Evening star., 1926-04-14
Smith Apparently Victorious
by Substantial Margin in
Primary in Illinois.
FRIENDS OF TRIBUNAL
DENY ISSUE INVOLVED
Lenroot and Cummins Listed as
Next Adherence Backers to
Face Fire of Ants.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

on the returns so far received, run
ming on an anti-World Court plat
form in the Illinois Republican sena-
torial primary, was hailed by the
anti-court Senators here today as evi-
dence that they have the sentiment of
the country back of them.
Encouraged by the apparent nomi-
nation of Col. Smith, the anti-court
group today were preparing to carry
the fight against other Senators who
supported American adherence to the
world tribunal
Senator Brookhart of Iowa, who
has just been unseated by vote Of the
Senate and his place given to Sen
ator Steck, Democrat, will receive the
backing of the anti-courters in his
contest against Senator Cummtns for
the Republican nomination.
Already the banner has been raised
by the anti-courters against Senator
Lenroot of Wisconsin, who led the
fight for the administration to bring
about the ratification of the World
Court protocol in the Senate.
Illinois Test Was First.
The defeat of Senator Mckinley in
Illinois yesterday was the first test
of popular sentiment in the primary
elections this year on the World Court
issue.
While the apparent failure Of Sen
ator Mckinley to win denomination is
beir~ claimed as a significant victory
for the anti-court group, the pro-court
Senators are declaring that other ele-
ments. far different from the World
Court, were responsible. They point
to the factional differences in Chicago,
where county officers were being
elected, and where the Republican
factions were lined up for or against
Senator Mckinley in a most unusual
manner. They insist that the control
of Chicago politics was the real goal
in the primary election in that city.
They say, too, that the pro-courters
really never put their side of the
World Court argument before the peo-
pie of Illinois, although speeches were
made in the State by Senator Borah
of Idaho, Senator Reed of Missouri
and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota
against the World Court, and the
speakers for Col. Smith discussed the
Court on all occasions.
There Is no gainsaying the fact,
however. that the World Court issue
was the big talking point in the Re-
publican primary campaign. Even in
cago, local in the extreme, the World
Court issue was injected.
Court Warmly Attacked.
The foreword of the campaign docu-
ment issued by the campaign in the
interests of the candidates indorSed
by the committee regular Republican
Cook County convention proclaimed
in large type:
America first! No World Court!'
This was the Grove e-Barrett-Thomp
son faction, or factions.
In reply the Deneen faction-the
national Republican party"-put out
a document which claimed that vote
against the World Court was a vote
against President Coolidge, who had
supported American adherence to the
World Court with reservations. This,
too, was the keynote Of the advertise
ments inserted in the newspapers by
Senator Mckinley.
Col. Smith in his campaign not
only appealed to the anti-court senti-
ment in the State, but also tackled
Mckinley on the agricultural situa-
ton. He pledged himself to work for
measures which would tend to make
the farmers dollar equal in buying
value to the dollar of the industrialist.
InlS was ILL 0I0CIlNG llIlS VI u.
ment in part Of the State where the
producers Of corn were hard hit last
year and where there has been much
discomfort.
Defeated Smith Before.
Six years ago Senator Mckinley de-
feated Col Smith for the Republican
nomination by about II 900 votes, and
at one time, before all the votes were
in, Mckinley conceded the election
of Col. Smith. But the later votes
from downstate, where Mckinley was
strong, gave the victory finally to
him.
Senator Mckinley, who returned
here today from his home in Cham.
plain, said, with his quiet smile:
81 am glad it is over"
He continued:
THE people of Illinois have sent
me to Washington for 20 years-14
years in the House and in the SEN
ate. In this primary l was recon-
mended' for denomination by all the
Republican newspapers in Chicago.
was supported for reelection by
nearly all of the daily downstate
papers. The only pronounced oppo.
sition. that ] know of was by the
Hearst papers and by the Smith-Sinall
combination. I was indorsed by near
ly all of the church societies. women's
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