Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-09-03
Ward Thinks
Roosevelt Is
On Right Road
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Sept 3-Former Congress
man Hallett S. Ward, of Washington.
North Carolina, will risk the reputa-
ton that he had won as statesman and
student on the prophecy that Presl-
dent Franklin Roosevelt will be best
entitled to his Immortality on three
great purges.
The Beaufort county lawyer. born
in Gates, and never anxious for any
of the fame that he has won, always
in politics has travelled with the
organs, Roosevelts, Wilson's and
Walter Clarks. How he managed to
get the first district representation ir
Congress never was exactly revealed,
but in the national legislature he
learned something of the difficulties
in a democracy. He came back from
Washington declining to run for a
third term. But he has not yet said
that Mr.. Roosevelt will not heve to
try for his third, and if so, that Mr..
Ward will not support him.
The Roosevelt righteousness vii! be
manifest to further America, the
Washington, North Carolina, attorney
says. 1.-The three greatest things tina.
he has attempted are the things thai
] would not have done, but he was
right" the ex-congressman says. II
refer to the so-called party purge,
the wages and hour bill, and the eff
fort to reorganize the Supreme Court"
It was the obvious deduction of news
paper men that party interest and the
political moves of the country may
stand in the way of the reforms adj
vocated. Still Mr.. Ward thinks the
president is right, may lose now and
win everlastingly in history as Jetfer-
son has done.
:. The Washingtonian thinks the pro-
cedure Of the President is rational.
should it prove for the present ill
timed. Mr.. Ward seriously doubts
= that he and Senator Josiah William
Bailey belong in the same party. The
n picturesque Washingtonian isn't TAX
! ing crack at Senator Bailey at that.
but it has been difficult for him to re-
frain from the use of the radio. In
following Roosevelt the Beaufort law
yer is talking about his real demo-
cracy, not his partisan bias. And the
party purge gets Wards good wishes
The congressman was in Washing
: ton when Senator J. w. Bailey, of
: Texas, was attacking Woodrow Will
! son and saying that if Wilson was a
! Democrat Bailey was not. That was
Wards idea. He would say that if
. Walter Clark was Democrat North
. Cardinals j. w. Bailey is not The
; democratizing of the Democracy he
regards very important, this Ward
. man does. He is with the President.
1t is likewise in the wages and
. hours legislation. The former con.
gresham has the native doubt tina!
workers in "the lowest brackets" a.
8 Washington calls them, are going tc
! be able to stand on their feet and get
full benefit of all that the Presi
. dent has been trying to do for them
. but Ward says the President, in max.
ing the attempt, is making himself
bulk big in the appraisals of history
AS for the Supreme Court propos
ais, the Washingtonian thinks thera
are just as great needs there for rea
democracy as anywhere else in the
life of the nation and he finds it a.
hard to reconcile the democracy o.
Cardozo, Brandies and McReynold:
as the democracy of Roosevelt anc
! Senator Tydings of Maryland.
The easterner served a term in the
State Senate in 1888. Age has crep!
up on him, but he has an infant ant
the pater would like to leave tn,
youngster something of democrati,
heritage. The boy Ward probabl,
will get what the man Ward think.
Roosevelt is trying to bestow.