Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1938 — Page 9

"THURSDAY, NOV. 10,

Roosevelt Facing Choice of Alliance With Right or Left; G.O. P. 1940 Hope Stimulated

Democratic Field Is Cut; Hoover Calls for Coalition.

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEw YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P).— An abrupt national swing toward the Republican Party gave President Roosevelt good ground today either to close ranks with Left Wingers or form an alliance with conservative Democrats for the 1940 Presidential campaign. Tuesday’s general election cut down promising Administration political timber. It left Mr. Roosevelt still more emphatically the strongest man in sight to head a 100 per cent New Deal ticket in 1940. Stocks were up and business apparently reassured by the Republican victories. Left Wing leaders at once saw the danger of their di- . vided house and set about to consolidate. New York City Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia, fusion leader and American Labor Party statesman, summoned outstanding progressive leaders to meet in Washington next week—object, coalition. Mayor La Guardia called the election a ‘“decided setback.”

_ Hamilton Cites Responsibility

President Roosevelt, at his Hyde Park, N. Y., home, was less specific. Spokesmen said he was “feeling very happy and very grand.” . Former President Herbert C. Hoover raised the conservative coalition flag and called upon conservative Democrats to join Republicans to stop the New Deal. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton said the results placed a great responsibility upon the Republican Party. The returns add up to something considerably short of an election landslide. The Administration retains large Congressional majorities, but the opposition has come out of a coma. Furthermore, not all the legislators tagged “Democrat” will be found in New Deal ranks. There is a sizable bloc which may be ready to bolt the President. Rebuff now from Democratic conservatives and alliance of the Left Wing New Deal with so-called radical minor parties might draw Mr. Roosevelt into another race and the issue two years hence would be—a third term.

Compromise Seeins Unlikely

His decisions are just around that corner. Factors favoring a return of conservative Democratic influence in Administration counsels include the practical possibility that anti-New Deal Democrats may join with the reinforced Republican Party in Congress next session to junk new Roosevelt legislation and reshape that which already is law. Opposing a fundamental reconciliation of the so-called Garner-Far-ley Democrats with the New Deal is the Roosevelt habit of hitting the oftener as the going becomes hard. Compromise has not been a major part of the New Deal program since Mr. Roosevelt took over in Washington on March 4, 1933. There will be diversity of judgment whether Tuesday's voting materially reduced Mr. Roosevelt's personal popularity or added to his stature in the New Deal-Democratic Party by demonstrating the weaknesses of some of his colleagues. Agriculture Secretary Wallace's 1940 Presidential chances or aspirations —if any—were in at least a morn-ing-after slump as farm belt vates were tabulated in haphazard but persuasively unfriendly expression of dissatisfaction with his agricultural program. Crop prices are off and Secretary Wallace is far from the top of the “available” list until the prices bounce back more than a little.

McNutt May Suffer

Old-line Democratic leaders, including Chairman Farley of the National Committee, never looked kindly upon Secretary Wallace for 1940, anyway. They regard him as a Johnny-Come-Lately former Republican to whom they would not offer the White House without a real fight. Pennsylvania took Democratic Governor Earle out of the Presidential parade by retiring him to private life. Governor Murphy, the highest-proof New Dealer of them all, fell out of ranks in Michigan. WPA Administrator Hopkins was partly—perhaps largely—responsible for the abortive 1938 effort to “purge” conservatives in Democratic primaries and the political penalty for a bad guess usually is severe. Along with potential New Deal candidates in 1940, the Presidential plans of High Commissioner McNutt of the Philippines seemed to be falling apart in Indiana, where there was an upturn of Republican strength that surprised even the G. 0. P. . Mr. McNutt plans to return home early next year to begin his campaign for the nomination. Something happened on Tuesday to the carefully adjusted political machine with which Mr. Farley in full partnership with Mr. Roosevelt delivered the amazing pluralities and majorities of 1932-34-36. There have been rumors that the Roose-velt-Farley partnership has been falling apart and that New Deal political medicine was being prescribed by the Corcoran - Hopkins - Cohen brain trust, assailed by conservatives as the “palace guard.” Their prestige began a retreat some months ago when New Deal primary “purge” bullets began blowing out through the breeches instead of the muzzles of Administration guns.

