Evening star., 1924-07-10
|NDEPENDENTSPUT
| TICKET IN RUNNING
lohn Zahnd of indianapolis
and r. NJ. Harrop of Omaha
Are Standard Bearers.
NAMED BY REFERENDUM
Equality for Women, Federal Re.
serve Repeal Are Among
Planks.
NAMED BY REFERENDUM
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. July 10
John Zahnd of Indianapolis, was NOM
mated for President of the United
States on the National Independent
ticket last night. while Roy NJ. Har-
rop of Omaha. Neb., was chosen as
the vice presidential nominee.
Zahnd chairman of the state ex
ecutive committee of the party said
the nominations came as result of
a referendum vote sent to all men,
bers of the party. The vote was:
Zahnd, 6S3 votes.
Harrop, PSI votes
N. Nelson, Fort Worth. Tex, 212
votes.
According to the rules of the party
the one receiving the highest number
of votes is the presidential nominee,
:and the one receiving the next high
est number is the vice presidential
nominee.
Scattering votes for La Toilette,
Ralston, j. A. H. Hopkins of New
York and James c. Fuller of Kansas
City, were recorded.
Spurned by Two Candidates.
Both Mr.. Hopkins and Mr.. Fuller
they were not members of the In
dependent party and We're not candl-
dates for the nomination.
Mr.. Zahnd announced the following
executive committee to act until a
new committee is elected in each state
in January. 1925; each state at that
time to be entitled to one member IN
the national committee:
Johp Zahpd chairman. Leonard CI
Simmons, secretary; Robert Schuyler
Edna L. Johnson, Edgar Petit, u. L.
Campbell, all of Indianapolis; Ray
mond o. Rairdon. Franklin. Ind; H
Harrop, Omaha, Neb.: Thomas G.
Jackson. New Folden. Mimi; n: Neil
son, Fort Worth. Tex; Gladys G.
Mcclure, Venice, Calf: Lula klien-
Roberts. Mont; Silas n. Dunn. Grand
Junction, Colo; H. c. George, Forest
City Iowa; c. E. Ward, Long Island,
Ala; ], L. Armbrust, Armbrust. Pa,
and T. c. Christensen, Salt Lake City
Utah.
The platform of the party adopted
at meeting of the executive COM
mittee last May has as its chief plank
q demand for the repeal of the fed
eral reserve banking system and the
establishment of an American finan-
cial system of government-owned
banks. Other planks are in favor OF
elimination of tax-eXempt securities,
government initiated treaties to out
law war, old age pensions, abolition
of the electoral college. equal rights
for women, conservation of natural
resources and better cooperation be-
tween the government and the farm
ers.
LOO Votes Cast.
The Independent party, as now or
ganized. is composed of those who
have signiied a belief in the plat
form and who have paid 81 yearly
dues into the treasury. Mr. Zahnd
announced that approximately 100
ballots were sent to members In
twenty-three states and that almost
all of these voted.
The presidential nominee, Mr.:
Zahnd, was one of the organizers OF
the committee of forty-eight when it
was brought into being in Chicago in
1918, and was prominently Identified
with this group in their convention in
Chicago in 1920. He was born near
New Martinsville, w. Va. April 13,
1877. was a farmer. travelling man
and real estate operator. He was a
candidate for Congress on an inde-
pendent ticket in Missouri and again
In Indiana, when he moved to this
state.
Harrop Organized Party.
Mr. Zahnd stated that as Mr.. Har-
rop was the organizer of the Peoples s
Progressive party at Omaha last jan
uary, which nominated Robert R.
Pointer of Dearborn. Mich, for Presi-
dent, the Peoples Progressive party
would henceforth join with the Inde
pendent party and go forward under
the latter's banner. as he understood
that Mr.. Pointer would withdraw.
Robert NJ La Toilette was not in
dorsed by the Independent party, Mr..
Zahnd said, because the members
could not indorse the platform of the
Conference for Progressive Action at
Cleveland on July 4 and 5. He stated
that his party would have welcomed
, an invitation to attend the Clevela nd
conference merely as observers, but
that no invitation had come and no
representative had been sent.