Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-04-04

several Of his speaking engagements
this week, notably the one in Dan.
bury Stokes county, and at which M
newspaper men were present, Hoev
opened up his verbal artillery on DR.
Mcdonald, virtually charged that ha
was running on a Republican plat
form while posing as Democrat. re-
ferred to him as "the young man
from Illinois and the strange voice"
in North Carolina politics. His listen
ers were at first surprised then be-
gan to sit up and rub their eyes. then
to whistle and yell their approval ac-
cording to reports reaching here to-
day. Most of them had heard Hoev
make speeches before, but they had
never heard him make such rip-roar
ing, fighting speeches. And they liked
it,
AS a result of these experiments in
this new type of speech making and
campaigning, it is now generally
| agreed among the Hoey followers that
from now on Mr.. Hoey is going to de-
liver blow for blow with Mcdonald
and ask no quarter. For several weeks
it has been no secret that many of
Hoey's advisors have been urging him
to change his tactics and to really
"open up" on DR.. Mcdonald, but that
some Of his other supporters thought
it would be best to continue to ignore
Mcdonald and continue to wage the
old-fashioned, more or less pussyfoot-
ing style of campaign. But develop
ments this week have convinced those
who have been keeping an ear to the
ground that from now on the cam
paign for governor is going to be a
good fight between Hoey and McDon-
aid at least, regardless of what
Sandy" Graham and John A. McRae,
the other two candidates, decide to do
It is also agreed that if Hoey con-
tinues to dispense with the usual
amenities and to wage a forceful,
hard-hitting and personal campaign
against Mcdonald, he is not going to
lack for crowds to hear his speeches.
Pleases Graham.
This new line of attack by Hoey
and his managers is just what Ora
ham and his managers have been ly-
ing awake nights praying for, but is
going to prove both a surprise and
disappointment to Mcdonald and his
managers 1T is generally conceded
The Graham strategy for many weeks
now has been to sit tight and say az
little as possible, in the hope that
Hoey and Mcdonald would get into a
name-calling contest and a regular po-
litical dog fight. For the Graham
forces are confident that if Hoey and
Mcdonald get into a bitter campaign,
hurting charges and counter-charges,
many of the supporters of both will
become disguised and go over into the
Graham camp. They point to many
campaigns in the past where both of
the Thanksgiving, loud-talking can
didates have been defeated and the
candidate who sat tight, said nothing
to make anybody mad, but who con-
centrated on personal contacts and
organization, came home with the
bacon on election day
ROugh-and-T
Mcdonald has been waging his cam
paign so far on the theory that he
could say almost anything he wanted
to about either Hoey or Graham and
that they would not fight back, it is
believed. It is also agreed that Nc
Donald has been making a much more
bitter attack on HOey than on Ora
ham. Now, if Hoey decides to open
up on Mcdonald, as most observers
are now confident he will, he is go
ing to put a real crimp in McDonald's
campaign, many believe. For most OBJ
servers agree that Mcdonald is no
mattel. for the Shelby man as an ora
tor and that in the end Hoey can go
much farther in a rough and tumble
campaign than Mcdonald can. Many
of; the Hoey supporters now feel that
eventually Graham is going to have
to resort to pretty much the same
tactics or lose out entirely. They are
convinced that the Hoey-McDonald
bout is going to become so hot that
the voters are going to lose interest
ins the other candidates unless they
join in and make it a free-for-all In
the meantime, the public is waiting
expectantly.