Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-11-05
RULE BY ONE MAN
BELIEVED CERTAIN.
Democratic Party of Old
Order Wiped Out by
Election Record.
BY JAY G.. HAYDEN

One-party government-and to
greater extent than ever before IN
American history one-man govern
nent-was created when the Repub-
iican and all other opposition parties
we're swept almost completely from
the political map in Tuesdays cleo
ton.
The Democratic party as it existed
before Franklin D. Roosevelt just as
definitely has passed out of existence.
The New Deal Is in the saddle. and
the supreme political question Of the
next 2 or or 8 or 20 years, as the
case may be, is whether, when an
effective opposition to this regime
forms, it will be to the right or the
left of it.
There has been nothing comparable
with this situation in the United
States since the election of Thomas
Jefferson in 1900, which inaugu-
rated the so-called EZRA of good feel
ing" The Democrats then held sway,
practically without organized resist
ance, for "a years, and it was not
until the Republican party was formed
In 1884 on the issue of human slavery
that really coherent opposition was
created.
The collapse Of the Republican
party, in fact. is more complete than
was the collapse of the Federalist
party in 1900. The whole of New
England then held on, and New Eng
land in that day was a substantial
part Of the Nation Now the Repub-
lcan toehold is reduced to the two
Cities in Ascendency.
OF reaching significance is the
fact, also, that the urban industrial
communities of the country, which, in
the congressional reapportionment of
1881 attained something approaching
the representation to which their pop
ulation entities them, for the first
time have made their voting strength
fully felt No less than the New Deal
and President Roosevelt, the cities are
in the ascendency as result of this
election.
BY comparison with the regime that
Thomas Jefferson instituted, it is not
meant to suggest that the Nation is
approaching a period of political peace
and contentment. The EZRA of good
feeling" of that faraway time, in fact,
was a misnomer. There has been no
more virulent political period in his
tory than the successive adminiStra-
tions of jefferson, Madison and
Monroe.
But, in that time, the fighting was
between Democratic factions, and it
will be so with the New Deal in the
months ahead.
In the campaign just ended, po-
iitical left wing for the first time has
taken shape in the United States,
backed by the great voting strength
OF the cities and answering to the
leadership of such men as John L.
Lewis, who aspires to form a labor
party; the La Follettes of Wisconsin,
Earle of Pennsylvania, Norris Of Ne
braska, Murphy Of Michigan, La
Guardia of New York and others Of
the same stamp.
These men not only will control a
large voting strength in the new cam
paigns but they know what they want
and they have intelligent leadership.
Fighting Of Factions.
Against them eventually will be
arrayed the old-school Democrats Of
the rural South and West, and it Is
between these factions that the fight
ing within the New Deal during the
coming two years will rage.
Inevitably, this battle will center
to a great extent around the Supreme
Court, which more than ever is left
as the one effective brake on the
President and Congress
Two issues seem likely to bring the
New Deal to grips with the court al
most Immediately.
The first of these is the Wagner
labor relations act, the fate of which
probably will be decided by the court
before Congress convenes in January.
The second Is the social security