Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1937, Page 13

* years ago. Republicans Gain, but Lose Victories Will Only Stiffen Resistance Of Conservatives. By DAVID LAWRENCE. Il SOME respects it is most un- fortunate that the Republicans made such significant gains in Tuesday’s elections, because it will enly stiffen the resistance of the ultra- eonservative elements in the party against the making of a platform and policies designed g, to win the inde- § pendent vote away from the New Deal. That the Re- publican party made substantial § gains can hardly be que stioned & when the elec- tions in New Jer- sey and New York are examined in the light of com- parable results ] two and four ", 4y awrence. Take New Jersey where Harry Moore thinks so little of . United States Senatorship nowadays in a rubber stamp Congress as to prefer to be Governor. Mr. Moore is a Democrat who voted against President Roose- velt's plan to “pack” the Supreme Court. He is personally popular but it took all the strength of the late-to- report Hudson County of ‘“boss" Hague's control to carry him to victory. Hudson. County gave Moore a 126,000 majority but the rest of the State voted against him by about 84,000. Back in 1932, the Republicans elected & United States Senator in New Jersey by the relatively narrow margin of 16,000 votes. Margin Reduced Since 1934. ‘Then in 1934, the Democrats carried New Jersey for the United States Senatcrship, Mr. Moore being the Democratic nominee, and the margin was 231,000. But in 1936, the Democrats reduced their gain somewhat when they elected a Unied States Senator by 176,00p. Now in 1937 this lead is still further reduced, the margin of Mr. Moore's victory being only 45,000. It is not often that a comparison can be mide four years apart in a State- wide election and the only reason is that Mr. Moore, who has twice before | been Governor, chooses to resign from | the Senate to run for a third but not | & corsecutive third term as Governor. | Pa‘ty lines are undoubtedly stiffen- ing in New Jersey, or else Mr. Moore wouli not have gone from a 231,000 to & 4500 majority. Ewen ‘more significant evidence of | the shift in party of many voters is to be found in New York State, where the Republicans increased their repre- zentation in the Assembly and won control of the proposed constitutional convention in a State-wide test for delegates. Barton Victory Important. Again in the congressional election in the seventeenth district, the victory of Bruce Barton, Republican, is an important straw in the political winds. Locking back at the records in this district, it will be found that the late Theodore A. Peyser, Democrat, carried the district by 6,621 votes in 1932, and again by 6,650 votes in 1934 and by 7,181, votes in 1936. This three- time Dimocratic majority has now been reversed and Mr. Barton, with a | Labor candidate and a Democrat in| the fleld against him, had a clear| mapority of 3,076 against both of | them and a plurality of 12,773 against | his Democratic opponent. The New York mayoralty election did not yield any national inferences unless one is to be drawn from the fact that Jim Farley supported the regular Democratic nominee and lost, while Secretary Ickes supported Mayor La Guardia and the latter won. Mr. La Guardia ran as a Republican, and though he had conservative as well as radical support, the common de- nominator of his strength was an anti- ‘Tammany feeling on the part of the voters irrespective of party or national questions. President Embarrassed. President Roosevelt is the only . political personality who is slightly embarrassed by the New York City election. He has been assiduously cultivating the notion that the press has lost its influence. Many New Dealers have-been saying that news- paper support doesn't help elect a candidate to public office and that newspaper opposition is bound to acerue to the benefit of the candidate who is not given editorial help. But in the New York City election this week Mayor La Guardia had not 2 single newspaper cpenly against him and with the exception of one or two neutrals the backing of the newspapers of New York City was virtually unani- mous. Thus the New York Times, Democrat, which supported Mr. Roose- velt in 1936, and the New York Herald THE _EVENING STAR, What’s Back of It All Joseph Cutran’s Retraction .of Kennedy Threat Attributed to John Lewis. By H. R. BAUKHAGE. HERE is a story, of course, behind the page-and-a-half (single- spaced) retraction by Joseph Curran, general organizer of the Maritime Union of America, of his threat to get the scalp of Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Commission. It wasn’t surprising to learn that Mr. Curran was going after a scalp—almost any one’s. It was surprising to most people to have him deny it—still more surprising to learn what—or, rather, who— was back of the denial. The “who” was the bull of the woods himself. At least, that's the story those who ought to know what to believe are believing. John Lewis, say the insiders, gave some quick and sharp orders for / the immediate delivery of one fresh olive branch to Mr. Kennedy, care of the Maritime Commission. Reason: It doesn't pay to attack one of the President’s ace advisers unless you expect to take his boss on, too. All this does not suggest that the National Maritime Union of America, which is trying to organize the sailor men for C. I. O, is going to trim its sails in the Algic case. But it ap- parently indicates that the cam- paign to build up public sentiment in favor of the “sit-downers” will be carried on with more subtlety and less billingsgate. Matters were not greatly im- preved by the Curran letter. Mr. Kennedy's friends report that he wasn't so much concerned about losirg his skull covering, anyhow, and he is reported to have been unable to discover anything about Mr. Curran’s epistolary gesture which resembled anything about an olive branch but the olive pit. * kX % A report on a “trust” is just about to burst from the files with an explo- sion that will make the “tax dodgers” investigation look pale. It is the Federal Trade Commission report on the so-called “food trust,” which was authorized by Congress in 1935. When the document was com- pleted it was so long 1t was never put in type—the Senate Committee on Printing said it would cost $127,000. There were four copies available; the House and Senate each got one, the Department of Agriculture and, of course, the etc. These copies have slumbered peacejully, to the relief of the lobbyists, until now. At the next session, they are scheduled for an aring by Senator Gillette of Iowa, who will bring them up (unless there is an “accident”) in connection with the anti-trust legislation and the jarm program. The report names names, it shows the operations of meat packers, dairy interests, cotton and wheat brokers. It covers the growth of the monopoly control in the food industry; details the profits, salaries, price spreads, violations of anti-trust laws and manipulation of prices. Investigation carried on by the Federal Trade Commission in preparing the report cost $150,000, which isn’t a patch on what some people might be willing to pay to suppress it. I The farmers of the Middle West and of Washington and Oregon are all for voluntary crop control, as provided by the Pope- McGill farm bill—at least accord= ing to Senator McGill. The Kansas Senator, with his subcommittee which went out to see what dirt farmers wanted, has yet to visit New York and Pennsylvania. ‘The solons brought back 20,000 pages of typewritten testimony. According to some Republicans who attended the meetings of farmers along the route, the Senators also brought back the assurance that, if the Congress delivers what the majority of the subcommittee believes it ought to, the Middle West will deliver the right kind of votes next year. The subcommittee includes, of course, Republican representation, Senator Frazier of North Dakota. Considering the number of Republicans in the Senate, one out of four is pretty fair representation. The subcommittee went right out and heard the unorganized as well as the organized farmers and it is generally admitted that, if anybody ever reached the grass roots, this group did. Senator Ellender of Louisiana attended only the earlier hearings; Senator Pope and the others men- tioned made the whcle swing. Alfred Stedman, director of information, who directs much more than information | label through which to express their to answer questions if he was asked. (Copyrigh! 'yl the Triple A, went along just t, 1937.) last year, both were found supporting Mayor La Guardia on the Republican ticket. His victory was one of the biggest landslides in the history of America's biggest city. All in all, the Republican party as the alternative to which voters turn when they want a convenient party protest against the Democrats is far from extinct as an intrumentality or vehicle of political action. But then again, the man who won by 11,000,000 votes last year was not on the ballot nor speaking on the stump or radio. Nor, so far as known, was the Federal machine with its public funds pay roll in the country districts and the cities operating in this week’s elections. The impression here is that the ad- ministration kept its hands off every- where, including Detroit, where the C. I O’s nominee was beaten by a mayoralty candidate whom the A. F. of L. supported. Labor has begun to use its power in politics more than ever before, and while the results this year do not refiect concrete victories, this does not mean that a Labor party will not be active in 1938 and 1940. (Copyright, 1937.) PRINCETON AIDE NAMED Louisville Mayor Is Appointed President Dodds’ Assistant. PRINCETON, N. J, Nov. 4 (#).— Appointment of Mayor Neville Miller of Louisville, Ky., as assistant to Presi- dent Harold W. Dodds of Princeton University was announced yesterday by Dr. Dobbs. Miller will assume the post January 1. Mr. Miller, who resigned the post of dean of the University of Louisville Law School to become mayor in 1933, completes his term this month. He ‘Tribune, which supported Gov. Landon DEBUNKING DUNKING WO. M BY WILKINS COFFEE & TEA was graduated from Princeton in 1916 and later from Harvard Law School. | By the Associatea Press. FIRM ENDS TESTIMONY IN UNION LABOR FIGHT Claims of Dispute Denied by Don- nelly Garment Company, Seek- ing Injunction. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 4.