Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1936, Page 3

BELIEVED CERTAIN Democratic Party of Old Order Wiped Out by Election Record. BY JAY G. HAYDEN. One-party government—and to a greater extent than ever before in American history one-man govern= ment—was created when the Repube lican and all other opposition parties were swept almost completely from the political map in Tuesday’s elec- tion. The Democratic party as it existed before Franklin D. Roosevelt just as definitely has passed out of existence. The New Deal is in the saddle, and the supreme political question of the next 2 or 4 or 8 or 20 years, as the case may be, is whether, when an effective opposition to this regime forms, it will be to the right or the left of it. There has been nothing comparable with this situation in the United States gince the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800, which inaugu- rated the so-called “era of good feel- #g” The Democrats then held sway, practically without organized resist- ance, for 24 years, and it was not until the Republican party was formed In 1854 on the issue of human slavery that a really coherent opposition was created. The collapse of the Republican party, in fact, is more complete than was the collapse of the Federalist party in 1800. The whole of New England then held on, and New Eng- land in that day was a substantial part of the Nation. Now the Repub- lican toehold is reduced to the two small States of Maine and Vermont. Cities in Ascendency. Of far-reaching significance is the fact, also, that the urban industrial communities of the country, which, in the congressional reapportionment of 1931 attained something approaching the representation to which their pop- ulation entitles them, for the first time have made their voting strength fully felt. No less than the New Deal and President Roosevelt, the cities are in the ascendency as a result of this election. By comparison with the regime that Thomas Jefferson instituted, it is not meant to suggest that the Nation is | epproaching a period of political peace and contentment. The “era of good feeling” of that faraway time, in fact, was & misnomer. There has been no more virulent political period in his- tory than the successive administra- tions of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. But, in that time, the fighting was | between Democratic factions, and it will be so with the New Deal in the months ahead. In the campaign just ended, a po- litical left wing for the first time has taken shape in the United States, backed by the great voting strength | of the cities and answering to the leadership of such men as John L.| Lewis, who aspires to form a labor | party; the La Follettes of Wisconsin, Earle of Pennsylvania, Norris of Ne- | braska, Murphy of Michigan, La Guardia of New York and others of | the same stamp. These men not only will control a large voting strength in the new cam- paigns but they know what they want and they have intelligent leadership. Fighting of Factions. Against them eventually will be arrayed the old-school Democrats of the rural South and West, and it is between these factions that the fight- ing within the New Deal during the coming two years will rage. Inevitably, this battle will center to a great extent around the Supreme Court, which more than ever is left as the one effective brake on the President and Congress. 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Prequent trips to other Eastern ¢lties, “Dependable Service Since 1896.” \NSFER & STORAGE by 2,500 votes. act, which awaits only the attempt actually to collect the payroll taxes | on January 1 to bring it before the court. Lawyers are almost unanimously of the opinion that the court, if it | remains as now constituted, will de- }clnre both of these laws unconstitu- tional. And by so doing it will create | two of the major points of conflict of | the next two years. The labor relations act is an at- | tempt to preserve the Federal control of relations between employers and employes which was nullified in the previous decisions of the Supreme Court on the N. R. A. and the Guffey coal act. this regard is not a matter of doubt. | It was expressed in his last major | speech of the campaign, at New York. “Of course,” he said, “we will con- tinue to seek to improve working con- | ditions for the workers of America— to reduce hours overlong, to increase wages that spell starvation, to end the | labor of children, to wipe out sweat- shops, Fight Just Begun. “Of course, we will continue every effort to end monopoly in business, t3 support collective bargaining, to stop unfair competition, to abolish dishoa- orable trade practices. For all of these we have only just begun to fight.” There could be no more complete in- dorsement of the ideas that were em- bodied in the N. R. A. and the Guffey | coal bill and which remain on the | statute books in the Wagner act, no less definitely, the President stood foursquare for the fundamentals of the social security act. On the side of agriculture, he de- clared for a return to crop control in some form when he asserted that “we will do all in our power to end the | piling up of huge surpluses * * * and to persist in effective action for a stable food supply.” No method yet has been suggested for controlling surpluses except by some form of production control. The obstacle to the attainment of these ends obviously is the Supreme Court. The biggest single question cf the months ahead is what the Presi- dent will do about the court. Six of the nine justices are past 70 years of age and five of them are past 74 years of age. It is entirely probable that Mr. Roosevelt before long will have the oppertunity to appoint enough members to give him control of the court, and if he chooses not to wait, but to gain control by increasing the court membership, the election un- questionably has given him the votes in Congress necessary to accomplish this step. But any move affecting the court NOW ... 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