Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-07-23
BY E. E. cLlPsoN.

The movement to ~amalgamate vari-
Gus organizations of Socialists, farm
| ers. slaborers, intellectuals, radicals,
single takers, idealists and others sail
| ing under different party designations,
into a third party steered by the Com
mittee of Forty-eight in convention at
| Chicago, failed. At one time prospects
Of fusion appeared rather favorable;
when the 4S-ers marched in a body
| to the convention of the Labor party
| being held simultaneously, and amid
a great love feast and every appear
ance Of fraternity united the two con-
| yentions. Soon the Single Takers, the
| Nonpartisan league, the American
| Party of Texas (former Governor Fer
| guson), the American Constitutional
| party (Hearst) and the World Val
Veterans, an independent organization
of ex-service men, were in the fusion.
A platform carrying the principles,
aims, demands and desires of all OF
them would have contributed material
ly to the paper shortage. 1t could not
be framed, much less printed, and be-
came an insurmountable obstacle.
Cleavage was along pink and red
lines. Labor which was red-at least
red-hlooded-had the best working or
ganization and pushed through the
adoption of its planks, leaving little
| chance for the pink or parior radicals
led by Amos Pinchot, George L. Rec
ord and J. A. Fl. Hopkins. First the
Single Takers, who wanted only one
plank and could not get that, bolted.
Then Senator La Toilette of Wiscon-
| sin, who was expected to be the mes
siah Of the movement, found the plat
form too radical and refused to u
on 1t. Then the fusion dissolved in
bolts and fadeaways. Governor Fer
guson went back to Texas, representa-
tives of the Nonpartisan league an
nounced they would have nothing to
do with the new third party, the more
| radical of the 4S-ers were swallowed
by the Labor party, the remainder
withdrew, while the American Consti-
| ~tutional party was lost in the shuttle.
The Labor party and the Single
Takers serenely proceeded to carry
out independent programs and each
| nominated a presidential ticket. The
only victory was achieved by the La
Dor party which captured Farley P.
Christensen, an attorney of Salt Lake
City, Utah, one Of the original 48-ers,
and made him its candidate. Max s.
Hayes, labor leader of Cleveland, o.,
was nominated for vice president.
Pennsylvania, failing to land its ia
vorite sons, Governor Sproul and At
torney General Palmer, as the stand
ard bearers, respectively, of the Re
publican and Democratic parties, has
achieved It's ambition to have a presi-
1 Dental candidate, for the Single Tax
party nominated Robert @. Macauley
of Philadelphia, with r. G. Barnum Of
Cleveland, o., as a running mate.
After eight weeks of effort and the
examination of several thousand
v~eniremen, a jury was finally secured
and the trial begun in Chicago of Will
liam Bross Lloyd and 10 other Off
Gals and members of the Communist
Labor party, charged with conspiracy
to overthrow the government. Prose-
cution is by the state of Illinois and
follows the action of a special grand
jury which last January indicted the
defendants, after a series of spectacu-
lar raids on their headquarters and
meeting places by States Attorney
Hoyne. Lloyd is a millionaire resi-
dent of Winnetka, Ill.,. who long has
been identified with radical movements
in the capacity Of leader and financial
assistant. Indicted with him were