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Show WARM DEBATES I FEATURE FIRST I orassis I Division Between Liberal and Radical Elements Brought Out In Rules Debate SINGLE TAXERS FAVOR I INGERS0LLFQR PRESIDENT Labor Convention Opening To- I day Expected to Join With I Committee of Forty-eight CHICAGO Julv 10-Foundatlon fjH stones were laid today for a new party LH to unite all thud party move- ;l "wj the Committee of Forty-elght Forty-elght : and the Slngli r... ,...ri . fffl draft i n?J nft"onal convention to ! , t'L :la'form nun Pick nominee no. thev hoPe, win wl h support mum ot ten or , do,.,, ubcra, organlsatfin 1 evnote r.1 a'VS 8eMl devoted to work dot r,"'e'1n"s organisation iPAterd 's many different as there were factions renre sen ed Rules, resolution", and noml-tiona noml-tiona for permanent officials were bated step bj stfcp and at times I - I rtmoniouslj uien McCurdy of ork the temporary chair man. H Hopkins, head of the Committee of Forty-Sight, who opened difficulty mtatained order with 1 J LIBERAIJS AND RADICALS Division between the liberal and I adieu - ,eIllc.nts WAS br0u(fnt out ,n the rules debate when Swinburne Hal. 01 .fw or;;, said the state delegations delega-tions were divided fifty-one per cent liberal and 49 per cent radical." Ho waa Pleading for a change In the rules ,that would prevent tho radicals being I outvote, by, the majority liberals, but i the majority ruled and his plea was I DOLtiAR WATCH MAN 1 l Participation of the single ta.xers in lod iv s convention follow, d an earlier Besalon, at which they decided to present pre-sent their platform demands and views ! on candidates. They are understood MmW. no be willing to accept either Charles km II rngersoll, watch manufacturer or Amos Pine hot. one of the leaders of LbbbbbI the committee of forty eight for isssfl presidential nominee. Thev are op- ; posed, their leaders say. to accepting LssH I Robert M. Ea Follette, the favorite mUU 1 1 r . - si i i n 1 1 a I candidate ,,f Ir,e forty- kmU elghters, and may bolt the convention and select their own ticket if La Foi- H le-tte is nominated. SINGLE TAA PLANK Determination of, the single lasers' iH course was declared to be contingent UWwM i upon three things. First the platform WM Which they said, must include a single UWrnm tax plank, second, the candidate and ijH third, the name of the partv. il The party name promises to devel- LjH op a fight. Members of the single- kW, tax group want some reference to their LjH nam.- incorporated In the party nam-The nam-The labor party of the United 8tatea whose convention gets under way to- i&H morrow is willing to Join the third ku party movement and probably will ac- iH e;ept I., Eollette as a candidate but bbbbbbI demands that the word 'labor1' be in- LH eluded in the party designation. mjM 589 DELEGATES i ll! RE As organized today the committee MmMU ot Forty-eight convention numbered mmVM 639 accredited delegates, with a ma- .jH Jority of L'70 required to nominate mMWM The 589 Included, In addition to tht Forty-etghters and single taxers frater nal delegates from the Non-Partisa i& League, Trij.le Alliance of the North kwwl w.-t Farmers' Nationi: council, Peo i Pies' .Money league, the Producers MWwM league and Consumers' league and sev rai othei organizations. The- Commit. jl tee ol Forty-eight embraces a number Of well known liberal leaders, some of l whom were prominent in the 1 Bull fl Moose" movement eight years ago. Th-d H committee was formed last year at Su i& Louis with a member for each stalo. WALSH AM) i FOIiLETTE While delegates debated rules and .H resolutions toduy, their committee con- gsH tinned negotiations with the labor .L party, Both conventions expect to b i ready Monda) to take up and com- kfM plc'ie In one day's session their plat- kmM form, which, it is expected, will be al- i most V,H nly two names, so far as known, !H Will be presented lo the labor parly H for consideration as presidential nomi- iH nees, Senator La Kolletto and Frank t P Walsh of Kansas City, former halrman of the I'uitcd states indus- .IH trial relations commission and leader IH pi the 1 io n. Is of Irish l-reedom. IfH RJ e URO CH I it. MAN. George- L. Record, of New Jersey, wm - i- - tea cnairman of the platform committee, and H r. Wllkle, or' Maryland, Mary-land, chairman of the committee on IH political procedure Both bodies held exeutive sessions lasting well Into tb- ; Mmjm night, but arranged to carry on their bbbbsb! work with tho assistance of outsiders wku tomorrow. I The proceedure committee devoted Its efforts to drafting a tentative plan mjM under which the various groups may lend their support to a single presi-dentlal presi-dentlal candidate, while carrying on inpend.-nt work In the interest of their isssssn particular sets of ideas, or local re- A l uironien ts. "Group autonomy", was the objecthe to be worked for, par- H ticipants In tho discussion states. |