The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-08
THE EASTERN ELECTIONS.

The Eastern elections, the results of which already being trumpeted by the Republican leaders as the signs leading the downfall of the Democrats in 1886 tend emphasize things neither of which neces sarly point to G. O. P. victory next year The first the intense people of this country are taking in politics from the traditional standpoint of two parties and not to isms the more baised Repub- lcans have attempted hang around the neck of the present Administration. Secondly, the voting in the few Eastern States again definitely reveals that the country is in better shape and business prosperng. Had there been landslide to either side it would have foretold that the majority of the voters were still looking for panacea for all ills. Such was not the case. There divided opinion which shows the voters politically minded but not historically minded They were again concerned with their own individual problems their particular districts and not especially with the national picture. It is interesting to that where national politics were concerned the vote was still topheavy Democratic. Witness election of two Democratic Congressman in New York by huge margins and the landslide for the Democratic Governor A. B. Chandler, in Ken lucky The results of those three contests tell more clearly than words the attitude of the electorate toward the Roosevelt Administration They for it.
 Giving balance of power to the Republicans in the New York Assembly has slight if bearing on the general Democratic setup, should the Republicans rub their hands too enthusiastically the outcome.
 
 Legislators are elected purely local issues. When the business mind is calm and conditions around or near normal the party stamp doesn't have much to do with local problems and the candidate is elected who takes the right side the purely local issue It is clearly reflected in the New York election. Demo- cratic Governor Lehman's State relief bond issue overwhelmingly supported at the time that Re- publicans being elected to the Assembly from various precincts to replace Democrats
 The same conditions prevailed relative to the eec tions of Mayors Philadelphia Cleveland and Colum- bus. Republican Mayors were chosen because the majority citizens of those cities figured they were right on local problems. Surely, the failure Agriculture Act in Ohio cannot be read into the election of municipal head in Cleveland or Columbus Only Chairman Henry Fletcher of the G. O. P. National Committee some of his henchmen who have to build up campaign for 1886 against the Democrats do that
 When the Democrats swept into power in 1892 by and desperate electorate which had suffered pangs of the worst depression in history, drastic and far-reaching necessary not only to the entire financial structure of the country but to immediately provide for human needs and relieve individual human suffering To accomplish this pro- gram, unusual legislation and action adopted degree foreign to the general conception of Amer ican government
 The gradual but certain return to better times are evident all sides the voting in the recent cleo tons shows AS consequence, the President and his advisors will undoubtedly heed this trend and while their future program will in be reactionary
 reasonable to believe that progressive conservatism will supplant the extremes to which the Admnistra- ton justly went to accomplish the general recovery the nation is enjoying