The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-17
ROOSEVELT AND RADICALISM
LICKED BUT NOT DESTROYED


In the Georgia primary Senator George
received 141,742 votes. Talmadge received
1O1,975 votes; and Camp received 1874
votes.
Thus is shown that Senator Georges ma
iority over Camp was 63,6OS votes and the
combined majority against ROosevelt's cam
didate was l65.5S3 votes.
This newspaper does not believe that
any amount of explaining or lodging by
the president and his partiSanS will en-
plain away the patent fact that in clean
cut fight Mr. Roosevelt was licked to
FRAGILE in the Georgia primary.
Roosevelt had marked Senator George
for slaughter: went into Georges own
State and publicly put that mark on him
and urged the electorate of Georgia to de-
feat George and elect Camp.
The Talmadge vote can be counted as
strongly anti-RooSevelt as the George vote.
Talmadge has been fighting the Roosevelt
deal for several years, vigorously and even
violently. in the characteristic Talmadge
manner. The followers of Talmadge are
probably more strongly opposed to Roose-
welt than a large number Of the George
supporters.
The assertion by Roosevelt eXplainers
that Camp was weak candidate does
not in any particular minimize the magni-
tude of the George victory or the RooSe-
welt defeat. In fact the weakness of Camp
indicates more clearly. also, the weakness
of Roosevelt, If Camp was weak the pow
on to pull him through. That was the the
DRY and the purpose of the purge.
Of course, not all of the GeorgianS who
voted for George and Talmadge would
vote against Roosevelt under certain con-
dltions. This newspaper confidently be-
heves 4 majority would vote against him
for third term president, if given the op-
pOrtunlty at the same time to vote Tor a
Democrat This newspaper believes. also.
that in the future Georgia will vote against
a Roosevelt stooge for president, If there
is q Democratic party and real Democrat
offering for the office
The Times-News branded the South Car
DINA primary result q sklrmlSh against
radicalism, which was Won by the forces
of conservatism and political sanity The
MARYLAND and Georgia contests were bat
ties. Roosevelt marked nine Democratic
senators for destruction in this years prl-
maries and conventions. The score now
stands 9 to 0. He was not able to defeat
one of the number.
However. the one fact the forces OPP
posed to Roosevelt and radcalism must
bear in mind is that the victory is not COM
plete, the fight is not yet won. The WIN
ming of skirmiSheS and battles this year,
notable as they are, does not change the
views and policies of Roosevelt and his
supporters who are largely responsible for
those views and policies. They will not
quit the fight, but probably will battle the
harder TO attain their ends.
That vast body of citizens who propose
to see constitutional government restored
in this country; citizens who have enlisted
for the duration of the war and propose
to wage it until normal conditions are re-
stored, until business prosperity is restored,
until alien sms have been destroyed, and
sane intelligence and conservatism again
control in the United States, these citizens,
we assert, see conditions in their true light
and understand that what the Times-News
is saying here represent the true but start
ling and dangerous verities of the situation.
A contemporary speaks of Georgia as a