Show LABOR FARMER TO 10 HAVE TH THiRD IRD TICKET POLITICAL SITUATION TWO MAJOR PARTIES BE COMES CONFUSING Socialists Want La Follette to Lead Leada a New Third Party But Not If He Runs Independently In dependently St. St t. t Paul Minn Formation Formation hm hers of the New National Labor Farmer t party arty makes the second national organization or or- of similar name in exIst existence ex ox- while in Minnesota there is isa isa a 1 state labor farmer party independent ant ent nt of both national groups Confusion Contusion In the use of ot farmer farmer- tabor labor by these groups while there Is no official relationship among them is bound to result leaders of oC the date tate organization said fald here bere in speculation speculation lation hatlon as to the probable effect the ew i-ew National Farmer Labor party would have on state politics The state par did not Indorse the convention here last week and the faction headed by F F. F A. A Pike state chairman denounced it and refused to participate In its its' deliberations but the group roup headed by William Mahoney Mahon Mahon- ey of St. St Paul took a n prominent partIn partin part partIn In the gathering Mahoney is a member member mem meni- ber of the national committee Several leaders In the state tate org organIzation organ organization organ organ- n. n have said they feared the state party would lose votes in the fall tall election due to the I adoption of ot the Labor Farmer name by the convention com here as many of the party party par par- ty might vote other tickets through confusion in party lines Many state Farm Laborites Farmer Laborites r-Laborites are bitterly opposed to the communist communist- controlled national party formed here one le leader der said and they may mia mia- think some lome of the state Labor Farmer-Labor candidates in the fall tall elections are affiliated with the national na na- na party and accordingly vote for someone else With its origin In the Partisan Non-Partisan League a name abandoned abandoned aban aban- in Minnesota state politics for party designation in the 1918 election election elec elec- tion the Labor Farmer party has spread from this state to many other states statu continuing in Minnesota as a party Both Doth Minnesota senators sen sen- are members of the state party In 1920 the state party continued to function as such and in the same year the committee of forty-eight forty meeting in Chicago but without official of representation from the Minnesota Mire Min party organized the Farmer Farmer- Labor party of the United States and placed Parley P. P Christensen of Salt Snit Lake in the field as its presidential candidate In Minnesota however the state Labor Farmer party has the only le legal Ie Ic- gal right to use that name and Christensen's name did not appear on the Minnesota's electors elector's lists This year however the state organization organ organ- plans to hold a tate state tate convention convention conven conven- tion indorse a presidential candidate and nominate electors for the Nov Nov- vember ballot |