Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-05-05
WHATVOTNG
SHOWS
League of Nations Getting
Hard Hit In Every State
Thus Far

AS the states record their prefer
ence in the presidential primaries
that are being held, one thing stands
out above every other: That the peo-
pie do not favor the League of Ma
tions without ample reservations, if
at all, and fully one-third of the vo-
ters do no favor league of any
kind.
None of the three candidates in
the Georgia Presidential primary re-
ceived a majority of the votes. In
the convention that will elect the
delegation to San Francisco there
will be 386 delegates, of whom 384
were chosen in the primary, one
county not having put out ticket.
On the face of the returns Attor-
ney General Palmer will control LAP
of those delegates, leading Watson
by plurality of only IL. The lat
ter, in turn, had a lead of 18 over
Senator Smith, who won 112 dele
gates. / 4siSEH
The voting was so close that the
sentiment of the State may be taken
as about equally divided between the
principles advocated by each of the
three candidates. And in study of
those principles we find the real sig
nificance of the Georgia balloting.
Mr.. Palmer put himself forward
as a candidate of the Administration.
He gloried the fact that he endorsed
everything that President Wilson has
done, with no exceptions. Special
emphasis was placed by the Attorney
General upon the league of nations
issue, and his every reference to the
matter in his campaign was an argu-
ment for ratification of the coven-
ant exactly as presented to the Sem
ate by the President.
Senator Smiths record on the
league was made last November
when he cast his vote for ratification
of the covenant with the Americana
ing reservations of the Republicans
included in it. He reiterated his
support of Americanism as opposed
to wisconsin by again casting vote
for the treaty with reservations on
March 10th when the document was
finally disposed of by the Senate
and returned to the President.
Mr.. Watson came out boldly
against any league at all, and what
support he won in the election was
given him after he had repeatedly
told the people of the State of his
opposition to internation- :
alism.
The primaries in Georgia, as in 10
other State thus far, furnished ,
means for testing the sentiment of
the people on the league of nations
The voters had their cb5.ce be $
tween the unqualified international F
ISM of Palmer, the modified interna- G
.ionalism of Smith, and the anti-in- s
of Watson.
The returns demonstrated that the I
people of Georgia, one of the strong f
holds of Democracy, have no use for
he surrender policy of Wilson, and
~ vote of practically two to one S
AVE recorded their emphatic ad-
erence to Americanism as they have
nown it from the beginning.
And not only has there been such
wave of protest against the Brit
smithsonian league, but the count
nows that practically a third of the p;
eople want no league at all ca
The same deep resentment against
1ture foreign embroilments is re- +
ected in the figures that come in
'om other states where primaries
ave been held. n,
Senator Johnson Is the embodi- ar
ent of the anti-league doctrine, yc
nd in his every speech has empha- CT
zed his unalterable opposition not al
nly to the Wilson brand of the th
ague but to any league, ca
Every voter who has cast a ballot e
any of the states where Mr.. John &c
ms name has appeared on the tick
was intelligent enough to know IN
at vote for Johnson was a vote l.