The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-14
LA AFOLLETTE TO
REFUSE HONOR
War Veterans Leader Starts
Uproar by Appeal for
Drafting" Him.
DEMAND PLATFORM READ
Pandemonium Reigns for Half
Hour - Nonpartisans
Head Parade.

Chicago, July Ex-senator La Fol-
lette does not deem himsemf avail
able as a candidate for the new party
presidential nominee" He sent word
to the convention that he did not want
the nomination.
immediately after Chairman Walker
had announced La Follette's decision
not to accept the nomination Lester
Barlow. leader Of the World war vet
Grams. entered the fight and demanded
that La Toilette be drafted despite his
wishes. c ..t.''
He charged that the convention was
clique" and that its leaders were con-
cealing La Follette's platform for fear
the convention would adopt it. His
passionate appeal started an uproar and
delegates demanded the platform be
read.
At the psychological moment some
one swung a large photograph of the
Wisconsin senator before the conven-
ton. The nonpartisan leaguers from
the Dakotas started a parade. State
after state fell into line. Pandemonium
reigned for thirty minutes and was
punctuated with cries OF ."read that
platform" and Lets adopt it,
New York and Illinois delegations re-
maned in their seats. as did Ohio and
some other groups. AS the, parade pro-
ried to the platform and grouped about
La Follette'S picture.
j. A. Fl. Hopkins and Robert NJ. Buck,
or the platform committee. which Bar
low had accused of concealing the La
Toilette draft, showed a copy into the
speakers hands and told him to read
II when the demonstration subsidized.
Denounces Stampede. =
When. tho demonstration sub.
sided Chairman Walker Denounced
Barlow for stampedlne the conven.
ton by a subterfuge, denied the
refused to permit the reading OF
the La Toilette platform.
Malone Being Groomed' - ''''
II was widely reported about the con-
Nention hall during the recess that
Dudley Field Malone, former collector
groomed as the candidate Of the labor
leaders
Robert Buck, a Chicago labor leader,
expressed the conviction this afternoon
that La Toilette would not permit his
name to be entered in nomination.
The platform declares that the new
party stands for 100 per cent. Ameri-
canism." 1t pledges the party to:
Restoration Of civil liberties and
american lhne5L doctrines, including free
speech, free press, free assemblage,
right OF assembly, equal opportunity and
trial by jury, amnesty for all prisoners
in prison BECAUSE of their patriotic in
slstence upon their constitutional guar
antees, Industrial activities or religious
belief; the repeal of the espionage, Sc
dition and criminal syndicalism laws;
protection of the right of all workers to
strike and strip from the courts the
powers unlawfully usurped by them, es-
pecialy the power to issue antilabor
injunctions, -Il7
The platform. demands that. federal
judges be elected for terms not to ex-
coed four years, subject to recall II
further declares suffrage should be uni-t
versai, and demands full unrestricted
political rights for all citizens.
The platform stands for the initia-
tive, referendum ana recall, with spe-
cial provision that war may not be de-
clared except In cases of actual mill
tary invasion before referring the cues.
ton to a direct vote of the people.