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Show DALTON AT TflCIiS INDEPENDENTS ! Socialist SpeaKer Says "La-4 "La-4 bor TlcKet" Is Church Aid ' and Contrary to Goia-pers Goia-pers Plan. The Americaa meeting at the Federa-. Federa-. tion Of Labor hall last evening devel- oped a tilt between one of the Americaa speakers, W. 8. Dalton, and D. I. Elton, campaign manager for the Independent . - Labor party, in which Elton was 6 distinctively dis-tinctively discomfited that he left the vhall under Dalton'a excoriation. Elton made his boast before the nieet-, nieet-, lag that he would humiliate Dalton . with -a. few questions the latter would sot be able to answer. A large number of Independent Labor party men gathered gath-ered at the meeting in anticipation of this . event. Mr. Dalton was informed ; as to the state of affairs, and in rising . ' to speak immediately called upon Elton to put his question. . Said Mr. Palton: "I understand that the most active promoters of the imitation Labor party are here tonight to ask me a question. I $m overjoyed to learn that they are . thinking ' hard enough to have a question ques-tion to ask, aad invito them to proceed at once. I am glad to learn tney are feere tonight, because it gives me an opportunity to say to their faces what I iave been saying fox some time about them in the papers. Let any of them ' put a question who darts. ! "If the promoters of the Mormon labor party were honest; if it were 1 really sot a ' church move, one of two courses would - have been adopted: 'Either they would have accepted the in-(vjtatioa in-(vjtatioa of the Socialists, who have the I only bona fide labor party in the world, I to get together, or, when Gompers and I the executive- board of the American 1 .Federation of Labor went into politics j And wrote what they iatended to do, j which policy was to punish our enemies . nd reward our friends, and elect men with unblemished union cards, when possible, no matter bv whom nominated. I in that ease Judge Weber and the five I atannch union men on the American ; ticket would have been unanimously j indorsed by the unions. Had thev , adopted Gompers' plan when the Amer-j Amer-j icaa barty put the five nniou men on its 1 ticket, and indorsed them, thev would J have. compelled the" other parties to put I good union men oa their tickets." ; In the middle of Mr. Dalton 's re-i re-i arks Mr. Elton arose and left the hall, i The bnly question ventured bv the Ia-; Ia-; dependent Labor party men was asked . by Mr. Vincent, a member of the Car- pentfcrs'. union,, which had no bearing on the subject at issue. |