PRESENT SYSTEM DENOUNCED.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 23 June 1924, Page 9

PRESENT SYSTEM DENOUNCED.

America’s Well-Entrenched

Wealth.

ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL CONVENTIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.30 p.m., June 20.) NEW YORK, June 20. According to a message from St. Paul (Minnesota) the Farmer-Labour Party Convention ended with the nomination of Mr Duncan Macdonaiu (miner) for the Presidency, and Mr Wm. Bouck (farmer) as VicePresident. The platform mainly endorses : Nationalisation of Industries. Abolition of private titles for lana. Advocates loans, free of interest, to farmers. These nominations, however, are merely provisional, because the party’s national committee may cancel them if Signor La Follette’s so-called Progressive National Convention scheduled for 4th July offers a workable plan of union. Such superficiality marked the Farmer-Labourites Convention, despite its unde potentialities, that it ended as a disappointment, if not a failure. The membership consisted of such contradictory elements, as induce grave premonitions of failure. Nevertheless the farmers scarcely expected to be submerged by the so-called Communist leaders, who captured the control of the Convention, and practically dealt a death blow to the Farmer-Labour Party. However, when Mr Macdonald accepted nomination, he voiced the convention’s cordial discontent with the major parties, saying: “I am not a Communist; I am not Red, but I prefer being called a Communist and Red to being smeared with oil or gaining the approval of Morgan and others who name the candidates and direct the policies of the old parties. Never had organised wealth been so en- y trenched as in the United States to- '' day.”