Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1938 — Page 8
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By LEE G. MILLER = Times Special Writer . “+ WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—The Tubber-stamp brigade took a trimming at the polls this week.
Among the Democratic Senators ‘who failed of re-election were three of the most thoroughgoing Rooseveltians in = Congress—Senators Duffy (Wis), Brown (N. H.) and McGill (Kas).
Two Democrats who sought admission to the Senate as 100-per-centers—Governor Earle (Pa.) and ol (N: J)—also fell by the wayside. >
" Mr. Ely had promised “to support President Roosevelt in any pdlicy “he may propose.” But the supposedly invincible power of Mayor Frank Hague, plus speeches by two Cabinet members, failed to put him over. Mr. Earle was one of three Governors who went on record for a Roosevelt third term. The two others, Murphy (D. Mich.) and Benson (F.-L. Minn.), failed of reelection despite praise by the President. Earlier, in the primaries, three practitioners of 100 percentism were crushed by conservative Democratic Senators whom they sought to replace—Rep. Lewis by Senator Tydings (Md.), Governor: Johnston by Senator Smith (S. C.), and Camp by Senator George (Ga.).
Conservatism Ahead
In most or all of these contests “the “rubber stamp” issue was complicated by local matters, the prestige of personalities and other factors. But the fact remains that the “coattail riders” were licked, and - the effect is almost certain to be an _increased insurgency among conservative Democrats in Congress. ~~ The Southerners, in particular, may rally behind some such aggres- ", sive and ambitious figure as Senator Harrison, Senator Clark or Senator Tydings—with Vice President Garner lending aid and counsel—in op“position to any drastic reform measures that may emanate from the ‘White House. The President, however, said in an interview last month thdt he planned no “new departures,” and ‘that he expected to confine his leadership to the extension and development of reforms already accepted. ‘If he hews to that, a major revolt may be avoided. Those who deduce from the election returns that the average voter respects legislators of independent thought and action can find support in a recent cross-section poll by - “Fortune.”
Only Two Were 100 Percenters
The magazine asked people in all walks of life, all over the country,
Ely, Earle Beaten
Governor Earle
The “winners” were: Borah, 28.6 per cent; Glass, 14.7 per cent; Vandenberg, 12.2 per cent; Norris, 5.7 per cent; Wagner, 4.6 per cent; Wheeler, 4.6 per cent; La Follette, 4 per cent; Barkley, 2.9 per cent; Nye, 2.5 per cent; Lodge, 2 per cent; Hiram Johnsoh, 1.5 per cent; Capper, 1.1 per cent. Of these dozen men, only Senators Wagner (D. N. Y.) and Barkley (D. Ky.) could be called 100 percenters. Certainly Senators ‘Borah,
Glass, Norris, Wheeler, La Follette, Nye and Hiram Johnson have seldom let their party affiliations dictate their votes. Further, Fortune found that a majority of people thought a lawmaker should follow his judgment on any vote rather than the desires of his constituents. Among the Democrats who have thumbed their noses at the White House on major issues and who were re-elected this week were Senators Adams (Colo.), Clark (Mo.) and McCarran (Nev.), in addition to the Southerners who survived the primary purge. Also, two House Democrats who won Senate seats—Rep. Clark in Idaho and Rep. Lucas in Illinois—have never been 100 percenters. Rep. Clark unseated the Rooseveltian Senator Pope in the prima¥y, and Rep. Lucas replaces the Rooseveltian Senator Dieterich, who did not seek re-election.
Look to January
On the other hand, disciples of party loyalty to the re-election of Senator Wagner (D. N. Y.), elevation to the Senate of Rep. Mead (D. N. Y.), election of the Rooseveltindorsed Sheridan Downey to the Senate from California, and the return of such Senators as Pepper
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California program, which the electorate rejected four years ago. Mr. Olson expected to accomplish his
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The details were incampaign and post-election statements: the plan would embody much of Mr. Sinclair's E. P. I. C.
There would be State aid for selfhelp co-operatives, which unemployed artisans might join; idle farmers. could raise and can their products, and jobless mechanics might rehabilitate idle factories. Work also would be provided in reclaiming arid lands, in improving irrigation systems, in reforestation, and in reducing salinity of coastal lands for . agriculture. Mr. Sinclair's E. P. I. C. envisaged eventual elimination of the profit motive, but the more conservative Olson has not committed himself on that point.
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“ E figure on placing the unemployed in productive work, thereby reducing taxation,” he said.
CUSTOMER GETS GAS, LEAVES FAKE BILL
Police today sought a motorist who left a filling station attendant with a $1000 coupon of imitation money in payment for gasoline. Frank Manners, attendant at a station at 25th and Rural Sts., said he thought the fake money was a $10 bill but that when he unfolded it he found it was only a coupon.
Elmer Thomas (Okla.) and Elbert Thomas (Utah). While Senator Bulkley (D. O.) ran as a New Dealer, and with Roosevelt support, his New Deal voting record was by no means consistent. Neither were those of Senators Lonergan (D. Conn.), Gillette (D. Iowa) and VanNuys (D. Ind.).
California's Chief Maps Ip, Mooney Plans
Prisoner’s Enemies May Be Required to Prove He Was Convicted Fairly.
