| Show t 1 t if- if J y Jt 1 1 J i ff i f EASTERN STERN VOTE VIEWED AS A'S NEW DEAL BLOW Resh Reshuffling of City Offices Expected Republican Gain I Scored in N. N Y t I Keystone State Democrats Lose Legislature in n Roosevelt's s sHome Home G. G 0 O. P P. Sees Si Sign President Slipping on Eve of 36 Drive I By United Press V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Nov 6 Prestige 6 of the new deal democracy dem democracy cracy c- c racy s suffered on the eastern seaboard today from election reverses re- re verses in New York and Pennsylvania Kentucky began a ballot bal- bal Slot lot count that may reveal Democratic prospects in the border states states in 1936 s Ib 1 New York state Republicans seized from Democrats the control of the lower legislative house Philadelphia voters elected elected elect elect- ed ed a Republican mayor S. S David Wilson after a c campaign in f r which Republicans insisted that the Roosevelt new deal was a f rl lively vely and important issue f f Democrats minimize national sig- sig sig of New York and Pennsylvania Penn- Penn sylvania returns anc t tR R P bli w magnify their portents as the nation na- na lion tion enters a presidential year jfe But it is indisputable ble that the election election election elec elec- tion tion news will cheer G. G O. O P P. workers workers work work- ers ers through all the states north of ot the the Ohio and east of the Mississippi and perhaps west of that stream Democratic success would have been correspondingly discouraging to the national Republican leaders who are arc laboring to rebuild the party and to the lesser leaders the men and women women women wo wo- men who make up the front line of Ithe any political battle array New Jersey faintly seconded the two more important eastern returns by increasing Republican control of i the state legislature Obscured by by bythe the more spectacular Philadelphia contest was a wide state-wide poll in which which Pennsylvania preferred a Republican Republican Re- Re publican to a a. Democrat as superior court judge The Democrats made madea madeI I a fight for that office They hoped by by winning it to remove the last remnants of ot Republican power inthe in inthe inthe the state government Reports that New York Demot Demo- Demo t cratic leaders blamed some of their r troubles on popular dissatisfaction I with the administration of relief t caused politicians to wonder wander whether er the new deal would encounter jer serious hazards of ot that nature during durf during dur- dur f ing the presidential campaign next year ear Democratic Insistence that the party should not be expected to lo control control con con- the New York assembly except under extraordinary conditions such as ns prevailed a year ago recalled recalled re- re called that during the Democratic i ascendancy party leaders were unable un- un able ablo to agree on a plan to redistrict t f o. o the thc state for assembly districts Democrats long have c complained iI i 1 I Continued on Page Pace Three Column Five Fire EASTERN VOTE HITS NITS NEW DEAL Continued from Page PaJe One that the districts are gerrymandered against them Under the circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances it appears the party has had its iUs last opportunity for some time to correct that situation by gerrymandering gerrymandering gerrymandering gerry gerry- the districts the other way Republicans in New York also pushed the Roosevelt administration Lion Jon to the front in campaign strategy Democrats in both states were reluctant to accept the new deal as an Issue in local Joeal elections ejections Kentucky reverses that situation Faced by rebellion within the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- party A. A B. B Happy Chandler Chan Chan- its nominee for tor governor developed developed de de- de- de a thc support president campaign to counteract defection Governor Ru Ruby y Laffoon Laffoon Laffoon foon who also is Democratic national national national na na- na- na committeeman for Kentucky bolted Chandler to support Judge King Swope Republican nominee A prohibition vote vole of national significance was vas a Kentucky political political po po- po- po highlight Drys massed to defeat repeal of Kentucky's bone- bone dry constitutional amendment Would Aid Drys Dl's A dry victory in the state famous famous fa ta- fa- fa for its iUs distilleries would stiffen stif stif- fen ten the national prohibition front just as last Augusts August's new deal re reverse reverse reverse re- re verse in Rhode Island complemented complement complement- cd ed by yesterdays yesterday's returns from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Pennsylvania will arouse Republicans to new enthusiasm for forthe forthe the presidential battle of ot 1936 Rhode Island sent a Republican to congress to fill a Democratic va va- cancy Republicans interpreted Rhode Islands Island's vote as the beginning of the end of the new deal in the in industrial industrial industrial in- in east cast They cited New York and Pennsylvania returns as s evidence evidence evi evi- dence in support of their claim that President Roosevelt is slipping on the eve of a presidential year Postmaster General James A. A FarIcy Farley Far Far- Icy ley countered in New York with a statement that the collective Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic vote yesterday was greater than the collective Republican can vote He said if the new deal must be considered an issue in hi New NewYork NewYork NewYork York state then the returns showed a majority in its favor But popular opinion through the nation is likely to accept Republican can seizure of ot the New York state assembly as evidence of Democratic weakness in m the state which cas casts 47 votes vates in the presidential electoral elec elec- toral tonal college more than any other Aware of Situation If It the vote vate does signify a weakening weakening weakening weak weak- ening of new deal defenses in President President President Pres Pres- ident Roosevelt's home state the condition did not develop unknown to Democratic political strategists Some of them have been saying for months that New York might be beless beless less Jess sure in 1936 than it was in m 1932 But they insisted that the possibility ity of presidential trouble in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York was largely offset by a thrivIng thriving ing Democratic organization in Pennsylvania a traditionally Republican Republican Republican lican stronghold so well bulwarked against Democrats that Mr Roosevelt Roose Roose- volt velt was unable to break through the outer wall in the great push of 1932 It was Democratic confidence of increasing strength in Pennsylvania that gave Philadelphia's mayoralty election national political cance The Democrats in 1933 1 made madea a good start in overturning the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican organizations which long had controlled vital and populous Pennsylvania areas Republican Boss William S. S Vare of Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia was deposed after the 1933 elec I elec-I tion The Democrats came out of oC the 1934 congressional elections eJections with 23 of Pennsylvania's 34 house seats scats One United States senator and the governor are arc Democrats Not Conclusive A Democratic victory In Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia yesterday would have signified sig that the development of the expanding Democratic organization designed ultimately to control the thel state was proceeding along the course set by party leaders But defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat suggests otherwise Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania will wm cast 36 votes in the electoral electoral elec elec- toral college after the 1936 election eJection second only to New York None of these tests is conclusive with respect to 1936 and they may maybe maybe maybe be misleading A Democrat can be elected eJected president of the United States without either Pennsylvania or New York Woodrow Wilson proved it in 1916 but that at election was an extraordinary event not likely soon to be duplicated |
