The Pot Boils, May 10, 1943

The U.S. political pot bubbled:

> In New Jersey, where Republican dissension has for 25 years given Boss Frank Hague the handle he needs to control the state, GOPsters actually got together and, well in advance of the September primary, agreed on a candidate for Governor. Their man: grey, urbane Walter Evans Edge, 69, Governor during World War I, U.S. Senator from 1919 to 1929, Ambassador to France under President Hoover.

>In North Carolina, where the Democratic primary does not come until next May, at last a real candidate arose to challenge dapper Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, aging coxcomb of the Senate. The candidate, no spring chicken himself: tall, lean Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced Hooey), 65, one of the most popular Governors the state ever had. A mighty orator, a personal and political dry, a Methodist Sunday School teacher, Clyde Hoey is the acme of Southern courtesy down to the tips of his invariable sugar-scoop coats. He has long opposed Bob Reynolds' isolationist sentiments, is popular up & down the state.

> In Texas, at least three strong and separate groups among Democrats began a battle to control the May 1944 state convention at which delegates to the national convention will be picked. All assumed that Franklin Roosevelt will be the presidential nominee; each group had its own vice-presidential candidate. The V.P. candidates: 100% anti-New Deal Governor Coke Stevenson, 1000% anti-New Deal Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 51% New Dealer.