Evening star., 1934-03-11
BY JOHN SNURE.

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L. IN all proba ability, will be made
much clearer than it is now
before the present congressional cam
palgn ends.
What is happening, although dis
cussed thus far largely in generalities,
is that the most tremendous move
ment for the realignment of parties
witnessed by the present generation,
Is in progress. 1t is supported by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
will be backed by him through the
congressional campaign.
II the attempted realignment OF
parties continues to gain strength,
1t will mean that in the new Con-
gress to be elected next November,
the Democrats. plus the insurgent Re
publicans who are going along With
President Roosevelt and the new deal,
will be more firmly in the saddle
than ever That is, they will main
tain large working majority in
the House and will have enhanced
numbers in the Senate.
Control TO Be Complete.
The result will be that in the
months closely preceding the 1886
campaign, the President will dominate
the legislative branch of the Gov
ernment more fully than ever and
the measures sent to the Capitol
from the White House will have even
more complete assurance OF passage
than now.
In the 1882 campaign much was
said about a realignment of parties.
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the new deal was getting support
from the public almost regardless OF
party lines. The new deal since last
March has been judged by the aver
age citizen almost entirely with ref
erence to the question of its economic
value and benefits.
Republicans in Congress for the
most part have stood behind much
of the recovery legislation asked by
the President and have sunk their
political feelings in the desire to do
whatever might promise to help the
country out of the depression. Lat
terly, there have been indications OF
a purpose to return to old-time party
alignments.
Committee Activities.
Such indications are to be seen IN
the activities of the Republican Sena-
torial Campaign Committee and the
Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee, which have organized for
Joint operations in this years poll, and
in the activities of the Democratic
Congressional Committee. headed,
respectively, by Representative Joseph
w. Byrns of Tennessee and Senator
James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois.
But there are distinct indications
that it is not the policy of President
Roosevelt to promote partisan politics
in this years campaign. While to
some extent it will be impossible to
avoid partisanship, an augury is seen
here in the recent virtual suppression
of the document, or book prepared
under the guiding hand OF Charles
Nicholson, publicity director OF the
Democratic National Committee, laud-
ing the achievements Of President
Roosevelt in the first II months OF his
administration.
There is reason to believe that
Democratic pronouncements, as shaped
from Washington, will be singularly
devoid of appeals to partisan pTeJu-
dice. They will be largely content
with pointing with pride" to what
has been done and will be in the
nature of appeals and arguments as
to why the voters should stand by the
vital features of the Roosevelt policies.
Character of Appeal.
The farmers will be told why it is
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triple A: labor will be told how much
the new deal of the N. R. A. and
other agencies of the administration
mean to it, and industry and business.
if possible, will be persuaded that the
recovery legislation and the codes and
other propositions evolved have been
not only beneficial thus far, but Will
be increasingly helpful as the depreS-
sion is thrust further and further into
the background.
In the ordinary sense this is not
politics, but in a real sense it is poll
tics of a high order, and this fact is
becoming clearer and clearer as the
campaign gets under way. A survey
indicates plainly that President Roose-
welt. the all-controlling force in his
party, has not only set out to achieve
q realignment of political parties. but
that he is taking extremely practical
steps to this end.
Unless the calculations of the Presi-
dent and the few men on whom he
relies for political advice go wrong
the effects of the policies now being
pursued will be felt in 1886 and will
Increase the difficulties of the regular
Republican forces in the presidential
campaign of that year.
Campaign to Be Brief.
The word has gone out that the
Democratic campaign for control OF
the House and Senate this year will
be brief and that it will be based on
the argument that the new deal thus
far has been helpful to the country;
that it has conquered various sectors
of the depression front, and that II
it is further backed up by the public
1t will without much more delay
achieve victory all along the line.
The idea will be disseminated that
the new deal means an end to the OLD
order of alleged favoritism to wealth
and big business and abuses charged
to such favoritism and a purpose to
give every man anu "oiiIdIl "iio'
Abraham Lincoln described as an
even start in the race OF lie.
. Perhaps it would be more accurate
TO say that the business of diSsem-
mating this idea is already on and
has been for months. Nevertheless.
much more will be heard of it through
the Summer and Fall. A new social
order, in which there will be a square
deal for the average man and woman,
Is the picture held up to the country
as the import of the regime of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
Choice of Policy.
? 1t Is quite true that some phases
of this new order will be attacked
by the Republicans and by many con-
eervatives without reference to party
RESORTS.