All these reverses and defeats—|

still far short of shifting control of Congress and considerably less than a clean sweep of Democratic officials from their jobs—represent

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LIBERAL GROUP T0 SCAN LOSSES

La Guardia Calls Conference With La Follette, Norris And Murphy.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (U. P.).— Mayor F. H. La Guardia today invited all liberal leaders to meet with him in Washington next week to solidify their forces in the face of losses in Tuesday's election. He asked particularly Senator Robert M. La Follette, (Prog. Wis.), Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.) and Governor Murphy of Michigan, who was defeated for re-election. “As I analyze the results of the election, I believe one must be realistic about it and admit that the progressive forces in several states seemingly have been disintegrated,” he said. “Eliminating New Jersey, where 1 do not think the question of progressivism enters at all, I am willing to admit that there has been a decided setback. That is because the political sashay has not been perfected. “You have a situation of supporters of progressive, humane, economic welfare legislation being opposed by the old-line parties; you have candidates in the Democratic Party who are not sympathetic with progressive legislation, and you have progressive candidates in the Republican Party who do not agree with the confrol and management of the party, and the result is an increased strength to the forces of reaction.

Labor Party Loses

“That means but one thing—the progressive forces in this country have got to get together. It alSo means that labor must adjust its differences, and it also means that there must be a well-defined, clear, concise, progressive program.” 5 A feature of the election in New York was the setback of the American Labor Party, which united with Republicans to elect Mr. La Guardia Mayor in 1936. The party polled slightly more than 400,000 votes Tyesday, compared to 513,000 last year when it elected five state assemblymen. These five were defeated Tuesday, and although the party elected one other assemblyman, it failed to defeat Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. and Controller Morris S. Tremaine, both Democrats. They were the only candidates on the Democratic ticket whom the Labor Party refused to indorse. The Socialist Party, which polled less than 20,000 votes Tuesday, apparently because many of its members deserted to support Governor Lehman, the Democratic candidate, lost its standing. on the ballot. A party needs 50,000 statewide votes for recognition in New York. Communists made their best showing in history in polling more than 100,000 votes for Israel Amter for Congressman - at - Large, their only statewide candidate.

a vigorous return toward the twoparty system and, probably, a skid or two in Washington as conservatives yank the brakes on the New Deal. But the long view interpretation of the new trend is that it is more likely finally to obtain new administrative approaches to national problems rather than an abandonment of the regulatory machinery, reform organization -and restrictive powers established since Mr. Roosevelt took office. There was unmistakable evidence Tuesday of a rightward shift among the electorate. Some observers interpret it, and probably correctly, as a shift of the middle class from the New Deal to the Republican standard. It involved general and inevitable dissatisfaction with the “ins,” whoever they might have been. More significantly, Tuesday's voting took place after a Roosevelt depression. The campaign proceeded under conditions of unemployment not substantially relieved, of uproar among organized laboring men and after experiences with new sit-down and allied strike techniques which aparently aiarmed some. millions of persons. The budget is out of balance and has been throughout the Roosevelt Administration—a sore matter with some of the thrifty. And Mr. Roosevelt had been charged with seeking too much power. Considerable potential power was voted away from him this week by Americans from - coast to coast, including, aoubtless a goodly few whom he has been properly in the habit of addressing as “my friends.”

Labor’s Power Appears Diminished; Third Parties Lose.

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—The 1940 Presidential puzzle has shifted into a new and much more intriguing pattern as a result of Tuesday’s Republican holiday. - Broadly, as regards Republicans, the election greatly stimulated their hopes of becoming a real factor in 1940; showed a revival nationally in Congressional gains and, back at the grass roots where parties are built up, in the recapture of numerous state strongholds; brought forth new figures and enhanced strength for present party figures with Presidential possibilities. Conversely, Democrats discovered that they again have a foe come 1940. They found manifest weaknesses in party organizations hére and there, due to cat-and-dog primary fights peculiar to the Democratic breed." New Dealers saw a resurgence of conservatism which undoubtedly will strengthen the hands of anti-New Dealers at the 1940 convention.

Third Parties Crippled

Significant also in the elections Tuesday was the damage done to possible third party movements in 1940. There was the defeat of Governor Philip La Follette of Wisconsin. originator of the National Progressives of America, which blossomed forth last April, began to wilt under the summer suns and now seems to be blasted beyond hope by early November election frosts. There was the overthrow of the Farmer-Labor regime in neighboring Minnesota, always a nucleus for third party strength. And there appeared to be a diminution of labor’s political solidarity in such strongholds as Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio. Labor has been counted a factor in any third party. movement. Win Three Vital States

