New Ulm review., 1920-07-14
THIRD PARTY R TO-
BE ORGANIZED
VARIOUS POLITICAL FACTIONS
AGREE ON AMALGAMA-
TION OF ALL.
LA TOILETTE AND PINCHoT
MOST TALKED OF FOR
NATIONAL TICKET.

NATIONAL TICKET.
Ihe j, third party seems a certainty.
!. lhe conference committee of the va
rlous political factions meeting at
Chicago since Saturday, made a partial
report Monday afternoon, to the effect
Jhat amalgamation of all of them had
been decided on.
Included are the single takers. Nom
partisan league, World War Veterans
and Constitutional party.
A committee of five was appointed
by the platform committee of the
1orCy-elghters to confer with a COM
mlttee OF i've from the labor party on
drafting a common platform.
Sen. La Toilette for president and
Amos Plnchot for vice president, con-
st1tute the most talked of combina-
ton for the. ticket.
Harmony Prevails.
This outcome was indicated in a
special telegram received by the
Review Monday morning. Robert
La Toilette is going over sure thing
good" itssaid. 3'All forces are getting
together and harmony prevails among
all factions. A name for the new
party has not yet been decided on, but
everything seems to point to the and
OF the old parties The Nonpartisan
League. and the World War Veteans
are working as one body"
Merger Seems Sure.
Little difficulty is anticipated by the
leaders Of 49 in effecting the pro-
posed amalgamation of various fac
lions, but struggle is expected to de-
velop on the form the amalgamation
will take
j. A. Hopkins, chairman, committee
OF 4S, has urged the committee on
political procedure to recommend that
all liberal groups retain their present
identity.
Under Hopkins plan, the groups.
would be organized intosone big group
divided into sub-groups which would
be classified by naming them after the.
present parties.
Assurances of the support of the
Nonpartlsan league were given liberal
leaders today by William Lempke,
Minneapolis, vice president, and D. c..
Dorman,s general manager, North Da-
kota. 5ta<
{{I4i Soviet Russia Cheered.
| John Fitzpatrick, Chicago, in an ad-
dress OF welcome yesterday sounded
| the tWofold keynote of the labor con-
vention when he said the laborites
| must "centralize the punch by unit
ing with all other minority groups
subscribing to the same principles and
then return to the people the govern
ment, which, he said, 'interna ational
| money pirate" have stolen. I.ss asal
| Fitzpatrick praised the course of the
I Russian people and the convention
gave three cheers, for soviet Russia.
The thunder of foot stamping and
cheering punctuated the Fitzpatrickad-
dress. His speech lost all repressio
| IN It's references to Russia and Ireland
and to the Republican and Democratic
parties. 81 f,yessis,
= For years labor has followed the old
routine OF appealing to existing politi-
cal parties" Fitzpatrick said. Eve
have gone to them withlour programs,
making no, difference whether the
! Democratic or Republican party was
IN power, and have come away with.
our promises, only to see those prom
ises broken and shattered. "a
SO now we are through. We have
| gotten; our; own people together. There
isn't anything to prevent the hand and
brain workers of the United States
from taking the government out of the
hands of-not Americans, but inter-
| national financial pirates-and dotsit
! now. Iii
Criticized Cox. te
Fitzpatrick criticized Governor Cox's
| handling OF events IN the steel strike
last fall.
Whats our duty, as the representa-
tlyes OF men and women and children.
against the representatives of the greed
OF gold? he continued. s.Our dutptis
| TO proceed mediately, vunitedly, y,rtto
take over the reins of the government
| of the United States.
| They want US to look abroad.
They tell us about, Russia. There was
a monarchy over there under which the
| Russians lived for 700 years. and one
day they shot it into the garbage can.
Do they want the United States to tell
'em: how to govern? We'd be poor
instructors. They might go to Ireland
for help. FlssSss1i
Russia has created new govern
rnen9, taking care.of the rights of people
lnGthe way Russians Want3fit done
Oh, that the day wotild come when the
working people of The United States
would get together and do lob such
3 as the rorkgrs of Russia have done =
4 Sc Irish Plank.
The resolutions committee of the
committee OF 48 resumed its work to-
day.
i It is scheduled to take up first a
4 plank calling upon the United States
to- recognize the independence of Ire
/ ianild, lail such as was turned down by the
a Democratic national convention. ,!.Te
. Ihls IS to be presented by Frank II.
u Walsh. ts s7,S s.
Il Sixty Groups Represented.
Il Sixty trades union groups, and other
organizations were represented in the
labor convention. Miners and rail-
7 way men predominate in the union
sect ion. Other groups whose Gre