Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-14
SINGLE TAKERS QUIT 4: I:
AND ADOPT THEIR q
OWN PLATFORM
Labor Leaders Make Conces-
sions To Forty-Eighters
But This Move Fails To
Iron Out Different Views
As To Platform; No Pro.
gre.s Made Today.
Majority Report Prepared.

Chicago, July IA majority re.
port of the platform committee OF the
fusion attempt at creating Q labor
party was finally partially prepared
today. 1t represented chiefly the Ia
Dor party opinion. and members sof
ready after its presentation to servo
notice that Senator La Toilette of
Wisconsin generally proposed a. the
fusion nominee. would not run for;
president upon it. ;SS-ss
In consequence. part of the ma
jority report was still being held
back, for endeavors to reconcile the
Chicago. Ill, July 14.-senator
La Toilette does not deem himself
available as candidate" for the new
arty presidential nominee. He sent
word to the convention that he did
not want the nomination B6
Immediately after Chairman Walk
Ter had announced La Follette's deci-
sion not to accept nomination. Les
ter HARLOW, leader of the World War
Veterans, entered the fight ano de-
manded that La Toilette be drafted
despite his wishes. f.,,
He charged that the convention was
boss ridden by a secret, intriguing
clique" and that it's leaders were con-
cealing La Follette's platform for fear
the convention would adopt it. His
and delegates demanded the platform
be read.
TOwnleyttes Laud Platform.
At the psychological moment some
one swung a large photograph of the
Wisconsin senator before the conven-
ton and draped it in an American
! flag. The Nonpartisan leaguers from
the Dakotas started parade with the
state standards and state after .4ate
fell into line. Pandemo onium seigned
for thirty minutes. and Wa6aAnapfUtss
ated with cries of read HAT pi4f !.
FORM and Tets adopt
| The Illinois standard N4G bESn9lt
into the parade but the eiis{
supporters begged in vainS
New York and Ohio delekSA
/ the stampede.
S3rpng for. La 6
~ AS the parade progressed, stsiAsx -
d Aetandardss were carried to the plat
j form and grouped about La Follette's >
picture. ,s+i44
J. A. H. Hopkins and Robert IL.
Buck. Of the platform committee
which Barlow had accused Of con-
la copy into the speakers hands and
told him to read it when the demon-
stration subsidized.
When the demonstration subsided,
|Chairman Walker sc2thingly de-
nounced Barlow for stampeding the
convention by subterfuge. denied
the charges of secret proceedings and
La Toilette platform. ia y
Chicago. July 14.-Hopes for reviv-
al Of the new fusion party were at ebb
tide as the all-night conference of the
hew bodys resolutions committee
dragged along today in an effort to
ge. together on platform accept
able to Senator La Toilette. ~
/ The extreme left which yesterday
controlled the amalgamation and
forced its platform desires on the
more conservative elements in the
convention, struck snag when it met
the veto power of the probable presi-
dental nominee Of the new party.
Forty Fighters who constitute the
right wing group of the fusion move
ment. are bitterly opposed TO the more
faction In this stand they have the
support not only of La Toilette but Of
several minority organizations sub;
scribing to the political combination
! Single Takers Withdraw. 7e'ss
The first evidence of a possible
breaking up of the new party move.
ment followed last nights session
when the single takers withdrew
adopted their one-plank platform anc
nominated presidential candidates
For president they chose Robert c
Macauley of Philadelphia, and fol
vice-president they selected r. C
Barnum of Cleveland. They quit the
; new party, Jerome c. Refs. a single
tax leader. said. because it was MOI
only apparent they could not obtatY
their platform desires and candidafS
committed to them but also becauss
they could not stand the socialistit
ideas of the dominant labor group
The birth of the new party yester
day. after five days of conferences
was attended by tumultuous scenes II
i which more than once the fledEiinl
. movement faced shipwreck on ths
!. rocks of jealousies and group antag
onisms. 5aS
Il In the very beginning. the labpl
party organization grabbed the rud
der and steered the course until con
, sideration of the platform resolution
was begun. Several planks had beer
4 read aud approved when forty-eiKht'
, ers began to interpose strenuous oh
jections to their relegation to tn,
i background. !s9;
There followed quickly demands To-
revision Of the procedure by which
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