Evening star., 1935-11-06
Farley Discounts Loss OF
New York Assembly by
Citing Majority of 100000
Democratic Votes.
FLETCHER SAYS u. S.
NOW "AWARE OF SHAM"
Republicans Win in Philadelphia,
Ohio Cities, San Francisco and
in Jersey-Politicians Watch
Outcome of Kentucky, With
Democrats Confident.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Roosevelt New Deal met rebuffa
in the few and widely scattered elec-
tions held yesterday.
The Republicans regained control
Of the New York Assembly, eleCting
80 members to 68 for the Democrats.
The Republicans have margin of IA
votes in the new Assembly. In the
old Assembly the Democrats led by
votes
In Philadelphia S. Davis Wilson,
Republican, was elected mayor over
John B. Kelly, Democrat, with plu-
rality of 47,2l4
Cleveland and Columbus. Ohio,
elected Republican mayors. The
m ~asure of Republican victory in the
Buckeye State, however, was greater
than that. The Republican candi-
dates we're successful in 49 cities and
80 villages there, while the Democrats
carried "a cities and IS villages.
G. o. P. Wins in Jersey.
The Republicans triumphed. too, in
the New Jersey elections, increasing
their number of seats in the Lower
House and holding control Of the State
Senate.
From far California came welcome
victory for the Republicans, for San
Francisco reelected Mayor Rossi with
a greater plurality than he had re-
ceived before.
The Democrats. on the other hand,
sought encouragement from the fact
that they had elected two members
of the House of Representatives in
New York congressional districts by
larger pluralities than these districts
were carried by the Democrats in 1884.
Furthermore, Postmaster General
James A Farley. Democratic national
chairman and also State chairman
of New York, insisted that, while
the Republicans had taken control
of the Assembly, the total vote cast
for members of the Assembly showed
the Democrats ahead in the State
by half a million votes. This fact.
he insisted, was a clear vindlcatlon
of the Roosevelt New Deal.
The Democrats are waiting conf
dently to hear from Kentucky. They
insist that Happy" Chandler, their
candidate for Governor of the State,
will defeat King Swope. the Republic
can. handily. The count of the votes
in Kentucky did not start until this
morning, under the terms of the State
election law.
Take it by and large, however. the
trend shown in yesterdays elections
was away from the Democratic stand
ard-certainly as compared to what
happened in the elections of 1882 and
1884
Fletcher Cheered.
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher Of tha
Republican National Committee,
sounded a paean of victory. Com
menting on the results. he said:
The boondogglers are on their way
out. The Republican party is on its
way back to power New York. Phila-
delphia and Cleveland tell the story
and point the way.
The American people are becoming
thoroughly aware of the sham of New
Deal pretenses and the menace Of
New Deal policies.
The American people want common
honesty and common sense in the
management of their governments
Federal. State and local That ex-
plains the election results of yesterday.
They are but the forerunner of what
will happen next year"
Senator Black Democrat. of Alabama.
insisted that the closeness of the vote
in the Philadelphia mayoralty election
"a margin of 47000 for the Repub-
licans-was virtually a Democratic
victory in city which in the past has
rolled up tremendous majorities for the
G. o. P.
Representative Cochran of Missouri,
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