Evening star., 1937-11-04

Take New Jersey where Harry Moore
thinks so little of :. United States
Senatorship nowadays in a rubber
stamp Congress as to prefer to be
Governor. Mr.. Moore is a Democrat
who voted against President Roose-
velt's plan to pack" the Supreme
Court. He is personally popular but
1t took all the strength of the late-to-
report Hudson County of boss
Hague's control to carry him to victory.
hudson County gave Moore 12S, 900
majority but the rest of the State
voted against him by about $4,000
Back in 1882, the Republicans elected
United States Senator in New Jersey
by the relatively narrow margin of
$4,000 votes.
Margin Reduced Since 1884.
Then in 1884. the Democrats carried
New Jersey for the United States
Senatorship, Mr.. Moore being the
Democratic nominee, and the margin
was 2;1, 1000.
But in 1896, the Democrats reduced
their gain somewhat when they elected
United States Senator by 176,00D
Nov in 1887 this lead is still further
reduced, the margin of Mr.. Moore's
victory being only $4,000.
1t is not often that comparison can
be mide four years apart in a State
wide election and the only reason is
that Mr.. Moore, who has twice before
been Governor, chooses to resign from
the Senate to run for a third but not
q consecutive third term as Governor.
Patty lines are undoubtedly stiffen-
ing In New Jersey, or else Mr.. Moore
wouli not have gone from a 231 900 to
45D00 majority.
Even more significant evidence of
the shift in party of many voters is
to bt found in New York State, where
the Republicans increased their repre-
sentstion in the Assembly and won
control of the proposed constitutional
convention in a Statewide test for
delegates.
Barton Victory Important
Again in the congressional election
IN the seventeenth district. the victory
OF Bruce Barton, Republican, is an
important straw in the political winds.
Looking back at the records in this
district, it will be found that the late
Theodore A. Peyser, Democrat. carried
the district by 6,62l votes in 1892,
and again by $3.50 votes in 1884 and
by 7,181, votes in 1886. This three
time Democratic majority has now
been reversed and Mr. Barton, with a
Labor candidate and Democrat in
the field against him, had a clear
mapority of BOTS against both of
them and a plurality of 12,773 against
his Democratic opponent.
The New York mayoralty election
did not yield any national inferences
unless one is to be drawn from the
fact that Jim Farley supported the
regular Democratic nominee and lost,
while Secretary Ickes supported Mayor
La Guardia and the latter won.
Mr.. La Guardia ran as Republican,
and though he had conservative as well
rs radical support, the common de-
nominator of his strength was an anti
Tammany feeling on the part of the
voters irrespective of party or national
questions.
President Embarrassed.
President Roosevelt is the only
political personality who is slightly
embarrassed by the New York City
election. He has been assiduously
cultivating the notion that the press
has lost its influence. Many New
Dealers have been saying that news
paper support doesn't help elect a
candidate to public Office and that
newspaper opposition is bound to
accrue to the benefit of the candidate
who is not given editorial help.
But in the New York City election
this week Mayor La Guardia had not
. single newspaper openly against him
and with the exception of one or two
neutrals the backing of the newspapers
Of New York City was virtually unani-
NOUS Thus the New York Times,
Democrat, which supported Mr.. Roose-
welt In 1886, and the New York Herald
Tribune, which supported Gov. Landon