Washington, Nov. 5.
President Roosevelt's re-election by 'a majority greater than that obtained by any other President in the last 100 Years of American history will long Provide a topic for the political analyst, No one expected so sweeping a result, not even the President, who on the eve of the Polling day wrote down his prophecy, which was that Mr, London would win 160 clecoral votes. "His actual total of eight was. only predicted by Mr, James Farley, Democratic party chairman, and probably nobody was quite surprised as Mr. Farley when the prediction turned cut to be true, 'The size of the President's majority. Is actually disconcerting to the Administration, Tt is made up of such diverse and opposite elements as 'Southern landowners and Northern egrocs, Western turmers and Eastern' industrial workers. Tis various segments could be bound together by the need to repel a strong. opposition party, but the opposition arly has been laid at on its back by the shock of the polls. Whatever the President does, some groups In this heterogenous army of followers are bound {o feel that they have been betrayed.
From a National, as opposed too Party, point of view the all embrace ing nature of the President's victory reassuring—the country has not split. on a sectional basis. There is uno division between the parties on economic of class lines, between wage earners and properly owners, towns men and countrymen, immigrants and colonial stock, "haves" versus "have hois." Men from both sides of every ence cast their ballot for the Presi dent,
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