Evening star., 1934-11-05
The Elections.

The New Deal goes to the polls to-
morrow for the Endorsement of the
people. Unless there are unexpected
developments the New Deal candi
dates will be successful in a great
majority of the congressional con-
tests. The New Deal program, how
ever is so divided between economic
and social experiments on the one
hand and huge expenditures of Gov
ernment money on the other that an
Interpretation of a New Deal victory
will be difficult. The men or women
on the relief rolls in a big industrial
center who vote the Democratic New
Deal ticket may not be actuated by
the slightest admiration of the N. R
A. or the A A. A. In fact, they may
not have the slightest conception of
what these laws and their admins
tration are all about.
The New Dealers will hail victory
In the congressional elections as an
Endorsement of their entire program,
social, economic and financial. Never
theless, they have had tremendous
advantage from the expenditures Of
public moneys which have been going
on. Probably this was unavoidable
Certainly no one would contend seri-
ously that men and women and chill
dren be allowed to starve. 1t is one
thing to aid suffering, however and
another to seek to make political cap
ital out of it. Too many of the Demo-
cratic candidates and their supporters
have told the voters on relief or receiv-
ing other benefits in money from the
Government that they should vote
Democratic tomorrow if they wish the
benefits to continue.
The New Dealers have striven with
might and main to bring about the
defeat of the most prominent of the
Republican opponents of the Roose-
welt program. They have gone to
unusual limits to score victory over
Senator David I. Reed in PennSyl-
vania, for example. They believe that
they have encompassed the defeat OF
Simeon D. FesS in Ohio. In Kansas
they would be rejoiced if they could
bring about the defeat Of Representa-
tive McGugin, who has been a New
Deal batter in Congress and out OF 1t.
They have their hammers out for
Senator Arthur Robinson of Indiana,
whose bitter attacks upon New Deal
measures, their administration and
upon President Roosevelt have ranked
In the New Deal bosoms for a long
time. Victory of these gentlemen and
other anti-New Dealers, if it should
come, would reduce the joy of the
New Dealers.
The advantages in the campaign
have been with the New Deal, The
opposition has been divided, with some
of the Republican candidates support
ing New Deal plans or even going be-
yond them; others keeping carefully
away from the issue of the New Deal,
and a third group attacking the New
Ioriciuolu and fprrelV
The battle has been waged on many
fronts, in all sections of the country.
farmers with wheat, corn-hog, to-
bacco and cotton checks. 1t has
made its plea to labor as the origina-
tor of section (a) of the national re-
.overy act. 1t has fed the unemployed.
1t has come to the aid of industry
through many loaning agencies of
the Government.
Under all the circumstances Re-
publican victory would be certainly
matter of surprise. Indeed it would
be a political marvel The New Deal
ers are likely to consider the results
of the election as mandate to carry
on with their program. Whether they
will be able to do so, along the lines
of its procedure so far, is a serious
question. They will be faced, sooner
or later. and probably sooner, with
the problem of finance. They will
find a mounting resistance to inter-
ference with the lives and business of
the people.