AMERICAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19205, 23 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICAN POLITICS

FARMER-LABOUR CONVEN-

TION. VIRTUALLY A FAILURE. frees Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, June 19. According to a mesage from St. Paul (Minnesota), the Farmer-Labour Party’s convention ended with the nomination of Mr Duncan MacDonald, a. miner, for tho Presidency, and Mr William Bouck, a farmer, for tho Vice-Presidency. The platform mainly endorses tho nationalisation of industries, the abolition of private titles to land, and advocates loans free of interest to farmers. These nominations, however, are merely provisional, because tho National Committee may cancel them if Senator La Follette’s so-called Progressive National Convention, which is scheduled to meet on July 4, offers a workabe plan. .The Farmer-Labourites' Convention, dewide potentialities, ended as a disajipointment, if not a failure. Tire membership consisted of such contradictory elements as to induce grave premonitions of failure. Nevertheless the farmers scarcely expected to be submerged by the so-called Communist leaders, who captured tho control of the convention, and practically dealt a death-blow to the FarmerLabour Party. However, Mr MacDonald, ’in accepting nomination, voiced the convention’s cordial discontent witn the major parties, saying; “I am not a Communist, I am not a Red, but I prefer being called a Communist or a Red to being smeared with oil or gaining the approval of Mr Pierpont Morgan and others who name the candidates and direct the policies of tho old parlies. Never has organised wealth been so entrenched as it \r r, n United States to-day.”—A. and -N.Z. Cabie.

MR WILSON’S VOICE. ADVICE TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. r membership of league ADVOCATED. ,r. • j NEW YORK, June 21. ‘(Received June 22, at 6.5 pm) -A copyrighted despatch from New York to the Baltimore Sun savs: , . Woodrow Wilson’s last political w hi and testament is a document of party prifflhple and policy to be laid l.v a group ?! h i“ followers before the members of the Resolutions Committee when the time comes to write the Democratic platform. , t. 1 , • 8011 takes a position on foreign relatjonships for ‘the straight-out and struightforw-ard membership of the L nited States m the Leagimof Nations; the abandonment of the farcical policy 0 ( the unofficial observation and adherence at inn M r T °r t! ; R Inter of