The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-11
''Forty-Eighters" in Deadly Earnest
In Matter of Organizing a Third
Party: Convention Assembled at
Chicago With Labor Element and the
Single Takers Present; Lafollette Not
Satisfactory to All Parties as the Head

were laid for q new party on which
to- unite all third party movements
when the Committee Of As and the
Single Tax party Joined in their first
national convention to draft a plat
form and select nominees, who. they
hope, will win the support Of ten or
q dozen liberal organizations.
The first days session, devoted to
keynote speeches AMI organization
work. developed as many different
views az there were factions repre-
sented. Rules, resolutions and nomi-
nations for permanent officials were
debated and at times acrimoniously.
The temporary chairman, j. A. II.
Hopkins, head of the Committee Of
rs, maintained order with difficulty.
Division between liberal and radi
cal elements was brought out in
the rules debate when Swinburne
Hale, New York, said the state dele
cations We're divided "fifty-one per
cent liberal and forty-nine per cent
radical He was pleading for a
change that would prevent radicals
being outvoted by the majority liber-
ais, but his plea was lost.
Participation of the single takers
in today's convention followed an
earlier session at which they decided
TO present their platform demands
and views on candidates. They are
understood to be willing to accept
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leader of the Committee of 4S, for
presidential nominee. They are op.
posed, leaders, say, TO accepting Rob.
ert NJ. LaFollette, favorite presidential
candidate of the 'forty.eighters," and
may bolt and select their own ticket
If LaFollettc is nominated.
Determination of the single takers
course was declared TO be contingent
on three things: First-The platform,
which they said. must include single
plank second-the candidate, and
third-the name Of the party.
The party name promises to develop
q fight. Members Of the single tax
group want some reference to their
name Incorporated.
The labor party Of the United States,
whose convention gets under way
tomorrow, is willing to join the third
party movement, and probably will
accept LaFollctte as a candidate, but
demands that word, labor" be in.
cuded in the party designation.
As organized. today, the Commit.
tee of as numbered 500 accredited dele
gates. with majority of 27O re
quired to nominate.
The $40, included. in addition to
the fcrty.eighters and single takers,
fraternal delegates from the non.
partisan party, from the non-partisan
league. triple alliance of the north.
west, farmers national council, peo
pies money league, the producers
league of the consumers league, and
several other organizations. The Com
mittee of As embraces we'll known
liberal leaders, some Of whom were
prominent in the Bull Moose move.
ment. The committee was formed
last year, at st. Louis with u member
FOR each state.
While delegates debated rules and
resolutions today, their committee con-
tinued negotiations with the labor
party. There was small hope that
the fusion plans could be completed
before tomorrow night, following the
opening of the session of the labor
convention, when John Fitzpatrick,
president OF the Chicago Federation
OF Labor, will deliver the keynote
speech, for labor. Both conventions
expect to be ready Monday to take
up and complete in one day their
platforms, which, it is expected. will
be identical Only two names. so far
as known, will be presented to the
labor party for consideration as presi.
Dental nominees, Senator LaFollette,
and Frank P. Walsh Of Kansas City,
former chairman of the United States
industrial relations commission, and
leader Of the friends Of Irish freedom,
Difficulties between the programs
of the Committee Of as and the labor
party remain acute where they touch
on the railroad problem, leaders Of
both groups said today. Both groups
stand for government ownership, but
differ as to the amount Of Democratic
management" which would attach to
INc SySttul IL NiSy
should be taken over by the govern
ment.
Representatives of the labor party
and non bipartisan league conferred last
night and the labor party committee
met this morning with the Commit
tee Of as" In an effort to arrange
the terms of the amalgamation Of all
liberal and radical organizations with
q single candidate and platform.
The labor party Is insisting through
out the negotiations that the word
''labor" must be preserved In any
party name adopted.
The single takers today faced n di.
vision in their own ranks. The ans
nouncement Thursday by some Off.
,cials that the single tax delegates
would bolt the combine IL Senator
lLaTollette was the presidential nomi-
Inee, was followed by declaration
from some delegates that they would
stick to the new party regardless Of
the nominee.
This committee also was ordered
mot to make overtures but merely to
say for what the tax party stands.
state standards were hoisted by all
,states, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the
Ipistrict Of Columbia.
Whhen the song leader called for