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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS What the Great Democratic Landslide Means and What Caused It. By EDWARD W. PICKARD BUSINESS depression, hard times, unemployment, dissatisfaction of the farmers with farm relief, local political conditions, and last, but not least, the wet and dry Issue, all contributed con-tributed to the Democratic landslide on election day. The Democrats do- clared tbe people of the nation had thus registered their emphatic disapproval disap-proval of the administration of President Presi-dent Hoover. This the Republicans denied. Take your choice. In the new congress, it appears, neither party will have a constitutional majority in the senate, and the same condition may prevail in the lower house. The Republicans will have 48 senators, the Democrats 47, and the Fartner-I.nborltes 1. If the last mentioned, men-tioned, Shlpstead of Minnesota, votes with the Republicans, they can organize organ-ize the senate. Otherwise It would r . take the deciding vote of Vice President Presi-dent Curtis. Unless a recount gives the Eighth Indiana district to Vestal (Rep.), instead in-stead of to Ball (Dem.), the nietnber-hlp nietnber-hlp of the house will stand: Republicans, Repub-licans, 217; Democrats, 217; Farmer-Labor, Farmer-Labor, 1. A constitutional majority Is 218. In both houses the progressive or radical Republicans will hold the balance bal-ance of power In matters of legislation and by coalition with the Democrats can continue successfully their habitual habit-ual course of hampering the national policies of their party. "W1 gains of senate seats which , the Democrats nre sure of at this writing were made In Massachu- setts, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Kansas, Oklahoma, South (' Dakota and Colorado. They lost oue seat, In Iowa, where Representative Dickinson defeated Senator Steck. Three administration senators who ( were beaten were Allen of Knttsas, Kobslon of Kentucky and McCulloch of Ohio. However, two anti-administration senators lost out Pine of Oklahoma Ok-lahoma and McMaster of South Dakota. Da-kota. Two administration senators who were victorious In hard fights were Metcalf of Rhode Island and Hastings of Delaware. Hastings ran us a dry in a notoriously wet state, and against him was all the influence the anti-prohibitionists could muster, but he decisively beat Thomas F. Bayard, Bay-ard, former senator, wet and a Democrat Dem-ocrat There was much rejoicing among the wets. They elected four new wet senators: Lewis of Illinois, Bulkley of Ohio, Coolidge of Massachusetts and Gore of Oklahoma, and they claim Metcalf of Rhode Island will vote wet However, three drys replace as many-wets: many-wets: Dickinson of Iowa, Huey Long of Louisiana and White of Maine. As for the lower house, the wets claimed a gain of about 70 members. Of course the drys will continue to control both houses by heavy majorities, but the leaders of the wets assert the election elec-tion presages the eventual repeal of the Eighteenth amendment Heavy wet majorities were shown in each of the three states, Illinois, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where there were referendum votes on various phases of the prohibition question. C OME of the election results were spectacular. For instance, In New Tork state Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat, was re-elected governor by the unprecedented plurality of 725,000 votes, completely swamping his Republican Re-publican rival, Charles N. Tuttle. The "Happy Warrior" thus becomes the outstanding figure of the Democratic party and a potential candidate for the Presidential nomination In 1P32. He supplants Al Smith as a getter of Empire state votes Vth metropolitan and rural. There was a Tammany tidal wave In New Tork city, but Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican, was re-elected to congress, defeating her Tam many rival and Iloywood Broun, columnist col-umnist and Socialist; and Representative Representa-tive La Gunrdia, also Republican, retained re-tained his sent. .lames Hamilton Lewis, picturesque and able Democrat, swept Illinois like a prairie fire, having a plurality for the senator-ship of about 720, 000 over Mrs. Ituth Hanna McCormick, Republican, Repub-lican, who straddled the liquor issue, and Mrs. O'Neill, independent dry, who was a very poor third. This was the climax of one of the most Interesting In-teresting campaigns in the country. The Democrats also captured almost all the offices in the state and in Cook county, which includes Chicago. Pennsylvania clung to its rock-ribbed rock-ribbed Republicanism and Giffnrd Pinchot, radical and ardently dry Republican Re-publican nominee for the governorship, governor-ship, was elected despite the defection defec-tion of many of the party leaders and the adverse vote of Philadelphia. Ohio seemed to indicate its wetness by electing Robert J. Bulkley, wet Democrat, to the senate; but on the other hand George White, Democrat, who was chosen governor, Is a dry. Wisconsin, as usual, went La Follette, electing young Philip F. of that family fam-ily Its governor. Like his brother, Senntor LaFollette, he is nominally a Republican. Democrats of Indiana elected nine congressmen, to four Republicans; Re-publicans; among the latter is the veteran Will R. Wood who has represented repre-sented the Tenth district for many years. Mrs. Otis T. Wingo of Arkansas Arkan-sas easily won the seat In congress held by her late husband. THERE will be no sorrow In Washington Wash-ington or the country at large over the elimination of Senator J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama. Forced from the Democratic party because he opposed Al Smith two years ago, he ran for re-election as an independent and was thoroughly beaten by John Bank-head, Bank-head, the Democratic nominee. His peculinr role In the senate, as the source of sensational news stories, may be partly taken by Huey P. Long of Louisiana. Mr. Long intimates that he will complete his term as governor of his state before taking his seat In the senate. Among the new senators of quite different caliber will be Dwight W. Morrow who was elected by New Jersey Jer-sey Republicans; Secretary of