The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-30

Sinclair. Party rule as a govern mental function has passed, at least temporarily, or until the political parties can realign and adopt some new statement of fixed principles"
 Sinclair laughed at his defeated opponents.
 Their discomfort is the peoples joy" he said.
 He prepared to leave for Hyde Park, N. Y, or Washington, D. C., to meet President Roosevelt who sent word he would be glad to see him. And he did not forget that Postmaster-G General Farley had promised administration support althouhg the promise might have been somewhat left-handed.
 sinclair Goes Higher
 He also took comfort in the mounting figures of his vote as late returns came in. The figures showed he had a lead in 25 of the states 5S counties. The figures were: 9,771 precincts out of 1O,- 703 in the state:
 For governor-democrit ticket: siclair 371,O64; Creel 229SS7; War dell 36,742.
 For governor-republic ticket: Meriman 29S,041; Young 19O,7O3; Quinn 116,776; Haight 73,075.
 The nomination of Sinclair had the effect of thrusting Haight, a young aggressive, pleasant fellow who served as state official under the late Governor Rolph, into 8 position of primirience.
 Most of the football coaches, professional golfers, a lot of base | Ball players, many young men g few years out of college were his supporters. Now he suddenly is found stand ing between the conservative repub- lican Merriman and the left wing democrat Sinclair, ready to mako a bid for that share of the repub- lican vote which is not as far to the right" as Meriman and for the democratic vote which will not move over to the left" with Sim clair.
 Haight thus becomes an import ant factor in what may deveop Into a sharp three-cornered con- test in November.
 Sinclair polled approximately 100000 votes more on Tuesday than all his opponents combined. His vote was approximately 75,OoV greater than that of Merriman on the republican ticket.
 Hard Fight Ahead But Sinclair still had hard fight ahead. On the basis of primary figures, if he could hold all demo- cratic votes, and if Governor Mer- riman could hold all republican votes, the result would be pretty nearly a dead heat. If desertion of | Sinclair within the democratic party attains any considerable pro- | portion, only a break within the | republican ranks to Sinclair could | give him victory.
 Sensing that situation, republi- cans already were at work tighten ing their fences and sounding the rallying cry of everyone get be- hind Meriman." His defeated op- ponents offered their congratula- tions and many of their supporters pledged their aid.
 Plainly it is too early to foresee | the outcome clearly, so much de- pending upon alignments. The of- | fensive now lies with Sinclair. But he will have to use his strategic position well. Otherwise his chief hope would be republican quar- rel or a republican binder. The re- publican situation isn't such at present as to make either likely
 Uarty Will Back Him Postmaster Gen James A. Farley who also is chairman of the Demo- cratic National committee, says the party will back its socialist convert l in the November election. Practical politicians, including some close to the administration, believe Sim clair's triumph will hurt democrat ic chances in California this year, jeopardizing reelection of demo- cratic representative.
 Johnson is rated an asset to the democrats.
 President Roosevelt has ruled politics and campaign strategy in general out of the conference which Sinclair intends shortly 10 have at Hyde Park.
 With Sinclair commanding po- tential left-wing democratic bloc. Governor Smith, John w. Davis and Jouett Shouse, former executive di'