The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-27
YDC MEET MAY
BRING new ROW
Young Old Guards To
Contest With F. R. Lib
erals For Control
Star-News Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
BY n AvERILL

RALEIGH, July 26.-The annual
convention Of North c In as
Young Democratic Clubs, often IT.
= tie more than a vehicle for pro-
noting some young" Democrat
for a good, soft job, will be OF
prime political Importance TINS
year., if even half the reports reach
ing your Raleigh reporter r
thy of belief.
It Gems that the "Old Guard,
who are present among the young
as well as the more mature party
leaders, and the liberals" are due
to engage in something approach
ing a battle to the death for con-
troll of the YDC organization.
The reports have it that North
Cardinals stampede to Roosevelt
for denomination actually started
at the Young Democrats conven-
ton in Charlotte last year, with
DR.. Ralph W. Mcdonald sitting at
n end of an open" wire from
the Hotel Charlotte to Harry Hop
kins and Tommy Corcoran in Wash
ington.
This time, operatives say. the
Gordon Gray, which is to say the
conservative, wing is determined
to drive out the upstart liberals
from all important posts and re-
turn the YDC machine to the serv-
ice OF the old-line regulars.
objects of the Cray purge
will be anybody who had anything
to do with Mcdonald in his Roose-
welt maneuvers, both preliminary
to and during the Chicago conven-
ton. The individual who will get
the most thorough going over,
if the Grays have their way will
be Kidd Brewer, perhaps best
known to Tar Heels as Appala-
chan grid coach, who is now
deemed by many the real ruler
of the Tar Heel Young Democrats.
Brewer was of the Chicago del
egates, but there's one piece OF
ammunition the old liners will not
be able to use against him-he
did not vote for Henry Wallace for
the vice presidential nomination.
The offensive will not, however,
come from only one side. N e W
Dealers among the Young Demo-
Gratis began some time ago a con-
certed drive to Gust the old guard
and make their organization truly
loyal to the Roosevelt administra-
ton. They want to do just exact
ly what was done at Chicago, i. e.
toss the Farleys, Raileys and the
like out on their collective neck
and take over complete control Of
the party machinery.
The group which has this objec-
tive is perhaps no more m~otivated
by personal ambitions than are all
politicians. The Young Democratic
who see eye to eye with DR.. Nc
Donald feel that the tremendous
Democrat majorities in North Car
DINA r due as much to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his New Deal
as to any hangover Of traditional
loyalty. Therefore. they reason, An
ti-Roosevelters like Senator Bailey
and his henchmen should be driven
from control Of a party they no
longer truly represent.
Many of the previously outstand-
ing Young Democratic leaders are
more 'hberaI' than Bailey, but
probably not willing to 60 all the
way with the extremists who would
like to discredit all so-called Stand
Pats such as Governor Hoey and
other State Administration leaders.
There seem to be all shades of
opinion in the YD's and SO there
is every reason to expect that when
the convention meets here in Raj
eigh there will be one Of the most
interesting and important in~tra-par-
ty battles in a long time. 81