Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-07-13
Day Spent in Efforts to
Amalgamate Brings
Texas Contingent War
Veterans in Line.
Workers Party Submit
Irish Planks to Which
Heads of 48 Continue
to Find Objections.

Chicago, July 2.-Representatives
of five differe.A - political and semi
political organizations marched to-
day in formal fashion under the
SheItering wing of the committee of
Forty Fights attempt to create a
new fusion party. but the labor
party, conceded the most important
single group, was still outside of the
fusion arrangements at nightfaIl.
Statements from the conference
room indicated that the tension was
high and that the committee of 48
representatives objected to the term
democratic operation" as applied
to government ownership of rail-
roads, for which both stand. There
we're also differences over a name
for the new party. the labor men
demanding the definite word Labor"
somewhere in the title.
Meanwhile. the labor party and the
convention Of the committee Of As con-
tinued to progress. Each member Of the
labor party platform committee was
armed with three. complete platform
drafts. each of which contained an Irish
freedom plank. to which the committee
of 4S delegates were said to object. The
As convention listened to a day Of
oratory. with no action until just before
the close. when the representatives OF
the American constitutional party: the
American party Of Texas. which has not
previously participated in the activities:
Single Takers. World War Veterans
association and Rank and File veterans
organization, marched into the conven-
ton hall
New Attack on G. 0. p.
Representatives of the labor party of
the United States visited the convention
IL. 4 \
Donald. chairman Of the labor party Of
Illinois began an address.
The Republican party which met in
the city recently knew what they We're
talking about when they accused At
torney General Palmer of not prosecut-
ing the profiteeers. Mcdonald said Il
doubt whether so many profiteers have
been gathered together as were housed
in the coliseum during the Republican
Mr.. Mcdonald concluded by saying:
We have a program. You have q
program. put them side by side and l
think you could clip them in two and
past them together again with your eyes
shut
Nov. if we can agree on principles.
surely no one will he small enough TO
stop at technicalities. The time has come
to stand together,
w +. Rodriguez, former socialist
alderman of Chicago. and now 4 member
of the labor party, followed Mr. M.non-
aid in the labor party delegation or vlsl-
tors While Mcdonald and he wers
speaking the committees appointed "
the labor party and the committee Of is
were trying to agree on amalgamation.
Texans Come In,
Former Governor James f. Ferguson,
of Texas representing the American
party Of Texas. and Lester +. Barlow,
national chairman of tho World War
Veterans. followed Mr. Rodriguez and
the convention.
A vitrolic attack on the two major
parties was launched by Frank p.
Walsh. Kansas City attorney and for
mer member of the war labor board who
He nssaied each old party aud declared
nobody had expected anything from
either party convention, and nobody was
Walsh said the Repuhli-
cans had drafted platform of evasion
that isn't worth consideration.
Walsh Arraigns Democrats.
But the Democratic platform he con-
tinued. SIS the hlackest and the most
sinister pronouncement ever put on the
shoulders of our citizens. 1t even makes
every crime of the present administra-
ton the crime of the whole Democratic
party 1t makes the party OF jefferson
only masquerader az the party of the
people"
N. P. l.. Uniting Denied.
Reports that the Nonpartisan league
had agreed to amalgamate with the new
party were deuied by y. s. Evans of
s. ID. Mr.. Evans is state
chairman of the Nonpartisan league of
haf- ID
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