The President is indebted to no group or individual for his victory, Ro group has any claims gratitude. He is froe to follow his, course unhampered by the necessity of rewarding some particular section by adopting its policies or proposals, The man who Is most Insistent in pressing his claims is Mr. John L, Lewis of the United Mine Workers. "But the President could have carried Now York without the aid" of the ticket which Mr. Lewis rai State with the President at lis head. He obtained vid that route only about one-tenth of his state electoral vote, Without a single trade union vote the President would still have enjoyed handsome majority.
No single cause can be assigned for the President's vielory, nor even one major cause. Among the most Important factors in it, however, was the total ineptitude of the Republican opposition, The Republicans had, or rather could have made, a very good tense for themselves." They. could have championed the cause of the competitive capitalist system threa-Yened by the encroaching Central Government and won the approval fof men who like to feel that such fan order of things is the only real "Americanism."
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