The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-11-11
ROOSEVELT TO have
WIDE OPPORTUNITY
AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE
President.EIect Will Have SUP.
port From Every Section
of Country
WILL CONTROL CONGRESS
Not Even in 1912 Was RepubIi.
can Party Wrecked to
Such a Degree
BY BYRON PRICE

Washington, Nov. IL. - (P - The
more the election returns are studied
the more apparent it becomes that
few presidents in the whole history Of
the country have entered the white
house through so wide door of op-
portunity as that which awaits
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Not only the task ahead, but the In
struments at hand are impressive.
The millions of his supporters rep.
resent every section and every poll.
tical party. Serving with him will be
a congress highly sympathetic with
his political purposes. And he has
come through the campaign pledged
only to broad principles, and fettereo
by a minimum Of promises as to spe-
cific enactments.
1t Is the unanimous judgment Of
those on both sides Of the political
fence that much of future history de-
ponds on the degree to which the new
president measures up to this chal-
lenge to bold, independent leadership
In Instruction State
The election figures demonstrate
the country Is in state of peaceful
instruction against the present order
in Washington. Even the Democratic
campaign managers give credit to the
advantage they derived from resent
ment against the Hoover administra-
ton.
The situation In congress after
March 4 will be the most advantage
Gus any president has found In recent
years. Not even the Wilson victory
Of 1912, though it split the Republic
cans, left that party at so low a point
as 1t will reach in March. The house
will be three to one Democratic. In
the senate, scarcely 20 out of So will
remain who can be counted on to go
down the line for the Republican Or
ganization.
At one particular point, the DEM
ocratic strength in congress will offer
tremendous leverage to the Demo-
cratic administration. With so many
members elected on pledge to re-
duce government spending, the new
chief executive will be in position to
slash drastically at the federal budget
with every expectation of both con-
gressional and popular support.
In several of his campaign
speeches. Roosevelt voiced an aspira-
ton for closer cooperation between
the white house and the governors OF
states, and declared the president
should take national leadership for
reduction of state and local taxes. For
such an endeavor, conditions scarcely
could be more propitious. OF the 48
governors, SO will be Democrats.
Political Debts Few
Special political debts, incurred in
the election, have been the greatest
handicap to many presidents, but
Roosevelt's support was so widespread
as to make his obligations national In
their scope.
It has been said before. but It Is
a point of special moment: Neither
the south, nor the agricultural states,
nor the industrial centers of the east,
nor any individual among his sup
porters, nor the organization of any
local political leader can claim to have
supplied the margin Of victory. He
could have done without any one OF
these single factors and, on the basis
of the figures, won the election.
A serious economic situation un-
doubtedly will face the new admins
tration, but even that Is not without
its favorable side. Whatever may
have been said in the heat Of the
campaign, those who believe things
will grow much worse are far In the
The generally accepted be-
lief is that President Roosevelt will
catch the economic cycle on the up
grade, and will profit politically by
whatever improvement follows.