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/* Cloture failure (Republican betrayal?) */
====Cloture failure (Republican betrayal?)====
Eventually, the Senate overwhelmingly voted against cloture, with nearly all Republicans joining half of Democrats in opposition. <ref>January 27, 1938. [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/75-3/s101 TO IMPOSE CLOTURE ON DEBATE H.R. 1507, AN ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.] ''GovTrack.us''. Retrieved May 26, 2023.</ref> Roy Wilkins accused a conspiracy "between the filibusterers and the supporters," the latter of whom he regarded as never wanting the bill to be passed in the first place and whom would ultimately "have to vote for it if it came up."<ref name=farewelllincoln,p.244-45/> Several newspapers blamed both parties, regarding the cloture vote as evident of a betrayal of blacks by a trio of the White House, Republican senators, and some Democratic senators including the bill's sponsor.<ref name=farewelllincoln,p.246>"Farewell to the Party of Lincoln," p. 246.</ref> The Senate Republican leader, [[Charles L. McNary]], explained the party's votes against cloture:<ref>McNary, Charles (January 27, 1938). [https://www.congress.gov/75/crecb/1938/01/27/GPO-CRECB-1938-pt1-v83-21-1.pdf Vol. 83, Part 1 — Bound Edition], p. 1,165. ''Congressional Record''. Retrieved May 18, 2023.</ref>
[[File:Charles McNary of OR.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Republican leader [[Charles McNary]] criticized the 77-member Democratic majority for the Act's failed passage.]]
{{cquote|The entire Republican membership of the Senate, save two, sincerely desire to see the antilynching bill passed. I shall not discuss the merits of the bill. The Republican Senators are willing, and have been willing, to remain here from sunrise to evening star and from evening star to sunrise in order to have the bill passed. It is my deliberate judgment that if the bill had been handled with more aggressiveness, if so much timidity had not been shown in pushing it forward, if night sessions had been held as expected, the bill by this time would have been enacted into law.
