Arizona republican., 1919-10-20
The Senators and the League

ne senators and the League
 We think we are betraying no political confidence and we do not care much if we doing so, when state what have heard that the republicans the senate have been playing deep political game with the peace treaty and especially, with the ant of the League of Nations. The main purpose has not been to hunate the president but put the democratic senators into hole by playing those parts of the covenant which may be made to appear to be, un American and pro o-British.
 It was privately stated that it was the wish of the republican leaders that the democrats should be put on record to those supposedly un- American fea- tures the record be next year in the elections of senators and representatives thought that the effect upon the presidential election would not be negligible But the leaders had in mind rather the effect on the congressional elections.
 They. therefore, discreetly encouraged Irish dis satisfaction with the the protests filed by Irish citizens for time set many of the demo- cratic senators to waverng-those states having heavy Irish vote But the last moment they have yielded to the party lash and have resumed their places the party bench
 Many republicans, from fourteen to seventeen have voted with the democrats on all these tests But they are for the most part from states where there is no large, urban where there not radical sentiment regarding the league either side and moreover they have given assurance that at the proper time they will support strong inter- pretative reservations, something that probably more than three four of the democratic senators will do Yet they have all escaped criticism
 The Kansas City Star under the head of Mis- reading Public Sentiment says:
 There will be keen disappointment in Missouri and Kansas that Senator Spencer and Senator Capper voted against the Fall amendments to the treaty. Their vote was for European entanglements as against the policy of straight Americanism.
 The adoption of the amendments would have re- suited in sending the treaty back complete revi- sion, which is what American interests call for Their vote helped to keep it alive with all its menace to the future of the United States
 Both senators misreading public sentiment senator Spencer will be up for renomination next year. Where does he expect find the votes to re- nominate him? From the thick and administra- ton supporters? They don't usually vote in a re- publican primary
 We think that both Senator Spencer and Senator Capper voted their own sentiments without instr11c tons or any sort from any considerable number of their constituents. Senator Capper however U,ss running risk. His position is unassailabIe What ever he may do will likely receive the approval of large majority of the people of Kansas who if they were disappointed by his vote against the Fall amend ments must have been gratfed by his later vote in favor of the Shantung amendment The position or other senator's Nelson, McNary and McCumber with respect to their constituents is much the same as that Of Mir Capper. They, in very large measure create the sentiment of their constituents
 Senator Spencer though is differently situated HIS election as that of any republican would have been was regarded a f1uke not likely soon to he repeated Moreover the League of Nations sentiment IS supposed to be weaker in Missouri than in any other state It is particularly weak in his own home town of St Louis and is generally in the cities and towns Its greatest strength in the rural re- gions the stronghold of Missouri democracy, which as the Star observes, will be represented in republican primary