Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-07-11

stones for new party on which to
unite all third party movements were
laid here Saturday when the Com
mittee of 48 and the Single Tax
party conferred in their first nation
al convention to draft platform
and pick nominees who, they hope,
will win the support of ten or
dozen liberal organizations.
The first days session. devoted to key
note speeches and organization work. de-
veloped as many different views as there
were factions represented. Rules, reso-
lutions and nominations for permanent
officials were debated and at times acri-
moniously. Allen McCurdy of New York,
the temporary chairman. and J. A. Fl.
Hopkins head IF tie committee Of As,
maintained order with difficulty.
Division between the liberal and rad
ical elements was brought out in the
rules debate when Swinburne Hale OF
New York, said the state delegations
were divided. 81 per cent liberal and 40
per cent radical He was pleading for
a change in the rules that wonld pre-
vent the radicals being outvoted by the
majority liberals. but the majority ruled
and his proposition was lost.
Participation of the Single Takers in
Saturdays conyention followed an earlier
session at which they decided to present
their platform demands aNi views on
candidates. They are UNDERWOOD to be
willing to accept either Cb,tles Fl. In
gersol. watch manufacturer. or Amos
Pinehot. one of the leaders of the COM
mittee of 4S. for presidential nominee.
They are opposed. their leaders say. 20
accepting Robert N. La Toilette. the fa-
vorite presidential candidate Of the For
ty Fighters, and may bolt the conven-
ton and select their own ticket if La
Toilette is nominated.
Demands.
Determination Of the Single Takers
course was declared to be contingent
upon three things: first, the platform,
which they said, must include a single
tax plank; second. the candidate; and
third. the name of the party.
Party Name.
The party name promises to develop a
fight. Members of the Single Tax group
want some reference TO their name IN
corporated in the party name. The labor
party of the United States. whose CON
vention gets under way Sunday, is willing
TO join the third party movement, and
probably will accept La Toilette as p
candidate. but demands that the word
Tabor be included in the party desig
nation
Interests Represented.
As organized the Committee of AZ
convention numbered go accredited del
egates, with a majority of 2T0 required
10 nominate. The $50 included. in ad-
dirion to the Forty Fighters and Single
Takers fraternal delegates from the
Nonpartisan league. Triple Alliance Of
the Northwest, Farmers National coun-
ell. peoples money league. the produc-
ers' league, and Consumers league, and
several other organizations. The COM
mittee of ~ embraces a number of well
known liberal leaders. some of whom
were proI. Aent in the Bull Moose move
ment of four and eight years ago The
committee was formed last year at st.
Louis with member for each state
Labor Party to Meet.
While delegates debated rules and
runs their committee continued negotia-
tions with the labor party. There was
small hope that the fusion plans could
be completed before Sunday night. fol-
lowing the opening of the session of the
labor convention, when John Fitxpat-
rick. president Of the Chicago Fedora
tion of Labor, will deliver the KEYNOTE
speech for labor Both conventions ex-
pect to be ready Monday to take up and
complete in one days session their plat
forms which. it is expected. viii be al
most identical.
Lahor Partys Candidates.
Only two names, so far as known, will
be presented to the labor party for con-
sideration as presidential nominees,
Senator LaFollette and Frank p. Walsh
of Kansas City, former chairman of the
United States Industrial relations com
mission and leader of the Friends Of
Irish Freedom.
James Duncan of Seattle, leader in
the shipyards strike there during the
spring of 1919, and later a labor candi-
date for mayor of that city, entered the
convention as a delegate. He was
elected chairman of the Washington
state delegation and took an active part
in the proceedings.
W. G.. Calderwood. formerly an Off
cal of the national prohibition party and
several times candidate for federal Of
flee on that ticket, sat in the Minnesota
delegation,