The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-12
admirable and praiseworthy?

principles upon which the party was FOUND
ed and which have endured for more than
$50 years as the foundation OF party poll
cies. He is fighting for Democracy ana
Americanism and for representative form
of government which is traditionally ana
typically American.
What does Secretary Ickes stand for and
contend for? Is
This question is hard to answer. AS lar
as fairly intelligent citizens have been able
to gather, however, his political phlloso-
ply is conglomeration of alien isms, lm-'
ported from Russia and other foreign SOIL;
and if allowed to have his way lckes would
probably destroy the American system OF
government and wreck the country.
Giving Ickes all possible latitude for SIN
cerity and good intentions it is a certainty
that he, like many of his New Deal asso-
ciates, does not know what he believes on
the whole. or have definite ideas as TO
where he is going or what he proposes to
do when he gets there, The whole thing Is
an experiment, as always so named by
President Roosevelt. g.: 10.
The political bellhops down at Raleigh
are swapping conservative Democratic
devil for radical Republican witch when
they trade Tydings for Ickes.
To this little dissertation on 1ckes, this
newspaper would add the enlightenlng
comment of the Washington correspond
ent of The Greensboro News. 1t is as fol-
lows: ''.' o.
But WHY quite number of men are asking, has
a Republican been chosen to administer discipline
to Democrats who persist in standing on the DEM
ocratc platform? 1t is probably true that Mr. ckes
had little to do with the platform adopted at Phila-
delphia, because ne had trouble in getting there
His neghbors in Illinois have always associated him
with the Republican party, and they therefore de-
INJURED when it was proposed to send HIM to Phlia-
delpha as a delegate. Friends of the administra-
ton took the position however, that to refuse to
hermit member of the official family to go to the
national convention would be an affront to the
president, and he was finally allowed to go.
But while Mr.. Ickes may not have been consult
ed by the platform makers the president was, and
therefore, having realizing sense of this, the sec
rotary of the interior may possibly experience some
slight embarrassment if he finds himself under the
necessity of critcizng the Maryland, and possibly
the North Carolina senator. |
1t may have been in the mind of those who ex-
tended the invitation to Secretary lckes that ne
had been helpful in carrying out the policies Of the
president in the matter of the Smoky Mountain
National park, but Representative Lindsay Warren
has visited unreserved condemnation on the secre-
tary for discrimination against the state in making
PWA ALLEGATIONS. |
Moreover the South has never shown much fond
ness for Republicans of the sort exempliied by MI
Ickes Alusion has previously been made to the |
marked interest shown by Mr.. lckes in the affairs
Of the National Association for the Advancement
of ,Colored People, an organization that first be-
came known to North Carolina folk when it con-
trbuted so much to defeat of Judge Parker as
member of the Supreme court. Secretary lckes
served at one time as president of the Chicago
branch Of the organization. In speeches to negro
audiences he has disclosed utter lack of sympa-
thy for the South in the handling of problems pc
cuar to that section. In addressing negro audi
ence at Baltimore just before the formal opening
of the presidential campaign he said that all mem
should be permitted to enjoy their full rights as
citizens that negroes had been calously disfran-
chised in some localities" and he concluded: "The
general social and civil status Of negroes reveals
picture quite as unsatisfactory as those which
portray the economic and educational phases of
their lives" ''' ~ T'-''r 81 '..-'. '.a. Il,
BY educational phases Mr.. Ickes has reference
to the segregation or the separation of white and
negro students to the disadvantage of the latter.
They have doubtless arranged these matters more
to the satisfaction of the secretary in Pennsyl-
vania, where even the hotels and restaurants are
not permitted to discriminate as between white and
colored patrons. One restaurant keeper at Pitts
burgh tried this out to his sorrow. He alleged
that if forced to negroes he could not hold
his white patrons, and when he declined to Serve
coffee to q negro he was hauled into court and
fined. H.
Mr.. Ickes has viewpoint with respect to the
South, the Democratic party and the negro, that
would not be at all acceptable to the people of
that section but so long as he sings the praises of
Mr.. Roosevelt, and lauds the Supreme court pro-
gram, he will doubtless find himself on safe ground
| at Raleigh.
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