trace of demagoguery,
altogether worthy of candidate
for governor. | have never heard
Mr.. McRae, but / have read some
of his speeches and none that |
have read are such as are calcu-
lated to drag down the character,
ability or record of his opponents,
or did he illuminate about the
Raleigh Machine" I have never
heard Doctor Mcdonald or even
seen him. | take no stock in pro-
scribing mans candidacy for
public office in this state because
he was born somewhere else. All
ether things being equal, a man
or woman who adopts our state
as his or her own is entitled to all
the privileges which citizen of
the state is entitled to, no matter
when he or she came here, so long
as they have resided the statutory
time to qualify as such. But when
candidate for office who has
been a resident of the state for
only. eight years and who never
even registered as qualified cleo
tor until 1884 makes his appeal
to the democracy of the state to
nominate him to the highest Of
fec in the state has to offer. on
the ground that the party whom
he asks to name him is now dom
mated and controlled by sinister
bunch of wastrels and self-seekers
at Raleigh and who makes prom
Uses as impossible of fulfillment
as would be his pledge to hive the
stars in a nail-keg, put the sky
to soak in a hogshead or pluck
the sun, moon and stars from
their stations in the universe and
dash them into cosmic dust. con-
fess | cannot understand the
workings of the mind of any Dem
ocrat who knows the history of
the state since Aycock and whose
crcdulity is out of short pants,
who can believe DR.. Mcdonald can
do what he pledges!
Now, as to Clyde Hoey: For
thirty years, to my knowledge and
/ don't know how much longer,
this man has been drafted from
campaign to campaign to fight the
battles of democracy. The Demo-
cratic leadership of this county,
under the mandate of the Demo
cratic electors of this county, has
called upon Clyde Hocy in season
and out to come over into Mace
donia and give us a helping hand.
He never failed to answer to that
demand. The same thing is true
of every section of this state.
venture to say that there is not
another man in the state who has
been shunted from Hangingdog,
in Cherokee county, to Stumpy
Point, in Dare county, at the
beck and call of the Democratic
party-giving tremendously of his
time, of his means and his vitality