The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-07
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The margin of third term tri- umph still is growing in the second day after the election. MT. Roose- welt boiled 25,203,904 popular votes and 468 in the electoral college. The bare majority sufficient to elect is 266. Wendell L. Willkie boiled 20,- 42,S64, the largest vote ever cast for a losing candidate. Only Herbert Hoover in 1928 and MT. Roosevelt in his three successful presidential at- temps ever topped the 20,00O,OO0 figure.
 But MT. Willkie won only 63 elec- toral votes. The division of the elec- torate was approximately 55 per cent for MT. Roosevelt and 45 per cent for Willkie But the division of government power is far differ ent with the executive branch 100 per cent New Deal, the supreme court containing five-to-four maj ority of young New Deal blood and only congress a political arena where administration bulwarks might soon be broken either by a coalition anti-New Deal movement or by vote of the electorate in 1922,
 The Democratic party organiza- ton has been taken over by the New Deal. Vice President John N. Gar ner is self-exiled in UValde, Texas. James A. Farley, aspired 10 the na- tional ticket this year is out of the cabinet and of the party chairman ship. The President has checked the conservatives and moved them far from the seats of party power. He pledged that this would be his last term, but as of today he is in a position to name his successor as surely as he made himself available for renomination in Chicago last July.
 Great Cabinet Changes
 There are rumors of cabinet changes-that Frank c. Walker may abandon his stop gap tenure as Postmaster General and that Sec retary of Labor Frances Perkins may be sacrificed to organized labor's op- position and Mir. Roosevelt's urgent desire for peace among the unions He has indicated that fulfillment of John L. Lewis pledge to retire as president of the Congress of Indus trial Organizations would be re- garded as an affirmative move toward labor peace.
 ,a Friends of Secretary of State Cor den Hull have believed for some time that he desired 10 leave the cnbinet on Januar" 20, the end of MT. Roosevelts second term. These cabinet changes would offer an op- portunity for further widening of the cabinets base. It already con- tains two notable Republicans, Sec- fetary of Navy Frank Knox and Secretary of War Henry l.. Stimson. 2 Secretary of Interior Harold l. Eckes is a former Bull Mooser and Henry A. Wallace, the vice-president alect was Republican so far as anycne knew before he joined MT. RooSevelts cabinet as secretary of agriculture in 1883. There has been Speculation whether MT. Roosevelt might summon Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, of New York to WaSh- ington for national defense duties, either as successor to Stimson or to head up the a-departmental re- armament effort.
 Supreme Court Changes
 g Changes in the supreme court Seera almost inevitable. Chief Jus tice Charles Evans Hughes and As- Sociation Justices James Clark Me- Reynolds are 7S years old. Wash ington long has believed that Me- Reynolds-bitterest of the anti-NeW Dealers-was remaining on the bench merely to avoid being suc- ceeded by a Roosevelt appointee.
 Associate. Justice Harlan Fiske Stone is 68 And Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts Is 65. One pub nshed report was that Attorney Gen. eral Robert H. Jackson would be in line to succeed MT. Hughes if the chief justice resigned and that Thomas G. Corcoran, who called the tune for much of the New Deal re- form and reorganization, would be solicitor general. But Corcoran has announced his retirement from politics. A briskly lucrative law practice probably awaits him here. The possibility of break in New Deal-Democrati congressional align ments cannot be overlooked. Con- servative congressional Democrats were bolting in all directions just over year ago when long, angry Session ended on August 5. But the war hit Europe and legislators who had sworn to oppose a third term and practically all major legis- lation spon@Ted by the President, swung back Into line. Pressure of External affairs may hold those lines intact and she probability of an armaments Boom will further dis courage bolts and defection. But The focus of political opposition to the New Deal lies in congress alone where conservative Democrats must