Arizona republican., 1920-04-12
SAYS FATE IF LEAGUE RESTS
 WITH GEORGIA
Primaries of April 20 Will
 Decide Whether Covenant Will Be Issue in Coming
 Election
By HARRY B. HUNT M. E. A. Staff ndent

By HARRY B. HUNT
 N. E. A. Staff Correspondent i ATLANTA. Ga--The part the league of nations is to take in the coming presidential election. if any. will in large measure be determined by the results of the democratic pri- maries. to be held in Georgia, April 20
 Georgia is. of course. 6 democratic state. The league of nations is. by edict of President Wilson. laid down l in his Jackson Day letter to party leaders, a democratic issue. As the lines are now drawn, Georgia demo crats are offered an opportunity to ex- press their favor for any. one Of the following positions upon the treaty
 One-Ratification of the treaty
 unchanged, as urged by President
 Wilson.
 Seeond-Ratificatio of the
 treaty with reservations; sub
 stantiaiiy as voted down by the
 senate.
 Third-Rejection of the entire
 treaty and league Covenant. as ad-
 voeated by the senate "irrecon-
 ciliables."
 These three positions are represent ed. respectively, by the candidates in Georgia of Attorney General 4. Nit chell Palmer. Senator Hoke Smith and
 
 candidate for president.
 The Real Battle
 As vital factor in the fight. Wat son may be eliminated.
 That leaves the real fight between Palmer. as champion of the Wilson administration in it's every phase including the peace treaty exactly as signed at Versailles. and Smith. en- dorsing the administration in general but against its effort 10 include cot ton in the food control bill and for the adoption of protective reservations to the peace treaty.
 Victory for Palmer in the Georgia primaries. then. will mean that the democrats of this state stand by the president in his demand for ratifica- tion of the treaty without reservations. and will put the Palmer candidacy on a firm footing
 Victory for Smith will mean repu- diation of the presidents last-diIch stand on the treaty.
 Bearing of League
 But victory for Smith will mean more than that
 It will mean that the league of nations. without reservations. probably can never be made successful issue for the demo- cratic party in the campaign.
 For if it is repudiated in a solidlv democratic state. with a member Of
 
 champion, it could not reasonably he expected to fare better in the debat- able or republican states of the north And it means further, for the same reason. the collapse of Palmers pre- tentions to democratic leadership on a platform upho1ding the Wilson admin ist: ation -in it's every phase"
 Mioht Bring Ratification
 One of the points most strongly urged by the Smith following. and which may be 9 very effective factor in the campaign. is that defeat Of handwriting on the wall' with re- spect to making the unreserved treaty a winning issue in the campaign. that senate democrats who stood in line for the president and defeated it with res ervations would then quickly line LID in favor of reservations. with the re- suit that the treaty could be recalled by the senate and disposed of before June l. That. however is scarcely within the probabilities.
 What is certain. however. is that the PaimerSmith fight, in Georgia will be fight in the whole United States-not even excepting the Wood-Lowden lights in Illinois and Michigan or the Wood-Harding battle in Ohio
 Machines Oiled Up
 Palmer and his packers will bring to 'ear all poSSlpte pressure or the ad- machine. But Senator Smith has had a hand in building the federal machine in Georgia. and him 'elffitted many of the cogs. He has a strong state organization. too. Oh. it will be real fight. all right or these Georgians take their politics Is they used to take their Eduor-and till do. surreptitiously-seri And. as the following will show, this S serious fight
 Smith even more than Palmer is lighting for his political life. He voted n favor of reservations to the treaty. He must stand for reelection to the enate this fall.
 lis candidacy for the presidency se- iously. A Smith victory. however. would really mean that Georgia's 2S delegates to San Francisco would go