Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-05
ROOSEVELT BEATS
SM|TH'SBEST VOTE
Plurality Exceeding 100000
Is State Record-AssembIy
Remains G. O. P.
~ the Associated Press.

@y the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 5.---New Yorl
Democracy had new happy warrior
today and the State had q Governor re.
elected to ONCE by the largest plurality
st ever gave an executive.
Franklin d. Roosevelt, who called his
friend and predecessor Alfred Z. Smith
Athe happy warrior" in nominating hin
FOR President warranted that title him.
self as he surveyed radiantly the 725,-
000-vote margin by which he was re-
turned yesterday TO the governorship
Until yesterday the largest plurality
Tor q candidate for Governor was the
3e5, 900 by which Smith beat Nathan l..
miller in 1922.
The last vote tabulation showed
Roosevelt, l,74o.7l7; Tuttle, 1,o26,625:
Carroll, i7S,487.
Strong Also Upstate.
Nor was It the fruit alone Of Demo-
eratic strength in New York City, which
usually piles up totals for the party's
candidates against deficits upstate. New
York City gave Roosevelt $4,000 Of the
lead he accumulated yesterday over
Charles H. Tuttle, Republican, but an
other hundred thousand and more of
the plurality came from Republican ter
ritory up-State--a circumstance with
With him in his Statewide sweep
Roosevelt carried the entire Democratic
ticket although by margins somewhat
smaller than his. Herbert Lehman was
reelected Lieutenant Governor over
Senator Caleb Baumes, Republican;
Morris Tremaine won second term
IS controller over the Republican, DAN
iel H. Conway. and John j. Bennett,
Democratic nominee, was chosen attor-
ney general over Isadore Bookstein by
pluralities ranging from $4,000 to more
than 600,0CO.
The complexion of the State legisla-
and that Of the New York delegation in
Congress not at all by the landslide for
the Democratic State ticket. The Re-
publicans retain control Of both legis-
latiye wings Of the State government.
Democrats Gain Six Seats.
IN the State Assembly the Democrats
made q net gain Of six seats, but re-
manned In the minority. They will hold
20 seats in the next Legislature to 80
for the Republicans. In the last SeS-
sion sat SO Republicans and 81 DEM
ocrats.
In the State Senate the Democrats
gained one seat-in Oneida County
and win have IS votes to the Republic
ans 26, as against Republican pre-
dominance Of 81 to "a in the last Sem
ate.
Republicans and Democrats both
held their identical SEATS in the Ma
tionai House Of Representatives and in
the next Congress, as In the last, the
Republicans will have twenty members
from New York and the Democrats %.
In all but two districts incumbents were
reelected and In those two Republicans
won after defeating incunbents Of their
own party In the primaries.
Mrs. Pratt Hard Pressed.
Mrs Ruth M. Pratt, Republican,
Representatives from the seventeenth
New aS-yN district, was pressed closest
for fc-susction. She bested Louis
Brodsky, Democrat by sscant 900
votes In New York's silk stocking Sec
tor-a margin, the narrowness Of which,
she averred, was due to the presence in
the fight Of Haywood Broun, newspaper
columnist and Socialist nominee. -
Representative Fiorelio II. La Guardia,
Republican, won in his twentieth dis
trict: Bertrand H. Smell, Republican.
was reelected from the tnirty-first, and
Walter Gresham Andrews, who defeated
Chairman s. Wallace Dempsey Of the
House Rivers and HarborS Committee
IN the Republican primary, won In the
fortieth.
Robert p. Carroll, Syracuse University
professor and independent dry. candi-
date for Governor. polled smaller vote
than he had hoped TO muster, and one
which was no considerable factor In
Tuttle's defeat.
Bond Issue Successful.
Both major parties had favored pro-
hibition repeal, but CAROLS candidacy
was aimed particularly at Mr.. Tuttle In
xebuke for his winning the Republican
party away from its wonted stand for
strict enforcement Of prohibition.
A proposal submitted to the voters
Of the. State for q $50 ,O0O, 900 bond
issue TO enable expansion Of institu-
tional facilities In prisons and State
hospitals was approved In New York
City by i5-to-1 vote.
Mr.. Roosevelt's unprecedented guber-
Material triumph was construed BY his
own and opposing parties as an indorse-
ment OF his record In ONCE. The ballot
counting had hardly gotten we'll under
way when Mr.. Tuttle, whose Republi-
can candidacy was carried to the voters
with challenge to them to name a
man who would be bigger than Tam
many Hall" gagged the Democratic
landslide accurately and conceded
Roosevelt the victory