U.S. POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 7

U.S. POLITICS

THIRD PARTY CONFERENCES CONSOLIDATION PLAN EFFECTED By Telegraph»Pr«Ba •Association-Copyright Chicago, July 13. The ''Third Party"* (organised by Mr. W. It. Hearst) has been holding a series of conferences here with a view to securing an amalgamation of the various elements which are dissatisfied with the Republican and Democratic parties' Presidential election platforms. It had partially succeeded in this design when it. was announced that seven groups— tho American Constitutional Party (the formal title of Hearst's Third Party) the American Party of Texas, the Sm--Bifl"£a s „l,artl>t l> tho «oiW>artisaii League of South Dakota, the Veterans of the World War, the Private Soldiers and feailoTs League, and the Committee of iorty-eight (comprising one delegate from each Stnte)-had declared their 'intention to issue a platform and choose one set ot candidates. The Labour Party (a section that has broken away from the American Federation of Labour) was still.standing aloof, but after further negotiation it decided to join the amalgamation, and the Hearst plan to consolidate the forces opposed to the Republicans and Democrats was thus effect-ed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE LEAGUTOF NATIONS DOMINANT ISSUE IN CAMPAIGN. v r- t, Col ""- bu ' (Oh'o), July 12. Mr. F. Roosevelt. Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency, in an interview said the League of Nations will be the dominant issue in the campaign ind ho would make it so in his speeches -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.