The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-07-17
La Toilette and the fortnight"

The refusal of the "a stalwart La
Toilette delegates from Wisconsin to
make the nomination of Harding unan-
imous is widely taken to mean that
the radical senator's party followers
are prepared to join him in a revolt.
Whether he is likely to lead sueh a re-
volt awaits word from him upon his
recovery from the effects OF an opera
ton. 1t is surmised by those A1ho are
expert in the LaFollette temperament
and views that he would be ready to
respond to a spontaneous call upon
him to lead a great third party move
ment, such a call, for instance, as might
come from a formidable section Of the
Republican party, especially II, inelud'
ing Borah and johnson. The possibility
of such a near bull moose revival with
La Toilette in the role of a paclfist
Roosevelt is extremely remote.
A referendum which the committee
of 49, has been taking among its adj
herents shows La Toilette far in the
lead as the choice for presidential can
didate of the new party which the
committee is still. trying to form, If
the senator accepts such a nomination
il will be because he is convinced that
the proposed party is likely to amount
to more than appearances so Tar ave
indicated.
The AS" by means Of a postcard
campaign have built up an organiza-
ton said to number 100000 members
and are said to have reached 100000
voters with their propaganda. They
have some rather impressive names to
coniure with-Amos pinchot, Owen X.
Loveiov. Glenn +. Plumb, David Starr
Jordan, Bishop Charles D. Williams and
Dudley Field Malone, among others
and they adopted last winter a brief
platform favoring public ownership,
free speech, abolition of labor inlune-
| tions, taxation reform, etc, and free
from the doctrinaire radicalism and in
! t~ernationalism of the Socialists. Still
thew don't seem to have caught on very
well. The tentative name of National
party appears to have been quietly
dropped and it now seems likely that
| the party convention, to begin at Chi
cago July 10, will adopt the name OF
Liberal party or Lincoln party, the
latter apparently being most favored
at present.
Meanwhile there are already two
other new third parties-the Labor
! party, which is to meet at Chicago
July II, and the Single Tax party, which
is to meet at about the same time
The Non Partisan league has recently
been showing a tendency to become a
separate party instead of merely con
trolling one of the old parties where
possible. The forty Fighters hope that
all these elements will join them or
contribute large fragments OF them
selves, but the prospect Of such a re-
suit is not very exciting. Meanwhile
the Socialist party, the Soeialist-Labor
party. the Communist party and the
Communist Labor party are going more
or less serenely on, each confident that
it is the nucleus Of the coming great
third party of revolt against capitalist
domination.
None Of these so-ealled parties nor
any combination Of them can make
| formidable Roadway as factors in a
national election without large aces
sions from the ranks of organized la
Dor. There are two strong reasons why
such accessions are not likely 10 be
forthcoming. Organized labor as a body
: not in sympathy with the parochial
Americanism for which 50 many of the