Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-06-19

we'll summed up in the following
editorial from Mondays Raleigh
Times:
$50 far as anything in State
politics lends itself to safe pro-
phecy the result of Saturdays
primaries mean that the next
Governor of North Carolina will
be Clyde Hbey of Cleveland
county. This is The Times fore
cast:
mot only does Hoey lead the
field, but in case there is a second
primary he will Individually fall
heir to a large share of more than
10000 votes which were cast by
supporters of Sandy Graham and
John McRae. There should be
more than enough of these to in
sure his election. Hoey's strength
in a second primary will be augu-
mented. McDonald's remarkable
vote can scarcely be repeated and
it would be a major political mir
acle if it were increased.
SIN other words, the Mel Donald
vote was one of utter protest, re-
fleeing chiefly resentment against
the sales taxes. The sales taxes
make the bitter medicine the State
has had to take in order to estab-
lish fiscal security and in order to
carry on the system of State sup
ported schools. They are a bur-
densome mass levy on the citizen
ship which cannot be escaped if
State institutions, notably the
shoots, are to be sustained. In
denouncing the sales tax, Nc
Donald appealed to an irritation
felt by every pocketbook, fat as
well as thin. But in promising
ITS abolition, he was necessarily
vague. For in a State which al
ready has gone to the reasonable
limit in imposing taxes on incomes
and on industry, further taxes of
that kind would fail by Destroy
ing tax sources and compromising
the credit of the State aboard. The
weakness of North Carolina bonds
after a period in which they en-
joyed great popularity among in
vestors is all the proof needed of
the proof of that assertion.
Subject to the usual extremes
of sentiment Nad prejudice in poll
teal campaigns, therefore, the po-
@litical division in a second primary
will be for McDonald or against
him. Hoey polled many thous-
and votes that went to him as the
strongest candidate against Nc
Donald. Graham's vote was more
personal in character, perhaps, but
the bulk of those who cast it and
who will vote in a second pri-
mary will still be definitely op-
posed to the andidate from For
syth. Hoey is written in the
stars.
1.-THE lesson is that North Caro-
lima has resisted a great tempta-
ton to run away. We remain at
bottom a conservative State; for
Hoey is even more conservative.
perhaps, than Graham. Mcdonald
by adroit protest and sweeping
promises collected what probably
will prove to have been his maxi
mum vote. Hoey should have the
Graham vote to draw upon as a
reserve.
"What is apt to be forgotten is
that the future policy of a State in
which he Governor has no power
of veto rests with the Legislature
In essence the Governors advice
!, is important only as his endorse
ment at the polls lends it weight
The Legislature remains a free
agent.
Mel Donald partisans who have
been disappointed at the outcome
of a campaign that had almost the
color of a crusade are naturally
suffering deep Disappointment
But probably the MOST sincere
mourner for his apparently lost
cause is a popular citizen who
could in no event have voted for
him. That citizen is Gillian Girls
som, the Republican nominee.
whose outside chance of election
went glimmering when the votes
in the Democratic primaries were
counted"