AN -FRANCISCO, Nov. 10 (U. P.) —Culbert L. Olson, California’s
in 44 years, outlined two major
to self-help programs for the un-
employed. The other would be a hearing at which persons wishing to keep Tom Mooney in prison would be required to prove that he was not “framed” and committed to a life sentence on perjured testimony. Presumably, if the proof fails, Mr. Olson would pardon him:
The decimation of the rubber|s
stamp brigade may have its first visible result in January when the Senate votes on confirming the re-,
Smith to the much-criticized Na-. tional Labor Relations Board, which’ may be the session’s first test of
The big Republican gains in the
House may be first reflected when |
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loyalty to the White House. If
a bill for more relief funds is de- fi
“We propose to use relief funds for :
the purpose.” Mooney’s freedom by pardon—denied by six Governors—rests solely with Mr. Olson, but his self-help plans must overcome a legislative barrier. The Senate will be predominately Republican. Even Democratic control of the Assembly will not be sufficient to push through his policies without an uphill fight. Previous Governors have reviewed the sentencing of Mooney for the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco in 1916 by hearing supporters testify in the prisoner’s behalf. Mr. Olson said he would hear those who want to keep Mooney in prison and demand that they prove he was convicted fairly. Mooney, grown gray within the walls of San Quentin Prison, was cheerful over Olson’s election and predicted his vindication and pardon. Although his case was aligned closely -to that of Warren K. Billings, also convicted in the bombing, Billings had a previous felony conviction and his freedom would rest finally with the California Pardon Board. Their cases have been the basis of an international labor fight for their freedom for 22 years. 8 8 » : R. OLSON is a tall, physically powerful San Francisco lawyer who was made a Democrat by the magnetism of the late William Jennings Bryan. He was born on a Utah farm, and he was a newspaperman, banker and mine owner before he was a lawyer. He was campaign manager for Mr. Sinclair's Gubernatorial race four years ago. He made no direct’ campaign reference to the $30-every-Thursday or “ham-and-eggs” pension plan sponsored by his Senator-elect running mate, Democrat Sheridan Downey. But his party program for the state included “liberal pensions for needy After resting a week, Mr. Olson planned to accept a White House invitation to discuss with President Roosevelt “progressive measures.”
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Viewed From Any Angle, It Was a Great Election; Leaves Everybody Happy
Businessmen at Last Can Look at Headlines And Smile.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— This election probably sets a record. It leaves everybody happy. Democrats—so Jim Farley says— are very, very happy at having saved New York by an eyelash. Republicans are very, very happy at having recovered Pennsylvania and Governors and Senators in some 15 states. And businessmen, too, are very, very happy to see that man in the White House get what’s coming to him. It’s the first time since some of these businessmen were office boys that they have been able to look at the newspaper headlines and smile. New Dealers lose ground! Republicans almost carry New York! Democrats thrown out in Pennsylvania! La Follette out in Wisconsin! Republicans bounce the Farmer-Labor Governor in Minnesota! Governor Murphy, the fellow who wouldn't shoot the sit-down strikers, beaten! Communists on the run! ?
Good in Any Clothes
Yes, you can dress up these election results in any kind of clothes you want. It is the perfect. election when it leaves every one thinking his crowd has won. Perhaps that’s the real answer, at that. Maybe we have all won. Anyway, businessmen have been saying during these last New Deal years that if only you could get confidence restored everybody would be put back to work, farmers would get a dollar a bushel for wheat and milk and honey would flow over the land once more. Well. now is the time for all good
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businessmen to turn on their confi-
dence. The country is back in hand again, It thinks Mr. Roosevelt has
done many fine things, but it won’t be dictated to even by him. Enough Republicans and conservative Democrats will be on hand in the next
Congress to stop any extreme meas-
ures. The Republicans are now reconstituted as a real opposition party—and of course we have been
given to understand that the Republicans stand for only constructive opposition. The Democratic political monopoly is broken and the country is in a| fair way to see a reasonably matched contest in 1940, not between radicals and reactionaries, but between two parties that both will be well inside the two extremes of political thought, merely working on opposite sides of the middle of the road. Certainly the defeat of the La Follette party kingpin, and of the Farmer-Labor Governor, and the losses suffered by the American Labor Party in New York City show that this country, wherever it is going, certainly is not going Communist. Out of the election returns we get a picture of hard-headed Democracy, zigzagging down the middle way. In other words, just what ine businessman has been asking or. Mr. Roosevelt's spending program has given business another running start. Government building orders are feeding into heavy industries now. Automobile sales indicate money is loose in the country again. Industrial production is going up rapidly. Political threats have been removed. You can’t even get up a scare over a third term now because the election returns seem to put the finish touch to that bogey which never had much substance anyway. When you look at Europe and at
peoples, caught in the clutches of cruel events that seem more appropriate to the Dark Ages than to the
20th century of the Christian era, and then turn to view the prospect in America—well, if that «aoesn't give you any confidence nothing will, We have an important defense problem, thrown at us by recent changes in the balance of power in Europe and the Far East. We have to take over on our own the defense of the Western Hemisphere. But for a nation as rich as ours, and as strategicaily secure as.ours, inat is no overwhelming task. Important but not back-breaking. And the big defense program that is coming should bring some more confidence to the businessman. After all, a defense program is carried out in the factories of the nation. A lot of businessmen who don’t like Mr. Roosevelt are going to make handsome profits out of it. So that chorus we used to hear, “Happy Days Are Here Again,” may become a national song hit yet.
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