The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-13
Stormy Session in Which Delegates Use Ian.
guage More Forceful Than Polite in
Assailing Interference.
ANAL GAMAT|ON Of LIBERAL PARTIES
Friction Results Over Platform Plank on Public
l.. Ownership and Management of Rail- X
ways and Mines.

be a disposition on the part OF the
forty Fighters to accept the proposed
title of "farmers-labor party
| The joint committee, on constitu-
ton and political procedure, com
pleted its work about five a. m. and
adjourned. An agreement was reach.
ed to conduct the campaign through
national committee, upon which
the comm ittee of forty-eight and the
American labor party would have a
representative from each state.
| A resolution was to be introduced
in the forty-eight convention for final
adjournment of that meeting at two
D. M, and immediate fusion with the
labor convention in Carmen's hall
where the final organization work of
! the new party and nomination Of a
presidential ticket would take place.
=! Previously to the reported peace pact
j between the forty-eighters and the
laborites, the following organizations
had consented unreservedly to a Goa
lition:
Npn-partisan league, single tax
party World War Veterans, Rank
and File Veterans association; Amer
| lean constitutional party, and the
lAmerican party Of Texas.
| For time last night it appeared
the laborites and the forty-eightec IS
were irrevocably divided
! Forty-eighters declared they would
continue peace overtureS only through
the labor convention appointing two
sub b-committees to confer with SINH
lar committees of the committee OF
forty eight on platform and proce-
dure. The labor convention did this.
adopting a resolution declaring that
unless a settlement was thus affected
when the meeting reconyened today,
the laborites would act independently
seeking only an alliance with the
,non-partisan league.
An insurgent movement developed
! in the forty-eight ranks. Christensen,
party chairman, and Dudley Field
Malone, member of the executive
committee, openly threatened to lead
Ia bolt from their own convention and
join the laborites.
The labor subcommittee did not
appear at the Hotel Morrison until
after midnight. State chairrnen of
the committee of forty-eight had
Eherded their leaders into a room and
proceeded to subject them to ''bawl
out" for not giving in to the labor
ties and a lively verbal free-for-an
laborites arrived.
The resolutions committee of thu
forty Fighters, after working two
days on platform, adjourned last
night with only two planks completed
to meet again today. Their leaders
indicated their efforts would be side
ira cked for the work Of the joint
Threaten to Bolt
I[By Don E. Chamberlain. United Press
Staff Correspondent
HOTEL MORRISON, CHICAGO,
July 13.-A bolt by delegates Of the
committee of forty-eight national con-
vention to the labor party was threat
ened as the forty Fighters opened the
third session here today.
Sheridan Carlisle, delegate from st.
Louis, Mo. had prepared resolution
which he proposed to Introduce soon
after the convention was called to
order. The resolution moves the dis
charge Of all conference committees
and proposes the holding of. a joint
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