The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1934-11-29
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
By FRANK P. LITSCHERT

course, that in 1912 the Republicans
carried but two states, yet the fact
remains that there were two Republi-
can tickets that year and Mr.. Wilson
was, after all, a minority President
from 1913 until 1917. But there is no
such condition in evidence today. The
fact that the New Dealers carried the
rock-ribbed state of Pennsylvania and
gave the Republicans a scare in YER
mont is eloquent evidence of what
has happened.
The question of the hour is, of
course, what is going to happen next?
Now that the New Dealers have won
their victory what will they be able
to do with it? The people have spoken.
1t will be up to the successful candi-
dates to do something more than to
speak.
One significant fact is that this was
not an "old-fashioned" Democratic
victory as we knew them in the old
days. 1t was a victory for new
system of government, a victory for
RECOMMENDATION, for paternalism. Short
ly before the election the newspapers
gave US the information that the adj
ministration was veering toward the
right. We were told that the ship of
state would now be steered in a more
conservative course.
But in view of the election results
it remains to be seen whether such a
course can be maintained. In every
state and in every district the disci-
Piles of the New Deal pointed with
pride to the amount of money which
Uncle Sam had been spending in that
state and in that district. The voters
were told that if they wanted the flood
of gold to continue, they must vote for
the candidates who were supporting
the New Deal. The voters have indi-
Gated that they do want the stream
of gold to continue. Now what else
can be done about it? The task of
stopping the flow, of moving toward
balanced budget, toward less regimen
tation and more private initiative, is
going to be very difficult one. 1t will
require all the skill of the President,
presuming for the moment that he
does desire to veer to the right rather
than to the left. 1t will be a movement
against the tide, and against an ire
sistible tide at that, one made irresis-
tible by the very fact that many of
those elected in the New Deal ava
lanche will be demanding the expen-
diture of more money, rather than
less, the Inauguration of new and I'M
tried remedies for those which, dur
ing the past two years, have failed.
The Republican Party has temper
arily at least fallen on evil days, but
a considerable and healthy faction of
the Democratic Party has fallen on
evil times, too. 1t was a New Deal
victory, not Democratic one. The
Republicans will either have to quit or
redouble their efforts, building anew
from the very foundations. 1t is evil
dent from the statements of the lead
ers that they will not quit. Their path
will be hard and the sacrifices to be
made will be great. The result of the
landslide on November would indi-
cate that the New Dealers should have
things their own way in 1886. In nor
NAL times an off-year victory means
a presidential victory two years hence.
But these are not normal times. Be-
cause of new policies, greatly in
creased Federal expenditures and con-
stantly changing currents of thought
we are moving twice as fast politically
and economically as we did a genera
ton ago. Time alone can tell whether
the next swing will be back toward
conservatism or forward to more radi-
cal fields. Certainly the pendulum on
November was still headed toward
the loft