Labor Davis, sent to the senate by Republicans Republi-cans of Pennsylvania, and Robert J. Bulkley, the choice of Ohio Democrats. Demo-crats. Mr. Morrow and Mr. Bulkley, both wets, are looked on as Presidential Presiden-tial possibilities two years hence. Thomas J. Walsh, Montana's veteran veter-an senator, was returned to the upper house, but he had no easy time defeating defeat-ing Judge Albert Galen, the Republican Republi-can aspirant California escaped the Democratic flood and James Rolph, Jr., known sometimes as "Sunny Jim" and sometimes some-times as San Francisco's perennial mayor, captured the governorship with little difficulty. Nebraska's new governor is Charles W. Bryan, brother of William Jennings Jen-nings Bryan. He held the office once before and was the Democratic vice presidential nominee In 1924. He defeated de-feated Gov. Arthur Weaver by a rather rath-er narrow margin. COMMENT by some of the party leaders is interesting as representing represent-ing widely divergent views depending depend-ing on party affiliation. Chairman Fess of the Republican national committee said no outstanding outstand-ing issues controlled the results, which he viewed as a "crazy quilt." It was to be expected, he added, that the Republicans would lose 35 seats even without the disturbance caused by the economic depression. John J, Raskob, Democratic national na-tional chairman, termed the Democratic Demo-cratic sweep a "notable victory on clean-cut political issues." He announced an-nounced he would do everything in his power to have the Democratic party view the tariff as an economic rather than a political question, "thus removing from business minds all cause for alarm and uncertainty as to how business will be treated In the event that this election nnd future elections give control of congress to our party." Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee, commit-tee, asserted that "everything considered, consid-ered, the result must be taken as a vindication of the national administra- tion." Explaining this, he said no administration ad-ministration had ever gone into a congressional con-gressional election under such adverse conditions. The results, lie added, were "convincing evidence of the abiding faitli of the thinking people of the country In the leadership of Herbert Hoover." The view of Jouett Shouss, chair- : man of the Democratic nationni executive exec-utive committee, was: "The Democratic campaign was conducted on the issue of the failuru of the administration to meet its responsibility re-sponsibility and carry out the promises prom-ises on which it obtained election two years ago. Embraced In a subsidiary to this main theme were such items as the enactment of -an indefensible tariff and the breakdown of the farm-relief farm-relief plan of the administration, which had pledged itself to rehabilitate rehabili-tate the agricultural Industry." XXTIILE the representatives of 32 nations were gathering at Geneva for the conference of the League of Nations' preparatory disarmament dis-armament commission, efforts were being made to bring about an agreement agree-ment between France and Italy without with-out which the parley would admittedly admitted-ly be futile. American Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson took the lead In this attempt to get the two nations together to-gether and after conversations In Rome and Paris he announced that France had formally agreed to resumption re-sumption of its naval negotiations with Italy. These were to be strictly secret and held during the sessions of the commission. It was understood in Paris the Italians had consented to bring forward the actual figures of their proposed building program for comparison of those of France, and that there was a chance of an agreement agree-ment based on strategic needs and building capacity In 1936, with such questions as parity being excluded. Dispatches from Rome, on the other hand, said Italy had made no fresh offers for settlement of the matter and that France must take the Initiative. The Italians still insist on parity with France, and the French still reject that proposition. T.V FORMAL ceremonies lasting but a few minutes, Dr. Getulio Vargas assumed office as provisional President Presi-dent of. Brazil, and immediately announced an-nounced the members of his cabinet, all the factions of the revolutionary movement being represented. His minister of finance is Jose Maria Whlt-aker, Whlt-aker, of English descent, who has been a strong opponent of Washington Washing-ton Luis' coffee marketing scheme. His appointment means the certain reorganization of the government's fin-nncial policy, and especially the revocation of artificially sustained coffee cof-fee values. SINCLAIR LEWIS, American novelist, novel-ist, has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature, specifically for his novel "Babbitt," which is regarded In Sweden as his masterpiece. The money value of the award Is $46,360, and Mr. Lewis, Interviewed in New York, said he would accept It "with a feeling of the highest honor, gratification gratifi-cation and pleasure." He Intimated he would spend the money on himself and his family. The presentation ceremony cer-emony takes place In Stockholm on December 10. GAS explosions nnd fire in a mine of the Sunday Creek Coal company com-pany at Miilfield, Ohio, entombed 96 men, of whom 76 were killed. The others were brought out alive and taken to hospitals, many of them seriously seri-ously burned. The disaster occurred just after an inspection party had descended de-scended to the lower levels, and ail its members were among the dead. They included William Tytus, president of the company; Howard Upson, field manager; Hubert Lancaster, chief engineer, en-gineer, and other officials. .The terrible accident took the lives of a considerable percentage of the little village of Miilfield. It was estimated esti-mated that approximately 300 children were left fatherless, but there was a ray of hope for the dependent families left destitute. Gov. Myers T. Cooper ordered representatives of the indus trial relations department to forgel "red tape'' and arrange for Immediate payment of workmen's compensation funds. 1(c). 130. W astern Newspaper Unloa.1 . i |