Show r 7 M Z X wI i j lAfOllETTE FOLLETTE LR TOMAKE TU TO MAKE RAGE RACE If COOLIDGE WINS INS Wisconsin Senator Wont Won't Stand for Conservative Platform in Republican Convention at Cleveland WASHINGTON March 17 Sen Sen Senator ator La Follette of Wisconsin will accept a third party nomination tion for forthe tho the presidency if the Republican convention at Cleveland next June Tune nominates President Coolidge and adopts a conservative platform Senator La Follette is discouraging ing his friends from making a fight for him in the Republican convention convention conven conven- tion but has Indicated to them that that tha should the Cleveland nomination and platform be reactionary from fron the viewpoint of his group Jie he e wilnot will wil not look with disfavor upon a third party nomination LEADERS j Leaders in move lents mostly in inthe inthe I Ithe the the- Central West and Northwest I states to push a third party have been in conference with the Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- senator Senator La Follette is reported reports b by those who have recently with him as feeling that his group have no hopes of accomplishing within the Republican party what wha they are aiming to bring about bu but must look for success In a th d ticket which will hope to draw from both the old parties The Wisconsin senators senator's visitors said he is also opposed to a third party convention A progressive meeting is to be held in St. St Paul on June 17 after the R Republican convention convention convention con con- at Cleveland under supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of the committee e of forty- forty eight Senator La Follette has di directed directed directed di- di his efforts to prevent that meeting being converted into a third party parly convention i I OPPOSES NOMINATION He would prefer according to I those who have haye consulted him to have an independent ticket placed upon the national ballots by petition petition petition peti peti- tion and otherwise rather than b by nomination Senator La Follette is f further quoted by persons who are In his confidence and who have talked with him recently as being of the opinion that corrective measures In national politics cannot be n v launched through either of the old parties This belief has in influenced influenced In- In I him to refuse to permit the use of his name before the Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Clove land convention j |