Who's the Republican ticket with a Democratic ticket of matthew j. merritt?
CREATE TABLE "1942_state_election_results" (
  "republican_ticket" text,
  "democratic_ticket" text,
  "american_labor_ticket" text,
  "communist_ticket" text,
  "socialist_ticket" text
);
SELECT "republican_ticket" FROM "1942_state_election_results" WHERE "democratic_ticket"='matthew j. merritt';