The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-01
THE CRISIS


The Texas Weekly, leading the hght III
the Lone Star state to arouse the peoPie
10 the meaning of the impending politlcai
crisis, quotes from a speech by Peter Molly
neaux editor of The Weekly. Because
what Mr.. Molyneaux says applies with
equal force to all the States, the problem
being national i'm It's scope, we quote sec
ton of his speech for the information OF
North Carolinians. 1t is as follows:
IAN of this, / say, is extremely interesting and
gives promise of some warm political times ahead
However, what I want to call your attention to Is
this: First, that John l.. Lewis has put the Demo
cratic leaders on notice that they've Cot TO get rid
of those senators and representatives who are de-
laying the process of converting the Democratic
party into a radical labor and SOcalistic party,
and second, that the So-called Democratic high
command has already started plans TO do precisely
what Mr.. Lewis demands in this respect And what
/ would like TO ask in this connection is this: Are
the rank and file of the Democrats of the country
going to permit their office-holdng and power-oy-
ing leaders to get away with this kind OF pro-
gram? According to of the dispatches have
Just read to you the burgers are going TO come
into the Dallas district in Texas and are going TO
attempt to defeat Hatton Summers for renomlna-
ton i'm the primaries next summer. The president
and Chairman Farley, says this dispatch, are going
TO declare that they are taking hand in IL, but
the so-called Good Neighbor League headed by
DIR. Stanley High of Connecticut and New York,
and Labor's Nonpartisan League, headed by John
L. Lewis of Illinois, who played with the Repub-
licans until he switched to the Democrats in 1886,
and the National Lawyers Guild, whatever that is.
are going 10 come into the Dallas district and
purge the Democratic party of the presence of
Representative Hatton w. Summers. Now Mr.
Summers needs no defense at my hands, and do
not even know that he would approve my discuss
ing the matter, but think say for the citi-
zens Of the Dallas district that they will know how
to deal with such attempt TO dictate to them
who shall represent them at Washington. But
what would like to ask is: Are the Democrats
of the country, the real Democrats. going to con-
fine their activities to defending such senator's and
representatives under attack?
ut is plain from the various dispatches | have
read to you that the purpose to convert the Dem
Ocratic party into radical labor and socialistic
party is now out in the OPEN And the fight is al
ready under way. Mr.. Lewis has issued his ulti-
matum to what must be done, and the high
command of the Democratic party is already lay
ing plans to comply with it. It goes without say
ing that real Democrats in the states and districts
where Democratic senators and congressman are
the list of those marked for punishment will
rally to the support of these patriotic servants OF
the people who have refused to bow the knee be-
fore Mr.. Lewis and his c. l. o. followers. But IS
that all we going to do? What about the time
serving Democratic leaders and the senators and
congressman who are willing to convert the Demo-
cratic party into the vehicle to attain Mr. Lewiss
oh "a, him, yfh mo
he wants in exchange for votes at the polls, to say
nothing of campaign contributions-what, say,
we going to do about them? If there is to be
fight is it going to be only in the states and
districts where patriotic servants of the people
under fire for refusing to respond under the lash?
II am asking these questions of those of you
who are listening in right now who are opposed
to converting the Democratic party into polti-
cal instrument of men who are determined to
change radically form of government and the
existing economic order. Do you need any further
proof than that which is TO be read in the news
papers by all who can read that the attempt to
convert the Democratic party into such an instru-
ment is already under way? And if you do not,
are you going to go to the polls next summer and
vote for men who willing to permit this to be
done, and even to cooperate is doing it, simply
because they still call themselves Democrats or
because you think this one is a nice fellow, or
because this other one has been in congress long
enough to be chairman of committee, or for any
other such reason, when you know that they are
all willing to be parties to the destruction of the
Democratic party in all but name, provided they
are permitted to continue to hold their jobs and
to participate in the spois of office? Every fed
erai job holder in the state and there are swarms
of them now, is going to be out urging you to dc
this next summer. And pressure of every kind is
going to be brought tosbear to hold you in line