New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

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I.aunclningof
Third RI rty
tcentlnusd from page one,
practically all were from the states Of
New York, New Jersey and from the
District Of Columbia.
When the conference opened the par
lor floor Of the hotel was thronged with
representatives of the National Labor
party, the Public Ownership League,
progressives of the days of the Bull
Moose, The amnesty committee Of the
American Freedom Foundation, tho
World War Veterans and the others
who hadn't agreed on d thing except
that they wanted third party.
Present at the opening Of the con-
vention to watch the third party move
Ment get Under way were Robert M.
Senator La Toilette, Of Wisconsin,, and
Gilbert E. Roe, of New York City. From
what could be learned from the men
who have conferred with tho Senator,
he will not be willing to accept the
nomination Of the third party If it is
offered him.
Hundreds of La Toilette badges were
given out at the convention. Still there
were none in the convention who would
say definitely if their chieftain would
consent to be standard bearer Of the
party.
Rnnu, for Enrd TauurhoH
The Michigan delegation came to the
declare with certainty that he will be
elected. The Ford advocates arrived
with big. picture of the auto manu-
facturer. The picture was viewed with
out an unusual demonstration.
DR.. j. H. Myers, Of Jackson, Mich,
declared that the Michigan delegation
had obtained the assurance of Mr..
Ford that he would run for the office
of President if nominated.
elm forming third party every
body knows we need good organizer"
said Dr. Myers. Every one knows how
Mr.. Ford organized his company. We
all know his abilities and should select
him."
The organization committee, before
going into the conference, had practi-
cally determined on the selection as
permanent chairman Of Farley C.
Christensen, Salt Lake City attorney,
who is forty-eighter, single taxer
and delegate to the National Labor
party convention.
McCurdy's Keynote Speech
Allen McCurdy, in his KEYNOTE
speech, said the abolition of eco
nomic privileges must be the funda-
mental appeal with which any third
party goes to the voters. He dealt
blows at both the Republican and
Democratic parties, declaring that they
revealed themselves as "the right and
left wings Of the same bird of prey"
Consider the actual conditions I'M
der which we meet" he said in his adj
dress. after years of secret slavery
the Republican party and the Demo-
cratic party come into the open and re-
the nation as nothing but the right
wing and the left wing Of the same
bird of prey. 1t is no longer possible
for any one even to pretend that there
is any difference on any issue between
them. There is not word in either of
their platforms that might not have
been written and unanimously Endorsed
by convention exclusively composed
OF corporation lawyers and Wall Street
bankers.
"The only difference between these
platforms, as some one has remarked,
is difference in the number of words
used to say nothing. Confronted by
the gravest crisis in the history Of
civilization, they have demonstrated,
even to their own adherents, that they
arc without the vision of statesmen
the courage of leadership or the con-
viction of patriotism.
Republican Party Criticized
"The Republican bid is bold. It
! reads out of it's councils every man
and woman who ever stood for any
form Of human rights; adopts a
platform that evades, equivocates or
straddles every living issue; paves the
way for war by which, in exchange
for the lives and treasure of the peo-
pie, Mexican soil shall be delivered to
the interests; indorses the infamous
/ Esch Cummins bill over the protests
of farmers, workers and informed
citizens; and consistently crowns it's
work by nominating as candidate for
the Presidency Of the United States
in the year 1920 a proven, steady,
wheel horse politician, guaranteed to
stand without hitching, who learned
all the politics he ever learned in the
Satisfactory anu thorough school of
Marcus A. Hanna and Joseph B.
Foraker, way back in the golden age
marked by the Standard Oil scandals
Thus stands the party of Abraham
Lincoln, in the last days of its de-
cadent faithlessness, naked and un-
ashamed in it's servile SERVED of 9
greedy plutocrat
The Democratic bid is more than
bold; it is brazen. With mild reser-
vations, it not only claims partisan
credit, which belongs to the whole ma
ton, for fighting and winning the
war, but it declares that it admins
tered the conduct Of that war without
the faint of scandal. And the ghosts
OF Hog Island, and aircraft and ship
building and cantonment construc-
tons, and nitrate plant appropriations,
are still stalking through the land.
Scandal!
us it no scandal that in the wear
1917, the year Of supreme sacrifice.
when our boys were fighting and dying
Tor $50 month and our people were
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