The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-15
THIRDPART'Y SPLIT
Last Minute Bolt Caused by
Forty-Eighters.
Stampede for LaFOlIette and
Platform ThWarted.
CHRISTENSEN NEW NOMINEE
Second Place Given to Head of
Labor Veterans.
Fight Against SOcialistic PIankS
to Convention Floor.
NEW NOMINEE

political groups. today has platform
and has its new candidates in the field
| for the coming election.
Its work was completed at o'clock
this morning when its convention,
after an all day and night session,
/ chose Farley Park Christensen, Salt
Lake attorney, and Max S. Hayes.
! Cleveland labor leader, as presiden-
tiaI and vice presidential nominees.
But the strength of the new move
ment remains to be seen. The first
! test came today when a group of dis
! satisfied delegates, formerly allied
with the Committee of Forty-eight,
ticket in the field under the AS ban
ner.
Some 4Sers Remained.
Not all of the 4s delegates withdrew
| from the fusion convention last night
i and some 100 or more returned to
manned were rewarded by seeing
Christensen, the chairman of the con-
vention, selected to lead the fusion
fparty while the labor leaders content
their national chairman, Hayes, to sec
ond place.
| Forty-eight leaders declined to say
what effect this concession would
have on their course when they met
today. 1t was apparent that Chris
I
strongly the elements remaining in the
convention. One report, in fact, was
current that the dissatisfied Forty
Fighters would confine their activities
today to organizing anew for purely
educational movement.
Criticises Labor Group.
]. A. H. Hopkins, national chairman
of. the Forty Fighters, addressed the
Farmer-Labor meeting after reports
became prevalent that a bolt had
been determined upon by him and his
friends and denied that such an agree
ment had been reached. He avoided
saying, however. that none was in con-
temptation, and in statements issued
for publication; criticized the donli-
nant labor group for its handling of
the amalgamation and declared a
great opportunity had been missed.
| Not all was harmony in the fusion
convention during the hours the plat
form and candidates were under dis
cussion. Heated debate developed also
over the choice of name for the
newborn political group. The Forty
Fighters carried their unsuccessful
committee fight against the Socialistic
| doctrines of the radical laborites to
the floor. Pursuing the same tactics
they used thruout the platform dis
cussion, they attempted to force their
wishes across thru the use of Senator
lLaFollette's name.
Block LaFolIette Stampede.
An embryo stampede and a forty
five minute demonstration for the
Wisconsin senator resulted from the
laid plans were nullified by labor
leaders who blocked demands for an
imm ediate consideration of platform
said to be satisfactory to LaFollette
and which. it was claimed, had been
concealed by COMMITTEE intrigue
Ill, Ia
fore the convention first, and altho
a minority report, drawn along the
lines said to be acceptable to the Wis
consin senator. was presented, the
majority faction won.
Rumblings heard behind the scenes
for two days burst upon the conven-
ton during the heated platform dis
cussions with Forty Fighters charging
the fusion party with being "boss
ridden by a clique
Radicals In Saddle.
Amidst the uproar when delegates II
| every corner of the hall were clamor-
ing to speak, Gilbert E. Poe, LaFoI-
lette's personal representative. sent
in word that the senator would not
, under any circumstances, become the
party nominee on the platform ma
: jority adopted soon afterwards.
Removal of LaFollette as an anchor
for the less radical of the Forty-eig
ers left them free to be showed aside
by the votes of the laborites and the
flatter's control was never again seri-
ously questioned.
With LaFollette removed as a po
tential candidate for the presid
nomination, no well organized boon
4 was left, and as a result the delegates
I were soon provided with an assert
ment from which to choose. The lis
: of names placed in nomination in
Guided. besides Christensen: Dudle.
Field Malone, New York; Eugene V
Debs, the Socialist non inee; Henri.
Ford, Detroit; Louis F. Post, assistan
: secretary of labor; Gov. Lynn ]
Frazier, of North Dakota; Jane Ad
dams, of Hull House, and severa
= others. After one ballot the conven
ton voted to eliminate all excepting
Christensen and Malone, the two lead
ers and nomination came on the sec
ond ballot
New Nominee Westerner.
/ When vice presidential candidate
i were called for the convention wa
+ swamped with a list of more thai
/ twenty but name after name wa
! withdrawn, either by the candidates il
3 person or by friends, until only thre'
:, were left. Max S. Hayes, CARR
4 Chapman Gait, suffra gist leader. ant
Y Lester Barlow, leader of the Worlt
z War Veterans Hayes received all ex
a cepting a dozen votes and the nomina
v ton then was made unanimous, and a
: o'clock the convention adjournet
o sine die.
The new party's prudential nomi
nee is a native of the west He wa
born at Weston. Idaho. 40 years age
n From early life on a farm, Christen
: sen, the eldest of five children, plug
n ged away at an education until h
!. graduated in law at Cornell university
( He since has spent most of his time il
, Salt Lake City.
1 Prior to 1912 Christensen was rank
ed as a ''Dolliver'' Republican, bJi
| allied himself with the Bull Moos
II in that year. The death of the part
set him adrift and h1 said he side
into the stall and voted for Wilson 4
1916"
II Caldwell Elevator Is Burned
ii Caldwell. Kan. July 1.-THE Met