Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-03

campaigns are too young to justify
so confident a prophesy concerning
their result in general.
Primaries are all we will have UP
to Nov. 8. Even primaries may have
considerable significance, but thus far
Ito be sure, we have had only a few
of them) their verdicts have not been
very decisive. Except in Florida,
which was a foregone conclusion in
advance, the breaks between Demo
Gratis and Republicans have been not
far from $3.50. New Deal Democrats
have not had everything their own
wav. but neither have anti-New Deal
Democrats.
There has been no pronounced trend
as vet in four or five different di-
rections that might have been anti
,:ipated.
So Senator Bailey probably ex
presses hope rather than 100 per cent
probability.
Both Sides Split.
There is this to &c taken into &C
count:
The Democrats are much worse
split than the Republicans.
The Republicans are somewhat split
also. Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette
who once was a Republican, now Is
a Progressive Senator George w
Norris. who once called himself Re-
publican, now is an Independent. Sen
ator Hiram W. Johnson cannot bt
called an unqualified Republican.
Nearly all Republicans are more IL
l. ~ hn lilo San.
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg.
But Vandenberg is enough half-and-
half possibly to unite most of Repub
licanism under his banner-except
maybe Norris and La Toilette. He
might annex some erstwhile Demo
Gratis likewise-such as Senators Mil
lard e. Tydings, Bailey, Walter F
George and a few others.
The Democratic split. however, Is
wide open.
Bitter Ants.
Anti-New Deal Democrats are as
,..itterly antiRooseveltian as are any
epublicans-maybe more so.
And the anti-New Deal Democrats
constantly are becoming more anti
Rooseveltian-as witness expressions
by Senators Bailey, George, Tydings
Byrd and Glass of Virginia, King OF
Utah, Pat Harrison and Burton K
Wheeler of Montana.
Don't Like F. d. r. Aides.
Democratic hostility is not ex
clusively hostile to President Roose-
velt.
What makes party politicians boil
is the thought that they are being
dictated to-, not by the White House
itself, but by such unofficials as
Tommy the Cork, Ben Cohen"
Jimmy Roosevelt and Charley
West.
Stewards View.
do not find any fault with Secre-
tarv of the Interior Ickes' or Relief
Administrator Hopkins suggestions.
Ickes and Hopkins accept respon-
sibility.
Hopkins, for example, tells how he'd
vote in his old home state. l think
that is his privilege, as a citizen, OF
ex-citizen.
But Tommy the Cork, "Ber
Cohen, and young Jimmie?
It's quite a lot like leaving it tt
Colonel House whether we ought tC
go into the World War or not.
Democrats Can't Lose.
But as to who will win in the com
ing election?
AS a party, the Democrats will win
Mathematically they cannot lose i
the Senate Theoretically they car
lose in the House of Representatives
but practically, no.
They, can lose some seats, but not
their majority
New Deal Can Lose.
But the New Deal can lose.
. 1t can lose lot of seats to the Re-
.)ublicans.
And it can lose a lot of seats from
New Deal to anti-New Deal Demo
Gratis.
The parties are in process of re
alignment.
Two new politico-economic parties
are opposing one another-not Dem
ocrats and Republicans.