The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-14
BUILDING
ALL NEW
PLATFORM
Amalgamated Liberal Conven-
tion Rearranges Planks in
Effort to Lure La
Toilette.
PEACE OFFER MADE
Concessions Made by Labor Party tc
Forty-Eighters in Hopes
Of Preserving Har-
PEACE OFFER MADE

+ United Press Leased Wire Service.
CARMENS HALL, CHICAGO, July
l4.-The amalgamated liberal conven
ton, after morning of parliamentary
jockeying to hold delegates in check
while the platform committee worked
| in an eleventh hour effort to write a
new platform to satisfy Senator Rob!
ert M LaFollette, adjourned at 1880
a. m. today to two p. m. 1t was ex.
pected the platform would be reported
! then.
The convention decided to adjourn
following an announcement from the
conference. comnitteesthat complete
new draft was being prepared.
!, Frank J. Esper, secratAE OF the la
boz party, said the platform would be
agreeable to all groups.
I The labor party, it was said, decid-
ed to make concessions on the plat
form to the committee of forty-eight
when Gilbert Roe, representing La
Toilette told them the senator would
not stand on the one proposed
Robert M Buck, member of the eX-
ecutive committee of the labor party,
naturalization of mines and railroads
leading the laborites in their fight for
with democratic control it was said,
made the peace offer to the forty
Fighters.
Boosting Debs.
CARMEN'S HALL, CHICAGO, July
14.-The newly born unnamed third
party went into session here shortly
after ten o'clock today with the an
nounced intent of selecting candidates
for the presidential campaign.
Exterme radicals were boosting Eu-
gene V. Debs for the nomination.
Conservatives were still hopeful Sen
ator LaF>ollette might be induced to
head the ticket.
Farley C. Christensen, the genial
and competent skipper who saved the
new party from going on the rocks
during the turbulent storm Of yester-
day afternoon, took the helm again.
Christensen declared that none of
the leaders who had been up most of
the night working on the platform,
had arrived, but he was ready to
start.
In response to an appeal for a
chaplain, Father George Zerker,
Catholic priest, volunteered with a
short prayer.
let's go. Bring in the platform.
What's the delay?" greeted Christen-
sens efforts to keep the convention
in calm waters.
A motion to send a special commit
tee to the platform committee to re-
quest an immediate report was declar-
ed defeated.
A woman delegate from New York
questioned the count and moved that
teller's be chosen to check votes here
after.
Delegate Hitchins, of Cincinnati,
moved reconsideration of last nights
adoption of the state electoral system
of voting on the name of party, plat
form and candidates. J. A. H. Hop
kins, national chairman, of the exc,
cutive committee of the committee of
forty-eight, who has just arrived,
strongly defended the electoral sys-
tenn. A heated debate ensued, and
again the convention was in turmoil.
John Walker of Illinois, was acting
chairman.
Delegate Duffy, of Rhode Island,
moved the motion to reconsider be
laid on the table.
When Delegate Kline, of Cincinnati,
pointed out it was on July IA the
French stormed the bastile and liber-
ated political prisoners, it was moved
that the Marseilles be sung Harry
Weinberger of New York amended the
suggestion by declaring that the song
be sung with the hope that the doors
of the United States iaiIs be thrown
open and political pfNoners be re-
leased. -.rE
When delegates tried TO sing it, they
had difficulty with the tune and
words.
The convention resumed at 2:13