Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-08
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Frank P. Walsh Also Among
Possible Candidates for
Third Party Support.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July S-Amos Pinchot of
New York, member of the commit
tee of forty eight, which meets mere
Saturday in a national convention
left today for Madison. Wis, to confer
with Senator La Toilette, who is men
toned at headquarters here or the
committee of forty-eight as one OF
the leading candidates Tor a thlrd-
party presidential nomination. Sena-
! tor La Toilette has just returned
home after an operation at Rochester.
MINI.
Frank p. Walsh Of Kansas City,
former chairman of the Industrial re-
lations committee, and later OF the
War Labor Board, also is mentioned
as a probable candidate.
Delegates from twelve states had
arrived early today for the conven-
ton.
Pinchot Statement.
Mr.. Pinchot issued the following
statement yesterday:
THE democratic convention, like the
republican convention, was highly
sa satisfactory to the men and women OF
America who want new party. we
could have hoped for nothing more
evasive or less calculated to meet the
needs of the public either in the mat
ter of the platform or the candidate.
1.-THE democratic platform is a decid-
edly eloquent document that is full of
sound and means nothing at all. So Is
the republican platform. 1t has no con-
structive policy or program. 1t is the
expression of a few politicians who, II
they had ideas, dared not offend Wall
CIV hxy fbntpo II
the theory that the public's appetite for
buncombe was not fully satisfied by the
republican performance, and SO it offers
another full meal.
Cox and Harding.
las to Mr.. Cox, like Mr.. Harding, he
was chosen because he is a mediocre
man whom the financial world can trust.
because he has a record of political con-
formity and friendly relations with the
same gentlemen who, at the Blackstone
Hotel in Chicago. selected Mr.. Harding
to head the republican forces.
There has been created, quite skill
fully. situation in which this group.
which we speak of as Wall street. will
win whether we have democratic or
republican victory. This is triumph of
political maneuvering which the public
should pause to admire. The new party
will hold it's convention in a few days.
My advice to the public would be to
read its platform carefully, and if it is
not clear, brief, practical and construc-
tive. to retire to their homes next cleo
ton day and steer clear of the polls"
j. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey,
national chairman of the committee
of forty-eight. has issued a statement,
in which he declared that reaction
airy influences ruled the democratic
convention at San Francisco, just as
they did the republican gathering at
Chicago" He predicted that the new
party to be organized here Saturday
would be "a real factor in the No
vember election"
Eastern Delegates Leave.
NEW YORK, July S.-Delegates
from most of the eastern states to
the convention of the committee of
forty-eight filed a special train leav-
ing here today for Chicago, where the
first session of the convention to
launch third party will be held Sat-
urday.
In a statement issued at the COM
mittee's headquarters here today it
was declared the new party would
emphasize principles rather than
stressing the choice of a candidate"