New Britain herald., 1920-07-15
FARMER-LABOR PARTY, OUTGROWTHO OF OTHER POLITICAL GROUPS, SELECTS
 CHRISTENSEN TO HEAD ITS TICKET
Senator La Toilette Declines to Run on Platform Adopt ed-Forty-Eight Trying to Organize Another Party

Chicago, July 15-The farmer-labor party. born of a fusion of numerous political groups today had a platform and candidates. At o'clock this morning it's convention after an all- day and night session chose Farley Parker Christensen, Salt Lake City attorney and Max s. Hayes. Cleveland labor leader. its presidential and vice-presidential nominees respec- lively.
 Today a group of dissatisfied dele gates formerly allied with the Com mittee of 4s met and considered pacing their own ticket in the field under the forty-eight banner.
 Christensen and Hayes.
 The -eighters who remained in the farmer-labor convention were rewarded by seeing Christensen, chairman of the AS convention, se- lected to lead the fusion party while the labor leaders contented them selves with the selection of their na- tional chairman, Hayes, for second place.
 Christensen's nomination served to weld strongly the elements remaining in the convention. One report was current that the dissatisfied forty eighters would confine their activities tchas Ao le1 h pai ly educational movement.
 Not all was harmony in the fusion convention. Heated debate developed over the choice of a name. The forty efghters carried their unsuccessful fight against the socialistic doctrines of the radical laborites to the floor. But the well-laid plans were nullified by labor leaders who blocked adop- ftion of platform said to be satis- factory 10 Senator LaFollette. Forty eighters charged the fusion party was boss ridden by a clique"
 I.aFoIlette Steps Out.
 Amidst the uproar when delegates in every corner of the hall were clamoring to speak Gilbert F.. Roe, LaFolieties personal representative sent in word that the senator would not under any circumstances become the party nominee on the majority platform adopted soon afterward.
 Removal of IaFollette strength encd Ahe iaborites' control The forty-eighters trailed along through the rest of the session although once they tried to raise their voice in the proceedings. They contended without success that the white col- lar slaves" and eastern liberals. both small merchants and professional men would be driven away by what they described as a class name.
 Other Names Suggested.
 The list of names placed in nom- ination included besides Christensen, Dudley Field Malone, Eugene V. Debs, Henry Ford, Louis F. Post. Governor Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota and Jane Addams. After one ballot tho convention voted to elim- mate all excepting Christensen and Malone and nomination came on the second ballot
 Twenty names were offered for vice-president but they were with drawn one by one until only three were left-Max S. Hayes, Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist leader. and Lester Barlow. leader of the World War Veterans. Hayes received all except about a dozen votes and the nomination was made unanimous. The convention then ended.
 The New Candidate.
 The new party's presidential nom- inee was born at Weston. IdS-ho, 49 years ago. From early life on farm Christensen. the eldest of five children, plugged away at an educa- ton until he graduated in law at Cornell. He since has spent most of his time in Salt Lake City.
 Prior to 1912 he was ranked as "Dolliver' republican, but allied himself with the bull moose in that year. Tho death of that party sent him adrift and he said, he "sidled into the stall and voted for Wilson in 1916"