Henderson Daily Dispatch

Broughton Opponents Are "Promoting" Grady As Gubernatorial Candidate

Daily Dispatch Bureau,

In the Sir Walter Hotel.

HENRY AVERILL.

Jan. 23.-They (the indefinite "they", like all still trying hard to get Grady, of Kenly into the Governor's. and there appears some possibility the county man will succumb.

Aspirant, coupled with the always pre-sent in the candidate-prospective. other situation, coupled with reliable information, makes it still extremely doubt-

wly in view of the cer-

much of the pressure interested in Grady's success which are not the contrary, if they Johnston county man remote chance to win.

It set that the Devil from

Analyzing the setup it −seems obvious that Grady is being beset by advocates of three distinct groups:

(1) Those liberals who do not agree with Dr. Ralph W. McDonald in support of J. M. Broughton.

(2) Those who think that Willie Lee Lumpkin of Franklin county can win a Congressional race with incumbent Hal Cooley if Grady is a gubernatorial candidate.

(3)Those who are desperately and at all costs against Broughton and who figure that Grady in the race would take a minimum of 10,- 000 votes away from the Raleigh lawyer in two counties alone (John- ston and Cleveland).

In the first group are such figures as Johnson Neal and others who backed McDonald a nd who still

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Broughton Opponents Are
"Promoting" Grady As
Gubernatorial Candidate
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think that an outright and forthright
supporter of the McDonald philoso-
phy should be before the voters
this spring.
The second group which does not
include Senator Lumpkin himself so
far as your reporter is aware, cares
little, if anything about Grady's
success or failure. Its members want
to beat Cooley with Lumpkin and
figure they can do it if the Franklin
man can be definitely tied in
with the Johnstonian. Lumpkin can-
not make much of a dent in the
Cooley vote in either Johnston or
Wake on his own account, but on
a ticket with Grady he might be
much closer to a winner in those
two units.
Lumpkin concededly could sweep
his own county, Grady or no Grady.
but would run much stronger in
Nash if he could get Timorous Valen-
tine interested in a campaign to
knife Cooley in his home county.
In the third group are those who
are engineering a "Stop Broughton"
movement. They figure that with
no Grady candidacy and the Mc-
Donald group actively for Brough-
ton, the Raleigh attorney will get
at least 5,000 to 6,000 more votes in
Johnston than if Grady is in the
race getting them himself. They
figure, too, that unless Grady runs,
the big Eskridge family influence
in Cleveland county will cast any-
where from 3,000 to 4,000 Brough-
ton votes. All of which adds up
to something like 10,000 in the two
counties—a big boost which anti-
Broughtonites would delight to di-
vert to almost any other quarter ex-
cept one of the already formidable
announced candidates.
Dr. McDonald has not told your
reporter so, but there
is every
reason to believe that he has now
definitely and irrevocably
com-
mitted himself to the Broughton
cause. He is quite unlikely to change
his mind.