The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-12
THIRD PARTY
FLIRTS WITH
LAFOLLETTE
Wisconsin Mans Name Prom
inent-Labor and 48rs Are
Doing Their Best to Get
Together.
SINGLE SPLIT
(By Associated Press)


CHICAGO, July 12.-Amalgamation
of the labor party of the United States
and the committee of 4S, in a new
political movement with single party
name, one platform and one prest-
Dental ticket, are included in the rec
concentrations submitted to the labor
and ~48" conventions when they re-
convened today.
Formation of new party is no
longer question of whether but
"how." Arthur A Hayes, chairman Of
the conference committee represent
ing the comforting elements, told the
committee Of 4S convention delegates.
Mr. Hayes made this statement in
presenting the first report of the COM
mlttee to the convention Of 48.
Discussion was continued, he said,
among representatives of the commit
tee Of 48, the national labor party, the
non-partisan league Of South Dakota,
world war veterans. American consti-
tutionalists. rank and file veterans,
and single tax party.
viii AmaIgamate All
The report read assured the dele
gates that before they left the city
amalgamation of all parties would be
effected Assurances were given in
that all groups would join in one.
. Arrangements were made at once
looking to a mass meeting of all
elements.
The convention Of the labor pa rty
marked time today while the platform
committee labored over a mass of pro-
posed planks and the conference con-
tinued negotiations with the commit
tee Of 48.
Chairman John H. Walker, armed
with a hammer for gavel, had diff
Guilty in bringing the arriving
delegates to order.
Not Working Enough
Walker complained that the conven.
tion was breaking its six-hour day
rule by starting on the delegates
home town time and quitting on Chi
cago daylight saving time.
Senator Robert M. Lafollette, OF
Wisconsin, remained the most talked
of candidate in the presidential race.
The terms of the proposed combine
are understood by the party leaders to
meet his views, as expressed last
week to Amos Pinchot and George L.
Record, leading '48'ers who called on
the senator to ask If he would accept
the nomination should 1t be rendered
him
Conference committees appointed
yesterday by the labor convention and
Saturday by the 48'ers smoothed out
objections to amalgamation in a pro
,tracted session last night and adopted
a series Of recommendations to be
offered to the two conventions tday.
Joint Platform Presaged.
Besides urging the combining Of
with a common name, they also pro
posed appointment of special sub
committees to draft the machinery un
der which the combine will work ane
to prepare a joint platform.
The recommendations If approved
today, as the leaders confidently ex
pect, mean that the two convention.
will preserve their separate identit.
and continue to function in separat,
sessions, with sub-committees report
ing identical measures to each for dis
cusston and action.
What reception the amalgamatio1
proposal will receive from other lib
eral and radical groups, now meeting
here only time can show. The Singl
Tax party, also in national convention
pressions Of various leaders. on tn
availability of Senator Lafollette a
presidential nominee.
Divide on LaFoIIette.
One group of Single Takers has ar
nounced that it will bolt the propose
combine rather than stand for LaFo
cite, while another faction has de
clared it will accept any presidentta
nominee so long as a single tax plan
is incorporated in the platform
II Senator Lafollette wants the thir
party nomination he can have it, bot
4Sr's and laborttes agree. He is e.
ready the overwhelming choice of II,
4Sr's, a mail referendum has show1
While other candidates will be place
in nomination in the labor convention
and probably in the As meeting. to,
the senator's friends say both group
are ready to nominate him.
Frank P. Walsh, Kansas Cit,
Charles H. Ingersoll. watch manufa
turer, and Henry Ford have been mel
toned for the nomination but there
no apparent concerted action to flu
ther the prospects of any one Of then
Walsh Is also being discussed for vic
president.
Sixty Unions In Labor Meeting.
Yesterday was given over to tf
opening session Of the labor conve
ton, with delegates from 60 trade u
ion groups and other organization
represented. The ASS and sing
takers, whose convention opened Sa
urday, had recessed for the day ar
practically their entire membership a
tended the labor convention, mar
participating as active delegates.
Radicals Cheer Russ Reds.
The radical groups, who. accordir
to Swinburne Hale, one of their lea
ers, were in the minority in the
convention Saturday, were in the a
Cendancy yesterday, and vigorous
applauded when their leaders prayt
for the day when the workers Of Anne
lea would follow the example set
the workers Of Russia.
Every reference to Russia, and
ireland, too. was applauded with
will, and when John Fitzpatrick, Il
labor keynoter, praised the Russi;
revolution, three cheers for Sow