Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-16
RADICALS NOVEL PLAN
viii Name Electors, Who, " Sue.
ceseful at Polls, viii Select
Executive From Sc.
lected List
By CLINTON w. GILBERT
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY Public LEDGER Co.

Chicago, July 16.-Dudley Field Ma .
lone had the unusual experience of
thinking he was a candidate for the
presidency and then finding that he was
not. lie had been selected by the La :
Dor party machine. At midnight
! he was slated for nomination. Two
hours later, Christensen, who had
previously withdrawn, was chosen as
the Farmer Laborer candidate. Malone
was waiting somewhere near to come
| in and make speech accepting the
nomination. He came at the appointed
| time when the last ballot was over and
walked down the aisle half f-way to the
platform intending to take it and tell
| the delegates how much he appreci-
ated the honor which the convention
| had done him when some one stopped
| him and told him that Christensen had
been chosen.
For some reason the Labor party ma
chine had changed its view. Malone
| turned white and wilted.
At an earlier session of the Labor
party convention Mr.. Malone told this
story: "There was a gentleman in the
South who had negro driver wonder
! fully expert with the whip. The negro
had a whip with a long lash which
he could twirl about his head and
land exactly upon any. spot he
chose. His employer while being driven
along the road one time said to him.
Sam, there is n maple leaf on the end
of that branch there. Let me see you
| flick it off. Sam flashed the whip
through the air and with end OF the
lash clipped off the leaf indicated. As
they went along the road the master
said again, Sam. see that horsety on
the fence there. Let me see you Kill
him with your LASH Sam swung his
whip once more and landed the end
of the lash upon the fly. A little fur
ther down the. road the gentleman saw
hornets nest hanging from branch
of tree and he said, Sam, let me sec
you cut down that hornets nest with
your lash. Same pulled up the team
and took a look at the nest, shook his
head and said. NO. sir. a maple leaf
am maple leaf, hosshy am hossfy,
but hornets nest am an organiza
ton. The Committee Of Forty eight
found out the Labor party was an or
ganization, which the Forty eight was
not
Their Happy Thought
The radicals had a happy thought
after their convention was all over.
They could not nominate any one man
who might win the presidency, so why
not nominate every radical who had
strength in the country and carry one
section or state with one and another
section or state with another. The
plan would be to put ticket of electors
who, if chosen. would select q President
from the following list: Robert NJ. La
Toilette, William j. Bryan, Hiram
johnson, Tom Watson. Jane Adams,
c. a. Towney, Herbert Bigelow, Will
liam f. Borah and half dozen other
persons. Thus they might get all the
support which belonged to each of these
persons. And then when the electoral
college met the electors might pick out
whichever one on the list they chose.
They would be perfectly legal and con-
stitutional. In fact. it would be a re-
turn to the ancient system which pre-
vailed in this country at the beginning
of its history.
Gibson Gardner had this happy idea
of way to beat the present system of
party government. Lester Barlow,
head Of the World War Veterans, has
accepted it, and he is going to call
convention in three weeks, which he
will invite every organization in the
country with a candidate for President
to attend. He will list them all and
then put electors in the field pledged
presidency. If majority of the
electors could not agree upon any candi-
date, then the election would go into
the House of Representatives. The
failure of the Third party to organize
here shows that the strength of the
various movements in the country out
side the great parties cannot be united.
This would be a way of delivering it
all to one set of electors. What would
happen after that nobody can say.
Mrs. Garland's Jewels
The Labor party saw more money at
this joint convention which it held with
the Committee of Forty eight than it
ever saw at any convention in which
it participated before. Perhaps it got
some of it permanently. Mrs. Garland,
who was chosen vice chairman of the
joint convention, apparently chose to
cast her lot with the Labor party, un-
like most of the other persons of her
class. Mrs. Garland comes from Buz-
yards Bay, Mass, and, according to
reports, is the posscSSor Of $40, 900 900.
For her other possessions her greatest
jewels, there is ample authority,
her own. She told about her chill
dren and what model mother she
was every time she made speech.
She is the mother Of six children and
she has adopted eight more. These
fourteen children are being reared in
perfect manner, which, as this is not
column of home hints, will not be
here described. But any one desiring
to add eight adopted children to his or
her own six may proftably consult
Mrs. Garland and obtain the fullest
particulars. In addition to her four
teen children she has now adopted the
Labor party, probably much to its sat
latest addition TO her family the La
borites at least can boast that once in
convention in CarmCns Hall there
sat upon the platform a woman wearing
French hand made clothes and rope