Henderson Daily Dispatch

While Not Always Agreeing, Senator Finds Justice for President's Acts
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 30.-Senator Josiah William Bailey's speech to the Newton Democrats Saturday seems to commit the candidacy of the senator to championship of President Roosevelt.
It has been known a long time that Mr. Bailey has been fearful of the political trend. He never doubted the Roosevelt popularity but at the same time the North Carolina man ran counter to it. The Catawba county speech seems to put Mr. Bailey in position where he must defend the President against all Republican comers.
The senator's prophecy that the Democrats will hold the Senate beyond possible recapture by the Republicans, takes no accounting of
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older guesses. It was the belief of the prohibitionists in 1928 that repeal of the 18th amendment could not be submitted by congress within 75 years and that repeal could not be carried within 150. But submission was compassed in four and repeal in five.

Still, Mr. Bailey's calculations are interesting and he is going hard with the President. There is mighty little doubt now, political leaders in both parties feel, that Mr. Roosevelt will be the regular Democratic nominee and will run as a reasonably regular Democrat. The President has taken his politics pretty straight and in view of the long hold upon public office enjoyed by the Republicans through their legislation the Democrats are disposed to cash in on their partisan achievements.

While Mr. Bailey opposed the Bankhead act, in his Catawba speech he declared that conditions in this country demanded experimental measures for agriculture and that the President, disclaiming perfection for his AAA had claimed for it only that it had high purpose in correcting the disparity of prices "paid by farmers and prices received by farmers. This disparity has been corrected to the extent of one third.— I think the farmers of America know that every piece of legislation concerning agriculture will be addressed constructively to their needs with a view to putting the farmers on a better basis ....The whole policy of the Administration is to profit by its experiences and to keep firmly in view the great objectives of relief, and recovery.

The New York Herald-Tribune and the Washington Post, tremendously anti-Roosevelt and anti-Democratic, have featured Mr. Bailey above all the senators taking issue with the President. Mr. Bailey's remarks take on a different character. He has found it difficult with his training to see redemption in all the proposals, but Mr. Bailey says that one-half of the increase in the national debt was incurred under Mr. Hoover, who ran $4,500,000,000 (four and a half billion dollars) in deficits "that did nobody any good." Mr. Bailey also declares that the bulk of the Roosevelt administration's addition to the national indebtedness will be contracted by way of investments in mortgages, most of which will be recovered." If the debt goes to thirty-three billions," Mr. Bailey says seven billions "will be in the form of investment in the deliverance of the American people."

Mr. Bailey's speech has caused a great deal of hotel talk in the light of the latest from Duplin county to the effect that Past American Legion Commander Henry L. Stevens, is seriously thinking of making the fight to dislodge Mr. Bailey. It is recalled by friends of Mr. Bailey that it isn't new to him to criticize his own President, but he does not suffer Republicans to do the same thing without bringing them to book.

"All the talk of dictatorship," Mr. Bailey said, "is moonshine." There had been an impression in North Carolina that he feared it and spoke in the senate of it.