Evening star., 1924-06-18
Conservative Delegates From
Five States Pledge Union
Against Communists.
OLD PARTIES ATTACKED
AS TOOLS OF CAPITAL
Republicans Stole Thousands, Dem
ocrats Millions, Declares Chair
man, in Address.
by the Associated Press.

ny tue SsSOClated Press.
81. PAUL. Mimi, June lS-Aroused
by yesterdays misunderstanding"
William Mahoney of St. Paul, leader
of the conservative faction in the
national Farmer-I.a bor- Progressive
convention, declared as the conyen-
ton convened today that delegates
from South Dakota. Washington, Ne
braska, Montana and Minnesota had
assured him they would be on their
guard against a recurrence of yes
terday's communist successes"
Mahoney was named as the Mime
sofa member of the organization COM
, mittee, where he is determined to
fight for his decentralized national
organization plan. This movement is
opposed by the communists who
would have a highly centralized ma
tional party.
c. a. Hathaway of st. Paul, who
in the pre-convention committee fight
helped the communists disrupt par
ilamentary organization plans by
blocking Mahoney'S majority report
was named on the nominations com
mittee by the Minnesota caucus.
The call TO order found many seats
vacant. Belated delegates stragcIed
in throughout Chairman Charles f.
Taylor's address, which was prefaced
with statement that since his eiec-
ton yesterday he had had mo con-
ference or interview or other COM
munication with William T. Foster"
Handclapping and cheers greeted
Chairman Taylor when he referred
logger"
He Preferes Communists.
L would rather have sat with the
reddest communist in the world than
to have sat with those in the con-
vention at Cleveland or those who will
the chairman, and again the conven-
ton yelled approval
This convention must form a mass
class FarmerLab Dor party" was an
other sentiment tha. gained applause
and yells arose when he added: I'VE
want land for the users, jobs for the
workers, liberty and equality for
ALL
man, indorsed the mass class idea
and introduced the permanent secre-
tary. Alice Lorraine DAILY. South
Dakota
Miss Daily said she was graduated
in school of elocution and not. as
some had phrased it in ..hellocution.
She said she was not interested in
what the newspapers said about her
Il am not interested in trivial
things" she said. only the unciv-
ilized call each other names
Experience rs Teacher.
Miss DAILY told her experience in
South Dakota where she taught
school. When / was nominated for
governor" she said, Il knew that
they would say that a woman should
not be elected because she could
know nothing about business. So /
studied the records and found that
the men who have run the political
affairs knew so much about business
that they have succeeded in getting
US in debt a. the rate of one dollar a
minute since Christ was born.
Nothing can stay the hand of the
militarists except a party made up
of farmers and workers. Let us think
less of the practicality that resulted
in a war that killed 10000, 900 men,
and more of humanity
II honor Senator La Toilette. and
his forty years of service for human
ity, but let US not forget the thou
sands and millions for whom we are
oldHulHS dHu optdhiiiS dt tHiS HOui'
Call of Humanity.
LET us go not where practical poll
tics lead us, but where humanity
calls US. And il we lay only a few
bricks of our party foundation here
let us stand and hold those bricks
until our hands decay"
Miss Daily was then given three
cheers and a tiger.
Prediction that the Farmer-Labor
party eventually would dispose of
the two capitalistic parties that hold
the power today" was made by Chair
man Taylor.
Mr.. Taylor severely criticised the
Democratic and Republican parties
and issued an appeal to farmers and
workers to unite more closely 1or
political action and urged "a ballot
box revolution" .
He greeted the delegates in the
name of thousands upon thousanoS OF
bankrupt farmers-farmers, VINO uuf
ing the past few years have lost tneir
ali. in the name of the constantly
Increasing numbers of the unemPioS,
ed and the workers of this natlon.
Sees Greatest Party.
"out of this historic convention
..id Mr.. TAYLOR, "is destined to grow
~. Great mass-class Farmer-Laoor
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