New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1930, Page 11

TARHEELS REFIGHT ELECTION BATTLE Democratic Senator’s Hooverism Issue in Present Campaign Raleigh, N. C. March 21-="I would rather be dead, I would rathar lose my right arm, I would rather have my tongue cleave to the roaf of my mouth than to vote for Al Smithl” This impassioned utterance inst his party's presidential can- e by Senator Furnifold M. Sim- rions, for 30 yvears the demo czar of North Carolina—made at , climax of a fiery three hour speeci 4l a Raleigh mass meeting on Octo- , 1928—has been revived to- a4y as the issue in the state’s ho <t senatorial campaign in a gea- Senator Simmons, now 76 and a candidate for a sixth senate term of six years, faces the issue of part vegularity. Opposed to him in t democratic primary to be held Jur 7 is Josia W. Bailey, 57, Raleigh lawyer and “regular democrat,” who led the fight for Al Smith in North Carolina. Democratic Disaster Vollows Bolt When Simmons bolted ‘he demo- cratic party to support Hoover lie ried out with him, as well as an be estimated, 60,000 votes—this ng the difference between th: mith vote and that of O. Max Gardner, successful democratic can- didate for governor. Hoover got 445,823 and Smith 286,227 The state went republican for dent for the first time since ant’s election in 1§76. The demo- rats lost two congressmen, eight members of the state sénate, 15 - members of the house and great numbers of county offices. Iiven Ilowan tounty, home of Senator Leo S. Overman, went overwhelmingly republican. Governor Gardner, how- cver, syrvived. This democratic disaster is now being charged to Senator Simmons. \nd Bailey, who prides himself on is life-long democratic regularity, waging his campaign on those ines. The Hoover-Smith battle of 1025 is being fought all over agai Gailey Leads Fight for Smith, Although he led the North Caro- lina fight for Smith, stumping every . county in the state, Bailey has never seen Smith in his life nor had any correspondence with him except once when he asked him to auto- raph a book for an old lady. So Whe told this writer here. Bailey is the son of a Baptist min- ister, for 17 years he was editor of . Baptist church paper, he has fillz1 ,I'rotestant pulpits on many occi- ions and was head of the North Carolina Anti-Saloon Leaguo from 03 until 1807, As such, he led a orous fight against liquor in nu- “laerous local option campaigns, ani vhen state prohibition arrived in North Carolina in 1908 liquor hal been voted out of all the rural dis- s tricts and all but 21 cities. Why, then, did he support Al Smith? With many southern democrats— ) Dailey included, party regularity has been a sacred—and almost in- tinctive tradition since the carpet- lag days, marked by negro political power under republican rule, just fter the Civil War. ow Prohibitionists Defended Smith In his speeches, this prohibition- 4 ist defended Smith like this: Pro- nibition is the established law of the land, Smith couldn't change the Constitution if he wanted to, mors- . over Smith nas solemnly pledgel himself to enforce prohibiton, “and 1 had rather trust him with enforce- went that Mellon, an ex-distiller, or | licover.” 3 “Prohibition is safc.” Bailey would tell his audiences as he turned to smith's Catholicism, “but religious * | democrats in 1892 lberty is not safe. Are wo goinz| to proscribe any man because of th manner in which he worships God?” But Bailey didn't get far. Openly the issues were Smith's prohibition record, Tammany, Raskob, ete., but in the background was the opposi- tion 1o a Catholic in the Whits| House. The Ku Klux Klan was tive. Upon this the clection turnel and North Carolina, with a Catholic population that is utterly negligible, went republican. | Up to the 1928 campaign Simmons and Bailey had been close political friends. Balley stumped the stat for Simmons’' scnatorial candidacy in 1912, In 1913 Simmons ot President Wilson to appoint Bail=y | U. S. collector of internal revenuc | tor eastern North Carolina. ‘ — In 1924, Bailey broke away from | simmons to make an independent | ce for governor against Angus W ; McLean, Simmons’ choice. The ! |same thing happened to Bailey that {has happened (o every other demo- | crat (except one, Governor W. W. | Kitchin) who has sought politicaf! ocice in North Carolina in the past | years without Simmons' blessiny. | He got licked. There was a recon- | ciliation, however, that lasted until the Smith campaign. | Simmons Stands on Long Record. | Though attacked for his party ir-| regularity, Senator Simmons facss | the voters with a.record of a life ‘ time in politics and 30 years in tha | U. S. senate. In Wilson's two terms he was chairman of the senate fi- | nance committes' and, as such, di- rected the raising of billlons to fight | the war. He was also co-author of the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill. | This is the first time he has had opposition in a democratic prim: | since 1912, and when he last ran, in 1924, he defeated his republican op- | ponent by the largest majority ever ' given a senatorial candidate in North Carolina. | Simmons’ power, which made him | the democratic czar in North C lina, dates back to when he rescued the state gro domination. In North Carolina the negro voir ! |survived the carpet-bag downfall | |and in the late Su's a combination of populists, republicans and negro. ruled the state. One senator Jeter C. Pritchard, republican, and the other was Marion Butler, a populist. Negroes held many offi- | ces, presided magistrates anl served in congress. ! sting about for a leader, th:! named Simmons | s chairman of their state commit- | tee. He was then an up-and-coming ' lawyer who had served one term in cengress in 1536 and had been be en for another term—incidentally, by a negro. Red Shirt” Campaign Is Recalled. Simmons served as chairman of the state’s® democratic committe: except for a brief jnterval, (froi 1892 until 1904, and it was duri his administration that North Caro- lina’s “Red Shirts” rosc and swept {the negroc polls. Citing such instanc women being tried by negro magi trates. Simmons canvassed the sta to unite the white vote for a consti- tutional amendment that would dis- | qualify negroes as voters. o There was trouble, and blood-- | shed. At Wilmington in 1888, six’: rersons are said to to have been killed in a riot that followed an at- | tack on a.negro newspaper ofiic The “Red Shirts"—so called hecau of this distinctive attire-—organiz throughout the state, parading wi shotguns through negro communi- ties. When the constitutional amend- | ment came to a vote in August, 1900, the negroes just didn’t go to tl polls and 1t was adopted ove whelmingly. It included a strict educational test for voters and lett such latitude in the hands of th eiection officer that no negro couid | hope {o pass it if the officer desired | to bar him. Moreover, it exempte1 | whites' from the cxamination—a measure designed to protect the illiterate white voters. | Amendment Ends Negro Vote. This amendment, 30 ve was with The D. 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