The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-11
PENNSYLVANIA PLAYBOY FOR
PRESIDENT

The News and Courier, Tory organ of
Charleston, S. c., continually asks unusual
questions and brings forward for discus
sion issues that are highly embarrassing in
certain quarters-provided the inhabitants
of those quarters have not lost all sense of
shame.
For example this paragraph from the
Charleston paper must arouse misgivings
in the minds of many South Carolinians of
the intelligent, thinking classes, when they
project their thoughts into the future a
little distance; and such thoughtfulness
must undoubtedly prove more or less en-
barrasSing to these fine people. While it is
true that the South Carolinians have their
prejudices and weaknesses, they are a
splendid people - but, let us read that
paragraph from The News and Courier:
Mr.. Earle, governor and master of Pennsyl-
vania statecraft, told Southerners that without
the solid South, bulwark and Gibraltar of Democ-
racy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt would not have
been president of the United States" and 81 need
not tell you how that solid united support saved
our nation from destruction" Most Southerners
these days swallow that sort of humbug and nom
sense Could Governor Earle have saved Penn
sylvania and made it a Gibraltar of Democracy
without the assistance of Vann, the colored Pitts
burgh Democrat, and the negro voters who fol-
lowed him? The "solid South saves the nation"
at the moment that the national Democratic
party annexes the negro vote-you believe that,
do you? Earle, Farley, Wagner and their crew
are out to capture the solid South for a national
negro party. If this is outlandish and false
statement, why the white and black, ring-streak-
ed and striped coalition in the northern cities?
The foregoing brings up the subject of
the COLoRFUL candidacy of Pennsyl-
vania's governor for presidential nomi-
nation to succeed his friend and patron,
President Roosevelt. On June End Gov.
Earle addressed the Southern Society in
Washington, and the account of this affair
sent to The Philadelphia Enquirer by that
newspapers Washington correspondent,
was in part as follows:
To the tune of "Dixie" and with the accom-
paniment of six-page biography of his career
as a liberal, polo player and descendant OF
the Mayhower, Gov Earle made his first bow in
the capltal tonignI Io"afu the bShVNA"'N Pi~''1
Dental nomination of 1910.
With his friends booming him as natural
successor to President Roosevelt, the Pcnnsyl-
vania governor paid his respects to the South,
section which he declared still the arbiter
of national destiny and the greatest contributor
In the first nomination and election of President
Roosevelt.
The Governor spoke at banquet of the South
ern Society of Washington before an audience
made up largely of Southern legislators, execu-
tiyes and Federal office-holders, together with
liberal sprinking of key politicians mustered by
Senator Joseph F. Gutfey of Pennsylvania. The
speech was broadcast.
Deliberately Gov Earle clothed himself with
the mantle of Rooseyetian philosophy. His
theme. was the interdependence of the States and
the trend toward greater national unity"
He praised the South for supporting the re-
covery measures of the President He pointed to
the machine as a hterrible menace" because it
has created the problems Of increased unem-
ployrnent" and Concentration of vast wealth in
few hands" To this general philosophy he
sought to wed the South by hailing it as tradi-
tionally ''the champion of the little fellow
The foregoing and some more could be
written of Governor Earle and his bid for
political support in,the South, but it is no
ticeable that his six-page biography omit
ted some things that certainly will be OF
primary interest in this section of the coun-
try when he becomes a fulEfledged candi-
date for the job of national dictator. One
of these omissions is information about an
act of the Pennsylvania legislature passed