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Show CHEER PARLEY P. CKRiSTENSEN AT CHI CONVENTION j Amalgamation of Elements For New Party Proceeds in j Private Session. PLATFORM FIGHT 6h IRISH QUESTION LOOMS j La Follette Remains as Most Ta!ked-0f Candidate For President. ; CHICAGO. July 12 Work on amai- J gamating the various elements as- sembled here for the formation of a H new- party continued behind closed doors this morning, while the con- H ventlons of the committee of 48 and tho National Labor party marked H Everything appeared to be proceed- H Ing on schedule with the single note I of excitement provided by a platform , I fight over tho Irish question. (( O. W, Thomason. a lecturer for the lU National Non-Partisan league, enter- ) tainod the convention delegates with IbbbH a recital of state enterprises initiated fBLI by the league Administration in North IH Dakota. He said th- league had given 1 sLH union labor all it had asked and some f BBLH more. UTAH MAN PRAISED, I Swinburne Hale, of New York, talk- LiLbh ing about deportation proceedings or ' H the federal government, attacked At- tH torney-General Palmer and won ap- fisBH plause. Hale told his audience thai H Parley P. Christen -sen. of Utah, per- H manont chairman of the convention H was one of the first defenders of the L I. W. W." The delegates cheered at L this until chairman Chrlstensen was forced to acknowledge them by bow- iH Ing. Lamonn de Vetera, who got a rous-ing rous-ing reception as he entered the hall cut short pale's talk and was present- ed as '"President of tho Irish repub- H Swinburne Hale continued his t speech after the conference report had K bei n he i rd. PARTY o REVOLUTION " I "There Is nothing that stands be- tweep the lnited States and revolu- H tlon but the new party which is being H formed." Hale asserted. H "I don t want revolution. Nobody H who was a soldier wants force and H violence. I was a soldier. I'll never H be drafted or serve again in another H war of offense or defense. You hear H that soldiers will not vote for La Fo!- fM lotto if we nominate him here.. I'm B one. I know that they will. I know too, that If they try another war with Mexico they'll have to fight tho World War Veterans to get It over" H n.ne gm mree cneers and a pro SXSBBJ longed demonstration after which ttu jH I convention recessed for lunch until Lsssfl p. m. 1 L V POLLI IT! l POP! PAH Senator Robert M. LeFollelts ot Wisconsin, remained tho most talked of candidate for presidential nominee. H The terms of the eommltee of 4S are Lj understood by the convention to moot his v iew s as exprt ssed last week tc AlUOS PinchOt and George L. Record IH of the l-'oi ty-Klghters. H Conference committees appointed IH by the Labor convention and Satur- IH day by the Pony-Llghtcr.-i smoothed out most objections to amalgamation sfsl in a protracted session lust night. bLH OPEN L LBOR t N ; NTION. At thi oi"'i:i'. of the Laboi I convention yesterday, delegates from Ksbbbbb slxt) Hade union groups and other II organizations were represented. The Porty-Lighters .md single taxers, loisssn whose .conventions opened Saturdav, (fssn had recessed for the day and practic- ilsl allj their entire membership attended jLLxl the Labor convention, many partict- fixl p iling its active delegates. t isl RUSSIANS CHEERED. n, very i-ierenco io xuasia ana tc sH Ireland, too, was applauded with a will and when Joint Kltzpalrick. the Liboi keynoter, praised the Russian : revolution, three cheers for soviet H Russia wcro called for and given. Tho applause Tor Ireland and the LxLs Sinn Fein appeared to be more a trl- butc to the Irish themselves than an expression of favor for an Irish free-. free-. dom plank, for there is a strong un-, un-, dercurrent of opinion in both convene ! Hons against Inserting any platform I planks dealing With foreign relations. Tho Forty -Lighters, In their mall rcf- erendum, have already gono on record ' a opposed to platform planks on Irish, Russian and Mexican questions. The DemooratlQ and Republican conventions, their platforms and their nominees, were S Stalled by nearly ev- cry speaker. John Fitxpatrick dc- noii ned tho platforms as "a denial of everything thSk tho American people have demanded and spoken for." The coinmltteo of 48 platform com- nilttee granted a hearing to tho ! (Continued on iNtgc Two.) sH CHEER PARLEY P. CHRfSTENSEN AT CHI CONVENTION (Continued from Page One.) VtlendS Of Irl3h f'Teedom today. M IS W V.M . D. Hitting late laat night, the committees commit-tees in conference over the amalgamation amalgama-tion proposals found the seloctlon Of a name for tholr new politictl pert;-to pert;-to be more than a minor problem. Combination's upon the word "i-abor" were in disfavor among the committee of 4S representatives "The L'nlon party" was a title presented, but no decision was rea hod |