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Bert Martin of Denver, secretary-treasurer (resigned) of the Farmer-Labor party. Reason: Agriculture...
There was the Prohibition Party. It met in the Hotel La Salle, an undistinguished-looking handful of men and women from 22 states. And there was the Farmer-Labor Party, a more healthy-looking but smaller congregation, representing ten States and the District of Columbia. The upshots of the two meetings were as follows...
...actual count there are seven parties with candidates for the Presidency thus far this year: Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Communist, Farmer-Labor, Prohibition, Interracial Independent...
...most diverting features of a presidential campaign is the number and enthusiasm of the various minor parties that enter candidates in the race. There is a Farmer-Labor party, a Prohibition party even in these dry times, and until 1924 the Socialists also had a man in the field. Then they were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates...
...Trade in the Air." The Senate is government by committee. Who controls the committees, controls the Senate. Forming the committees was critical this session because the nominal line-up of the parties is: Republicans 48, Democrats 47, Farmer-Labor 1. With two Republican seats vacant pending investigation of their occupants-elect, and with the Farmer-Laborite and at least four Republicans calling themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin...