The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-29
Southern Conservatives, In.
dustrial Laborites on Elk.
IRENE Wings Of Roose. =.
velt-Led Party
BY LYLE c. WILSON
limited Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Bee. 29. lUf)
American politics gIowed red hot
in 1886 and is being poured into
new molds as the new year APP
proaches.
President Roosevelt's Novem-
Der reelection triumph marked I;
phase in the realignment OF po'
iitical parties. Realignment mas
progressed so far by now that IL
is likely 1886 will be judged ny
historians Us a year OF great po'
litical, disturbance in TINS eouh'
Mr.. Roosevelt kidnapped the
normally Republican farm belt
and far west in 1882 and was
given new title to those areas IN
1886. He won the negro vote
from its traditional Republican
moorings. lie took agriculture and
small business. He broke into IN
dustriai, Republican New Eng.
land for the second time and left
of AZ states to the Republicans
only two, Maine and Vermont.
He carried the regions OF re-
cent or current discomfort, the
great industrial cities and the
farms. But in winning those COM
paratively radically-minded vot-
ers, the president did not give up
the southern states where conser.
yatism remains the gospel Of the
elder statesmen. Politicians are
wondering now for how long MIR.
Roosevelt can keep his varied al
my in step with itself.
JOBLESS ARMY STILL LARGE
The election is Judged to have
been an expression Of approval
Of better times, more jobs and
more money although the unem-
ployed still remain, some lO,5O0,-
600 strong. Under depression
pressure the trend of American
politics as revealed in the cleo
tons of 1882, 1884 and 1886 was
definitely toward more liberal or
progressive 6r radical policies
than those to which either of the
two major parties previously were
committed. Depression started the
process and Mr.. Roosevelt kept 1t
going.
The advantages as Of 1886 lie
almost entirely with Mr.. .soose-
welt and his New Deal-Democratic
party. From a small beginning in
1880 when Democrats regained
control of the house Of repre-
scntatiyes after a lapse Of IL
years, Mr.. Roosevelt led his new
model Democracy to lndisputed
politica! ascendancy. Comforting
10 Republicans are the 1850, 259
votes poiiod b. Governor Alfred
NJ. Landon last November 3. Blu;
Nh. Roos welt polled 27,750,778.
LEMKE GETS 100000 VOTES
A new minority organization.
the Union Rarty led by picsiden-
tial candidate William Lemkc,
broke INFO the returns for the first
time this year and PICKED up al
most 100000 votes. most OF which
otherwise probably would have
gone to Mr.. Roosevelt. but nearly
offsetting that detection was an
obvious movement of former So.
cialist voters. including some Of
that party'S former leaders, intc
the New Deal parade .....
Norman Thomas, Socialist pres.
idential. candidate, who pollcd
1856, 900 votes in 1882, had fewer
than 100000 this year and his
loss evidently was to Mr.. Roose-
welt.
Measured by electoral college
votes-Rooscvelt 523, LaldOn 8
the 1896 election would be
judged to have destroyed minor
ity parties. including the Republi.
cans. But the electoral vote does
not properly reflect the sturdy
minority which stood with Gov
ernor Landon against the New
Deal-Democracv. An indication of
nominal party strength in the
United States is presented by an
editorial research report breakao