Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-08
Ia TOILETTE ENTERS
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
AS AN INDEPENDENT
Third Party to Be Launched
Later If Wisconsin Sem
ator Is Successful

CLEVELAND, July 5.-(By the
Associated Press. AFTER inGorsing
Robert M La Toilette as a presi'
Dental candidate and providing for
the organization of a new political
party next January, the conference
for progressive political action
wound up it's convention early to-
night.
The conference empowered its ma
tional committee to select a vice
presidential candidate after confer
ence with the LA Toilette for presl-
dent committee
La Toilette was Endorsed asa can
didate on his own platform. The
convention then adopted for itself a
platform embodying the ideas con-
tanned in the Wisconsin document
issued at the St. Louis session OF
the conference last February.
The final day of the gathering
worked out strictly according to
plans of the leaders and without APP
preciable opposition.l But just be-
fore adjournment, some Of the dele
gates, dazed by the rapidity of events
had to be assured by the chairman
that La Toilette actually had been
nominated, and that definite pro-
vision had been made for the new
party.
The confusion arose from the fact
that the report of the committee on
organization recommended this &C.
ton and that no separate motion Of
Endorsement was offered. The report
itself was adopted without a dis
senting vote, but the significance Of
this action did not dawn On either
delegates or galleries and there was
a total absence of demonstration.
La Toilette Cheered
Repeatedly today, as yesterday,
the name LA Toilette" was the sig
nal for cheering and applause. Yet
the elimination of the convention S
work, coming in the form of a COM
mittee recommendation. did not
draw even a pattering of handclaps.
All elements in the convention
were intent on showing they were
back of La Follette's candidacy. Aft
er losing a fight before the organi-
zation committee for immediate for
nation of new party, the socialists,
led by Morris Hillquit, of New York,
were the first to second the indorse-
ment report.
The farmer-labor party clemens
who backed Farley Christensen in
the 1920 campaign and who also had
urged the third party idea then
rallied to the support of La Toilette
as an independents Abraham Lefko-
WITT, New York, being their spokes-
man.
Speaking for the women of the
convention, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady
stanton, pre-Civil war suffrage adj
Vocate, urged all members of her sex
to work for the election of the Wis
consin senator.
The railroad brotherhoods and 9TH
er trades union delegates spoke
through the chairman of the com
mittee, E. j. Manion, president of
the Order of Railway Photographers,
and reinforced his work with a
mighty AYE" when the report was
adopted.
No sooner was the convention
ended than the national committee
and the state delegation groups gath.
cred to plan campaign. The con
Vention decided to rely upon popular
subscriptions for its campaign fund
and tonight's meetings were calcu-
lated to get machinery under way
Tor circulating La Toilette ballot pc
tltlonS and to collect money
headquarters at Chicago
National campaign headquarters
probably will be established in Chi
cago.. 1t was explained that liaison
could readily be maintained there
with Representative John M. Nelson,
of Wisconsin, who will be La Fol
lette's personal campaign manager
directing his activities from Chicago.
BY the organization committee re-
port, the national committee of the
conference was continued in office
directed to enlarge its membership
to at least fifty and empowered to
act as a campaign committee.
1t is to direct the conference ac-
tlVltles not only on the national tick.
ct but also was ordered to cooper
ate for the election to congress, state
legislatures and other offices of all
candidates pledged to the interests
OF the producing classes and to the
principles of genuine democracy in
government.
The committee was definitely in
structed to meet and organize for
the campaign on July IS and on No.
Vember 20 to issue a call for the Jan.
uary new party convention.
The object of this convention, -
said the report. shall be to consider
and pass upon the question of form.
ing permanent independent politi.
cal party for national and local cleo.
tons, upon the basis of the general
principle laid down in that platform
adopted by this convention and for
the transaction of such other bust
ness as may come before the con
Vention.'
The platform approved today was
in accord with the expressed views
of Senator La Toilette on the politi
cal situation. The initial plank
pledged use of the power of the fed
eral government to crush private
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