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THE NATIONAL ELECTION
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York; Emanuel Celler, New York; Sol
Bloom, New York; Isaac Bacharach, At
lantic City; Adolph Sabath, Chicago,
were re-elected. Herman Koppleman,
Hartford, Conn.; Julius Klein, Chicago;
Theodor A. Peyser, New York, and Henry
Ellenbogen, Pittsburgh, are the newly
elected Congressmen.
In the various State assemblies Jews
are well represented in this election.
Thus, for example, New York State
elected fifteen members out of a total
membership of 150. To the New York
State Senate, seven Jews were elected.
The new Pennsylvania Legislature will
include eleven Jewish members and the
Senate one. The New Jersey Assembly
will have two Jews, Colorado two, Ne-
Inaska one, California two.
In the judiciary field, Jewish successes
have been very pronounced. The New
York State Supreme Court will have
Samuel H. Hofstaedter and Aaron Steuer
on its bench. Judge Joseph Stadtfeld was
re-elected to the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court. Max Baron won a signal victory
with more than 50,000 majority for the
Circuit Court judgeship of St. Louis. State
Senator Abe Zinn will be a Justice of the
New Mexico Supreme Court from Jan
uary first.
These enumerations are necessarily in
complete, vet they suffice to illustrate the
tremendously important participation of
Jewish citizens in the political life of our
country.
If one remembers that the year 1932
also witnessed the appointment to the
Supreme Court of the United States of
Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo to sit as a
colleague of yet another Jew, the venera
ble Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, one
realizes that American Jewry has never
been more and better represented in the
various branches of our Federal and
local Governments.
Impressive as this array is, it yet fails
to tell the story completely. Perhaps the
most significant element of the 1932 elec
tion has been that the country has re
turned to its older tradition. Until two
years ago, a lapse of many years had
passed without a Jewish governor; since
the days of the giants of the Upper House
of Congress whose names were house
hold words in the country at large there
have been few Jewish Senators. For a
time it appeared almost as if a dissident
religionist was indeed a barrier to the
attainment of high political office. The
1932 elections have swung the country
hack to its older theories of democracy—
The record of the Judah P. Benjamins,
the David Yulees, the Simon Bambergers
can be readily matched by the five
Jewish governors of today.
The cold statistics of ballots and voting
machines by no means tell the full story.
For example. New Y’ork and Illinois
have large Jewish centers of population.
This circumstance is not true of New
Mexico or Florida or—to trace back two
years, of Oregon. And in New Y'ork the
figures reveal that Governor Ixrhman
won not only the support of New Y’ork
City with its large Jewish contingent of
voters but also succeeded in holding down
to its lowest the normal, undivided Re
publican vote up state. His astounding
plurality of close to a million votes in
the Krnpire State is not only a testimony
to the general recognition of his worth,
it is also a clear indication that the
eligibility of the Jew to high office and
the possibility of electing him can now
fully be taken for granted.
Lehman’s tremendous victory has yet
another significance; it contains the ker
nel of the perfect test in emancipation
that inav be held out to the voters in the
not so distant future.
It may be premature to speak of it; yet
the subject is sure to come out in the
open very shortly; the availability of
Governor Lehman as a candidate for the
highest office in the gift of the voters.
The reasons for such speculations are
self evident. Normally the office of
Governor of New York State is, of all
elective offices, second in importance to
that of the Presidency itself. Normally
too it is a stepping stone to the White
House or at least to a bid for that exalted
residence. American political history of
the recent past, the importance of New
Y'ork State as a pivotal unit on the elec
toral college, the state’s pre-eminence by
virtue of population, wealth and govern
mental machinery, all converge to a nat
ural focal point: the availability of the
governor of that state for the office of
Uhief Executive of the Nation. A New
Y’ork Governor has been a presidential
candidate, or at least a strong candidate
for nomination every four years for the
past half a century and more. Many of
them, such as Grover Cleveland, Theo
dore Roosevelt and now Franklin I).
Roosevelt actually have been voted into
the White House. Others: Samuel J.
Tilden, Charles Hughes and Alfred E.
Smith have been their party’s standard
bearers in the national election.
The spotlight on Governor Lehman
will thus hold the national attention. It
is true of course that much may happen
METTEKNICH THE STATESMAN
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abiding fear lest future revolution any
where in Europe should lead to a gen
eral Haring up of that which had so re
cently been extinguished."
Quoting Mr. Wilson of the New Y’ork
Times: "During a century of transition,
the ‘Don Quixote of legitimacy,’ as Met-
ternich is called, has stood like a statue,
the symbol of reaction, adored by die-
hards and by democrats detested. No
angel has been painted so white, no devil
so black as this admired, this execrated
autocrat of Austria under the Hapsburgs.
"It is the great merit of this book that
it furnishes a diagnosis of the actual man.
We see where he succeeded and why he
failed; it is, moreover, a timely insight.
Despite all changes, the Europe of today
and the Europe of a hundred years ago
may be studied in parallel. Now as then
we have war, revolution and recovery,
with all of which Metternich was fa
miliar."
In his notable career Mr. Herman has
been aided by his lovely wife. Mr. and
Mrs. Herman both are passionately fond
of music, which accounts for his forth
coming book "Tchaikovsky." Mr. Her
man plays the violin excellently while
his wife accompanies him on the piano.
Among their closest friends are Fritz
Kreisler and his wife and the great
Leopold Auer, whom they have contacted
often in Vienna.
The other member of the Herman fam
ily is the youngster of 3, whose mind is
said to be almost uncannily clever.
It is possible, I understand, that the
Hermans will visit America soon, com
ing via Palestine. Writing to friends
of the intended visit, Mr. Herman said:
“By that time ‘Tchaikovsky’ will be out
of the way and I have several interesting
plans for the winter. The sum total of
the past should somehow bring us back
to Europe next year . . . we’ve grown
fond of the Old Continent ... it has a
great hold on me. At any rate we must
have something to dream about for with
out dreams one perishes."
politically in four or eight years. But t j
is equally a truism in politics that cer-l
tain forces exert their natural inHuei^l
which must be taken into account in th*|
plans of the dominant parties. Even]
New Y'ork State Governor is by virtu* 1 ;
of his office a possibility for presidemij]
nomination. A governor who has dem i
onstrated his popularity as ovewhelrr,
ingly as has Herbert H. Lehman is a cer
tain candidate, especially if his achievt ■
ments in office attain to as high a levr
as his past performance indicates.
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