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Steamboat Springs — From the Friday, Nov. 9, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot:

Democrats sweep to overwhelming victory

The people of Colorado went to the polls Tuesday to give enthusiastic endorsement to the Democratic Party and the New Deal.

Colorado sends back to Washington her four Democratic congressmen. In this district, Taylor’s majority is the largest it has ever been in his long service. His Routt County majority is 1,686.

In the state, Gov. Johnson is re-elected by about a 50,000 majority, and he carries with him the entire Democratic state ticket with the probable exception of state treasurer.

President Roosevelt emerges from the election as the best-entrenched political potentate in the nation’s history. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Gulf to the border his New Deal was accorded an unequalled vote of confidence in Tuesday’s election. His supporters were triumphant in such Republican strongholds as Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ohio.

The Democrats in the United States Senate will number 70, to only 24 Republicans. Instead of losing seats in the House, the majority will be increased by two or three. Thirty-eight states have elected Democratic governors.

The returns constituted an elegant forecast of the period of political uncertainty and grouping ahead. In their individual campaigns, candidates elected as Democrats or New Dealers expressed views hopelessly impossible of reconciliation.

Over them all, Roosevelt stands politically supreme. His shadow has lengthened this early to encompass the presidential campaign of 1936, and today looms even larger in the speculation of what will happen. It is his to determine whether or how quickly there will be positive attempts to realign the parties.

Above and beyond the actual personal results it is this fact, the certainty of his political impregnability for a time ahead, that stands out as the most potentially important of all the angles to what happened at the polls.

Heavy snowfall in Routt County was big benefit

Routt County and vicinity received a welcome snowstorm Saturday night and Sunday morning. The moist snow piled about 8 inches in Steamboat Springs. In the higher country, the fall was from 1 foot to 18 inches. The ground was not frozen, and the moisture was absorbed into the soil, making it possible to continue fall plowing. Practically all crops in the county have been harvested. The moisture will be a benefit to the meadows where cattle are being pastured.