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OF Illinois, Casius C. Dowell of Iowa,
W. Frank James of Michigan and
Frank Foss of Massachusetts,. On the
Democratic side, however. the veteran
the defeated. Representative Smell OF
New York, the Republican leader, was
reelected and so was Representative
WadSworth, also of New York, who
has been regarded as a presidential
possibility in 1896.
The Democratic House leader, Rep
resentative Byrns of Tenn. probable
Speaker of the next House, won re-
election without difficulty. ByrnS is
not only Democratic leader of the
House, but also chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, which has just come
through the election with flying colors.
Representative De Priest, Repub-
lican the only colored member of the
House, is running a neck-and-neck
race with Arthur H. Mitchell, also
colored. In the early returns it was
reported that Mitchell, a Democrat,
had won. If he is finally a victor, he
will be the first colored person elected
as a Democrat to the House.
G. o. p. Future in Doubt.
What is to happen to the Republican
party was much-discused question in
political circles today. The party has
been stripped in these elections to
new bed rock. Chairman Henry P.
in,
statement issued today, said the G.
o. P. was licked" but that there was
no reason for it to remain licked"
The Republican campaign was con-
Quoted in the main in opposition to
the New Deal, but there were many
Republican candidates who either
spoke in support of much OF the
Roosevelt program or failed to discuss
it at all. Whether the c. o. P. Will
turn to more liberal and progressive
principals and leaders, or will seek
to become a conservative opposition to
the New Deal remains to be seen. So
many of the old conservative leaders
of the party were defeated In yester-
days elections that undoubtedly there
will be a strong movement to bring
about a new leadership of progressive
leaningS.
Hastings Is Defiant.
Senator Hastings of Delaware,
chairman of the Republican Sena-
torial Committee. made but one COM
ment on the election returns. 1t was
that the New Deal, like dangerous
disease, apparently must run its course
in this country" 1t seems evident that
he has no intention of leaving to the
liberal element of the party the sole
control
The victory of the New Deal, com
ing at mid-term point of President
Roosevelts administration, had
counterpart in the early days of the
Republic. Thomas Jefferson, patron
saint of the Democratic party, was
elected President in 1900, and took
Office in 1901. He presented New
Deal to the country, the New Deal of
that day. In 1902 the congressional
elections proved a sweeping victory
for Jefferson and his New Deal, and
the Federalists were disaStrously
routed.
In the last 100 years, however, the
invariable rule in mid-Presidential-
term elections has been a swing back
of the political pendulum against the
party in power, with a single excep-
ton. And that exception occurred
when Theodore Roosevelt was Chief
Executive. The Republicans gained a
few seats in the House in the 1902
election. Roosevelt had become Pres
ident in 1901, following the assassina-
ton of William B. Mckinley.
Republican bright spots in the cleo
tionS of yesterday were few and far
between. They held on to Vermont