Republicans count most for their comeback upon the capture of state organizations which, beginning Jan. 1, will turn back to them thousands and thousands of jobs, the sustenance of party upbuilding. Their handful of six Governors was multiplied three-fold to 18 and stretched clear across the country from East and West, including the important states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. These will become active party cells. Although they lost New York by a virtual hair and, with it, the dynamic young Thomas E. Dewey who had become a modern political mircle man almost overnight, they brought out of treir election victories two new figures, as far as national = politics. go, for whom Presidential booms will be started. In Ohio, they have Senator- elect Rokert A. Taft, son of the ex-Presi-dent, something of a political miracle himself, starting as he did in the primary behind scratch, forging his way to the nomination, and then overcoming Senator Bulkley upon whom President Roosevelt bestowed his personal blessing in a trip to Ohio. Darling of ‘Big Money’ In Pennsylvania, there is the redheaded, homely, angular faced Judge Arthur H. James, Governorelect, no white hope in the eyes of liberal Republicans, but the darling of the big industrial and financial interests of Pennsylvania which back his campaign. They were assisted by the multimillionaire Philadelphia publisher, Moses H. Anenberg, who, they say, already can see Judge James in the White House in January, 1941. Return of Michigan to the Republican fold added strength to the long-accepted candidacy of Senator Vandenberg, who was picked in a post-election statement by Democratic National Chairman Farley as oe probable 1940 Republican candiate, The field will not be a small one,

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SEATS IN HOUSE, EIGHT IN SENATE

Eight Governorships Won And Three Lost for Net Rise of 11 to 18 Total.

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the combination of Republicans and Conservative Democrats which blocked such New Deal measures as the Reorganization Bill last session, but the effect of the increase of Republican strength on Democratic unity remained to be tested: Republicans gained control of

15 state delegations which previously had Democratic or other majorities. These delegates, with the total of Republican and Democratic members, are: Connecticut, (4-2); Delaware, (10); Iowa, (7-2); Minnesota, (6-1— F-L 1 and 1 doubtful); Nebraska, (3-2); New Hampshire (2-0); New Jersey, (11-3); Ohio, (15-9); Oregon, (2-1); Pennsylvania, (19-15); Rhode Island, (2-0); South Dakota, (2-0); Wisconsin, (8-0—Prog. 2); Wyoming, (1-0), and” Indiana (7-5). The new Senate will probably be composed as follows:

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now that the Republican revival indicates the nomination will not be the discounted, - bargain-counter affair it was in 1936. Other booms will begin in due season, among them, possibly, one for Rep. Bruce Barton of New York, who was reelected from Manhattan's so-called “silk stocking district.” Democrats saw one of their prospective candidates, Senator Clark of Missouri, emerge with a handsome majority to keep his place in the Senate and in the running for a candidacy said to be fancied by Vice President Garner and the Democratic conservatives.

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ever, are still in doubt. In Iowa Senator Gillette (D.) apparently had beaten former Senator Lester J. Dickinson (R). Complete unofficial returns gave Gillette a majority of 2070 votes. Mr. DickinRechecked returns gave Gillette 410,764 and Dickinson 408,694. The rest of Iowa’s Republican state candidates won. : In Indiana, Raymond E. Willis, Republican country newspaper editor, was giving Senator VanNuys (D.) a hard fight, but with reports practically complete Senator Van-

Nuys had a& lead of about 4000 votes.

Third Parties Beaten

The Republicans also eclipsed third parties in two states. They turned Governor Phil La Follette out in Wisconsin, where he hoped to build his Progressives into a national party, and they defeated Governor Benson, Farmer-Laborite, in Minnesota. The South, of course, remained solidly Democratic, but two border states elected Republicans to the House — Rep. John M. Robsion of Kentucky and A. C. Schiffler of West Virginia, who defeated Rep. Robert L. Ramsay (D.). Three of five women House members were re-elected and two were defeated. Those re-elected were Caroline O'Day (D. N. Y.), friend of Mrs. Roosevelt; Edith Nourse Rogers (R. (Mass), Mary T. Norton (D. N. J.). Rep. Nan Wood Honeyman (D. Ore.) and Rep. Virginia E. Jenckes (D. Ind.) lost. In Illinois a Republican woman judge, Jessie Summer, defeated Rep. James A. Meeks (D.).

Liberals Are Defeated

Democratic committee chairmen of the House with the exception of Rep. John J. O'Connor, N. Y., were re-elected. The members of the House liberal bloc defeated were Maury Maverick, who lost out in the primary, Jerry O’Connel (D. Mont.), Gerald Boileau (Prog. Wis.), John T. Bernard (F.-L. Minn.), Thomas O'Malley (D. Wis.). In California, Rep. Byron Scott (D), was trailing. Another Congressional New Dealer defeated was Senator McGill, (D. Kas.), who lost to former Governor Clyde Reed (R.). Senator MecGill was co-author of the Administration’s present farm bill. The other author, Senator Pope (D.

Idaho), fell in the primaries.

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