The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-15
|MINNESOT IS
BAT TLEGROUND.
FORG. OF.
Al Political Big Guns. IncIud-
ing President, IN sena-
torial Fight.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

BY WILLIAM HARD.
The Presidents Western trip,
the Minnesota senatorial election,
and the League Of Nations world
court have gone and got them
selves all mixed up into one of
the fastest, dizziest Inerry-go-
rounds ever operated in the
national political amusement park.
Moses Will Tour.
Senator Moses OF New Hampshire.
as chairman Of the Republican Sem
atOriaI campaign committee, to
about to flood Minnesota knee.high
with torrents OF copies Of the Presi.
dents speeches as delivered in the
course Of his tour Westward from
st. Louis. Senator Moses, who by.
temper and record 10 certain TO be
one Of the chief opponents Of the
league Of nations world court, re-.
lies on the Presidents Western
speeches as, one Of his principal
means Of carrying Minnesota for
the Republican Senatorial candidate
against the candidate Of the Farmer
Labor party.
in favor Of the league Of nations
world court. He win also speak on
other topics. Meanwhile Senator
Moses himself viii 90 to Minnesota.
Arriving there, he viii be cor
daily greeted on the subject OF the
league OF nations world court by
Henrik Shipstead, who was elected
United States Senator last fall on
the Farmer.Labor ticket and who IL
the leading national figure Of the
Minnesota Farmer-Labor party.
Senator Shipstead cordially agrees
with Senator Moses on the subject
Of the league Of nations and on the
subject Of the league Of nations
world court and equally cordially
disagrees with President Harding.
The gentleman who is at this
moment expected to win the new
Farmer-Labor nomination for the
new Minnesota vacancy in the
United States Senate is Magnus
johnson. If Maenus Johnson does
not win it, the winner is likely to
be ex-Congfessman Lindbergh. LII
either case Senator Shipstead. al
ready sitting in the Senate and de-
string to. double the size Of his
party In the Senate by getting a
Farmer.LAbor colleague from Min
nesota, will stand in the forefront
Of the fray. tienouncing the League
Of Nations and all fits works, in.
GLIDING its court. while Senator
Moses. firmly checking his impulse
TO cover Senator Shfpstead with ap.
plause on this point, will instead
endeavor to drown him in cloud
bursts Of President Harding's
speeches on railroads and agricul-
ture and Republican prosperity.
Admits He's Partisan.
Senator Moses Is q statesman
who, besides being q partisan, says
he IL partisan. Virtually every
other statesman in Washington ID
in fact q partisan. Moses admits
the fact. He IL against people who
run against a Republican candidate
for United States Senator. He is
against the FArmer.Labor candidate
for United States Senator in Min.
nesota. whoever he may be and no
| matter what he thinks about the
world court or about the Presi-
dents speeches in favor Of the
| world court and no matter what
Senator Moses thinks about them.
Expect TO Beat Court.
Meanwhile, by the time the Presi-
| dent returns from his Western trip,
the new Ruthless ReServationists"
against the new world court "cove-
nant" confidently expect to have at
least thirty.three Senators ready to
reserve the world court away
from all connection with the League
or else vote against it entirely and
''irreconcilably."
Today the number Of Senators
claimed by the Ruthless Irreconcil-
ables' az likely to go along with
them q great distance toward dras-
| tic reservations is thirty-two. One
more Is needed in order to prevent
the Senatorial friends Of the world
court from having q two-thirds ma
1ority, and in order, therefore. to
prevent a world court resolution
from going through the Senate "un-
reserved
The thirty-two Senators who by
reason of outright promises or by
reason Of halfway conversations or
by reason OF known and noted ten
denotes are thought to be vending
their way toward some sort of
bivouac somewhere in the "reserva-
ZIONIST" camp are the following:
From New England: Fernald Of
Maine, Moses Of New Hampshire
Dillingham; and Greene of Yer
mont, Lodge Of Massachusetts,
Brandegee of Connecticut.
From the Middle East: Wads-
worth Of New York, Pepper and
Reed of Pennsylvania, Bali of Della
ware, Weller of Maryland.
From the Middle West: Watson
of Indiana, Mccormick of Illinois,
LaFollette of Wisconsin.
From the Prairie West: Brookhart
and Cummins. Of Iowa, Shipstead of
Minnesota, Ladd and Frazier Of
North Dakota, Norbeck of South
Dakota, Norris and Howell of Ms
braska, Curtis of Kansas. Spencer
of Missouri HArreld of Oklahoma.
From the Far West: Warren, Of
wyoming. Borah Of Idaho, johnson
of California.
Only Four Democrats.
These are the Republican pros
pects." The Democratic prospects"
40 far are only four. They are:
Walsh, Of Massachusetts: Copeland,
of New York: Reed, of Missouri;
Shields Of Tennessee.
Total: Thirty.two. Needed badly:
One more.
The one more will continue to be