MONEYED VOTE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 November 1942, Page 8

MONEYED VOTE

Democrat View Of Reverses DENIAL OF REBUKE (By Telegraph.—Press Assu.—Copyright.) (Received November 6, 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 5. President ■ Roosevelt is in excelled spirits despite Republican election successes, said the Vice-President Mi Wallace, who explained that at times like the present a larger than usual proportion of the voters are well-to-do people, hence more likely to be hepubliean. Mr. Wallace suggested th.it millions of younger voters m the Army did not vote and labour generally was too (busy, in both cases depriving the Democrats of some of their stiougvM support. Mr. Wallace strongly objected to /any theory that the Republican triumphs in the Middle West represented a rebuke to the Administration. Congressional demands for a repeal of restrictions on wages and hours and a real coalition in Congress were sounded todav as Senators and members of the House of Representatives expressed interpretations of the Republican gains. Senator O’Daniel introduced a Bill suspending the 40-nour week to help solve the manpower proolem. Almost simultaneously, m tee House of Representatives, Messrs. .»ankin and Rich demanded a repeal of the Wagner Labour Relations Act. Both requested the Administration to oust Communists from key positions. Influence of Farmers. By retaining control of the House of Representatives by the slender margin of a dozen or more seats the Democrats -have narrowly averted a most embarrassing political situation. The Associated Press says, however, that the Democrats have lost a clearcut working majority. _ The Republicans cut down the Administration’s majority in the Senate from 36 to 20, with three contests still undecided, and the Republicans leading in two of-these. Twelve Republicans are leading m four of 4he six undecided contests for Governorships. _ The • Republican triumphs on he Middle Western farm belt, are attributed- to ■ the farmers’ dissatisfaction with the Administration’s measures affecting agriculture, and have raised the possibility of changes in the war food production price control policies. .Che Congressional farm bloc apparently has won new strength. The Republican gains bring back America to something like normal conditions of-government, comments the “New York Times.” The enormous Democrat majorities since 1932 have been out of all .pro-portion to the actual voting. The strength of the Democrat Barty has been so large that it distorted the normal pressures and processes of representative government. The return to a normal balance ought to result in more effective prosecution of the war. . ' . The time has come for the Kepuc.lican Barty to avoid all factionalism and’ jockeying for political power and put the-successful prosecution of the war above every partisan consideration.