Evening star., 1934-11-07

Democrats Hold 20 Senate Seats
And Strengthen House Control

though by greatly reduced margins.
In Kansas they reelected Gov. ALI
Landon, Republican. and picked up a
seat or two In the House. Michigan
showed a recrudescense Of Republi-
canism, and it appears that this
State, which went for Roosevelt
strongly in 1882, has reelected Sena-
tor Vandenberg, Republican, and had
elected Fitzgerald, Republican candi-
date for Governor.
Vandenberg conducted a campaign
all his own, praising some things about
the New Deal and denouncing others.
He offended some of his more ardent
anti-New Deal brethren in the Sen
ate. But he stuck to his own method
of handling the New Deal in the cam
paign and won where his critics lost.
Vandenberg, comparatively young in
politics, is likely to doom larger in
Republican councils and to appear to
many a presidential possibility two
years hence.
Townsend Seen Winner.
In Delaware, Senator Townsend,
Republican. on the face of the re-
turns received, has defeated his DEM
ocratic opponent, Representative
Adams, although by a narrow mar
gin. Here was a Republican Senate
seat which the Democrats had hoped
to pick up, but party dissenSions in
the State were a handicap to Adams.
Thirty-thIee Governors of States
were elected yesterday. The great
majority/of them are Democratic. In
no State was there more interest in
this election than Pennsylvania,
where it appears that George H.
Earle, Democrat, former American
Minister at Vienna, was swept into
Office on the tide of New Deal sup
port.
James M. Curley. original Roosevelt
man in Massachusetts, won over
whelmingly in the Massachusetts, gu
bernatorial contest Gov. Albert C.
Rltchie has apparently won a fifth
term as chief executive of Maryland
His majority of four years ago has
been cut tremendously. Harry W.
Nice, his Republican opponent, dur
ing the campaign undertook to show
that Ritchie was not as friendly to
the New Deal as he himself would be.
Notwithstanding the victory of Gov
A. Harry Moore, Democrat. in the
New Jersey senatorial race, the State
selected Republican Governor
Harold G. Hoffman, the G. o. P
candidate for chief executive, defeated
William L. Dill. Democrat. by 10000
When the new Congress meets in
January. the President will send his
recommendations for legislation, which
will undertake to make permanent
much of the New Deal. Major ques-
tlonS, however, include what is to be
done about the huge spending program
In which the Government has been
engaged for the last year and a half
In the light Of yesterdays elections
1t is likely that demands for a con-
tinuance of this spending program,
with increases asked, will be demanded
by members of Congress, spurred on
by their constituents
The Republicans charged in the
campaign that these expenditures for
relief, Tor corn-nog checks. etc, were
having their effect on the electorate:
that they practically amounted to
buying votes. The Democrats replied
that the relief funds must be ex-
pended to keep the people from suf-
fering. There seems no slightest
doubt where the voters on relief land
ed in the election.
Other questions which are likely to
be in the foreground in the newly
elected Congress are imitation and the
payment of the soldiers bonus without
further delay.