—Attorneys | for the Donnelly Garment Co. ended presentation of testimony yesterday in their suit before a three-judge Federal | court seeking a temporary injunction against the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers’ Union. William S. Hoggsett, company coun- | sel, introduced letters from 700 em- | ployes he said indicatéd union claims | of a “labor dispute” at the plant were | unfounded. | Union attorneys introduced a deposi- | tion from Miss Wave Tobin, union organizer, in which she charged the| company dismissed two women who gave her information on which a union letter was based alleging the Donnelly company paid wages 30 per cent under the union scale. The company con- tended it pald wages above the union scale. Mrs. Hall Heads Hikers. Mrs. Florence Hall has been elected president of the Washington Wander- lusters, Inc., it was announced by the hiking club today. Other officers chosen are Dr. M. G. Skinner, vice WASHINGTON, D. C. TH! opimions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. The Star’s effort to give all Such opinions are presented in sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions ma; themselves and directly opposed to Tz be contradictory among e Star’s. Presidential Timber La Guardia and Dewey Looked Upon as Possible G. O. P. Standard Bearers in 1940. By MARK SULLIVAN, ASHINGTON, looking on from outside, surveys the elections throughout the country from the point of view of national politics. One ques- tion is, do the scattered State elections this week show any change in the rel- ative strength of the Republican and Democratic parties? As to that, the Repub- licans seem to have made mate- rial gains in New } York State, in 3 the shape of an increased number ofmembersof the State Legis- lature and other- wise. On the oth- er hang, in New Jersey the Demo- crats elected a Governor who displaces a Republican one. A question everybody asks is wheth- er the elections this week have brought to the front any men who compose an addition to the Republican stock of material for the Republican presi~ dential nomination in 1940. This ma- terial was scant in June, 1936, when the Republicans nominated Mr. Lan- don. In the fall of 1936 Mr. Landon was beaten rather badly, and the State elections in the fall of 1936 did not produce any successful Republican candidates for Governor or Senator or other offices who seemed convincing Republican timber for 1940. Possibly it might be said that two new Repub- lican Senators elected in 1936—Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts and Mr, Bridges of New Hampshire—were an addition to the Republican presiden- tial possibilities. But the sum of that material was still scant. Earnestly Republicans looked for new figures to emerge this week. Had the Repub- lican candidate for Governor of New Jersey won, he might have qualified as an entrant. Two Figures Stand Out. In New York two figures came for- ward, almost spectacularly. Mr. La Guardia, elected Mayor of New York City in 1933 on the Fusion ticket, was this week re-elected, with Fusion sup- port, by an extraordinary majority. In cities throughout the country, in Mark Sullivan. | other New Yorks big and little, Re- publican organization heads, seeking | ways to come betk, may think they see the answer in Mr. La Guardia. They will think that Mr. La Guardia is obviously a vote-getter in city elec- torates. They will argue that what Mr. La Guardia as Republican candidate for Mayor could do in New York, he could do in other cities in 1940 as Re- publican candidate for President. But such organization Republican heads in cities throughout the country as think this way wilk be obliged to consider some handicaps. Mr. La Guardia, in addition to being the Re- publican candidate for Mayor of New York, was also the candidate of the American Labor party—and the American Labor party was organized in 1936 for the purpose of helping to re-elect President Roosevelt. Mr. La Guardia was indorsed by the Com- munist party, though this counts little; Mr. La Guardia repudiated their sup- port. For Mr. La Guardia's benefit, the Socialists refrained from having a candidate for Mayor. Mr. La Guardia in 1936 was believed to favor the re- election of Mr. Roosevelt as against Mr. Landon. These are pretty clearly handicaps to Mr. La Guardia as a Republican presidential possibility. Broke Back of Tammany. Undoubtedly the Repubiicans of New York City, in nominating Mr. La Guardia for Mayor, and in joining in a fusion to elect him, did well both for themselves and for the community. They gave the city four more years of an excellent mayor. They broke the back of Tammany, the strongest Demo~ cratic organization in the country. They materially increased the number of Republican members of the State Legislature. They materially increased the number of Republican members Jf a State constitutional convention about to be held. But whether they brought forward material for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940 re- mains to be seen. Another figure came to the front in New York City this week. A young Republican, Mr. Thomas Dewey, who had made a striking record as a special prosecutor of vice and criminal rackets, was elected prosecuting attor- ney of Manhattan. He was elected by & majority which, considering the relative circumstances, is as striking as that of Mayor La Guardia. Ordi- narily, polticians look to such a figure as a2 man of destiny. He would be expected to go higher. If, between now and 1940, Mr. Dewey should go higher, if he should be elected Republican Governor of New York State, he would undoubtedly be prominent among the Republican presidential possibilities of 1940. BROTHERS DOOMED IN INAGUA UPRISING Pair Convicted of Murder in Island Terrorism Last August. By the Associated Press. NASSAU, Bahamas, Nov. 4.—The Duvalier brothers, George and Willis, were sentenced yesterday to be hanged for a slaying in an outbreak of ter- rorism last August at Great Inagua. A jury convicted the brothers on a charge of murdering John Munroe, a | native employe of a salt works owned by the Erickson family of Swampscott, Mass. The execution date will set by the Governor, ‘The Duvaliers were brought by air- lane to Nassau for trial after their arrest several weeks ago in Haiti, The Great Inagua outlawry caused two members of the Erickson family, the British commissioner and a score of others to put to sea in a small boat. 