Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-07-15
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Chicago, July 15.--A new party, the
Farmer Labor party, entered the polit-
ical field early this morning with Par
ley p. Christensen, Salt Lake City at
torney, and Max S. Hayes, editor of a
Cleveland labor newspaper as ~ nom
| inees for president and vice-president.
respectively
The new party, resulting from fusion
OF minority groups, chiefly the ration
al labor party and the committee of
48, was completed at a. m,
Not all of the forty-eighters remain
ed with the fusion party, and 100 or
more dissatisfied delegates met tou-y
to consider continuing that organfza- :
| ton, possibly with candidates and a
platform Of their own The single tax
party withdrew from the fusion move
ment earlier in the week.
Christensen Forty -eighter.
Christensen, the Farmer La Dor
standard bearer, however was chair
man of the convention of the commit
te of 4S before fusion was voted. His
| nomination, it was agreed, would go
far toward holding various elements &,
the new party, and it was reported the
dissatisfied forty-eighters might con-
fine their sessionst oday to organizing
an educational campaign.
j. A. H. Hopkins, national chairman
of the forty-eighters, addressed the
Farmer-Labor meeting after reports
became prevalent that bolt had been
determined upon by him and his
friends and denied that such an agree
mn To az
saying, however, that none was in con-
labor group for its hadlig of the ANAL
gamation.
Bossism Charged.
The laborites got their platform be-
fore the convention first and, al
though a minority report drawn along
lines said to be acceptable to Senator
LaFollette of Wisconsin, the forty
Fighters choice for president, was
presented, the majority faction won.
Rumblings heard behind the scenes
for two days burst upon the conven-
ton during the heated platform dis
cussions with Fighters charging
the fusion party with being boss
ridden by a clique.
C. j. France of Seattle. member Of
the conference platform, revealed the
inside story of what. he said, had
transpired in the session of the plat
form committee Tuesday night. His
version was challenged by ellison
Gardner, signer of the minority report.
LaFOllette Says mo"
Amidst the uproar, when delegates
in every corner of the hall were clam
oring to speak, Gilbert E. Roe, La
Lollette's personal representative, sent
in word that the senator would not
under anv circumstances become the
party nominee on the majority plat
form.
Removal of LaFollette as an anchor
for the less radical of the forty-elght-
ers left them free to be showed aside
bv the votes of the laborites and the
latter's control was never again seri-
ously questioned.
Over protests of the forty-eighters
the title already approved by Ice Ia
bor and farmer groups went through
with a whoop.
with LaFollette removed as poten-
tial candidate for the presidential
nomination, no well organized boom
was left The list of names placed IN
nomination included besides Christen-
sen. Dudley Field Malone, New YORK
Eugene V. Debs, the. socialist nominee;
Henry Ford, Detroit; Louis F. Post
assistant secretary of labor; Governor
LYNN ]. Frazier, of North Dakota;
lane Adams of Hull House and sew
eral others. After one ballot the con-
vention voted to eliminate all except
inc Christensen and Maone, the two
Leaders and nomination came on the
second ballot.
When presidential candidates
yere called for more than twenty were
nroposed but name after name was
rvithdrawn, until only three were left
Max s. Hayes, Carrie Chapman Catt'
suffra gist leader, and Lester Barrow.
leader of the World War Veterans.
Haves received all except about doz-
on votes and the nomination then was
made unanimous and at O'Clock the
convention adjourned sine die
The new party's presidential nomi-
moo is ative of the west. He was
hor at weston, Idaho. 4s years ago.
From early life on farm, Christen-
sem the eldest of five children. puig-
eed away at an education until ne
era duated in law at Cornell university
He since has spent most of his time IN