Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation Election Digest A News Round-up of Interest fo Progressives latest B|WM show Roosevelt with 413. electoral •¦tes out of • total of Ml. Dewey's electoral totals ef 111...
...Augustus Beimel, the victor, who lost two years ago...
...This/was the most impressive ('ongressional victory since 1P34...
...This is more than 260,000 votes higher than any previous minority totals...
...Also eliminated in the primaries...
...The Democrats, who had maintained a pre carious two-vote majority, now have a comfortable lead...
...In the House, the latest returns show 230 Democrats and 1S1 Republicans elected, one Progressive, one American Labor...
...Capehart has been in correspondence with leading reactionaries over the country, » • • • Vito Marcantenio will be joined by another pnt-Communiit in the House, returns from Washington state indicate...
...The organizational strength of the Socialists was weak because of large number* of their younger members in the armed services Most of the electioneering was on the "top level" in radio speeches, advertisements, etc...
...De l-ai ey is one of the editors of the Washington New World, a^ommunisl-Ime weekly on the West Coast...
...Unnoticed in the news, but of significant interest: Andrew J. Biemlller won election to Congress in Wisconsin's Fourth Congressionsl, beating former Congressman Lewis Thill...
...Champ Claik of Miusouii, Holman of Oregon, and Reynolds of North Carolina (didn't run...
...In the Senate, the line-up seems to be now 58 Democrats to IS7 Republicans, one Progressive...
...Douglas ia the wife of former University of Chicago Economics Professor Paul Douglas...
...Claire Boothe Luce scratched through and won a ¦arrow victory in Connecticut...
...Several years ago he hired Allen Zoll, a pro-fascisl, to organize a grass-roots farmers conference...
...But another likely factor is the concentration of interest on top positions and the gradual decline of local party machines as patronage becomes meaningless...
...In New York City the vote apparently was 6,117, the lowest figure ever reached...
...came up smiling this time...
...Full employment after the war will be a blow at all the local Tammanies...
...De Lacey was a vice-chairman of the American Peace Mobilization and was one of most vociferous Bhouters of the phrase "The Yanks Are Not Coming" during the Nazi -Soviet pact...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, wife of movie actor Kelvin Douglas, eked out a Congressional victory m California...
...Four years ago, Thill had inserted into the Congressional Record some of the moat vicious hate material...
...Another major triumph was the defeat of isolationist leader Melvin Mass in Minnesota by a Democrat ie-Farmer-Labor man...
...Despite a vigorous campaign by Norman Thomas the Socialists vote was amazingly low...
...Dewey's electoral totals ef 111 are higher than Willkie'a 82 four years ago...
...Another important victory was the triumph of Mrs...
...In the Senate the Democrats will have a minimum ef 18 seata out of 96, with some of the seven racea to be tallied indicating aome additional Democratic gains...
...Biggest rejoicing came when newsflashes announced the Fish defeat...
...Progressives will find a staunch champion in Congress man Biemiller...
...Defeated two years ago by Howard MacMunay (who pulled out to stake the race against Senator Willy this year), Thill sought election over Biemiller, who hsd been absent two years, working in Washington in the Labor Division of the War Production Board...
...There were few instances of real local activity and local interest...
...Observers are now awaiting Luce-Douglas debates in the House...
...The poor Socialist vote was another great surprise...
...The House of Representatives, which COP papers claimed would go Republican, shows at this writing a Minimum net gain of 22 seats for the Administration...
...Emily Taft Douglas in Illinois over arch-reactionary Stephen A. Day...
...This may be due, in part, to the manpower shortage...
...A bitter pill came in the last minute victory of Homer Capehart for Senate from Indiana...
...and in the House, Martin Dies and Jos Starnes, the gruesome twosome of the Dies Committee, and John J. Costello, the Dies echo in California...
...Capehart, a vicious reactionary, long harbored political ambition...
...The national total may not reach 60,000...
...Fares that will be missing in the next Congress: Nye, Danaher and Fish, leading isolationists, who wars beaten in the h\oosevelt landslide...
...In New York, the aurprise of the election waa the s20,000 votes rolled up by the new Liberal Party, aoJ.OOO of whirh war* in Now York City...
...22 contests are undecided...
...The American Labor Party, with PAC support, garnered SM.OOO, making an impressive minority party vote total for Roosevelt...
...In the first district Hugh de ljuey, a leading fellow-traveler, was swept along in the Roosevelt tidal wave over his Republican opponent...
...Welcome new faces in the Senate will lie J. W. Kulhright of Arkansas, Warren Magnuson of Washington succeeding Homer Hone, Hrien McMahon in Connecticut, Wayne Morse in Oregon...
...In New York, Senator Robert F. Wagner, whose friends were anxious about the outcome, breezed ahead to win, even leading President Roosevelt on the three lines—Democratic, American Labor, and Liberal...
...Illinois'* Mrs...
Vol. 27 • November 1944 • No. 46