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Prompt, Careful Developing and Printing IEA_STM_AN Kok STORES u. 607-14th Street N. W. \ A \ Eating Title Held. Ernest Renault of Laucestown, Tas- mania, has defended his title of banana eating king, and retained it. He dispoed of 44 in 40 minutes. Just before that he consumed three-quar- ters of a pound of sausages, a can of condensed milk and a bottle of cordial. The champion says he was not “streached” by his feat, evidently not referring to his physical condition. We, the Pec_;_ple La Guardia’s Re-election Seen First New Deal Victory In Its Own Right. By JAY FRANKLIN. IORELLO H. LA GUARDIA'S re-election as Mayor of New York City, by a decisive majority over the Tammany Democratic machine, marks the first open victory of the New Deal as a political move- ment in its own right, indlependent of labels and slogans. Since the metropolitan area of “Greater New York” contains one- tenth of the populatien of the United States, Fiorello’s defeat of Judge Jeremiah Mahoney % considered by New Dealers al Washington as proof of President Rooseve#/s assertion that “we have changed he moral cli- mate of Americe Now the ™ $ory of the La Guardia campaign can safely be told. From the very start Fiorello was the New Deal's candidate for America’s No. 1 Mayor. Postmaster General Farley’s indorsement of Mahoney was far from being the blunder which this column said it was last week. Mr. Farley and the New Deal administration wanted to prove that the American voters would back a man of New Deal principles and record, no matter whether he was labeled as a Démocrat, wore the ———p @s New Deal uniform or was tagged === ag pro-Roosevelt. B In the coming realignment of political parties, it was vital to prove, in fair battle, that the strongest municipal machine n political history—Tammany—even when backed by the patronage and prestige of a Farley, was power- less against a candidate who had given a “new deal” administration - to our biggest city. President Roosevelt kept his hands off and éven sent Harold L. Ickes in to make a friendly speech for Mayor La Guardia, to offset the belief that Mr. Far- ley's indorsement of Mahoney represented the President’s attitude. To lend color to the whole experiment in applied New Deal politics, it was hinted that Mr. Roosevelt was worried about Mayor La Guardia as a possible presidential candidate in 1940, and the White House maintained a scrupulous hands-off attitude while Mr. Farley went to town for the predestined loser. One other theory also had to be demonstrated, that the average Re= publican is far from happy in his enforced role as a supporter of big busi- ness toryism and is, instead, eager to prove himself capable of disinter- ested political idealism. Too many people had assumed that the 17,000,000 deluded Landonites represented an anti-social and unpatriotic element for our public life to be altogether healthy. It was common knowledge that La Guardia’s views on national politics were repugnant to the Old Guard Re- publicans. The New ¥York Republicans rose to the occasion and proved their ability to sink their prejudices in order to support a conspicuously useful progressive candidate. From the Democratic National Committee’s point of view, the result is clear gain. Not only has Tammany Hall gone over to the New Deal—lock, stock and barrel—but the result of the election sug- gests that “Tammany” politics are ceasing to be good politics in the United States. With a disciplined and traditionally an overwhelming majority party organization in the city, with full and open support from Jim Farley, the organizer of New Deal victory from Bob Wagner, the friend of labor, and from Gov. Lehman, Tammany was unable to defeat a Pusion-Republican- Labor candidate after four years of reform administration. * ok ko This is the first time that a reform Mayor has been elected to succeed himself in New York City. This, in itself, is proof that there is a revolu- tion in American party poltics. Just as Mr. Roosevelt scored a greater victory in 1936 than in 1932, 80 has La Guardia won more decisively in 1937 than in 1933. The politics of children’s playgrounds, swimming pools, parks, bridges, culture and relief proved more powerful than the old-style politics of the saloon, the political club, the bordello and the numbers racket. The task of making a city—or a nation—a decent and satisfying place for the average man proved more popular than the old game of rackets, insiders, graft, loot and special privilege as the purpose of politics. * x x ¥ It is inevitable that, after this victory, Mayor La Guardia should be prominently mentioned as a presidéntial possibility. I hope so. He is able, honest and progressive and, despite defects of temperament, is one of the best soldiers the progressive cause has ever enlisted in its battle for democracy. If there is any man in America who feels more vindicated by the outcome in New York than does La Guardia, it is Franklin Roosevelt In proof that I know whereof I speak, this column is writlen exactly one week before the date of the New York election. (Copyright, 1937) A BRAND NEW MODEL AW-101 G-E WASHER AND LOVELL WRINGER 846.95 REG. PRICE A WRINGER POST MODEL AR-4 G-E ROTARY IRONER . . . ! 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