Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-11
FOUNDATION FOR
THIRD PARTY IS
BEING LAID At
CHICAGO PARLEY
Committee of 48 and Single
Takers Are Holding Con-
Vention to Place a New
Ticket in Political Field.
HOPE FOR SUPPORT OF
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
There Are As Many Different
Views As There Are Fac
tons Represented; Diff
cult To Maintain Order.


tsN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
Chicago, July Determination
stones We're laid today for a new
party on which to unite all third
party movements when the com
mittee of forty-e 'ght and the sin
gle tax party joined in their first
national convention to draft a plat
folm and pick nominees, who, they
hope, will win the support of ten or
a dozen liberal organizations.
! The first days session, devoted
to keynote speeches and organiZa-
ton work, developed as many diff
ferent views as there were factions
represented, Rules, resolutions
and nominations for permanent Of
! ficials were debated step by step
and at times acrimoniously. Allen
| McCurdy, of New York, temporary
chairman and ], A. II. Hopkins,
head of the committee of forty
eight, who opened the convention,
maintained order with difficulty
Liberals In Control.
Division between the liberal and
radical elements was brought out
in the rules debate when Winburne
| delegations were divided "fifty-Onc
per cent liberal and forty-nine per
cent radical" He was pleading for
a change in the rules that would
prevent the radicals being outvoted
by the majority liberals, but the
majority ruled and his plea was
lost.
Participation of the single takers
in today's convention followed an
earlier session, at which they de-
cided to present their platform de-
mands and views on candidates.
They are understood to be willing
to accept either Charles Fl. Inger-
soil, watch manufactures, or Amos
Pinchot, one of the leaders of the
committee of forty-eight for pfesi- |
Dental nominee. They are opposed |
their leaders say, to accepting Rob- |
ert La Toilette the favorite presi- |
dental candidate of the forty |
Fighters, and may bolt the conven-
ton and select their own ticket If /
La Toilette is nominated.
Determination of the single
takers course was declared to be
contingent upon three things:
First, the platform, which they
said. must include a single tax
plank; second, the candidate,
and third, the name of the party.
Fight Over Party Name.
The party name promises to de-
velop a fight Members of the
single tax group want some refer
ence to their name Incorporated in
the party name. The labor party
of the United States, whose con-
vention gets under way tomorrow,
is willing to join the third party
and probably will accept /,
mands that the word Labor" be +
included in the party designation.
AS organized today, the commit +;
tee of forty-eight convention num- .
bered 539 accredited delegates with :
a majority of 270 required to nomi- :
nate. The 539 included, in addition
to the forty Fighters and single tax |,
ers, fraternal delegates from the :
Non partisan league, Triple Ali :
ance of the Northwest, Farmers I,
National council Peoples Money
league, the Producers league and
Consumers league. The commit
tee of rty-eight embraces a num- Q
ber of well known leaders, some 7
of whom were prominent in the
Bull Moose" movement eight years
ago. The committee was formed G
last year at st. Louis with a mem $
ber for each state. II
Confer With Labor Party. a
While delegates debated rules n
and resolutions today their com
mjttee continued negotiations with
the labor party. Both conventions r
expect to be ready Monday to take S
up and complete in one days ses- t
sion their platform, which, 1t is ex-
pected, will be almost Identical. G
only two names, so far as s
known. will be presented to the Ia c
bor party for consideration as pres r
dental nominees, Senator La Fol
ette and Frank P Walsh of Kan r
sas City, former chairman OF the s
United States industrial relations e
and leader of the I
Friends of Irish Freedom Il
Deyelopmc nts Are Watched. t
DEVELOPMENTS of the convention v
ire being watched with interest by s
/ number of labor, liberal and rad r
cal leaders who are not directly h
Robert La Toilette, r
Ir., attended the opening session G
IN behalf of his father, but re-
used to comment on the elder La 4
Tollette's probable course II Ten r
Tered the presidential nomination. Y
w. z. Foster, secretary OF the s
general committee which conduct. n
d the strike in the steel industry i,
year ago, and who figured in the /,
enate investigation of the strike, I,
proceedings from a gal q
cry. in
James Duncan of Seattle, lead T
r in the shipyards strike there II
Turing the spring of 1919 and later
labor candidate for mayor or that a.
ity, entered the convention as =,
elegate He was elected chairman - -
f the Washington state delegation g g
nd took an active part In the pro- =,
eedings. -
w. G.. Calderwood, formerly an 70 q
fficial of the national prohibition q q
arty and several times candi- y
ate for federal office on that tick 3
t, sat in the Minnesota delega- !.
ions. - -
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