The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-01
ANOTHER ELECTION APPROACHES

The slowest and drowsieSt political cam
paign waged in Henderson county in the
recollection of The Times-News will end
next Tuesday, one week from today. AS
far as stirring up controversy, contest or
even fist fight is concerned, the campaign
has been flop. In fact, present condl-
tons are so unusual so different that
the few who are giving politics and the
election passing thought are amazed by
the lack of interest, amounting as 1t does,
to appalling lethargy on the part OF the
voters.
What this state of the collective mind
of the populace presages for developments
on next Tuesday is puzzle which no one
so far has attempted to solve for the en-
Iightenment of this newspaper; and The
Times-News confesses that, for the first
time in the life of this newspaper, the po-
Iitical situation is worse than confusion
confounded as it is taken up for considera-
ton in these columns.
Conditions over North Carolina, as we
determine them from a study of the press
-,
Henderson county in many sections OF the
State; but in others there are much great
er manifestations of lively interest In the
candidates, issues and in the outcome of
Tuesdays voting. In some cases there are
local reasons for the last named condi-
lions, and in others it seems there is genu-
inc interest in the problems arising from
the approaching election of Legislature
and of representatives to go to Washing
ton to represent the State CD in the ma
tional Legislature. If there is an existing
state of mind among the majority of Hen
derson voters indicating any real, intelli-
gent study of conditions or candidates or
issues, we have observed no proof of it.
There are, of course, some citizens who
are seriously, earnestly and periodically
seeking to inform themselves, to grasp the
principles and issues involved and to make
the preparation every good citizen ought
to make to exercise the right of franchise
on election day We fear there are many
who are giving no thought and who will
blindly cast their votes on next Tuesday,
under the directing hand and influence of
party leaders and precinct election work
erS.
While this is the situation as it appears
to The Times-News at this writing, we
hope that election day results will prove
this newspaper mistaken in some of its
conclusions. We hope, at any rate, there
may be sufficient INDEPENDENT intelligent
voting in the county to register clear and
decided summary of the views and desires
of the people.
AS through the years The Times-News
has sought to impress upon its readers the
duty and obligation of every good citizen
to vote, and to vote his or her honest con-
yietions, we have also urged consideration
OF the privileges enjoyed by the voters in
this country. So it is the great privilege of
every voter to exercise the franchise next
Tuesday, as well as the duty and obliga-
ton OF every qualified citizen to do so.
OF course, much that has transpired in
elections in past years is much better left
out of political campaigns, and this news
paper is registering no complaint about
the absence of heat. exhibition of bad feel
ing, or literal or fgurative war, in the
pending contest. Such conditions as now
prevail are desirable and offer encourage
ment to good citizens, if it develops that
they are not due to absence of interest and
earnest consideration Of the principles and