Imperial Valley press., 1920-07-15
LABOR PARTY
NOMINAL n
RESPONSIBLE
BRE Ak.
Representative of Labor
Unyielding in Their De-
mands for Own Platform.
Committee Of 4S With
draws. May Re-organize.
fBy Associated Press)

CHICAGO, H., July 15.-The new
party and farmer-labor party entered
into the political field with Farley P.
Christensen, attorney of Salt Lake
City, and Max S. Hayes, editor of the
Cleveland labor paper, as nominees
for president and vice president. The
new party resulting from the fusion
of several parties, chiefly the nation
al labor party, the committee of as,
was completed at A in the morning.
Some of the forty Fighters dissatis-
fled, reconvened to consider whether
to organize still another party.
Christensen, the farmer labor
standard bearer was chairman Of the
convention of the committee of AZ
before the fusion was voted. Christ
enson is a native of the west. From
early life on the farm he was the
oldest of five children and plugged
away at an education until he grad
uated from Cornell University.
He since has spent most of his life
in Salt Lake. Prior to 1912 he was
ranked as a 'Dolliver republican" but
allied himself with the Bull Moose in
that year. Death to that party set
him adrift and he said he 'Sidled into
q stall and voted for Wilson in 1916"
CHICAGO, July 15.-The new third
party coalition affected between the
So-called labor party and the commit
tee Of forty y-eight existed for % hours
and went to pieces at 7:10 O'Clock last
night. The laborites at that time had
forced through their own platform, as
against 4 more conservation declara-
ton urged by the committee of forty
rrnn1rpI nrOrppG
with the nomination of their own can
didates for president and vice-presl-
dent as avowed radicals. The name Of
Dudley Field Malone of New York was
the tip as the probable nominee of the
so-called labor party for president,
and c. j. France of Seattle, Wash. or
Farley Christianson Of Salt Lake City
as the prospective candidate for vice.
president
Robert M. LaFollette had voluntar-
lily eliminated himself from considera-
ton by the definite statement made IN
mdafternoon in his behalf that he
could not accept the nomination il the
platform demanded by the so-called
labor party were adopted. The plat
form, it was said for him, was too
radical for the Wisconsin senator.
The minority or conservative plat
form report was defeated after bit
ter fight by vote of 1875 to AZ and the
forty-eighters, who had been slowly
filtering out of the convention hall all
afternoon, left the so-called labor
party in unquestioned control of the
further proceedings.
',DEFINITE SPLIT
j. A. II. Hopkins, chairman of the
committee. of forty-eight, announced
that the national convention OF forty
eight would, Immediately resume. its
own sessiOnsi at the Hotel MORRISON;
and probably nominate a presidential
ticket of itsrrown during the night.
Earlier in the day formal notice
that the, forty y-eighters could not stand
for further amalgamation with the
laborites if the majority platform
were to be insisted upon was served
upon the convention by George l..
Record, ellison Gardner and Amos
Pinchot, members of the platform com
mittee of the amalagamation, repre-
senting the committee of forty-eight.
These developments followed hard
upon an official statement from Min
neapolis that the non-partisan league
"will not amalgamate, affiliate or
merge with the projected third party"
and that no one speaking for A. c.
Townley was authorized to speak for
him or his league at Chicago.
James X. Ferguson, former govern
or of Texas, and head of the American
party, started home with the an
nouncement that he and his party
De- n