Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — NEW POLITICAL PARTY BORN IN CHICAGO MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

NEW POLITICAL PARTY BORN IN CHICAGO MONDAY.

Chicago, Aug. 19.—The National Labor party was born yesterday. The first national convention, with between 2,500 and 3,000 delegates will be held in Chicago during the coming November. This national convention will determine the policy of the new party. This Was determined at, a conference held in the federation building, 166 Washington street, attended by thirty executive committeemen, representing the nine states now having organized labor parties. The nonpartisan league was present through a fraternal delegate. The committee of forty-eight, that held a preliminary conference Saturday and Sunday, looking forward to the organization of a new national party, was represented yesterday by J. A. H. Hopkins, of New Jersey. It will fee up to the November national convention to say whether or not there shall be a presidential candidate of the Labor party in 1920. This question will be determined by a roH call in the convention. If the result is favorable, the convention will proceed to the nomination of a president and vice-president, and the candidates will thereby become the first official entrants in the 1920 presidential race. There is some question as-to such a convention result, however. Conservative men, who are also political experts, who were in yesterday’s conference, it is understood, sharply opposed the immediate entry of the new party in the presidential game. This element favored striking for control of the balance of power in the congress that will be chosen in November, 1920, coincident with the presidential election., The assurance seemed to be strong, it’ is said, that the new party may be able to elect a group of senators and possibly a formidable squad of members of the lower house. It will be up to the national convention to decide as between such a practical possibility and the making of a straightaway presidential campaign.