Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-09
You Can Put
Own Slant
On Election
But PeeIer Thinks Voters
Got Fed Up
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

7 SUPPOSE every one will in
terpret the election returns to
his own liking, and ! am sure
that goes for me. but I can't
sound any funnier than Vice
President Wallace, who found
in the robust reaction of the
voters against New Dealism
demonstration of the Presidents
great popularity and indicated
the majority of those who voted
as well-to-do slackers with time
on their hands or dumb farmers
who inherit their politics and
can't think out things political.
Did any man in so high office
ever insult so openly not only
the intelligence, but the quality,
of the majority in an American
election?
My Interpretation is that the
people finally got sick of the
cynicism which could bring
about a political alliance be-
tween the governing party OF
the nation. with its mouthy pro-
fessions Of pure idealism, and
the corrupt machines of Jersey
and Chicago. and with the rae
keteers, grafters and dictators
of some unions.
was particularly impressed
with the fact that this reaction
occurred In spite of the bold an
nouncement of the teamsters'
union that 1t was going to spend
as much money as might be
necessary to elect its candidates
to Congress.
That seems 10 show that union
bosses are talking beyond their
actual powers when they claim
to be able to deliver the labor
vote and that, with hundreds OF
millions Of dollars at their COM
mand.
CONTRARY to Mr.. Wallace's
view. I would say that if all
the soldiers and other fighting
men had been able to vote, the
reaction would have been even
more emph ic, in protest
against the strikes and slow
downs which have curtailed the
production of weapons and Fe-
hicles for war.
Nothing in the vote can be
interpreted, even by Goebbels,
as q reputation of the war it,
self, for no candidate was
elected who did not show an
adequate detestation OF the Nazi
and the Jap. .
Indeed. like the friends. and
even casual acquaintance. OF
Grantland Rice. who sometimes
come TO blows over the ques-
ton Of who loves him most. all
the candidates, including even
Ham Fish, the aging and incur
able adolescent, tried to Guido
one another in their hostility to
the foe.
On election night a Washing
ton journalist, who is regarded
as President Roosevelt's best
friend and severest apologist. in
a radio comment, suggested that
the President might be COM
PEELED TO submit to a draft for
a fourth term, and this gives
fairly reliable confirmation TO
the speculations which have
been published in some news
papers, notably the New York
News, and denounced as prema-
ture, indicate and descriptive.
NATURALLY, that brings us
to the subject of New York
state and the defeat OF Jim
Farley, who will now be accused
of letting down the Democratic
Party by his insistence on the
nomination of John Bennett, an
anti-New Dealer.
Well. of course, the obvious
answer to that is that the
party lost in New York because
Tom Dewey ran up a humping
plurality, given him by voters
who were motivated by the
reasons mentioned earlier in this
document and by others.
The Democratic Party would
have taken a worse beating in
New York if the President had
been able to nominate his man,
Senator Jim Mead, for that one
had nothing to offer but dumb
loyalty to the New Deal party.
which was the object of the
protest vote.
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