Imperial Valley press., 1924-10-23
HOW Ia TOILETTE WAS NOMINATED

Senator La Toilette nominated by hand
picked gatherng-not by convention of the people
The platform brought to the Cleveland gathering
by his and heraded as having been written by him
was, for the most part, verbatim copy of the
platform adopted by national conference of radi-
calls in St Louis in February 1924
The national committee and the campaign commit
tee managing the La Follette-Wheeer movement are
both dominated by the Socialists and radicals, and
were picked by Socialists and radicals.
These facts are not disputed. They ndisput-
able. That they not common information is large
ly due to the fact that the Cleveland gathering which
launched the La Toilette party and selected the
didate held its 24-hour session during the height of
excitement the deadlock in the Democratic ma
tional convention at New York. The Democratic
vention spectacular that the reports of the
Cleveland convention practically crowded out of
the newspapers and the public did not realize the real
conditions surrounding the La Toilette candidacy.
The Cleveland convention-so-called-wa not a
body of delegates selected in popular primaries by
votes of the rank and file of the people, by represen-
tative conventions. La Toilette did not submit his
candidacy to the American people, despite the fact he
processes desire give the people voice in their
government. Although 18 states held presidential pr
maries under the law during the first six months of
1924 La Folettes name submitted to the public
but two of these states Moreover of the dele
gates elected in those presidential primaries were at
the socaled convention at Cleveland The delegates
at that gathering held commission fropi the Amer
lean people
The Cleveland gathering of July 4, 1924, was vir-
ually adjourned meeting of conference which met
in st. Louis, Mo-, in February, 1924-a meeting which
styled itself the Conference for Progressive Political
Action. This conference is a organization composed
of selected group of about II national and nterna
tiona labor organizations two three radical organ
zations and the Socialist Party. Although this
ference pretends to embrace agriculture IN its mem
bership in point of fact the representation of the
farmer in the conference is confined to handful of
professional agitators who represent fictional farm
organizations. No bona fde farm organization is
member of or is represented in this conference.
The president of the conference, William II. johns
ton is an avowed Socialist Socialist party cand
date for governor twice in Rhode Island and has been
in the United States and abroad The national, ex
ecutive committee of this conference embraces num-
Der Of Socialists of the most radical type. The con-
ference embraces in its membership practically all the
leading Socialists in the United States
Two wears ago the Socialist leaders decided they
could never make headway in this country by operat
ing directly under their and banner This
idea was expressed by Morris Kiquit, international
secretary of the Socialist party and chairman of the
national committee of the Socialist party, in an ad-
dress before the Rand school in New York. November
80 1922 (The charter of the Rand school revoked
by the of New York because it proven to be
a medium for communistic and sedtous teachings)
The group of radicals meeting in st. Louis IN FEB
ruary 1924, under the name of the Conference Tor
Progressive Political Action, adopted what they term
ed declaration of principles.
This "declaraton of principles was adopted by
the St Louis group February II, 1924. Although the
so-caed progressive platform adopted at cleveland
Julv-5 1924, was widely advertised having been
written by La Toilette personally, and although II was
brought to Cleveland and read to the convention by ms
son. comparison Of the text of that platform with tne
declaration OF principles adopIeu
in St Louis in February discloses the fact that the La
Toilette platform a copy, word for word, OF the St.
Louis declaration the following SUBJECTS naIohaI
ownership and Specialization OF UTILITIES ana INDUSTRIES
taxes destruction of the federal reserve banking sy
tenn and the Socialization of banking egallzaon OF
strikes creation Of government corporation ito Tx
farm prices and retail prices, abolition OF nJunctOnS
il labor disputes and the destruction of federal
and state courts by permitting legislative bodies to
nullify their decisions.