The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-08-29
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(By A. T. Edmons;on.1

| the Repubilcan state committee ana
the "gop" party in Missouri helplessly |
divided against itself on the League of
Nations, and the attempt of one wing
to soothe, satisfy and hold in line a
hundred thousand Commandments
who fail to see anything beneficial to
"faderland," and the erstwhile "mich
und Gut" Kaiser in the proposed
worldwide peace covenant, the junior
Senator from Missouri, Selden T.
Spencer, who is for the League pact
with certain amendments and reser-
vations, has discovered that smooth
sailing no longer exists and that heavy
breakers are ahead in his aspirations
to again be nominated and reelected
next year.
The opposition to Senator Spencer
in western Missouri is under the lead
ership of Thomas N. Marks, "Liv"
Morse and Joe Black, representing
what little there is of the Republican
party in jackson, Clay, Ray and
Platte counties, all democratic strong
holds around Kansas City, a "gop"
element fully 70 per cent German
American and from 10 to 10 per cent
Ethiopian. W. L. Cole, chairman of
the "gop" State Committee, is now
the anti-League of Nations leader in
the east and is taking the initiative
there in the endeavor to swing Sena--
tor Spencer around in their way of
thinking.
Marks and Cole have both written
letters to Senator Spencer for him to
"get next" to the situation in Missou-
ri. probably meaning, between the
lines, that a powerful element of the
"gop" party in Missouri, being either
of German birth or extraction, is anx-
ious to keep the United States out of
the League of Nations. He is ad-
vised "to vote in a way that would
Justify the Republicans of the State
to re-nominate and re-elect him next
year."
When the Republican State Com
mittee met in st. Louis in late July,
Chairman Cole was then still friendly
to Senator Spencer, although opposed
to the League Of Nations. He had
Just resigned as Private Secretary to
that Missouri Senator, and, it is as
serted, highly peeved for the reason
that he had not been made Sergeant
alarms in the Senate, had come west
to line up everything which smacks to
"gopism" in Missouri in opposition to
1.-THE League of Nations and to Presi-
dent Wilson. During and after the
st. Louis meeting, it was charged
that Chairman Cole had packed" the
resolution committee with friends of
Senator Spencer. The anti-Leaguers
then talked quite plainly to him.
They told him that he was near-sight-
ed in not realizing that Republican
voters in the State are against the
proposed pact.
In a recent interview in the Kansas
City Journal, Tom Marks, the Kansas
City Republican, is quoted as saying:
"Mr. Cole has, since the st. Louis
gathering, satisfied himself of the
correctness of the claims of the anti
leaguers and he is hurrying to cor
rect his blunder. Early in August Re
publicans from the eastern part of the
, State met in st. Louis and they re-
ported that the voters were up IN
arms and insistent that Senator Spen-
Ger vote against any kind of league.
Mr.. Cole so wrote to Senator Spencer,
and Republicans are hoping that the
Senator will respond to the will of his
party. We want to re-nomlnate ana
IIe-elect Senator Spencer in 1920, but
to do this he must show that he is an
American and perpetuate the record of
the Republican party that it always
has been the American party"
Senator Spencer, who is hundred
per cent American, and who ran on
that platform, and that he stood for
. President Wilson and for all of his
war measures at the election of 1916,
so far does not fully agree with either
Chairman Cole, of the Republican
State Committee, or Tom Marks of
Kansas City. In his opinion the
!, League of Nations compact is the
proper caper and can be thoroughly
American by inserting the whole Mon
roe Doctrine in it and giving any ma
ton the right to withdraw in two
years, and strengthen two or three
other articles.
In patriotic and thoroughly Amer
lean speech at Fredericksburg, Va,
July 4, last, Senator Spencer again
went fully on record as to his Amer
icanism, stating, in brief, that he on
ly stood for doctrines and principles
which are thoroughly American. Ger
many and the Germans just before
and during the war prostituted their
culture and enlightenment gin teach
ing her children that force was more
to be desired than right. That it was
better to be strong than be just. That
anything which tended to increase the
greatness of Germany, no matter how
hideous or unhuman or brutal it
might be, was thing to be commend
ed and to be done. The German peo-
Pile learned to believe and approve
this awful doctrine"
Regardless of this patriotic Fourth
of July address of Senator Spencer at
Fredericksburg Va, hundred per
cent American Grafton, delivered to a
thoroughly American audience which
enthusiastically cheered every loyal ut
terance, now come Chairman Cole and
Tom Marks of Kansas City and other
Republican leaders and demand of
their Missouri Senator, elected to the
United States Senate last November
through their efforts and votes, that
he indicate that he is an American
through regulating the American doc
trines and principles he has so far
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