| Show I 1 Bruc Dru karts charls washington digest tumult and shouting I 1 n g are over so now what does it all mean I 1 for months to come the results will be sub subjected j acted to measurement more thinking TIAn king and less emotion seems the rule 9 middle class claset in revolt I 1 e by WILLIAM BRUCKART service national press bide washington D 0 washington tho the period of distorted claims by the winners and tile the equally distorted alibis of tile the losers seems to bo be about over wo we have heard all of tho the tumult and the shouting of an election time tile tho total botni voto vote has been tabulated and it shows a greater number 43 83 now ones of republicans in tho the house of and eight now republican rub lican Binn rAina tors some 14 more states have hae republican governors ready to ake ake over from the demo brats thy thoy have displaced there were what may be called important numerical gains for the republican party label dut but while tho the total vote has bev been ti 1 tabulated and s served as the basis for or tho the claims of tho the winners and the alibis of tho the losers those jig fig urca will bo be forgotten soon the thing that Is important is the result wo we will bam be measuring ensuring the res results alts for months n to come it is quite unimportant in my mind to appraise appeal se what the swing owing of a few votes may have meant it Is however mighty important to note that there were hard and close fights for scores of candidates in tills this 1038 1938 election there were hard and close fights in the whole of new england there thera wore bitter struggles I 1 in now new york ohio michigan wisconsin minnesota and elsewhere they were fought out largely on an major issues because generally speaking peaking local questions did not provide tile the fundamental issue in the states that are so important pollyl tally as those mentioned what does it mean what is the portent other writers and analysts have given and aro are giving their bews alews I 1 guess there ts Is no prohibition bl against mine I 1 firmly believe tile the votes cast in the 1038 1938 election were the espres slon eion of an opposition to further ex peri by government in the field of unsound theories the expression was against further use of the american people as guinea pigs and it was definitely for a middle of the road national policy it was therefore a Ji showing lowing a proof of I 1 the necessity tor for our traditional two party system of government and surely to that extent the nation I 1 slid and national life benefited by the poll taken on november 8 1038 1938 more thinking ond and less leas emotion seems to be rule looking over the whole picture as the colors and the outlines now exhibit themselves one who favors good government of a sound and lasting character cannot help having his faith renewed of course the political pendulum swings back and forth that is to be expected but to me there has appeared on the horizon a now level of political thought perhaps I 1 should not say may that it Is entirely now I 1 should say nay that it has beep been restored to its place in american life and that observe ilon should be amplified with the further statement that more thinking and less emotion appears to bo be the rule throughout the land absence of hysteria or reduction iob of the scope of hysteria always makes for sounder and more constructive conclusions that is why there Is so little use for an analysis of minute returns this year the aspect is too broad to hinge upon such detail probably it con can be said that the veto was an expression against naoto and extravagance against corruption of 0 the electorate by use of public moneys such as went on among relief workers andhor which we ought always alway s to be ashamed it probably can be said that it was a vo vote to against blank check ap appropriations pr opria or against government messing into every phase of human fiuman endeavor or against many another item of policy in the new deal and if it were so said it would be true to a degree everywhere but we are concerned with the sum into which these several things have been added vote discloses revolt by so SoCa called Hed middle class the united states has been governed by an expression of the will of the majority it Is sound it Is the basis ot of a republic there has been much criticism ot of president roosevelt on the basis of his domination of 0 government it has been said that lie he Is the government be cause he has had such complete control that even congress moved this way or that at his erection in the manner of puppets it if characterizations be true then it appears to me logical to conclude that the late election was something of a vote for govern government mant by law lawand and not by an individual lor or group ox individuals by the anine y reasoning it is a logical assumption I 1 that the vote disclosed a freyou by I 1 athe i the great middle class of the amerl I 1 can people the group which aves 4 I 1 I 1 neither by the power of aton I 1 and the strike I 1 threat nor by the 1 1 1 I 1 power which mr roosevelt so ao often attributed to a few whom he has called the economic royalists 11 the new dealers completely capitulated to organized labor of the C 1 I 0 0 type and used the numbers of votes there to bulwark its assault on business tile the middle classes which embrace the backbone and tile the salt of the earth of any nation had much consideration from the now new deal thinkers they have been the forgotten men and women about which mr roosevelt spoke when campaigning in 1032 it is quito clear that the middle classes have grown tired of government playing into tho the hands of a single class they ora are tired as t they hey were in 1032 when tho the republicans hod had played too much into the h hands an d 3 of big business S suspicious uspicio us middle class Is good for a democracy the sum total of the situation as regards the middle classes Is that they have become critical again they followed mr roosevelt unswervingly ly speaking now of tile the majority and they accepted his statements that wo we havo have planned it that way but when tho the depression ot of 1937 came on them and it hit as hard as that of 1030 they found doubt in their minds lie could not have planned it t that wn way y they reasoned so there followed the natural sequence of criticism and the country began to think that criticism was legitimate despite the new dealers barrage of propaganda that the criticism itself was propaganda with the middle classes back it in tile the suspicious mood that is good for a demb democracy cracy they are again occupying their rightful role in government there are many times more of them ti than inn any other group they are the majority and they showed it again tills this year by the sharp division of votes the new deal with th the e aid of old ali alno ie JetTers onlan Demoe democrats rats will control the congress for the next two years but their control Is not of such a character as to td permit dental denial of rights to any individual representative or senator or any group of them there can be no mailed fist or must orders instead it majority leader barkley in the senate and majority leader rayburn in the house want to got their programs through there must be moderation extremes will spell defeat and revolt and it la Is conceivable that policies of a too radical type could send the old line democrats over to tho the aid of the republicans and into a coalition to destroy destray the new deal utterly and effectively there can be no more ru rubber abber stamp business new deal tactics must change and the sooner the bunch of so called Intellect intellectuals unis the high brows leard this lesson the better it will be for mr roosevelt PO politically liti cally I 1 am told by a number oil of politically important personages that the ilia election already has increased the courage of some of the conservative democrats who were not outspoken heretofore it Is predicted that these will feel free now to toll tall the president when they disagree nona can foretell how far that situation will develop it is a part however of 0 the thought that modera tion must be the rule must become statesmen quit QU it their demagoguery and next if the republican leadership has good sense it will display its best brand it will tell its followers to become statesmen and quit their demagoguery the opportunity port unity awaits them to be constructive tive and if they tall fall to put forward sound proposals they wi will 11 have justified the country in refusing to give them control contra as was I 1 done in 1936 it Is proper to say ot of course that the republicans will riot not be in control of either the senate or the house that thai means they can have no management of legislative machinery that machinery which Is all important in carrying forward political party policies remains in tho the hands of the new de deal al but the absence of control to for r the republicans public ans can not destroy the responsibility which they hove have assumed in electing as many members of the congress as is recorded they dare not dodge that responsibility just ahead therefore lies iles the necessity for mr roosevelt to realize that there Is a new public temper which does not like extremes and tor for chairman john hamilton of the republican national committee and Ile republican publican leader mcnary in the senate and republican leader martin in the house there Is the opportunity to fight for reasonable reason ablo legislation all of the way these three republican leaders jolders must have something to otter offer besides criticism of the new deal 0 western newspaper New paper Ui biln ln I 1 |
