The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-11-04
PRESIDENT HAD
 EXPECTED RESULT
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tated & reply immediately.
 LandOn Telegram

Land0n Telegram Landon's telegram had said:--
 "The nation has spoken. Every American will accept the verdict and work for the common cause of the good of our country. That IS the spirit of democracy. You have my sincere congratulations. MT. Roosevelt replied.
 T am graceful to you for your generous telegram and I am conf. dent that all of Us Americans will now pull together for the common good. I send you every good wish"
 This ended q pleasant, sociable evening at the Roosevelt manor house overlooking the Hudson river. Had 1t not been for the clicking news printers set Up in the smoking room and c torch- light parade soon after the first returns came in by Hyde Park villagers, there would have little to indicate that the head of the house was receiving one of tho greatest honors ever bestowed by Americans collectively.
 Sons Tabulated Returns
 The president and his two sons, Franklin, Jr, and John sat ct the dining room table with papers and charts spread out before them. From . distance, they might have been playing q game, so calm, so dis passionately did they talk, smiling, laughing occasionally. They were tabuiating the returns for their prf- vate information.
 Guests moved casually about through the spacious rooms of the ancestral Roosevelt mansion. Some listened to the radio that was turned on softly. Others read bul- ietins from the press association machines. Mrs. Sara Delano Roosc- welt. the mistress of the house, the perfect hostess, showing no sign Of her B3 years, strolled among them, promoting sociability.
 Ills Mother Hostess
 On the library shc had caused servants to laden Q long table with varieties of sandwiches homemade doughnuts and pie, cider and coffee. When she went in there, she urged her guests to try the cider.
 "That cider is good" she said, 1t was made today"
 Upstairs two of the presidents grandchildren, Sara and Kate, the daughters of James Roosevelt. were experiencing the thrill that children ordinarily have only at Christmas. They resented being sent off to bed at their usual hour and didn't want to go to sleep. While MT. Roose- velt's neighbors were grouped in front of the porch, their flares and torches casting an eeric red glow, their band blaring Happy Days Are Here Again." Sara stood, swathed in blue silk bathrobe, staring down solemn and wide-eyed. A nurse held the eight months old Kate who was delighted and laugh cd. The nurse took Kate away and her cries of protest were loud and plaintive,
 President Never Doubted
 The president. from the moment the campaign started, never had had doubt of the outcome. His confidence had remained unshaken through all the heat of the repub- lican attack. He had even expected to win easily, but his close friends said he had never anticipated the overwhelming victory that came to him.
 But little scattered returns were in when he had sensed the trend of the nation.
 It is a tradition of local democrats that on the evenings of elections in which the squire of Hyde Park is a candidate, they march to the manor house with bands and torch lights. Several hundreds of these neigh bors, stood grouped in front of the porch where MT. Roosevelt. erect in . blue. double-breasted suit. stood flanked by his sons. his gray hair dampened by the slight drizzle that