Evening star., 1935-08-07
ROOSEVELT KEEPS
REACTION SECRET
Says He Was Not Aware OF
Race-SneII Sees End
of New Deal.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt commented to-
day in response to inquiry at his press
conference that he was unaware OF
yesterdays Rhode Island election un-
til he read about it in the papers.
He offered no other observation on
the Republican victory in The first
congressional district.
Likewise, he declined comment on
the State vote rejecting public works
bond issue. He said he had not heard
details of the proposed issue and it
may have been good or it may have
been bad.
Rhode Islands election Of a G. o. P
Representative was hailed today by
Republicans as portent of what will
come later. Democrats rejoined that
the balloting yesterday lacked ma
tional significance.
The End, Says Smell.
'It is the beginning of the end for
the New Deal" said the Republican
leader, Representative Smell, men,
toned as a possibility for presidential
uOInlndIlOH ueAL yedI.
Representative Grove of Indiana, as
vice chairman of the Democratic Con-
gresSional Campaign Committee. said,
on the other hand, that the result was
probably just quirk where district
is returning to the party it used to
support. Western and Central States
and the South, of course-probably
will be solid for Roosevelt next year
If he has any losses, they will be in
the East and New England particu-
larly"
In a statement, Chairman Bolton
of the National Republican Congress
sional Committee said voters of the
first Rhode Island district gave con-
elusive evidence that they are awake
to the unconstitutional and unSound
trend of the New Deal. They respond
ed in such overwhelming numbers as
to leave no doubt that the feeling
was not local, but was indicative OF
widespread resentment toward New
Deal PHILOSOPHERS and practices"
Other Comment.
Other comment gathered by the As
sociated Press:
Speaker Byrns-I don't regard that
election as any criterion as to what
may happen throughout the country
next year. Rhode Island has always
been regarded as a Republican State
Patrick J. Hurley, Hoover cabinet
member-The result was exactly as
expected by nearly every one familiar
with New Deal policies.
Senator Gerry, Democrat, of Rhode
1Sland-The processing tax came into
1t, and, I think, the death sentence
and this So-called revenue bill, which
is very destructive, did too.
End of Session Asked.
Representative Maverick, Democrat
of Texas-It's just like the South
going Democratic. The trouble is that
Congress has been staying here too
long and the New Deal is getting some
undeserved unpopularity. Congress
should 60 home.
Gov. Eugene TaApadge of Georgia
The result is just what expected.
Representative Joseph w. Martin,
Republican, of MasSachusetts-Littl
Rhode Island points the road down
which will travel the presidential pa
rade of 1886. The vote in Rhode Island
was a repudiation of the New Deal
policies which have brought destruc-
tion and despair and retarded re-
covery.
Col Frank Knox, publisher of the
Chicago Daily News-My first reac-
ton was Thank God the people of
Rhode Island cannot be bought" 1t
was the most scandalous attempt,
through relief funds, to buy votes
that have ever known. 1t was a
bare-faced attempt to bribe voters
The principal fight was the New Deal
VS.. the American system Of Govern
ment. The American system won and
will repeat again next year.