Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-09
POLITICAL
PARADE
-ByG.R R.
Brown

"a welt apparently has regained
so much ground since February
that he now appears to be well
out in front, the Republican
slump thus far extends only 10
the presidential contest.
In the campaign for Congress
already vigorously under way,
the minority party is still gain
ing and the indications are that
IL Mr.. Roosevelt is reelected for
a fourth term he will have 10
deal with a strongly Republican
House of Representatives.
The people appear to have
made up their minds that If
MIR. Roosevelt should succeed
under the persuasive argument
of war in perpetuating himself
in office, a legislative check
must be imposed upon him
which will hold him to strict ac-
countability.
The House is strongly en-
dowed by the Constitution TO
place a check upon a president
even in the field of foreign re-
lations through the appropriate
ing power.
ALTHOUGH many Republican
"a leaders are fully aware of
Mr.. Roosevelt's strength, even
under the handicap of fourth
fifth term campaign. they are
still supremacy confident that
their party will carry the House
in November, probably by
very large majority.
To put il another way, Mr..
Roosevelt Is stronger than his
party and stronger than his
party is likely to be again for
some years.
All reports reaching Repub-
lican congressional campaign
headquarters here sustain this
optimistic view in so far as the
House of Representatives in the
new Seventy-ninth Congress is
concerned.
DEP. CHARLES HALLECK
~ of Indiana, who became
chairman of the Republican
campaign committee in Decem-
Der, has completed very COM
pact and adequately financed
organization, perhaps the best
that COP members of the House
have had behind them in long
time.
He has organized right down
to the grass roots and the cob
bic stones in country and city
districts. His record thus far is
good. although he took over as
committee chairman a week
after the Fourth Kentucky Dis
trict, strongly Democratic, sur
priSed the country by going Re-
publican on Nov. 30, 1943.
Since then there have been
special congressional elections
in eight districts scattered
among five states. OF these
eight seats the Republicans took
four for a net gain of three
seats. The Democrats held their
own in four strongly Demo-
cratic districts, two in New
York. and one each in Okla
homa and Alabama.
The Republicans held one
seat and gained one in Penn
sylvania-in the heart of Phil
adelphia; picked up a strong
Democratic seat in Colorado,
the Denver district, and this
week elected their candidate in
the Staten Island-Lower Man
haitian district of New York
City. which never had gone Re-
publican since 1902.
DEPUBLICAN gains have
~ been on the increase in
rural districts since the cleo
tions of 1888. The party has
now been demonstrating that
so far as the House of Repre-
sentatives concerned 1t is
increasing its standing with
voters in the big cities where
the Dem ocrats have been
strongest under the New Deal.
The next special congressional
election will be held on June ID
in the down state nineteenth
Illinois district to fill vacancy
in strong Republican district.
AS this is written, the Demo-
Gratis as yet have not nominated
a candidate for this seat.
No date has been set for a
special election in the seventh
Illinois district OF Chicago TO
fill Democratic vacancy.
Also, there is a Democratic
vacancy in the sixteenth Cali
fornia district. Thus the Re-
publicans have a chance, even
il no further vacancies occur,
to gain two more seats before
the general elections in No
Vember.
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