The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-02
COMMITTEE OF 4S
Organization of Kansas Branch
in Topeka Today.
Would Join Unions, Nonparti-
sans and Farmers.
FRANK WALSH FOR PRESIDENT I
No Nomination of State Ticket
in State Field!
Headquarters To Be Opened in
This City Immediately.

Organization OF Kansas branches of
the Committee of Forty-eight'' is be-
| ing planned this afternoon at a con-
( ference in the National hotel. Efforts
to bring about an amalgamation of
labor union, Nonpartisan league and
+ Farmers union interests will be made
! in this state and in the nation. A
campaign of education is 20 be con-
Quoted during the next several months
and Kansas followers of the new po-
| litical faith will send delegates to a
! national convention to he held in Chi
cago July 3.
Paul H. Drake of st. Louis, regional
director for the southwest, is here to
| confer with the forty-eighters. He
stated this afternoon that no action
looking toward nomination of a state
ticket would be taken until organiza-
tion plans had been completed and
/ strength of the new party had been
| definitely determined. Behind the
new party. Drake declared. is the
anri-Gompers element of the Ameri-'
can Fedora ton of Labor, while the
/ Committee of Forty-eight is the na-
tional organization thru which the
Nonpartisan league will seek to carry
out its national policies.
| ''Pubiic Bound to Lose"
THE Committee of Forty-eights'
said Drake, ''is really a second party
! TdCneT l0dn InlrQ OrSan1-
Zation. All of the inscriptions cor
porate and business interests are inter
! ested in the Democrat and Republican
parties. They own 81 per cent of the
stock of both parties. No matter
which wins, the public loses. The
Committee of Forty-eight will carry
an appeal to the radical conservatives
and the conservative radicals. which
means every one favorable to a for
ward looking national program"
] To-, 1o~ Ar,
/ that of other parties will be formed by
the forty ighters. Headquarters will
| be opened in Topeka as soon as possi-
BILE.
Walsh for President.
/ "It is quite probable that the new
party will nominate frank p Walsh
/ as its candidate for president" said
Drake, "altho there are at least three
other probable-or a least possible
candidates These include GOV Lynn
! LaFollette. of Wisconsin, and Henry
Ford. of Detroit. Walsh, tho, looks
like the most desirable and generally
acceptable of the probable candidates.
! During the special session of the
Kansas legislature, Walsh came to To-
peka to fight the industrial court act.
His friendship for organized labor,
| Drake believes would make him
strong candidate.
ron Nonpartisan Platform.
will the Committee of Forty eight
make its fight on a Nonpartisan league
platform" Drake was asked. =
| NO Instead the Nonpartisan
/ league will make its fight on the Nom
partisan league platform.
The two platforms are similar, es-
| pecially as to public ownership OF
| TRANSPORTATION facilities and natural
resources. Governor Frazier of North
Dakota, urged as a possible candidate
for the presidency, was elected as a
Republican. Drake asserted that the
i governor now supported the plan ana
J purpose of the new party.
| II don't expect many people mere
for this meeting" said Drake. But
it will be the starting point for state
wide organization and campaign OF
education before the national conVen-
| ton"
Topekans in 1t.
! Lists Of and women favorable 10
! the cause of the new party have been gatn-
! cred thru the national headquarters in st
| Louis Included in this list are number
Of Topek9ns Drake today mentioned
| friendly supporters in Topeka D. l..
Chandler. PIC Kline avenue; A E. Fergu,
East Seventh street: Alice X Mcfarland.
915 Quin u street: Emily J. Raymond, 90i
and ber afTSa Kansans G listed @
r. W. rreeiand. Larned NJ. L, Hobson.
Kingman: Il. A. Baker Enterprise; REV.
! William ]. Jones. Manhattan: c. L. Milton,
f. r. Shaw Salina: J. f. Root, Girard:
| Rev. c. W. Melons. W. 2. Hopkins and T.
W. Harley Kansas City. A number of
these persons were expected here for the
meetings and conferences.
I Drake will remain in Topeka until sun
day night He will conclude plans for
state headquarters before leaving the state.
The Platform.
The national pra-convention platform of
I the committee of forty eight follows:
! Public ownership of transportat ton. in
Guiding stock yards large abattoirs, grain
elevators. terminal warehouses. pipe lines
and tanks Public ownership of other pub
| lie utilities and Of the principal natural
F, resources such as coal oil. natural gas.
| mineral deposits. large water powers and
large commercial timber tracts-
No land Gncluding natural resourees)
and no patents be held out Of use for
speculation to aid monopoly. We favor
| taxes to force idle land into use.
EQUAL economic. political and legal
rights for ALL irrespective of sex or color
| The immediate and absolute restoration of
| free speech. free press, peaceable assembly.
| and all civil rights guaranteed by the
constitution. We demand the abolition of
! injunctions in labor cases We indorse
the effort of labor to share in the man
| agement of industry and labor's right TO
organize and bargain collectively thru
representatives of its own choosing.