The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-22
THURSDAY. JULY %, 1920.
EARN LABOR PARTY" HuMBUG

The "FarmLabor Party" ticket
nominated few days ago at Chicago
represents neither the farmers nor la
Dor, The name adapted is an unadulter
ated humbug designed to deceive the
unwary voters.
AS the movement comes more and |
more to be understood it seems clear
ly to be an effort to overthrow the
constitution and government of the |
United States and seize all power and |
wealth for the pleasure of agitators
who work only with their mouths and
are no. troubled by conscientious
scruples.
The following is an account written
by an observer who went to the
Chicago convention partially inclined
70 favor the idea of more radical
party and who came away entirely
cured. 1t was written while the con
NtulOH WAS III IIOBiVo9'
THE reader must Understand at the
: outset that by the terms farmer
and labor as used in the third party
\ convention, small minority of agri-
4 cultural workers and small minority
of toilers in factories and railroads is
meant. So radical and Bolsheyistic are
y the aims of the so.caled farmer and
labor groups gathered here that even
the much-condemned NonPar. isan
league of North Dakota farmers has
lhesitated to get behind the farmer
groups here intellectually and join
in the orgy of agitation and destruc-
ton which the platform of the major
ity of the committee representing the
so called farmer and labor alliance
asked the third parry to adopt. Even
Robert NJ. I.aFollet'e, regarded as the
n radical of radicals in the United
4 States senate declined to run on the
b extremist platform.
3 THE trutho the matter is that the
extremists plaiHTy asked for the near
n est approach to Bolsheyism that has
yet been suggested in a party conven-
y lti9p or political gatherir& OF equal i'm
n fp6ftancet Ana tliey went b step fur
Il Their in gathering to their bosoms most
! all the malcon,ents in America includ
: ing the people, who in one breath de
nounced the league of nations as an en-
d gap Cling alliaaRa. and a Eprovoker Of
n fwafs and who insthe next breath would
n trisk war between the United States
II and Great Britain nnless Recognition
4 pI he iIrish,gepRRic is. granted by
II Fboth, and the people Who want to stir
up the race problems of America anew
81 by granting equal social as we'll as po-
II u sieal rightstp Negroess apdswho, want.
II saffiiafe with the re1oluti0nists III
a india and Egypt and enter inte "a
q hearty kinship with Soviet Russia
q Every mention Of the Russian So
a Wet was cheered and every reference
q to imita ing what the workers had
4 done in Russia was applauded. 1t was
Il a gathering of agtators from all parts
n of the United States, including men
q who started the outlaw strike on the
railroads a few months ago and the
. men who have been threatening to
4 overthrow Samuel Gompers and the
n conservative leaders of organized la
v Dor as a part of their program Of
y chaos and revolution.
q Small wonder that Mr. Gompers
\ has had trouble ropressing radicals in
A the ranks of labor. And if the mnor-
n ty had a sincere purpose in trying to
"a get possession of the labor organiZa
n items throughout the country, it nigh
4 be a different story, but the writer
4 was assured by members of the Com
n mittee of 48 that this convention was
H indeed a revelation to them and that
u many Of the leaders of the labor
q groups here were merely playing a
a game of labor politics intended TO
h help them gain the big Offices in or
ganized labor for simply
. a case of personal ambition which is
so much derided when individuals give
vent to similar human aspirations in
the Republican and Democratic par
ties.
! 1T was a good thing all the cXtrem-
lists in America were gathered toge h.
er in single room or at least repre-
sentatives of every extremist faction,
for the whole thing was like a safe y
valve, Ii was we'll TO allow all the
steam to blow off. The extreme radi-
calls revealed their own hypocricies.
| They refused even courteous hear
ing to the Progressiyes and liberals
who tried to furnish political sense to
the third party PR gram and guide it
| along rational lines in a way that, it
was contended by George l.. Record of
lINcw Jersey, for instance, would con
| vert millions of citizens who NIGH
lIotherwise close their minds and refuse