Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-11
FACTIONS OF THIRD PARTY STILL ARE
 VERY FAR APART
Each of Dozen Organizations Wants Pet Ideas h.
 cluded
LIBERAL AND RADICAL
 DIVISION IS FOREC AST
Single TaXers Participate but Won't Stand for La Toilette; Labor Party Wants Name" Labor
 Preserved

Chicago, July 10-Foundation stones for a new party on which to unite all third party movements when the com mittee of As and the single tax party joined in their first national conven- ton to draft platform and pick nom inees who, they hope, will win the support of ten or dozen liberal or ganizations.
 The first days session, devoted to keynote speeches and organization work developed as many different views as there were factions repre- scented. Rules, resolutions and nomi- nations for permanent officials were debated and at times acrimoniously The temporary chairman, J. A. H. Hopkins, head of the Committee of AS, maintained order with difficulty Division between liberal and radi- cal clements was brought out in the rules debate when Swinburne Hale, New York, said the state delegations were divided "51 per cent liberal and 49 per cent radical" He was plead ing for change that would prevent radicals being outvoted by the ma jority liberals but his plea was lost.
 Particiuation of the single taxers in today's convention followed an ear Her session at which they: decided to present their platform demands and views on candidates. They are under stood to be willing to accept either Charles H. Ingersoll, watch manufac- turer, or Amos Pinchot, leader of the Committee of 48, for presidential nominee. They are opposed, leaders say, to accepting Robert M. La Fol- lette, favorite presidential candidate of the forty eighters, and may bolt and select their own ticket if La Fol lette is nominated.
 Determination of the single taxers course was declared to be contingent on three things: First, the platform, which they said, must include sin gle tax plank, second, the candidate, and third, the name of the party.
 
 a 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 possibly will accept La Toilette as a candidate, but demands that the word "labor" be included in the party de- signation.
 As organized today the Committee of 48 convention numbered 539 ac- credited delegates, with majority of 27O required to nominate. The 539, included, in addition to the forty eighters and single taxers, fraternal delegates firm the non-jartisan league, triple alliance of the northwest, far mers national council, peoples money league, the producers league and consumers league and several other organizations. The Committee of 48 embraced we'll known liberal leaders, some of whom were prominent in the bull moose movement. The committee was formed last year att St. Louis with a member for each state.
 While delegates debated rules and resolutions today their committee continued 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 thelabor 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 plat forms, which, it is expected, will be about identical. Only two names, SC far as known, will be presented to the labor party for consideration as presh dential nominees, Senator La Toilette and Frank P. Walsh, Kansas City former chairman of the United States industrial relations commission and leader of the Friends of Irish Free. dom.