The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-14
BUILDING
ALL NEW
PLATFORM
Amalgamated Liberal Conven-
ton Rearranges Planks in
Effort to Lure La
r. y, Toilette.
PEACE OFFER MAZE
Conce ssions Made by Labor Party tc
Forty-Eighcers in Hopes
Of Preserving Har-
mony.
PEACE OFFER MAZE

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CARMENS HALL, CHICAGO, July
lathe amalgamated liberal conven-
ton, after morning of parliamentary
iockeying to hold delegates in check
while the platform committee worked
| in an eleventh hour effort to write a
new platform to satisfy Senator Rob-
J ert M. LaFollette, adjourned at 11:5O
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 committee that complete
new draft was being prepared
! Frank j. Esper. secretary OF the la,
boz. party, said the platform would be
agreeable to all groups.
| The labor party, it was said, decid'
| ed to make concessions on the pat
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. go
- Boosting Debs.
| GARMENTS HALL, CHICAGO, July
14.-The newly born unnamed third
patty went into session here shortl!
after ten o'clock today with the an
nounced intent of selecting candidates
for the presidential campaign
Extreme radicals were boosting Eu-
gene V. Debs for the nomination.
! Conservatives were still hopeful Sen
ator LaFollette 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, a
! Catholic priest, volunteered with a
short prayer.
Lets 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
lcutive 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 Harr!
!Weinberger Of New York amended the
suggestion by declaring that the sons
be sung with the hope that the door
of the United States jails be thrown
open and Political pINoners be re
leased.
When delegates tried TO sing it, the.
had difficulty with the tune ant
words.