Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-11-20
THE ROOSEVELT POLICY

"he Roosevelt victory of such mammoth proportions as
to be bitter or his critics cao
foolish only thing do cheeruly accept the result with
wonder that possible to be SO blind before tne 10
h n1sI hi% nature o. Vic ''''''''''''' '~
So wrote Frank Kent one of fortnight of Roose
welt critics generally held by the pub
csts who supported Those who a % nf a %
evabthough most of them were surprised by the extent
the victory. Il
1886 came President carried 46 states for total Of
ss oe votes e na Vote gaVe the President majority
of about 2soooooo to for opponent
party system became well established: o..,n u,u NJ.
But when it mes to w de
Of opinion especially in the @ camp Ih4 water
in the last campaign has written that the campaign
less simply proved the truth Of the d
Mr. Lppman says that the solid souhwhch Repub
from consideration such Republican candidates Harding Cool
'dse ON ono the oer famed William Allen White
dOns the VERY @ GentE a ae
undergone but political Johnstown The dam
which has been slowly filling for years fed by the waters Of
Wisconsin insurgency of the progressive
bloc in Senate the Administrations of Harding Cool
dge and Hoover of the the earth
Republicans did not heed the warnings. ,, ,,...-
practically commentators agree that the Republican campaign
nep and badly handled that the party organization was
the best of the situation By contrast the Democrat
re @ pa Mss U Worked
the precision of series of relay switches
Furthermore it difficult to exaggerae the political mpor
lance the Presidents personality natural born speaker he
has the faculty of establishing personal relationship be-
tween himself and the voters AS point out in the
political history the last century has had great the
emotions of millions of American citizens
important question answered What direction
will future Roosevelt policies take? And here again there
wide difference of opinion in the Presidents camp
Supported he by amazingly varied but the
Chief Executive himself that question Thus New
Deal group of the opinion that the President likely to
conservative that business has recovered much of
the ground lost during depression and will refrain from
periments. This is a small group.
Another group feels that the President will swing sharply
the left and whole hog along the path of socialist coec
visit or fascist program. This too is small.
and closest to the White House. feels that the second Roosevelt
Administration will follow middeo heroad that the
President will attempt the difficult job of holding the balance be
tween radicaism the hand reaction the other
other Words they feel that he will try to maintain government
regulated capitalism and at the time keep the ewnge
contented possible.
At this writing the President himself given
cation future policy that his statement that the budget
will be balanced step which, achieved will naturally be
regarded conservative and will be auded by industry He
to feel that better conditions make it possible to reduce
relief spending by considerable amount This
plus the increase in tax income that results from improved
industrial earnings and higher taxes with Federal
deficits.