Evening star., 1938-11-10

publican ranks
in many in LAWRENCE
stances were won by younger men,
not identified with old guard Re-
publicaniSm, and by candidates who
openly expressed sympathy with
the objectives Of the New Deal,
though disagreeing with its meth
DDS and administrative behavior.
Impressions gained from a study of
the returns can best be enumerated
as follows:
l. Young men were swept into Of
flee. The very thing President
Roosevelt decried in his radio talk
about Thomas E. Dewey was ac-
cepted in other States as a good
thing by the voters who elected
younger men for Governor in States
like Minnesota, Rhode Island and
Kansas.
Promises Real 1910 Opposition.
2. The Republican party does not
need to change its name, but it has
changed its leadership and, as such,
will make formidable opposition
party at the polls in 1910.
3. The Democrats lost heavily in
the farm areas due to low farm
prices and, likewise, lost substan-
TALLY in the cities because the labor
vote divided as consequence of
G. I. GA. F.. of L. friction and dis
content arising from economic losses
70 the workers growing out of sit
down strikes.
4. The Wagner Labor Act has not
been repudiated. but there is a sub
stantial sentiment manifest in Ohio
and Michigan-the industrial Mid
west-for changes which will cut
down the amount of labor strife.
Senator Wagners signal victory in
New York, running way ahead of
Gov. Lehman, cannot be interpreted
as a dislike of the basic purposes
of the law he sponsored.
5. The people still vote against
corruption and machine rule. They
dislike bureaucracy and hence
struck blow at the Wisconsin bu-
reaucracy of the La Follettes, as
we'll as at the Hague machine in
New Jersey, the Curley machine in
Boston, and the Guffey-Earle ma
chine in Pennsylvania. The vote
for Dewey in New York State was
a remarkable demonstration of
agreement with him on his fight
against racketeers.
Dewey Not Killed"
6. Dewey has by no means been
removed as 1910 presidential pos
sibility. His defeat was due to re-
sentiment in New York City for his
attacks on Tammany His youth
was an asset. Lehman's strength
was the fact that he was not at
heart a New Deal extremist, but a
nan in whom the conservatives had
even more confidence than they had
IN the ambitious district attorney
7. The Republicans have made
remarkable progress toward vote
getting in 1910. Whereas they had
only few governorships, they to-
day control l8 States in the North
outside of the solid South. while the
Democrats have 10 in the North. Of
the 10, three Democratic Governors
are in such normally Democratic
States as Maryland, Kentucky and
Oklahoma, SO that in the States
with the big electoral votes the Re-
publicans can now begin to furnish
through the State Offices the begin
nings of rejuvenated party
strength.
8. Figured on electoral votes, the
Republicans won States amounting
to 220 electoral votes, whereas the
Democratic strength, including the
solid South, would on the same
basis be about 3l1 votes. This is a
far different picture from that
which confronted the Republican
party on the day after election two
years ago, when all but two States
gave their electoral votes to the
New Deal
9. Democratic Senators of the
independent group who refused to
accept Mr.. Roosevelt's plan to
pack" the Supreme Court Jared we'll
on the whole, though two or three
of them were running neck and neck
till the final count. These Demo-
Gratis unquestionably had Republican
support-a lesson to other Democrats
who come up for election in 1910.
Senator Bulkley in Ohio, who sup
ported the packing plan, was
beaten by the very Republicans who
helped elect him six years ago.
W.P A. Wanes as a Power.
10. The w. P. A. vote was not as
we'll organized this time. Fears of
election watchers and their cameras,
as well as of the warnings of the
Senate Investigating Committee that
it might recommend unseating. may
have had something to do with it.
For If there were, as estimated, 40,-
1000 persons at the polls, what
has become of the other 100000
who voted two years ago? They
must have been the balance of power
in the 1886 election and many of
them were in the low-income groups
who ordinarily do not vote unless
transported to the polls or coerced
IL. II the final tally shows IS
Republican seats gained, this, when
added to the 80 Republicans, makes
a total of 1853, but to this should be
added the 100 independent Demo-
Gratis in the House, thus assuring
about 263 votes against extreme
measures of the New Deal, which is
a margin of IS more than necessary.
In the Senate the anti-New Deal
strength will be considerably aug
mented and an opposition much
more aggressive than heretofore can
be expected.
IL. Effects on 1910 are likely to
be made more clear after Congress
meets. President Roosevelt's cohorts
will insist on drafting him on the
theory that he alone can save the
party from defeat. Mr.. Roosevelt
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