The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-11-25
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,ropr.E CHANGING OVER
rnoM ADMINISTRATION
ByRAULMALLON

pEOPIE Ck1AN1AN1 0v6H
FROM ADMINISTRATION
wASHINGTON-I asked Ken
tucky friend of mine who is the
hest possible authority on the peo-
ME If not the politics of the state,
for an explanation of the aston
thing success of a Republican
c,barnatorial candidate in that
utmost stronghold of the admin
istration since the beginning of
the New Deal, the state which
has two Democratic senators, one
fine administration leader in the
senate. He replied:
@The people are changing over.
lin Farley had it about right in
his comment on the defeat of his
Democratic candidate in New York
when he said the people were
tired and dissatisfied with what
they have been getting"
The country too. is changing
over. The local results every
where cannot be satisfactorily ex-
planned in any other way.
The successful Kentucky Re
publican, Simeon S. Willis, is what
is known in politics as ga good
man" He is the elderly Kentucky
gentleman type, former judge,
honest, friendly.
In the past, the far distant past,
when the Republicans want
ed to win that border state, they
had to put in plenty of money.
Willis had no money at least not of
that size. The big money did not
shell out for him, probably were
not asked to.
ADMINISTRATION WORRIED
The administration rushed ev-
cry one of it's national powers
from Kentucky into the threat
ened final breach. Senate Leader
Barley and the recently cantank-
erous Happy Chandler, spent the
three weeks before election
on the formerly dark and bloody
J ground. Some Kentuckians think
this was a mistake too.
Mr.. Roosevelt once spoke in
Kentucky against Chandler in
the early New Dealing days when
Happy was trying to crash the
gate of big league politics and es-
tablish the gubernatorial machine
he has enjoyed up until last Tues
day. The Democratic candidate
was Chamberlain, ]. Lyter Dom
aldson.
Chandler is one of the senator's
in administration world policy
which were sharply and publicly
rejected by the White House.
When he and Barley rushed
back to Kentucky to get into bed
together with Donaldson and call
for UNFOLDING the President, APP
parently did not appeal to a
majority of the voters to be very
harmonious bedfellows, but just
rather just tentatively congenial.
donaldson has been described as
an ordinary gubernatorial can
didate.
In view of the background, the
explanation of Democratic Ma
uonal Chairman Frank Walker,
mat the scattered elections re-
suits did not involve national is
sues and had no national signifi-
canoe, was somewhat lacking, if
not sad.
The Republicans have won be-
lore, recently in New York, New
Jersey, Philadelphia, but not by
tnese latest majorities. The re-
suits indisputably signifl that the
republican trend, started in the
losing Wilkiie race and two years
iater turned into nearly Repub-
ncan capture of the house, has
now expanded even wider, con-
anulng in the same direction. .
what was discernible elsewhere
can now be said to be true-even
VI Kentucky. The farm vote
seems gone, labor split, the rad
,cais New York City, Detroit)
nave lost their vote-pulling pow
e. mat leaves little to work on.
whether the Presidents per-
sonaiity and unrivaled ingenuity
Idh change this, I do not know.
always thought war victory
WOULD restore whatever prestige
Mf' Roosevelt lost, but this has
now gone pretty far.
No FOURTH TERM?
! would say the scattered local
iecuon results have an unex-
sected and the deepest possible
snlIcance. They suggest to my
,iilo for the first time that Mr..
toosevelt may not run for a
a tn term. There is no better