The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-07-11
Ia TOILETTE
IN THE RACE
Selection of Running Mate Left
to Committee
PLATFORM SILENT oNokLAN
Cleveland Convention Provides For
Organization OF New Party In
January-Adopts Own
Platform.

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Cleveland. - After indOrsing
Senator Robert NJ. La. Toilette,
of Wisconsin, as Presidential
candidate and providing for the
organization of new political
party Eext January, the Confer
| ence for Progressive Political
| Action wound up its convention
here.
The conference empowered its ma
tional committee to select a Vice
Presidential candidate after confer
ence with the la Toilette for Presi-
dent Committee"
La Toilette was Endorsed as a can
didate on his own platform.
The convention then adopted for It.
self a platform embodying the ideas
contained in the Wisconsin document
and in the statement of principles
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 appreciable
opposition. But just before adjourn
ment some of the delegates, dazed by
the rapidity of events, had to be as
sured by the chair that La Toilette
actually had been nominated" and
that definite provision had been made
for the new party.
The confusion arose from the fact
that the report of the committee on or
ganization recommended this action
and that no separate motion of in
dorsement was offered. The report
itself was adopted without dissent
ing vote, but the significance of this
action did not dawn, on either dele
gates or galleries, and there was a
total absence of demonstration.
Repeatedly the name la Toilette"
was the signal for an outburst Of
cheering and applause. Yet the Gull
mination of the conventions work.
coming in the form OF committee
Recommendation, did not draw even
q pattering of handclapping.
All elements in the convention were
intent on showing they were back of
La Follette's candidacy. After losing
a fight before the organization COM
mittee for immediate formation Of a
new party, the Socialists, led by Nor
ris Hillquit, of New York, were the
first to second the Endorsement report.
The Farmer-Labor party elements
who backed Perley Christensen in the
1920 campaign and who also had
urged the "third-party idea" then raj
lied to the support OF La Toilette as
an independent. a.
Speaking for the women Of the con-
vention, Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch.
daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
pre-Civil War suffrage advocate, urged
all members of her sex to work for
the election of the Wisconsin Senator
The railroad brotherhoods and other
trades-union delegates spoke through
the chairman of the committee, g. j.
Manion, president of the Railway
Photographers, and reinforced his word
with mighty AYE" when the report
was adopted.
No sooner was the convention ended
than the National Committee and the
State delegation groups. gathered to
plan for the campaign. The convention
decided to rely upon popular subscrip
ton for its campaign fund
BY the organization committee re-
port, the National Committee OF the
conference was continued in onicc, d.
rected to enlarge it's membership tc
at least so and empowered to act as q
campaign committee.
The committee was definitely in
structed to meet and organize for the
campaign on July IS, and on Novem-
Der 20, to issue call for the January
new party convention.
1.-THE object of this convention" said
the report, shall be to consider an6
pass upon the question of forming S
permanent independent political party
for national and local elections upon
the basis of the general principle laic
down in the platform adopted by tfis
convention and for the transaction Of
such other business as may come be.
fore the convention"
The platform approved was in &C.
cord with the expressed views of Sen
ator La Toilette on the political situa-
ton. The initial plank pledged "use
of the power of the Federal Govern
ment to crush private monopoly. not
to foster It," Another sharply criti-
cized the foreign policy under recent
administrations"
There was no specific reference to
| prohibition or the Ku Klux Khan.
There was plank, however, for "un-
| qualified enforcement of the constitu,
tional guarantees of freedom OF
speech, press and assemblage"