—POLITICS AT RANDOM—
By Byron Price
Chief of Bur. the AP Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb.— The al
moat unbelievable dimensions of
Mr. Roosevelt’s election victory
raise one extremely vital ques
tion: Has the American elector
al process, regarded for genera
tions as a guarantee of demo
cracy, suddenly created a one
man government at Washington?
Certainly there are arguments
to support such a thesis. The
President himself was, in form
more than the ordinary sense, the
issue of the campaign. His polic
ies, running so directly toward
concentration of power, were
well known to the people. And
the answer was an almost unani
mous electoral college, and a con
gress in which only a corporal’s
guard of the opposition party
survives.
More than that: the candidate
had openely expressed his oppo
sition to the logic of important
decisions of the supreme court.
He had only asked for the pass
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doubts of its constitutionality.
J And his fellow-citizens re-elect
ed him by the biggest popular
pluarity in history.
Not All New Dealers
Looking at these facts, as they
stand unembelJished and unqual
| ified, it is easy to conclude that
; the people have given Mr. Roose
velt a mandate to rule, and that
he will proceed to carry that man
date into effect with vigor. ,
Tfiis may be, indeed, the cor
rect conclusion. Yet there are
I certain qualifying circumstances,
, which really should be noted
; carefully.
One is the circumstance that
party labels do not mean what
l they once meant. The new con
gress will be overwhelmingly
Democratic in the sense that the
vast majoriyt were elected on the
Democratic ticket. But it will be
much less overwhelmingly New
Deal.
Even under ordinary condi
tions, it would be remarkable if
one man could dominate a party
made up of such members, and
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including such varying types of
opinion. A generation ago, when
the Republicans began to have
great congressional majorities, it
i
: split into groups and blocs. The
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natural supposition would be that
any other party so situated would
do the same.
The conditions are not, furth
ermore, ordinary. Some of the
■ most influential members of con
gress within the Democratic par
ty, have been openly against
most of the New Deal. They sup
ported Mr. Roosevelt for re-elec
tion with the specific reservation
that they would oppose hencefor
th those policies with which they
disagreed.
Possibly the devastating char
acter of the 1936 majorities may
convince them that they must
go along. The general character
of these men themselves, howev
er, argues strongly to the con
trary. The balance of proof is
indicative of far more trouble on
capitol hill than the election re
turns remotely hint.
Congress May Turn
.. .The expectation that congres
sional lines will stiffen is up
held by two additional circum
stances. One is that Mr. Roose
velt now is in his second term,
A ‘Hot’ Putter
‘Wild Bill" Mehlhorn’s new putter,
which looks more like a croquet
mallet than a golf club, was the
sensation of the PGA tournament
at Pinehurst, N. C. He calls it “An
nie Oakley" because “It’s a sure
shot," and Bill, who sports a cow
boy sombrero, was indeed “hot”
attei he started using it ana bowled
avei several opponents in the match
play rounds. (Associated Press
Photo)
not his first. The other is that
the emergency which led to crea
tion of the New Deal appear to
be passing. .
A President who faces a re-el
ection campaign, and who is cer
tain to head the ticket again,
has a strong leverage over mem
bers of his party in congress.
They know they must themselves
run on that ticket, and they do
not want to be out of step. But
when they do not know who the
next presidential nominee will
be, they begin to look out for
themselves. That is human nature.
Similarly, emergencies increase'
a President’s hold on congress, a
return toward normal weakens
it, During the great war Presi
dent Wilson was vested with
many of the powers of a dicta- 1
tor. Congress not only stripped ;
them from him, but turned de-'
finitely against him when peace!
came. Cannot this happen also1
to Mr. Roosevelt?
A great deal more might be
said—on both sides. The though
ful will reach no hasty conclu-]
sions, either way.
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