OCR Text |
Show STORMY SCENE I FOLLOWS WORD OF HISfFlM i1 Leader Causes Demonstration When He Says Meeting 1 Is Boss Ridden. DELEGATES DEMAND READING OF PLATFORM I 1 Many Indications Point to Collapse Col-lapse of Efforts to Amalgamate Amal-gamate Factions. Chicago, July 14. Senator La- ) ' Follette does not der m himself avail-as avail-as candidate" for the new party presidential nominee He sent word H j to tho convention that he did not want ; the nomination. Immediately after Chairman Walker had announced LnFollctte's decision H not to accept a nomination. Lester Harlow, leader of the World War Vet. H erana demanded that DaFollette be H : drafted despite his wishes. H Barlow charged that the convention was "boss ridden by a secret, intriguing clique" and that its leaders were con- SB ceallhg LaFollette's platform for fear the convention would adopt it. His I appeal started an uproar and de:e- H gates demanded the platform be reau. H PARADE IS STAGED. Some one swung a large photograph of the Wisconsin senator before tho convention and draped it in an Amen- Hag The Non-Partisan leaguers H ; from the Dakotas staged a parade , with the state standards and stai'i H after state fell into line. Pandemou- urn reigned for thirty minutes and 1 was punctuated with cries of "reau J i that platform" and "let's adopt It." J. A. H. Hopkins and Robert M. Buck, of the platform committee ! which Harlow had armsed Of coo- IBss! ceallng the LaJfollette draft, shoved a jjjH copy Into the speaker's hand and told i htm to read it when the demonsira- tion subsided. H When the demonstration subsided LH 'Chairman Walker scathingly or- 'H ; nouueed Barlow for stampeding the -f I i convention by a subterfuge, denied ttie 'ii.irc.es ..!' v, , i r t proeeeding and re- r S fused to permit the reading of the Da- H Follette platform. H CHICAGO. July 14. Little progress jH ; was made by the new fusion party H i during the first two hours of its eon- H vention today and an undercurrent of H dissatisfaction was in evidence through H nut the meeting It once more re- H ! ouired the pleas of the leaders and H constant conference to prevent open H The platform was not ready for pre- H LtlOl and the convention was kept H I occupied with minor details of bust- The Committee of 4S at an early I morning caucus decided to continue Us I state and national organization re- . gardless of the action of the present H i onventlon and to meet separately to- H i night to consider the convention ac jH Senator Robert M. LaFollette of ! Wisconsin, was still being represented J in platform conferences . H At 1145 a. m. the platform con- J I ference ordered the typing of a third jJ J version of a fusion party platform, and H ' sent word lo the convention that It H would report at two p. m. The con- H vention adjourned until that time. H SIGNS Ol BREAKUP. The first intimation of tho break-Ing break-Ing up of the new party movemen' followed last night's session when the J Single Taxers withdrew, adopted their I one plank platform and nominated H their own presidential candidate. For H I president they chose Robert MacCaul- H j ley. of Philadelphia and for vice- slib nt they sH.-eted K C. B.iinum, I of Cleveland. They quit the new 1 parts, .lernme C. Reis. a Single Tax leader aald, because it was not only j apparent they could not obtain their B platform d. -sires and a candidate com- pH mitted to them but also because they 1 l "could not stand the Socialistic ideas I of the dominant 1-abor group. TUMULTUOl s SCENES. The birth of the new party yester-d.iv yester-d.iv alter five days of conferences, was H I attended by tumultuous scenes involv- jH in- Ji ilousii ind group antagonisms. . In the very beginning, the Labor party I organization took control and steered the course until consideration of the platform resolutions vvus begun. Sev -era! planks hail been read and ap-proved ap-proved when Forty -eighters began strenuous objections to their relega- tion lo the background. There followed quickly demands for ol ihe proe. dure by which the resolutions were being passed. In an effort lo placate the angry delegates. I the Labor leaders surrendered the . h itrmanship to Parley P. Chrlstenseo. WW of Utah, who presided over the origi- iH nal 4S convention. The concession failed utterly, how- iilSjJ ever, to iron out the widely divergent iil v iews on platform planks. As a re-r.tilt. re-r.tilt. the fusion movement was again SJH placed In practically the same posl- WMm tion In Which it had been during mora than fifty hours of backing and pull- 1 ing in conference commltiec-s. |