THE NEW DEAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 294, 9 November 1934, Page 7

THE NEW DEAL.

TO BE EXTENDED,

AN ELECTION RESULT.

NEW YORK, Nov. 8. A recapitulation of the elections heartened President Roosevelt to-day as he began preparations to extend the New Deal. The Democratic sweep, engulfing outstanding Republican foes of the Administration, gained nine Senate seats, increasing the party’s representation to 69. In the Lower House the Democrats more than held their own with indications that the party will have 313 out of the 435 seats. Democrats gained" complete control of the governorships, senators and representatives in 23 States.

The result constituted not only an astonishing popular endorsement of the New Deal, but definite repudiation of the extremely conservative Republican element. Senator Reed (Pennsylvania), one of the outstanding critics of the Roosevelt policies, failed to secure re-election. Democratic leaders are jubilant at Mr Upton Sinclair’s defeat on the ground that it purges the party of radicals. A message from St. Paul (Minnesota) states that the Farmer-Labour Party Governor (Mr Lloyd B. Olson) said tonight that he had a mandate from the people of Minnesota to put into effect its far-flung public ownership programme designed to achieve a cooperative commonwealth. “The Republican Party.” stated the Governor as he viewed his increasing 50,000 plurality in Tuesday’s election, “made the Farmer-Labour Party’s platform a challenge which we accepted.” With the convening of the State Legislature in January, Mr Olson said the party would do its utmost to carry out its 16-plank platform which declared that capitalism has failed and that “only a complete reorganisation of our social structure into a co-operative commonwealth will bring economic security and prevent a prolonged period of further suffering among the people.”